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Mercedes-Benz Purpose Initiative 03_cr

Mercedes-Benz does some soul searching, will make its plants CO2 neutral

Posted on May 16, 2018November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

The company’s “Purpose” initiative tries to understand the ‘Why’ behind what it does Making electric cars is just one way in which car manufacturers can reduce their impact on the…

Posted in Auto Industry, Car NewsTagged Electric cars, green, mercedes-benz, pollution
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Opinion: why Scott Pruitt isn’t alone in his crusade for allowing US’ cars to pollute more

Posted on April 3, 2018November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

Major carmakers and EPA’s administrator are not the only ones that don’t care about the environment If you feel enraged about Scott Pruitt's crusade against clean air norms, perhaps you…

Posted in Car Editorials, Car NewsTagged co2, epa, opinion, pollution, scott pruitt
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JATO Dynamics: CO2 emissions rise again in Europe, after ten years

Posted on March 6, 2018November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

To blame: the diesel scare, combined with the SUV craze A decade of reducing CO2 emissions was brought to a halt in 2017, as the average CO2 emissions increased by…

Posted in Auto Industry, Car NewsTagged co2, emissions, jato, pollution, suvs
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VW, Daimler and BMW funded research that had monkeys and humans inhale diesel fumes

Posted on January 30, 2018November 2, 2022 by Dan Mihalașcu

Dieselgate is never going to go away, is it? Just when it looked like the Dieselgate scandal would slowly disappear from the public eye, new developments have emerged that continue…

Posted in Auto Industry, Car NewsTagged BMW, daimler, Diesel, dieselgate, exhaust smoke, pollution, reports, vw

The end of diesel cars in Europe is near: EU lawmakers make a decisive move

Posted on April 7, 2017November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

The European Parliament wants much tougher emission laws Europe will soon become a place where diesel engines will be banned, at least for passenger cars. The European Parliament recommended yesterday…

Posted in Auto Industry, Car NewsTagged Diesel, dieselgate, emissions, european parliament, european union, nox, pollution

Renault, Accused of Cheating Emission Tests for Decades

Posted on March 16, 2017November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

The company flatly denies the accusations printed in a French newspaper Renault is accused by the French authorities that it cheated emission tests for the last 25 years – since…

Posted in Auto Industry, Car NewsTagged carlos ghosn, co2, dieselgate, nox, pollution, renault, renaultgate

Millennials Are Fooled into Thinking SUVs Are Actually Eco-Friendly

Posted on February 3, 2017November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

And Ford is happy to spin the fake story We journalists often skip press releases that try to push a product through cherry-picked statistics, but I couldn't let this gem…

Posted in Car Editorials, Car NewsTagged co2, Ford, fuel efficiency, pollution, suv, suvs

The SUV & Truck Environmental Disaster Is Here

Posted on January 16, 2017November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

And it’s going to stay Excited by all the talk about EVs and plug-in hybrids? Think they'll save the planet? Think again. Fuel efficiency is on all the industry managers'…

Posted in Car Editorials, Car NewsTagged crossover, ecology, fuel efficiency, mpg, pollution, suv

Why Electric Cars And Downsizing Will NOT Save the Planet

Posted on October 19, 2016November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

The trending buzzwords in the car industry might be just that: words Could it be that we got the wrong buzzwords from the car industry when talking about saving the…

Posted in Car Editorials, Car NewsTagged auto industry, car industry, co2, editorials, Electric cars, hybrids, opinion, pollution

Selected stories

A brief history of the Porsche Speedster

Dragoș Băltățeanu May 21, 2019
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Six decades of open-top driving pleasure Porsche has recently added a Speedster version to the 911 model range. But the Speedster is something deeply embedded in the Porsche DNA. Speedster…

Car history: the incredible cars of Giuseppe Figoni

Adrian Mihălțianu February 11, 2019
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The Italian car designer created some of the most beautiful cars ever made Giuseppe Figoni started as just another car designer, in the 1920s. But when he met Ovidio Falaschi,…

In pictures: 50 years from the first Mercedes-Benz E-Class coupés

Adrian Mihălțianu December 8, 2018
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A story of German beauty and power Mercedes-Benz has a delightful picture gallery for its fans, and it's especially pleasing for those loving its classic coupés Fifty years ago, Mercedes-Benz…

Test Drives

Citroën C4 Cactus 1.2 PureTech 110 Shine review: personality crisis

Andrei Știrbu August 28, 2018
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By calling itself a 'hatchback', the C4 Cactus proves it's not afraid of challenges; and not just any challenge, but one of the toughest Overall Score 79/100 In a quite…

2018 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet review: not just a Jack of all Trades

Andrei Știrbu August 6, 2018
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Porsche 911s keep on breaking records and live up to their names. But what about the least powerful 911? Is it a proper sports car, or just an entry-level everyone…

2018 BMW X4 xDrive 25d review – Straight outta Spartanburg

Andrei Nedelea July 24, 2018
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It's BMW's latest midsize SAC Overall Score 85/100 BMW proved just how much beauty really is in the eye of the beholder with its first generation X6 (which it called…

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