Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Hybrids are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040. Without the projected gains in efficiency, global energy demand could have risen by more than 100%. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The new booklet— Signals & Signposts —updates the company’s thinking by taking into account the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. Improvements in policy-making and strong gains in productivity have helped economies to grow without inflation in the last two decades. Zone of uncertainty.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2015

The sole commercial source, at present, is natural rubber harvested from the Brazilian rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis. —Mooibroek and Cornish (2000). The current global natural rubber market is 9.7 Demand for rubber is growing, especially as southeast Asia, India, China and Brazil expand and develop their economies.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 1, 2023

And even though the road—or the flight path—to commercial success is riddled with regulatory and social obstacles, eVTOLs (a newer and less sullied, acronym-a-licious moniker for flying cars) have attracted billions of dollars in investment in recent years. Back then, the hydrogen economy seemed right around the corner.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

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. This momentum has been driven by a more open and market-driven economy, an empowered and less risk-averse work force, a more consumer-driven culture and an emphasis on small car production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. Don Runkle.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971. Intel helped cement the region as a global center for technological innovation, the article says. The integrated circuit was changing the economy of the whole [electronics] industry, and this was not yet generally recognized.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

At IAA Commercial Vehicles, Allison Transmission announced that it will offer its medium-duty, fully automatic 9-speed transmission globally, and that it has developed an electric hybrid system with purely electric extended range. The two-mode split parallel architecture improves fuel economy up to 25%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The study collected and analyzed data on energy technology research investments and energy technology innovation (ETI) policies in the BRIMCS countries from 2000 to 2008. The results of our study make a strong case for including the BRIMCS governments in any global discussion around energy technology innovation and cooperation.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. His i3system develops sophisticated infrared image sensors for both defense and commercial markets. Smith and Willard Boyle at Bell Laboratories.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand. They account for 40% of the expected increase in oil demand to 2050 and 15% of the increase in global CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

Recent studies have shown that even different volumetric units of fuel economy can be quite misleading and better public understanding in energy use and savings is required to realize the benefits of energy strategies. Standard deviations increase by >10% and >200% when used in high and low blends, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. Because of this slow start, global carbon intensity now needs to be cut by an average of 5.1% —PwC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Australian Government has stated that a fair and effective global agreement to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations, at or below 450 parts per million CO 2 equivalent, is in Australia’s national interest. The average for the passenger car segment (which includes SUVs) was 205 g/km, with light commercials averaging 250 g/km.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But as of this spring, the average new vehicle sold in America—across everything from large pickup trucks to small economy hatchbacks—the average transaction price was $42,000. Look, globally, I think best is the global figure, because you mentioned to the climate; if you want really to help the climate, you have to do it on a global scale.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But as of this spring, the average new vehicle sold in America—across everything from large pickup trucks to small economy hatchbacks—the average transaction price was $42,000. Look, globally, I think best is the global figure, because you mentioned to the climate; if you want really to help the climate, you have to do it on a global scale.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Additional resources: CalCars Environmental FAQ CalCars and Global Warming Plug In Partners: Environmental Benefits Summary of environmental benefits by former DOE official Joe Romm PHEVs will generally recharge at night using excess power from plants that cant shut down completely -- so they dont add to the peak load. Using the average U.S.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

We support the drivers listed, but there are also others: New Zealand is a technology taker, so we must position ourselves to transition the fleet to electric as that is currently the global direction. (If EV smart charging could save the New Zealand economy close to $3 billion by 2035.7 Please explain your answer. Focus areas 2b.

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

He went on to own a Rover 2000, which was the most handsome looking car of its time. In the early 2000s he picked up his first electric car - the Revai. He used to fly the Boeing 777s at Air India - and he now flies the Global Express. One idea would be to cater to the commercial segment. Seats are Ok.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Lutz is a man given to hyperbole — called global warming "a crock of shit" — but in this case, hes right. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. Thats right.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Solid majorities of Californians favor state policies to curb global warming, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. And one in three Republicans (34%) say global warming will never happen, an increase of 10 points since last year (24%).

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