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BY PACIFICA GODDARD

THE USA Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) hope of regulating greenhouse gas emissions is putting a damper on investment in new coal plants in the United States. However there is some hope that coal could become clean enough to cohabit with future American emissions rules through carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology and tests are now underway in America to demonstrate its effectiveness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DISTANCE that can be travelled using an electric car battery in Europe could be boosted by a French automotive technology company receiving Euro EUR130 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The Bolloré Group will use this financing to support its battery and electric vehicle research and development.…

BY CHARLES WALLIN

ALTERNATIVE fuels could gradually replace fossil energy sources and make transport sustainable by 2050, according to a report just presented to the European Commission by the European Union’s (EU) expert group on future transport fuels. It says the EU needs a fossil fuel-free and largely CO2-free energy supply to reduce road transport’s impact on the environment and boost the security of energy supplies – and its experts say this is possible.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

EGYPT’S auto industry could be preparing to get back to work after the government protests beginning on January 25 led to its major assembly plant industry closing down. This morning, BMW confirmed to wardsauto that it had restarted production on Sunday (Feb 6) of CDK models – made by a local subsidiary BAMC (Bavarian Auto Manufacturing Company), itself owned by the BMW Importership BAG (Bavarian Auto Group).…

BY WANG FANGQING

THE CHINESE government this January gave a clear message to automobile manufacturers with plants in the country – it wants the industry to become more efficient, but also greener. Beijing showed it was prepared to use the power of the market to force manufacturers to compete on price rather than relying on consumer subsidies – scrapping a national auto replacement program and a special subsidy for vehicle sales for consumers.…

BY MARIYA PETKOVA, BY PAUL COCHRANE, AND BY KEITH NUTHALL

AFTER the economic crisis hit Egypt’s demand for vegetable oil imports in 2009/2010, industry experts from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) foreign agricultural servicepredicted a relative recovery for this sub-sector in 2010/2011.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IN 2011, foreign brands seem set to extend their dominance of the cosmetics and hair products market in China, one of the few sectors of the economy controlled by multinationals. Procter & Gamble (P&G), Unilever and L’Oréal dominate sales revenues here, and to extend their dominance global brands continue to acquire local brands.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, KEITH NUTHALL

SERBIA is the latest European country to start formal accession negotiations with the European Union (EU) and as it prepares to joins the EU, its auto sector will have increasingly unfettered access to the EU’s 500 million consumer market.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

ATTEMPTING to symbolize the Indian essence of Toyota’s latest sedan made for India’s burgeoning auto market, a Japanese dancer performed classical Indian dance at a special launch concert in the IT hub of Bangalore. The Japanese auto giant will be hoping that the ‘Etios’ will marry high tech and Indian consumer preferences, as a culmination of a four-year-long development process that cost US dollars USD700 million and involved more than 2,000 engineers.…