AUTOMAKERS ON NOTICE FOR START OF MAJOR RESEARCH SPENDING ON GREEN CARS
July 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUTO makers have been put on notice for the release of around Euro 80 million in European Union (EU) research funding to develop green cars and associated road and roadside technologies. The money, the European Commission has announced, will come from its Seventh Framework Programme for research, with final details being released on July 30.
This imminent call for proposals is the first step of an ambitious public-private partnership for 'green cars' devised by the Commission - the EU's executive - to change the kind of cars driven in Europe. ...
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