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Gloria Esposito, programme manager of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, will be a speaker on the panel discussing government support for electric vehicles and low carbon vehicles at the Automotive Cleantech event on 4 April 2013.

Caroline Watson has worked at the Energy Saving Trust since 2007 as a transport specialist. She has written reports on the impacts of policy on travel behaviour (aviation and the uptake of low-carbon vehicle technologies), and has led a number of projects on a range of issues from car labelling, smarter driving and electric vehicles. Caroline regularly speaks at conferences and events and has been interviewed by, and has written for, a number of publications including the Guardian, New Business magazine and the Automotive World blog.

The launch issue of Automotive Cleantech, a new quarterly online subscription publication By Cleantech Investor, is now available.

Over 240 companies and organisations active either in the automotive industry or as an advisor to or investor in auomotive cleantech are mentioned in this issue including:

First published in Automotive Cleantech, March 2013

By Anne McIvor

Imagine a street race around the Colosseum in Rome, round the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing or with the backdrop of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. From May 2014, the launch of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) Formula E Championship means you will no longer need to use your imagination.    

Formula E Holdings (FEH) recently announced a preliminary list of eight cities selected to host electric car races next year. The eight cities, whose names have been submitted to the FIA, are London, Rome, Los Angeles, Miami, Beijing, Putrajaya, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. FEH plans up to ten races in 2014 in these cites (pending formal agreements later this year) plus two others.

Related content: Motor Racing: A Climate Change Solution? (review of Lord Paul Drayson's presentation at the Cleantech Investor EV Club event)

Subscriber content, first published in Automotive Cleantech - March 2013

US wakes up to microhybrid technology

UK new cars 25% more efficient than in 2000

Accuracy of automotive efficiency tests questioned

VC INVESTMENT / ENGINE EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY / Transonic

Related Content: Controlled Power Technologies - Fuel economy of a full hybrid - at a quarter of the cost

Subscriber content, first published in Automotive Cleantech - March 2013

Slow  EV sales, Dreamliner fire and A123’s bankruptcy: small surprise that batteries are out of favour with investors...

The fall of A123

Battery M&A

VC Investors: still signs of life?

VC FUNDING / BATTERIES / Nexeon

VC Funding / Batteries / Gridtential

VC FUNDING / BATTERIES / Eos Energy Storage

First published in Automotive Cleantech - March 2013

by Richard Jordan, K&L Gates

This year at Geneva there was no ’Green Pavilion’ or separate exhibition space for alternative fuel vehicles. Instead, the electric, hybrid and hydrogen-fuelled vehicles shared the floor with manufacturers’ conventional internal combustion engine cars.  Indeed, this year there was practically no OEM manufacturer which did not exhibit at least one alternative fuel vehicle in its range.  This marks a coming–of-age for green motoring - which is being driven not just by consumer desire for more fuel efficiency, but also by European regulation, which specifies that from 2015 the average CO2 emissions across a manufacturer’s fleet must be 130g/km or below.