car efficiency

£500 million for clean car technology

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Greenpeace response

29 April, 2014

In response to the goverment announcing a £500 million funding package to support Ultra Low Emission Vehicles, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK, said :

 

"As the first oil arrives from the fragile Arctic, there has never been a better time to push our vehicles towards going low carbon. Not only does this investment boost Britain’s clean tech sector and maintain our leading position in an expanding global market, but in the long run it will help us stop poisoning our cities and trashing the environment for oil."

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Article tagged as: car efficiency, low carbon, road transport

CO2 - Das Problem

Posted by bex — 17 April 2012 at 4:56pm - Comments
Paraglider with banner flying around VW headquarters
All rights reserved. Credit: Michael Loewa / Greenpeace
Paraglider with banner flying around VW headquarters

This morning, two activists in Germany climbed the towering VW office building, dropped a banner reading “CO2 - Das Problem”, demonstrating that VW’s boss needs to show more responsibility when it comes to climate change. The climbers were removed, but another Greenpeace activist has since managed to paraglide around the tower - sending the message that the rebellion will continue until VW commits to real climate protection.

Article tagged as: car efficiency, climate change, germany, oil, VW, VWDarkside

VW: pioneering anti-social media

Posted by jamess — 10 January 2012 at 2:20pm - Comments

After ignoring well over 1,000 comments on its Facebook pages, Volkswagen has found a new tactic: deleting them.

Article tagged as: car efficiency, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

VW: what a social media fail looks like

Posted by jamess — 4 January 2012 at 10:44pm - Comments

What I love about social media is that you can’t fake it.

For all the hundreds of millions of dollars companies like Volkswagen pump into their advertising machines (for VW it’s a cool £1.5bn every year) they can’t crack social media. And that’s down to one simple reason: they fear honesty. 

Article tagged as: 30 percent, car efficiency, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

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