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The Christchurch Agency for Energy is behind Christchurch and we intend to help our city move forward to a better future. Whether you own or are responsible for your own vehicle or an organisation or businesses fleet; CAfE's information, background and tips will help you make better energy choices. We can provide information for fixed plant engines, new technologies, fuels and innovations which can all be applied to your vehicles or craft.

CAfE wants to help you drive us all to our future.

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Submitted by sam on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 1:59pm

taken from newstrust.net via The Daily Telegraph.

In march this year the European Commission unveiled a "single European transport area" aimed at enforcing "a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers" by 2050.

The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail.

Top of the EU's list to cut climate change emissions is a target of "zero" for the number of petrol and diesel-driven cars and lorries in the EU's future cities.

Smart tips for the motorist

Submitted by sam on Fri, 17/06/2011 - 4:01pm

There are many factors that influence fuel use in vehicles, from size of the engine, and weight of the car, to the frequency of stopping and starting that the vehicle does.  Identical cars can have quite different petrol or diesel use depending on; tyre pressure, mechanical issues and how the car is driven.   

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Bioethanol

Submitted by sam on Fri, 17/06/2011 - 1:20pm

The rising price and environmental impacts petrol is causing the need to rethink the fuel we use in our private cars and in our vehicle fleets. There are smart alternatives to petrol and diesel, and 100% biofuels are made of renewable material and don’t produce greenhouse gases as they don’t produce carbon dioxide. The less petroleum, the lower the emissions.   Biofuels are made from sugars, starches, vegetable oils and animal fats.

The renewable energy substitute for petrol is bioeothanol which is ethyl alcohol, and production of it has more than doubled since 2000 in New Zealand. Ethanol is a renewable energy and is created using sunlight and organic material.

Biodiesel, for a sustainable Christchurch (Updated)

Submitted by sam on Fri, 17/06/2011 - 1:19pm

The rising price and environmental impacts of petrol and diesel are causing a rethink of the fuel we use in our private cars and in our vehicle fleets. Good news is that there are smart alternatives to petrol and diesel. Even better news is that biofuels made entirely of renewable material don’t produce greenhouse gases as they don’t produce carbon dioxide.

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