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EU ROUND UP - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR GREEN BIOFUEL PRODUCTION STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee wants European Union (EU) rules to insist that biofuel production is environmentally sustainable, even an increase in this growing fuel sector reduces CO2 emissions. The call was made in amendments tabled to European Commission proposed reforms to the EU fuel quality directive to reduce CO2 production.…
OIL COMPANIES WORLDWIDE LOOK FOR WAYS TO DOVETAIL BIOFUEL REFINING AND DISTRIBUTION WITH MINERAL OIL NETWORKS
BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas, ALAN OSBORN, in London, and PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut.
AS American gas prices once again edge closer to the US$3 a gallon mark – the point at which an all-pervading quiet panic besets the US retail market – staff at the country’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s hotline know busy times are ahead.…
BRAKE ASSIST LAW GETS SUPPORTIVE RECEPTION IN EUROPE
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
THE AUTOMOBILE manufacturing industry in Europe has given a generally positive welcome to the proposal from the European Commission that two years’ hence, all new vehicle types should have to have brake assist systems fitted. The systems boost a driver’s braking power in emergencies and, says the Commission, could save as many as 1,100 pedestrian lives a year.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BACKS DELAY TO CO2 CAP FOR NEW CARS AND VANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to give car and light-van manufacturers in Europe three more years to cut the average carbon dioxide emissions of new vehicles to proposed compulsory cap of 125g/kilometre. In a vote ahead of formal proposals anticipated from the European Commission in 2008, MEPs said a deadline should be 2015, as opposed to preliminary suggestions from the Commission of 2012.…
EU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP LOW NOISE LIGHTWEIGHT CAR MODELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have devised a way of reducing the weight of noise insulation materials in cars without making them noisier. The EU research network Eureka says the Euro 4 million France-led project E!2411 ERTAC has discovered that by layering compressed felt with a low density felt, the weight of sound insulation could be cut by 50%.…
EU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP LOW NOISE LIGHTWEIGHT CAR MODELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have devised a way of reducing the weight of noise insulation materials in cars without making them noisier. The EU research network Eureka says the Euro 4 million France-led project E!2411 ERTAC has discovered that by layering compressed felt with a low density felt, the weight of sound insulation could be cut by 50%.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BACKS DELAY TO CO2 CAP FOR NEW CARS AND VANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to give car and light-van manufacturers in Europe three more years to cut the average carbon dioxide emissions of new vehicles to proposed compulsory cap of 125g/kilometre. In a vote ahead of formal proposals anticipated from the European Commission in 2008, MEPs said a deadline should be 2015, as opposed to preliminary suggestions from the Commission of 2012.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION FORCES CAR MAKERS TO GIVE INDEPENDENT GARAGES TECHNICAL INFORMATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FLEET managers should secure a greater choice of garages in which to repairs their cars after the European Commission ordered DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, General Motors and Fiat to provide technical repair information to all independent garages in the European Union (EU).…
NEW EU AMBIENT AIR DIRECTIVE TO FURTHER DEMANDS ON AUTO SECTOR OVER EXHAUST CLEANLINESS
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
WITH European Union (EU) member state ministers agreeing ahead of the summer political break to limit the amount of permitted airborne particulates, questions are being asked about how many more technical demands can be made on combustion engines regarding emissions.…
BRUSSELS OPENS NEGOTIATIONS WITH EUROPEAN AND ASIAN CARMAKERS OVER ECALL INSTALLATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to open negotiations with European and Asian automobile manufacturing associations to press for all major car-makers to install the pan-European in-vehicle emergency communications system eCall. Brussels wants this to become a standard option in all new cars from 2010, as way of kick starting a system it values highly and has promoted enthusiastically, but whose take up has been anaemic.…