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New passenger cars would also have to emit 15% less emissions on average by 2025

Around £68m of funding will support small and medium-sized businesses for research and development opportunities

The car manufacturer has set a goal to cut emissions by 30% per vehicle produced by 2025

It aims to eliminate the use of diesel and support ‘home-produced energy’ instead

The vehicle is expected to save up to 0.3 litres of fuel over 100 kilometres

A solar farm has been added to an existing wind site in the state of Karnataka

  More than half of Norway’s new car sales in 2017 were electric or hybrid vehicles. That’s according to the Norwegian Road Federation, which says 20.9% were zero emission vehicles, powered mainly by electricity or hydrogen, with hybrids accounting for the other 31.3%. This represents a significant increase over the previous year, when zero emission […]

Plans to develop India’s first large commercial hybrid solar-wind project have been announced. Siemens Gamesa is to help connect a 28.8MW solar facility to an existing 50MW wind farm in the state of Karnataka. It will also handle the design, engineering and commissioning of the new solar plant. The project is scheduled to be up […]

  Jaguar Land Rover has announced it will only make electric or hybrid cars from 2020. The news follows its first electric car, I-Pace, unveiled last year. The carmaker has also engineered the electric version of the classic Jaguar E-type car, known as E-type Zero but it is a concept car and won’t be available […]

All new cars sold by Volvo will only be battery-powered from 2019. The car manufacturer will launch five pure electric cars between 2019 and 2021 and ensure the rest of its conventional petrol or diesel range offers a hybrid engine of some form. Volvo, owned by Chinese automotive giant Geely, currently sells five plug-in hybrid […]