Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2017
The innovative, fully automatic transmission, for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, will be available globally and is targeted for release in 2020. Prototype evaluations for OEMs in North America, Europe and Asia begin this year. —Randy Kirk, senior vice president of product engineering and product teams with Allison Transmission.
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2010
UPS is targeting a 20% improvement in fuel economy for its US package delivery fleet from 2000 to 2020. UPS has set a new automotive goal to improve the miles per gallon (MPG) performance of its entire US package delivery fleet by 20 percent between 2000 and 2020. Click to enlarge. In 2009, UPS drivers logged 77.3
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Eleven years have passed since the last time a similar study was conducted, and there has been a strong growth in the aviation sector since then, particularly in Asia. Both radiative forcing (RF) and effective radiative forcing (ERF) terms and their sums are calculated for the years 2000–2018. —Marianne Tronstad Lund, co-author.
Green Car Congress
MAY 13, 2020
million km 2 in 2000). m 2 in 2000 to 246?m For both developed and developing countries—for example, countries in Europe and Southeast Asia—urban expansion is expected to roughly triple if society favors materialistic and fossil-fuel driven development instead of adopting a sustainability mindset. million to 3.6
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2011
Light-duty vehicle sales, 2010 vs. 2020. million light vehicles (passenger cars and light-commercial vehicles) were sold in India in 2010, up from just 700,000 light vehicles sold in 2000. billion—is expected to reach 11 million light-vehicle sales by 2020. million sales in 2020). Source: J.D. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2020
SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Their data showed that southeast Asia is now home to some of the most sprawling cities on the planet – —and sprawl is getting worse. Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball (2020) “Global trends towards urban street-network sprawl” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905232116.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 27, 2012
Tropical peatlands cover more than 25 Mha in Southeast Asia and are estimated to contain around 70 Gt of carbon. Historical analysis shows strong acceleration of plantation development in recent years: 70% of all industrial plantations have been established since 2000 and only 4% of the current plantation area existed in 1990.
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