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Volkswagen Group to Cut CO2 emissions to 95 g/km by 2020
In the ongoing battle of the green press releases, Volkswagen Group has restated its strategic goal of becoming the world’s most “environmentally sustainable” automaker by 2018. The announcement was originally made a year ago when VW Group undertook an ecologically oriented restructuring designed to coordinate responses to increasingly tough global regulations covering vehicles and how they are made and recycled. Continue reading
Posted in auto news, environment, fuel economy or emissions, news analysis
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Volvo Shows Electric Vehicle Range Extender – a Gas Engine!
If engineers keep this up, they could arrive at a lightweight, front-drive gasoline (or diesel powered) car that would be much less expensive by eliminating the electric motor, power controls, recharging gear, battery cooling, battery back and sundry other EV components. However, it wouldn’t qualify for taxpayer subsidies or meet increasingly stringent government standards for reducing CO2 emissions, which correlate with increased fuel economy. Continue reading
Posted in alternative fuels, auto news, concept, electric vehicles, energy, environment, transportation
Tagged alternative fuel, auto informed, auto news, autoinformed, automotive news, cafe, co2, eu emissions, EVs, Ken Zino, utoinformed.com, volvo electric, volvo hybrid concept, zino
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