Volvo Cars tests of flywheel technology confirm fuel savings of up to 25 per cent.
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Europe / Suède (13-05-2013) |
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Volvo Car Group has completed extensive testing of kinetic flywheel technology on public roads.
" The results show that this technology combined with a four-cylinder turbo engine has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by up to 25 per cent comp... |
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France, the fourth largest market in Europe in terms of CO2 emissions.
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World / France, Pays Bas, Portugal, Danemark, (25-04-2013) |
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According to a report by the ADEME, France ranks fourth in the European ranking of new cars that emit less CO2. It continues to improve its performance in this area, thanks to diesel vehicles, which emit about 20% less CO2 than petrol cars, which rep... |
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GB: Creating a research cluster on catalysis.
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Europe / 0 Royaume Uni (11-04-2013) |
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Catalysis, which has benefited in recent years from £ 28 million investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, research council for the physical sciences and engineering) between the years 2006 and 2011, is one of the... |
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1,400 charge-discharge cycles for lithium sulfur batteries.
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Europe / Allemagne (11-04-2013) |
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for materials engineering and beam technology (IWS) in Dresden, Germany, have developed a prototype of a lithium-sulfur button cell having a number of charge-discharge cycles amounting to 1,400.
Researchers ha... |
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Volkswagen wants to reduce average emissions of its vehicles.
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Europe / Allemagne (26-03-2013) |
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The German automaker Volkswagen has set itself the target of reducing average emissions of its vehicles to 95 g of CO2/km by 2018, said the group's chairman Martin Winterkorn, in the context of a meeting with Greenpeace. The manufacturer is also comm... |
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France: Launch of a study on fine particles.
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Europe / France (19-03-2013) |
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Anses (National Agency for Health Safety) has announced it will launch this year a study on fine particles in the air. The conclusions of these studies, which aim to determine the profile and origin of these substances, will be published in 2014. ... |
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Trnava site of PSA will use its lands to produce biomass and energy.
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World / France, Slovaquie (13-03-2013) |
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PSA launched energy production project from biomass for its Slovak site of Trnava. The unused areas at the automotive site can potentially produce up to 1,000 tons of biomass per annum, from which one can obtain biogas station plus 200 MWh of electri... |
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Average emissions from new PC in Germany at 141.8 g/km in 2012.
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Europe / Allemagne (28-01-2013) |
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The average CO2 emissions from new registered passenger cars in Germany in 2012 amounted to 141.8 g/km, against 146.1 g/km in 2011. These figures are based on the emissions from 31 manufacturers.
At this rate (about - 3% per annum), Germany could ac... |
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France: Strong decrease in CO2 emissions of fleets in 2012.
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Europe / France (28-01-2013) |
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The average CO2 emission rate of French vehicle fleets again fell sharply in 2012, reaching 120 g/km, a decrease of 5 g/km compared to 2011, reveals the company vehicle Observatory. This rate stood at 130 g/km in 2010, 135 g/km in 2009, 139 g/km in 2... |
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Toyota wants to provide recharging by induction in 2015.
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Asia / Japon (23-01-2013) |
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Toyota has unveiled a plan to introduce in 2015, the induction recharging for its electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. This non-contact technique can effectively transfer significant power at 20 cm distance.
Toyota has signed an industrial partners... |
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