Fuel Efficiency News
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General Motors Co., introducing redesigned full-sized pickups this year, said new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra base engines will exceed the fuel economy of Ford Motor Co.’s F-Series.
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Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to sell zero-emission vehicles to U.S. consumers who haven’t shown much interest in them, with more states following California’s lead in setting sales targets.
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Airbus SAS’s new A350 wide-body returned from its maiden flight after a four-hour airborne test of the long-range airliner, in a show of confidence that the jet can enter service in late 2014 and challenge Boeing Co.
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Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Chinese and Brazilian oil demand climbed in April, helping push fuel use by emerging economies above the combined consumption from developed nations such as the U.S. and Japan for the first time, a U.S. report showed.
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Idemitsu Kosan Co., the Japanese refiner that closed 23 percent of processing capacity since 2003, will boost crude and oil-products trading in Singapore as it expands its business overseas.
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When Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars and former owner of Chrysler, brought its Euro-styled Sprinter van with a 14-foot high roof and sloped brow to the U.S., it stood out on the parkway like a pachyderm.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono approved tax breaks on low-emission cars, paving the way for Toyota Motor Corp. and affiliate Daihatsu Motor Co. to widen their lead in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
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Hybrid and electric cars are sparing the environment. Critics say they’re hurting the roads.
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Janet McEneaney, like many of the 2.3 million residents of New York’s borough of Queens, has put up with the intermittent roar of jet engines her entire life. Last year was different.
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