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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

Green Car Congress

litres of gasoline equivalent per 100km. To consider the role of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and electric vehicles and build them into the targets. The Initiative’s new workplan for 2013-15 lays out the challenges which still remain on fuel economy, and outlines the Initiative’s planned response to those challenges.

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Who’s Leading the Shift Away from Internal Combustion Engine Automobiles?

Clean Fleet Report

Austin, TX BYD leads in sales in China–and its cars are starting to show up elsewhere in the world, such as the Shark pickup that’ being built and sold in Mexico Electric vehicles (EVs) are powered by an electric motor that draws electricity from a battery that can be charged from an external source. — Mike B.,