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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The latest Investment Plan for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program prioritizes $100 million in state funds to leverage funding and investments from federal agencies, research institutions, private investors, auto manufacturers and other stakeholders. million attracted nearly $105.3

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MAY 3, 2016

The trucks were purchased under UPS’ commitment to log 1 billion miles with alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. AMP Electric Vehicles was established in 2007 as a developmental-stage vehicle electrification company. Workhorse and AMP Electric Vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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APRIL 2, 2010

Yesterday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly established increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles and fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, respectively.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

The SEGR technology was introduced with the ISL G in 2007, and was developed to meet 2010 EPA emission requirements. The cooled-EGR system passes exhaust gas through a cooler to reduce temperatures before mixing it with fuel and the incoming air charge to the cylinder. It joins the 8.9-liter and Westport Innovations Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Many concepts for higher efficiency engines historically have been held back by the available technology, Wagner noted in an earlier talk at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2012 Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER) conference. Wagner 2012. Keynote at Global Powertrain Congress 2012. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. Renewable propane.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s first commercial flight powered by a Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) fuel blend last October. Following along the Airbus Alternative Fuels Roadmap, by launching this new initiative with Qatar Airways, we have taken yet another important step to reach carbon neutral growth in the aviation sector by 2020.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

While there have been improvements in CO 2 average tailpipe emissions from new passenger cars, there has not been enough progress on the consumption of oil in transport or on meeting the related goal of sourcing 10 % of transport fuel from renewable sources. fueled vehicles still only accounted for 4% of all vehicles in the on?road

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

quadrillion Btu in 2035, as a result of fuel economy improvements achieved through stock turnover as older, less efficient vehicles are replaced by newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beyond 2035, LDV energy demand begins to level off as increases in travel demand begin to exceed fuel economy improvements in the vehicle stock.

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MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Electric vehicle technology. Standardization.

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MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

All inline engines are based on the latest platform introduced in 2007 with technologies to meet Euro 5 and Euro 6 emission requirements, as well as Euro 4 and Euro 3. The new Euro 3 and Euro 4 engines as well as the additional Euro 5 and EEV SCR engines will be introduced in European production during 2012. Alternative fuels.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Jens Hadler: from May 2007 until March 2011, Hadler worked for VW as head of Engine Development for VW. Bernd Gottweis: from 2007 until October 2014, Gottweis worked for VW as a supervisor with responsibility for Quality Management and Product Safety. Around 2012, hardware failures developed in certain of the diesel vehicles.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Biodiesel, noted the authors, is the most widely used biofuel in diesel engines, and it is currently the main fuel being used or considered to meet renewable fuel requirements for diesel fuel. In California, biodiesel use accounted for 86% of the alternative fuels consumed by the state fleet in 2010.

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MAY 10, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a 2012-2013 Investment Plan Update to increase the use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. 11 million for hydrogen cell fueling stations. 3 million for other fueling infrastructure, including $1.5 3 million for other fueling infrastructure, including $1.5

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Proposed allocation of 2011-2012 investment plan. The staff of the California Energy Commission has prepared a draft 2011-2012 Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, its third year of program funding. Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff are to present the results of these reviews to the ARB by 1 January 2012, and 1 January 2015. The plan assumes carbon intensity will be reduced 10% from 2007 levels by 2023, with reductions beginning in 2014. The Advisory Panel has now met officially six times during 2011. British Columbia.

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AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Between 2006 and 2012, total clean energy tax credit expenditures were $18.1 —Borenstein and Davis (2015).

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JUNE 1, 2009

Reduce GM’s total number of assembly, powertrain and stamping facilities in the US from 47 in 2008 to 34 by the end of 2010 and 33 by 2012. This rate is substantially below the 15 to 17 million annual vehicle sales rates recorded from 1995 through 2007. Earlier post.) viability plan submission.

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JULY 22, 2009

Neil Auerbach is a Managing Partner at Hudson Clean Energy Partners which is a global private equity firm investing in renewable power, alternative fuels, energy efficiency and storage. Auerbach’s calculations project that “ In order to meet the administration’s renewable energy goals, $217 billion will be required by 2012.

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JUNE 19, 2015

In 2012 the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which regulates fuel economy, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which regulates greenhouse gas emissions, proposed new unified standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions over the years 2017 to 2025. Background. mpg by 2025.

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JUNE 7, 2013

For now, noted Ed Saxman, Volvo Trucks’ Product Marketing Manager, Alternative Fuels, the engines in the customer fleet test trucks in the US are the same as those currently under test in Europe. Volvo Truck’s DME announcement comes in the context of many years of alternative fuel and driveline development. Selecting DME.

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JUNE 14, 2011

At least 80% of land convoys in Afghanistan are for transporting fuel to warfighters, Lynn said. From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys. In current. At the battalion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Existing law exempts certain clean, alternative-fuel vehicles from these occupancy requirements, so that a vehicle with a sole occupant may use an HOV lane—if the vehicle displays a Clean Air Vehicle sticker. This program began on 1 January 2012; as of 1 March 2013, DMV had issued 10,881 green stickers. Green HOV stickers.

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JULY 19, 2012

The NLCFS researchers submitted seven research reports supporting the TAR to the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy to be published in a special issue, “Low Carbon Fuel Policy” later this summer. In contrast, an LCFS would apply to all transport fuels, not just biofuels, and would base the requirements on their life-cycle carbon intensity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine Twitter Tennessee may be getting a jump-start on preparations for the electric car, but how quickly Americans take to it and how enthusiastically power companies support it remain key questions as the government and automakers push for more alternative-fuel vehicles. 16,000 miles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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JULY 21, 2014

We are starting with optimizing our conventional drive trains—the TDI diesel engines, the TSI engines, the DSG transmission, all of those technologies have helped us to lower our fuel consumption a lot. We have different alternative fuels in our program such as CNG and LPG, we are working on some synthetic fuel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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MAY 2, 2013

MPG: A Progress Report on Achievability ”—of the response of consumers and automakers as both begin to experience the effects of the newly adopted federal fuel economy standard. In 2005, less than 30% of the vehicles purchased had four-cylinder engines, and in 2012, nearly half of those purchased had four cylinders. CFA report.

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