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I embarked on a team economy car test last Monday. The four vehicles were all from the Skoda Greenline fleet ranging from the smaller Fabia to the large Superb. We had four drivers in each team, with one taking control over each of the four stages.

The cost of petrol and diesel has not fallen at Irish pumps yet according to the August survey of prices from the AA. Petrol costs an average of 151.9 cent per litre, diesel 143.6 cent in August, up 2.6 cent and 2.5 cent respectively on the average figures for July.

Over half of Irish motorists expect fuel prices to increase by up to 15 per cent in the next year, according to the new Skoda Ireland Motoring Costs Insights report.

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An Austrian economy driving specialist by the name of Gerhard Plattner has achieved an amazing 1,246 miles (2,006 km) on a single 45 litre tank of fuel in a Skoda Fabia GreenLine.

The Skoda Fabia GreenLine has set a new record for low fuel-consumption travelling, completing a journey of over 2,000 kilometres on a single 45 litre tank of fuel.

Ireland is sitting on a potential multi-million euro industry in the renewable energy sector, delegates attending a major worldwide convention in Co Mayo later this month will be told.

Athlone Chamber is coordinating an Athlone Sustainable Energy Day on Friday April 15 in Golden Island Shopping Centre. The awareness raising information day is being organised as part of the wider European Sustainable Energy Week 2011.

More than 300 delegates from the academic community, local and national industry, those at the forefront of policy-making, and the general public attended and actively participated in Energy Night 2011 which was held at NUI Galway last week.

A new fund to assist public and private sector companies with their energy costs, as announced by Energy Minister Eamon Ryan this week, is to benefit a number of Mayo companies operating in the energy saving sector.