Auto industry to tap uni expertise in £200m green car scheme

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Five year scheme will fund university research into green car technologies with good prospects of commercialisation

The British car industry's efforts to develop low carbon vehicles was given a boost today after the government announced it had teamed up with the sector to invest £100m each in a scheme to produce green...

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