GLOBAL MOVE TO PROMOTE HYBRIDS AND ELECTRIC CARS
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the preoccupation of the auto industry these trying days to merely survive past the next quarter, it is refreshing to learn of an international project dealing with the environmental effects of a road transport sector actually projected to grow and grow in the long term, as the developing world gets richer and more mobile. Such is the concern of a '50 by 50' Global Fuel Economy Initiative launched (yesterday, March 4) by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and ...
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