Volkswagen Promises to Pay All CO2 Tax Differences in Europe
7 Nov 2015, 15:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This latest problem, regarding the CO2 levels of 800,000 cars, will cost the company €2 billion ($2.2 billion) according to internal estimates
Mercedes-Benz to Launch First CO2-Based Air Conditioning Systems in 2017
20 Oct 2015, 16:08 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / That little war Mercedes-Benz fought against a French courthouse decision back in 2013 has motivated it to become a pioneer in the air conditioning field
Toyota Plans to Become Virtually Carbon Dioxide-Free by 2050
20 Oct 2015, 15:21 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A lot of things can happen until 2050, but that doesn't mean Toyota's pledge to severely cut its CO2 emissions by then to almost zero isn't important
Audi Announces It's Capable of Obtaining e-Diesel out of CO2
22 Apr 2015, 08:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Audi just announced that after four months of work, one of their plants in Dresden managed to obtain a diesel alternative out of water and CO2
Mercedes-Benz M-Class and B-Class Are Environmental Champions
6 Feb 2014, 18:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Both the Mercedes-Benz ML 250 BlueTec 4Matic and the B 200 Natural Gas Drive are the new “Autotest Environmental Champions 2014”, according to a ranking that the Autotest product-testing...
Mercedes-Benz is The Most Fuel Efficient Luxury Car Brand
11 Dec 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Almost unthinkable three or four years ago, the three-pointed star just became the most efficient luxury car brand, setting the benchmark in a number of vehicle segments when it comes to fuel consum...
Renault Claims Number One Spot in Europe for Low CO2 Emissions
5 Sep 2013, 14:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Renault Group claims to have become the European leader in terms of low CO2 emissions, based on its sales of passenger cars in the first half of 2013. The company says the average level of CO2 em...
Study Claims Real-World CO2 Emissions Are Off 25 Percent from Official Estimates
29 May 2013, 12:32 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / There’s been a lot of talk about automakers posting unrealistic fuel consumption and CO2 emission figures lately, with customers and various agencies reporting relevant discrepancies between o...
Mythbusters: Cars Are Greener than Bikes
4 Oct 2011, 07:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Motorcycles are much greener than cars, right? They burn significantly less fuel, producer less carbon dioxide, so there you have it. Well, according to the Mythbusters, this is wrong: motorcycles a...
Volvo: 2010 CO2 Reduction Champion
12 May 2011, 05:00 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / In today’s financially and environmentally concerned world, CO2 is one of the most important notions for an automotive producer. Thus, carmakers from around the world are making efforts to cut...
Volvo Cuts CO2 Emissions Assisted by Ricardo
11 Apr 2011, 11:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ricardo, an independent solutions provider for the automotive industry, recently announced that it has collaborated with Volvo for the tech development of the S60 and V60 DRIVe models. The vehicl...
A Decade of Cutting Emissions Pays Off
16 Mar 2011, 13:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was about a decade ago that the governments began imposing emission limits on a large scale for the automotive industry, and now it would appear that all the pain and suffering has been worth whi...
Ford Changes Light Bulbs
18 Feb 2011, 13:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's all about green these days with auto makers, but as we have learned in some two years or so, green can be achieved with more than just building eco-vehicles. Driven by the same need to cut...
Car Makers Vow to Cut Emissions
29 Dec 2010, 13:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The race for a greener future means, for some manufacturers, inventing new drive trains and presenting the world with the promise of an electric vehicle powered future. For others, however, being gr...
How Water-Fueled Cars Work
8 Nov 2010, 15:34 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / With so many cars on public streets, concerns that the Planet might run out of petrol are becoming more of a common thing nowadays, although vehicles aren't exactly the biggest burners out ther...
IBM Measures Air Quality from Italy to China
27 Jul 2010, 12:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Almost a week ago, a team of Italian engineers working under the VisLab name embarked in a 8,000 miles (12,874 km) trip from Italy to China, to showcase and at the same time test the unmanned land v...
Dassault Systems and BMW Sign Development Agreement
9 Mar 2010, 17:41 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Dassault Systemes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has just announced the signing of a 5-year global agreement with German car manufacturer BMW. The partnersh...
Fiat Tops European Eco-Chart
9 Mar 2010, 14:26 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Fiat has once again proved it can set impressive CO2 emissions standards, as both the Fiat brand and the Fiat Group have posted Europe’s lowest volume weighted CO2 emissions, according to JATO...
Texas Sues EPA to Block Tailpipe Emissions Limits
17 Feb 2010, 10:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to impose new tailpipe emissions limits starting 2012 has made the state of Texas file a legal challenge with the US Court of Appeal, aiming...
Jaguar Land Rover Factory Named Low Carbon Economic Area
12 Feb 2010, 15:22 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Nowadays everybody talks about green technologies, CO2 emissions, efficiency and renewable energy. And a lot of people seem to think that cars are the ultimate polluter, but that’s not really ...