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Shell is buying EV charging company Volta for $169 million

And this isn't the first charging network the oil giant has scooped up

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Shell joins BP with huge earnings report as oil prices soar

Shell said adjusted earnings rose to $9.1 billion from $3.2 billion in the same period last year

Daimler Truck 'all in' on green energy as it targets costs

Aims for zero-emission vehicles to make up 60% of its sales by 2030, 100% by 2039

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Fiat Chrysler taps Amazon, Shell execs to fill roles

Mark Stewart becomes COO of FCA North America

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Shell and Airflow create Starship 18-wheeler to further shake up the segment

The Starship semi is all about fuel efficiency

We need to add another high-tech 18-wheeler entry to the growing list of players at the table: Shell collaborated with AirFlow Truck Company the truck you see above, dubbed Starship. The tractor-trailer combo isn't the wildest rival in the bunch, but it features the best of current technology aided by a host of major and minor tweaks from stem to stern. Shell considers the the Class 8 Truck equivalent of the Project M T25 city car it worked on with legendary English designer Gordon Murray.

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Shell and Ionity carmakers installing ultra-fast highway EV charging

The oil company joins with automakers to accelerate EVs.

The partners will build 80 high-powered chargers to Europe's highways in 2019.

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Shell buys NewMotion charging network in first electric vehicle deal

Shell expects around a quarter of the world’s car fleet to be electric by 2040.

NewMotion is the owner of one of Europe's largest electric vehicle charging networks.

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Toyota and Shell team up to build hydrogen fueling stations

'The enemy of the enemy is a friend.'

The partnership boosts future prospects for both companies as BEV threat looms.

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With a new Jaguar and the Shell app, your car can pay for its own gas

Apple Pay and PayPal will be supported first, with Android Pay coming later.

Pay for gas without leaving your car! And then get out and pump it.

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Shell may launch a UK EV charging network in 2017

It's 'examining the potential' for a small roll-out next year.

Who needs gas stations?

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VW and Shell study seen as obstruction to EU emissions goals

A study launched by VW and Shell looks to biofuels as a better way to achieve climate goals. Others see it as an attempt to block fuel-economy targets.

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Gordon Murray's city car redesigned with help from Shell

The latest version of the T25 city car debuts at the Beijing Motor Show.

The T25 was thrifty before, but the new version wearing a Shell suit is even fitter.

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Shell starts selling super-premium gasoline

Shell is launching a new gasoline option called V-Power Nitro+ Premium. The company claims that the fuel can protect engine and fuel system components better than others.

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University of Toronto wins Shell Eco-Marathon 2015 with 3,421 mpg

Heartbreak For Favorites Universite Laval On Last Attempt

The University of Toronto managed to win the ninth Shell Eco-Marathon Americas this weekend with an amazing 3,421 mpg.

Gordon Murray, Shell working on 97-mpg Project M concept

It's A 'Rethink' Of The T.27

Gordon Murray and Shell will unveil a small, high-mpg concept urban car called the Project M in November.

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Universite Laval wins Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2014 with 2,824 mpg

At the 2014 Shell Eco-marathon Americas in Houston this past weekend, Canadian teams took the top two spots in the gasoline Prototype category. The winning team, from Université Laval, managed to hit 2,824 miles per gallon (mpg), just a few drops ahead of the second-place team, the University of Toronto, which finished with 2,712 mpg. Last year, the Sebastian Blanco

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Visiting the Shell Technology Center, Part 2: The Law of Unleaded [w/videos]

Cheap Gas, Top Tier Gas, Premium Gas And You

Shell invited us to its Technology Center near Houston, Texas to learn more about its V-Power premium gasoline, and we ended up learning not only about detergent additives but also what the Internet thinks happens inside a car's engine. In Part One of the story of our visit, we tackled the Internet and the engine internals, laying out the ways in which some of your engine's parts get layered in

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Visiting the Shell Technology Center, Part 1: The Rise of Additives [w/video]

How Gasoline Works And Why Your Engine Needs To Clean Up After Itself

Two of the most important additions to a car are also two of the most commonly ignored: gasoline and tires. Companies pour staggering amounts of money, energy and resources into designing, engineering and gaining percentile improvements in automobiles, and what they get in return from consumers is a staggering amount of "Which one is cheapest?"

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Energy industry's profits stumble in Q4 2013 as easy petroleum fades

Big Oil has a lot more to worry about than fighting the biofuels industry over the Renewable Fuel Standard. Fourth quarter 2013 earning reports show that major oil companies haven't been as profitable lately as they used to be.

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Oil company predicts gas-powered cars will be 'nearly' gone by 2070 [w/video]

"By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible futures, one called "Mountains" and the other "Oceans."

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