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Cool people ride electric......
This promotional video for the zero emissions Vectrix Maxi Scooter sees cool customers cruising around town to a cool soundtrack. With a range of 70 miles, a top speed of 62mph and a cost of recharging that's less than the electricity used watching TV it's proven that green and clean can be practical and cool.
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Crash Test partnership
A new partnership between The University of Michigan Medical School and OnStar is working to collect crash and injury information from specific vehicle crashes. Acting as an eyewitness, OnStar's Advanced Automatic Crash Notification transmits the crash severity, number of airbags deployed and location of the vehicle to an adviser, who passes that information along to first responders.
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EU report - road safety is everyone's business
The European Commission's European Road Safety Day, which takes place on April 27th, is part of the effort to save 25,000 lives across the EU every year by 2010. Some contries have a death toll of 3 times higher than others - Although there has been undeniable progress on the manufactiuring side, European Commissioner for Transport Jacques Barrott says that we have to increase our efforts.
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Volvo Trucks - low carbon mission
The Volvo Group has announced plans to produce seven demonstration trucks, modified to run on seven different biofuels, to help curb global carbon-dioxide emission.  Volvo CEO Leif Johansson comments in this report from TheAutoChannel
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