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Ford launches eco-driving campaign in Portugal

Ford Lusitánia, the Portuguese importer of The Blue Oval's vehicles, is currently promoting the Projecto Eco-Condução Portugal. The project includes a contest and a campaign to promote a small set of eco-driving tips. The contest takes 20 motorists, selected from 150 finalists, who are being tested as they drive their cars to see who uses the least amount of fuel. The eco-driving campaing focus on 6 common green driving tips: anticipate traffic, drive using low rpm, don't rev up and then quickly slowing down, keep the ... Read more →

Brazil having a hard time selling its biodiesel in Europe Xavier Navarro

Brazil's President Inázio Lula da Silva visited Europe not long ago and he promoted the benefits of Brazilian biodiesel in France and Spain. This might have seemed like a good idea, if it ...

uCar, the Portuguese electric vehicle, goes for a spin Sebastian Blanco

Calming guitar music. What could be a better soundtrack for a tiny electric vehicle cruising the streets of Portugal? Apparently nothing, since that's what the promoters of the uCar Electric ...

Portugal pushing for more EVs in 2011 Sebastian Blanco

Nissan and Renault are slowly and surely moving from dark horse contenders to real players in the electric vehicle space. The partnership's latest target is Portugal, which will see pure EVs from ...

BYD: Gas for developing countries, EVs for developed countries Xavier Navarro

Autonews interviewed Henry Li, general manager of BYD Auto's export division, and got the Chinese marque's plans for international expansion. BYD's plans can be summarized this way: "gas for ...

Portugal to bypass Project Better Place, promote EVs with Renault-Nissan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The recent report that Portugal would join up with Project Better Place on EVs was apparently only partially correct. Portugal is indeed partnering directly with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to promote zero emission vehicles, but Project Better Place will evidently not be in the picture. The ...

Portugal looking to improve, joins Project Better Place 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Project Better Place is set to expand beyond Israel and Denmark with an agreement for Portugal to join the electric vehicle infrastructure project. Portugese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will soon sign on to the plan that will use electric cars from Renault and Nissan. Part of Project Better Place ...

Spain, Portugal invests $150m to make fuel cell or electric car by end of this year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Spain and Portugal are getting into the green car biz. The two countries are investing 150m EUROS into an effort to create a fuel cell or electric car project called Mobi-green. The governments hopes the partnership will mean new jobs and a prototype will be built by the end of the year. "We want ...

Portugal wants 45% renewable electricity output and 10% of all fuels to be biofuels 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Here is some shocking news: The Government plans to make nearly half of the electricity consumed using wind, wave and solar power! Oh wait... that's the government of Portugal. Well, still, it is great news. The old goal was 39 percent in 3 years, it was recently upped to 45 percent by Prime ...


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