Carbon-cutting, gas-guzzling cars on show at Paris fair
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Car makers at the Paris Motor Show this week competed for best green credentials, unveiling environmentally-friendly cars designed to attract consumers on grounds of cost as well as conscience.
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PARIS -- Many of the fanciful technologies and programs unveiled at the Paris Air Show this week won't survive their first contact with the real world of budget cuts and customer demand.
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A campaign to get motorists to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is launched by the government.
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Creative yet fair and ethical fashion that embraces social and environmental values and supports development is set to draw designers from developing countries and Europe to Paris this week for an unprecedented kind of fashion event.
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General Motors toughened its public stance on proposals that the U.S. carmaker join an alliance with Renault and its sister company, Nissan, adding to uncertainties weighing on the industry as the Paris Motor Show opens its doors Thursday.
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From a plug-in hybrid car to the sexy  electric Tesla Roadster, celebrities wanting to make a green  statement on the way to the red carpet of the Oscars will have  plenty of environment-friendly rides this Sunday.
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Tuesday announced plans to ramp up charges on people driving gas-guzzling vehicles into the city centre, in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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Three German cities now make drivers display stickers to show their cars meet emission standards.
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German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled the  world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on  Wednesday, dubbed the H2R, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers  (185 miles) per hour.
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As the Detroit auto show opens on Sunday, major global automakers are set to unwrap glittering new vehicles that span the gamut of styles from the gas-hogging fast to the gas-free green.
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Sales jump more than 21% in December as the French race to snap up big cars before new emissions law.
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Je crache sur le Prius, voiture des puanteurs A French automotive-industry researcher has published an attack on hybrid cars, suggesting that they aren't a good sustainable way to save the planet and will prevent other technologies from developing.â¦
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Two designers use a Paris show to demonstrate that fashion and politics can mix.
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The green sports car race is hyped this week with a hybrid Honda mean machine. Have fun, but hold off on the eco kudos -- these rides burn hydrocarbons. In Epicenter.
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From an 1895 Peugeot chassis that won the first timed auto race to a classic '70s Citroen Goddess and the first Beemer, history is on display at the Retromobile classic car show. Bruce Gain reports from Paris in Autopia.
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Hot air now figuring prominently in debate The struggle among motor-industry biggies regarding who can seem the greenest (while simultaneously not actually doing very much about carbon emissions) continues. Toyota and GM are vying for supremacy in the plug-in hybrid stakes, Ferrari has dipped a toe in biofuel, and out of left field come French and Indian contenders with a car powered by compressed air.â¦
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Locusts crawl over a giant screen at  Alexander McQueen's show, tango dancers swirl over the catwalk  at Kenzo, and it snows paper flakes at Chanel.