VW’s electric sales targets, Volvo’s particulate smarts, cleaning up the air with more EVs: Today’s Car News

Volkswagen is targeting 500,000 EVs per year by the middle of the decade, globally—and that’s just counting its ID.4 crossover. Several new Volvo models give you the fine particulate levels in your vehicle cabin. And a report projects that going electric sooner will save lives, lungs, and a whole lot of money. This and more, here at.Brought to you by:...

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Faster US transition to EVs will save 6,300 lives and $185 billion by 2050, study projects

For all the challenges Americans have faced in 2020, from the dangers of pollution during a lung-related pandemic to the smoky haze of forest fires in the West, this might prove to be the year in which a wider swath of the population became more aware about the dangers of air pollution And from that awareness, as a report released by the American.Brought...

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Volkswagen aims to sell 500,000 ID.4 electric crossovers annually by 2025

The ID.4 electric crossover isn’t just the first of Volkswagen’s dedicated mass-production EVs to be available in the U.S., or the first electric SUV from VW. Although Volkswagen had given some early indications that the ID.3, which won’t be offered in the U.S., would be the volume model of the MEB lineup, a recent presentationBrought to you by: EV...

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Top reasons to lease a Nissan Qashqai in 2020

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Volvo claims first system to assess PM2.5 air quality inside vehicle cabin

Shelter-in-place orders during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic briefly created the best air quality in decades, but forest fires on the West Coast of the United States have taken things in a drastically different direction. That makes Volvo's announcement of in-car air-quality monitoring this past week depressingly timely. Volvo'sBrought...

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Review: Jeep Renegade 4xe plug-in hybrid

It’s all rather likeable and well-considered; smart-looking, capable off-road, comfortable on-road, equipped well and with some genuine green credentials, assuming you keep the battery chargedBrought to you by: EV Driven

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European Parliament votes to phase out conformity factor for new car emissions under real driving conditions by Sep 2022

As of September 2022, new cars must meet EU limits on NO x emissions under real driving conditions to comply with air pollution limits, the European Parliament has voted. Data on car emissions such as NO x had been obtained through laboratory tests.Brought to you by: EV Driven

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LiquidPiston receives SBIR grant to develop X-Engine as hybrid-electric platform for UAVs

LiquidPiston, Inc., a developer of advanced rotary internal combustion engines for diesel and jet fuels ( earlier post ), received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the US Army for the development of its X-Engine as a hybrid-electric propulsion platform for UAVs.Brought to you by: EV Driven

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Suburban Propane Partners taking 39% stake in DME producer Oberon Fuels; rDME/propane blends

Suburban Propane Partners, L.P., a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel.Brought to you by: EV Driven

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Denyo and Toyota jointly develop and start verification tests for fuel cell power supply vehicle that uses hydrogen to generate electricity

Denyo Co., and Toyota Motor Corporation have jointly developed a fuel cell power supply vehicle that uses hydrogen to generate electricity. As a leading manufacturer of mobile (portable) generators, Denyo will work with Toyota to start verification tests with the aim of commercializing it.Brought to you by: EV Driven

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