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Ford to boost start-stop systems

Monday, December 9, 2013 / Energy, Transportation / Leave a Comment

According to TreeHugger, ” a Ford representative is saying that they are “going to be aggressive rolling [stop-start] out”. As we have seen previously, such innovation enable cars to stop automatically their engines when not moving. Such a simple system could cut the oil consumption by ten percent for urban driving while only costing around …

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The end of the large cars era in the United States

Friday, August 15, 2008 / Sustainable development / 3 Comments

One of my favorite US environmental blog – The Daily Green – published today an interesting article with a lot of data on how Americans drive less and shift to smaller cars. With as much as 800,000 less barrels per day consumed in the first half of the year and decreasing miles driven for eight …

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