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Transport and sustainability
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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following:

Figure 2: Nissan calculation from Nissan Green Program 2010 www.nissan-global.com

Figure 5: adapted from figure 4 in 'Strategies Towards Meeting Future Particulate Matter Emission Requirements in Homogeneous Gasoline Direct Injection Engines'(Walter Piock, Guy Hoffmann, Axel Berndorfer, Patick Salemi and Bernd Fusshoeller, Delphi Powertrain Systems), Luxembourg © SAE International 2011

Figure 7: http://www.toyota.com

Figures 8, 9, 18, 22: courtesy of Stephen Potter

Figure 10: photographer Joel Creed/ © http://Ecoscene.com

Figure 11: © Patrick Laverdant/iStockphoto.com

Figure 12: © unknown

Figure 13: http://www.itbhuglobal.org

Figure 14: photograph of Nissan Leaf by Steven Lines, Milton Keynes Council

Figure 16: photograph (Joe Mills, course team) of Opel Volt Ampera www.opel-ampera.com

Figure 17: American Honda Motor Co, Inc.

Figures 19, 20: http://www.riversimple.com

Audio 1: Thanks go to Professor Stephen Potter (Open University), Professor Dermott Roddy (University of Newcastle), Professor Andrew Weller (University of Oxford). Post production The Hall; produced by Clear Focus Productions. © The Open University 2012.

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