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BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING the publication by the European Commission on February 5th of its proposed far-reaching reforms to the current block exemption scheme for new car sales in the European Union, the continent’s motor industry is in ferment. Nobody can be quite sure whether the reforms will go through as they have been planned – or when.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A REWRITTEN US Senate energy bill would see the use of ethanol in cars tripled and the unpopular gasoline oxygenate MTBE phased out in four years. A compromise was struck that tried to please the oil and gas, environmental, and agricultural sectors.…

Keith Nuthall
The use of cadmium batteries in electric vehicles is to be banned

in the EU from 2005, the European Commission has announced. Cadmium is a

heavy metal that pollutes the environment and can cause kidney damage in

humans. The Commission said alternative power sources for electric vehicles

such as nickel metal hydride batteries were now available and lithium-ion

batteries would be on the market later..…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INTRODUCTION of the Euro as a retail currency in 12 EU countries at the beginning of the year has done virtually nothing to level out the wide variations in new car prices between them, the European Commission said today (Monday).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is to help finance the construction of two new fast and technologically advanced “cruise ferries” for the Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) for use on routes between Genoa and Sardinia/Sicily.

The EIB, the financing institution of the European Union, is making a Euro 99 million (Pounds 60 million) loan in conjunction with a syndicate of Italian banks.…

BY PHILIP FINE

TWO plans that would require American manufacturers to produce vehicles with significantly increased fuel economy are being debated on the US Senate floor.

The Republicans have introduced a plan that would require cars and light trucks to average 36 miles per gallon of petrol by 2016.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD safety initiative has been launched by the European Commission, which has formally proposed a new directive laying down European Union-wide standards for the installation of additional rear view mirrors and other vision systems, including cameras, for motor vehicles.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US Republican senators have introduced a plan that would require American cars and light trucks to average 36 miles per gallon by 2016. The Democrats want a 35 mpg average by 2013. Currently, cars must attain an average of 27.5 mpg and light trucks 20.7.…

BY MARK ROWE
PETRONAS NGV, a unit of Malaysia’s state oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd, plans to spend at least RM22 million (Pounds 4 million) this year to double the number of its service stations selling natural gas to fuel cars to 44 outlets.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Wednesday) announced new plans for the distribution and sale of cars in the EU that will loosen the ties between manufacturers and dealers allowing greater competition and lower prices for consumers.

The new rules, which cannot be blocked by member governments or the European Parliament because the Commission has sole responsibility for competition policy, will come into force in October after a consultation process with the industry.…