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Ricardo study finds electric and hybrid cars have a higher carbon footprint during production than conventional vehicles, but still offer a lower footprint over the full life cycle

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The automotive industry is already taking positive steps to address this issue—the recent announcement by Toyota of a solar array to provide electricity to power the hybrid Auris production facility and wind power at the Nissan Leaf plant are excellent examples of this. —Greg Archer, LowCVP Managing Director.

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Mercedes-Benz introducing B200 Natural Gas Drive

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In the event that the gas tank should ever run dry, the vehicle switches over automatically, and imperceptibly, to petrol operation. In addition to conventional natural gas, the B 200 Natural Gas Drive can also be operated using biogas or synthetic gas produced using “excess” energy from solar power plants or wind farms.

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European Commission Sets Up System for Certifying Sustainable Biofuels

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In the years to come, biofuels are the main alternative to petrol and diesel used in transport, which produces more than 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union. Renewables include solid biomass, wind, solar energy and hydro power as well as biofuels. Protecting untouched nature.

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The Climate Change Caravan

Revenge of the Electric Car

The Climate Caravan includes ten friends and a solar music band, along with three solar plug-in electric Reva cars. The Revas are traveling 200km per charge on Lithium-Ion batteries (the solar adds 8km extra). 140 km later, we pulled off at our first electric car charging point: an Indian Oil petrol station.

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Self-Generation Nation – Solar Sales Soar Amid Escalating Energy Costs

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Self-Generation Nation – Solar Sales Soar Amid Escalating Energy Costs. According to Solar Energy UK, more than 3,000 photovoltaic (PV) installations were undertaken every week in July – an increase of almost 200% year-on-year. But why solar? While popular, solar is just one solution. With almost 1.1

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Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

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Methanol is a petrol and not suitable as a diesel fuel component, but can be dehydrated to form dimethyl ether (DME) with a high cetane number. They can be generated from fossil natural gas or bio-gas or through a power-to-liquids process that uses renewable sources such as solar or wind power together with CO 2 captured from the air.

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EC awards €1.2B from NER300 “Robin Hood” mechanism for 23 renewable energy projects; 5 advanced biofuel projects targeted for €516.8M

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million); 6 wind projects (€273.2 million, US$363 million); 4 concentrated solar power projects (€203.3 The bio-methanol will be produced using biomass torrefaction and entrained flow gasification as new core technologies to deliver a petrol additive for partial replacement of mineral fuel. million (US$836.5

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