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    Report: Japan pushing for 24.1% increase in fuel economy by 2020     1313873880

    2011 Nissan Micra / March – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Japanese automakers will most likely need to boost their fleetwide fuel economy by 24.1 percent by 2020 to meet stringent standards being drawn up by the government, reports the Nikkei business daily. This isn't like ...

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    Carlos Ghosn: EVs could account 10 percent of global sales in 2020     1252968900

    Renault-Nissan's CEO Carlos Ghosn is a firm believer in the future of electric cars. According to an interview for le Journal du Dimanche, Ghosn says he expects the world's EV market will rise to six million vehicles per year, which is 10 percent of global sales. Ghosn also explained that ...

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    European Parliament takes the first step toward stricter CO2 limits     1222611060

    Photo of the European Parliament published under the GNU Documentation LicenseA battle has been fought in the European Parliament to establish CO2 emission limits for new cars. The contenders were, on one side, the members of the Industry and Energy Committee; on the other side, the Environmental ...

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    New CO2 limits for 2015 instead?     1220549280

    Photo of the European Parliament published under the GNU Documentation LicenseOk, I have to admit that this is becoming quite the complicated story. The basics are that the European Parliament intends to limit the average CO2 emission figures for auto manufacturers. The initial goal was to set the ...

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    A Better Place-like project for the UK in Brown's agenda     1216767780

    The United Kingdom's PM Gordon Brown is meeting car manufacturers to try to persuade them to mass-produce electric cars. The carrot he's offering is selling them with payment plans that emulate cell phone contracts, à la "Better Place." This scheme, already been taken up by Israel and ...

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    The EU ready to ban imports of certain biofuels     1200509160

    The EU might forbid imports of certain crops to produce biodiesel, namely palm oil and other imports from Latin America (soy). Lots of reports that have calculated how unsustainable most of these products are: because they destroy natural environments to create croplands, use fossil fuels in the ...

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