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Pork Alert! Dump Ethanol Say Voters in National Poll
Likely 2016 voters have serious concerns about ethanol’s unintended consequences as a fuel, including damage to engines, land conversion and food prices, according to a new national poll. Continue reading
Toyota Hybrid Sales Surpass Eight Million
Toyota has now sold more than eight million hybrid vehicles, with only 10 months between this and the nine million sales milestone. Continue reading
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Volkswagen Downsizes Engines Once Again
Volkswagen was an early leader with the use of small displacement; highly efficient turbocharged and direct-injection engines in the U.S. Volkswagen first used the now common combination of turbocharging and direct injection in the U.S. with its TDI diesel engines in the Passat in 1996 Continue reading
Automakers Protest European Laws Targeting Diesel Use
The automakers reason, not without some basis in fact – that the most effective way to improve air quality is getting older cars and trucks off the road. New vehicles less than one year old are roughly 5% of the road population in the EU. As more of the older diesels are replaced, it looks like fewer of them will be diesels, no matter how clean the newest ones are. Continue reading
Posted in auto news, environment, fuel economy or emissions, global warming, news analysis, public health
Tagged acea, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, CLEPA, co2, Diesel fuel, eu, Ken Zino
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NADA, American Truck Dealers Oppose Cleaner Trucks
The groups say that the rule will add $14,000 to the cost of a new truck through mandates based on potentially untested technologies. Similar accusations, of course, by the industry go back to the beginnings of the Clean Air Act and fuel economy regulations where cleaner was thought, dubiously, as too costly. Continue reading
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More Taxpayer Subsidies for Rich Automakers Proposed
It is another raid on the U.S. Treasury sponsored by U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), along with Lamar Alexander (R-TN), all from auto making states. Continue reading
Renewable Biodiesel Fuel Scam from Washakie in Utah
During 2010, Washakie issued more than 7.2 million Renewable Identification Numbers, aka RINs, and reported to EPA that it produced biodiesel associated with those RINs at its Plymouth, Utah refinery. During that time, Washakie did not produce any biodiesel at the Plymouth facility. Continue reading
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Toyota Testing SiC Power Semiconductors for Efficiency Gains
Power semiconductors are in power control units (PCUs), which are used to control motor drive power in hybrids and other vehicles with electric powertrains. PCUs have a significant role in the use of electricity, supplying battery power to the motors during operation and recharging the battery using energy recovered during deceleration. Continue reading
Hyundai Debuts 2016 Sonata Hybrid with Higher MPG
Today Hyundai introduced the Hybrid version of its seventh-generation Sonata at NAIAS. The 2016 Sonata Hybrid fuel economy is expected to improve more than 10%. Sonata Hybrid is projected to achieve up to 39 mpg in the city, 44 mpg on the highway and have a combined EPA mileage rating of 42 mpg. Continue reading
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EPA Says US Fuel Economy at All Time High – 24.1 MPG
New vehicles achieved record fuel economy in 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. Model year 2013 vehicles achieved an average of 24.1 miles per gallon, a 0.5 mpg increase compared with 2012 previous year and an increase of nearly 5 mpg since 2004. However, year-over-year it was only 2%. Continue reading
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CA Governor Brown, AKA Moonbeam, Increases EV Subsidies
California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. yesterday signed half a dozen bills to increase EV subsidies for California’s electric vehicle market. Continue reading
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2015 Chevy, GMC Pickups and SUV derivatives Have 8-Speed Transmissions in Fuel Economy Upgrade
In theory, fuel economy should improve on the EPA sticker, but estimates will be announced closer to the start of production in Q4 of 2014. Continue reading
Holy Toledo! 2015 Corvette Gets Eight-Speed Automatic
Chevy claims excellent shift times that rival the best dual-clutch designs of which ZF is the leading supplier. Porsche, of course, offers dual-clutch automatics and the new Corvette already outperforms Porsche models costing tens – or much more – thousands of dollars greater. Continue reading
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Republicans Pass Polluter Protection Act
This latest example of the power of money in the Congress is a setback for citizens. In 2009, EPA determined that greenhouse gas pollution threatens Americans’ health and welfare by leading to long lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. Continue reading
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