Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2014

Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM), the US licensee for Luxembourg-based MDI, the developer of the AirPod compressed-air car ( earlier post , earlier post ), has launched an indiegogo campaign to crowd-source $300,000 to fund US-based production of the AirPod. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

New NASA satellite images released this week demonstrate the reduction of air pollution across the US. Nitrogen dioxide is one of the six common pollutants regulated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect human health. It’s also a good proxy for the presence of air pollution in general.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Ltd revealed the sketch of its upcoming global compact car. Ltd said that the model will qualify an “Eco-car” under Thai policy—and be the first one produced. Honda is slated to begin production of its qualifying Eco-car in 2010 also, according to Frost and Sullivan. Nissan Motor Co., The new global compact. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The study evaluated the rate of hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome (ACS); acute heart failure (AHF); malignant ventricular arrhythmias (MVA); and atrial fibrillation (AF) and the average daily concentrations of PM 10 in Brescia over the period 2004-2007. Resources. Emissions Health'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Since early November, the cars chauffeuring the management board members of Robert Bosch GmbH have been running on fully renewable diesel. diesel reduces the CO 2 emissions of these cars by around two-thirds, or 65%, from well to wheel. In Germany, the CO 2 emissions of newly registered vehicles have fallen by one quarter since 2007.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 5, 2022

Larger signs were printed, too, volunteers from a local car club posting them at street corners around Manteca. In addition to securing cars from private owners and the local Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Tesla dealerships, a used EV dealer was also engaged. Everyone loved these cars,” Beas said. DEED ride-and-drive event.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Air travel within the EU remained the fastest growth area, increasing 48% between 1997 and 2007.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) fined Sunrise Ford, a car dealership with outlets in North Hollywood and Fontana, $175,000 last month for illegally modifying 2005 through 2007 model year light- and medium-duty vehicles with an aftermarket device before the vehicles were sold. ARB Chairman Mary D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2013

However, they also found that decreases in emissions of these pollutants appear to be slowing down and may have leveled off. 4 between 1990 and 2007 due to changes in the relative emission rates of passenger cars versus diesel trucks, and slight uptick thereafter, consistent across all urban areas considered.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Italian city of Milan is to banish cars for 10 hours on Sunday in a bid to cut the city’s air pollution. The Northern Italy city first imposed trial bans in 2007, the BBC reports, and is imposed whenever pollution breaks statutory limits for 12 consecutive days. Milan is one of Europe’s most polluted [.].

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Cars That Think

MAY 14, 2024

Recycling batteries helps cut down on pollution and greenhouse gas emissions,” Akar says. The right process could keep pollution and emissions low and protect the health of workers and surrounding communities.” Additionally, Innoses recycles lithium-ion batteries, which otherwise end up in landfills, leaching hazardous chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2010

Pollution from these sources is projected to grow rapidly over coming decades. The shipping industry is a major contributor to global warming pollution. Annual US shipping emissions are equivalent to from 130 million to 195 million cars. These emissions are on track to triple over the next 20 years.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When it comes to the conventional innovation of electric cars, many people deserve recognition. Anyos Jedlik built an electric motor in 1828, and he used it to make the first miniature electric car. The cars were powered by a 72-volt lead-acid battery. Do we, however, have any knowledge of the history of electric vehicles?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The statute passed by Congress in 2007 states that fuels can’t be approved for the market that could cause any failures. Yet, E-15 has been shown to adversely affect engines in non-road products and later model year vehicles, cause emission failures and increase air pollution due to misfueling, the group says. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

China remains the main engine of demand growth, but more stringent policies to curb air pollution will slow growth. In the United States, fuel-economy standards for passenger cars will curb gasoline demand with growth coming from the petrochemical sector, which is thriving thanks to low-cost ethane.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Urmson helped found, led, and later served as Chief Technology Officer for self-driving cars at Alphabet. Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Cities need such smart mobility solutions to help solve their traffic, pollution and traffic safety challenges.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, Mazda has endeavored to offer both driving pleasure and environmental and safety performance. Earlier post.). It intends to achieve this with a policy prioritizing efficiency improvements and measures for cleaner emissions that apply in the real world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

The number of EU countries with CO2-related car taxation rose to 15 in 2008. In most Central and Eastern European countries, the main concern of policy makers remains to reduce the level of old vehicles on the streets with pollutant emission standards of below Euro 3. ACEA provides an overview of the CO 2 -based vehicle taxes here.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Although industry has lined up behing HFO 1234yf to fulfill the obligations of this directive; Daimler has balked at its use ( earlier post ) based on its internal safety testing and has continued to use the old refrigerant with a much higher air polluting potential.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Catania, Ferrari and colleagues only recently began investigating the role of the rail, as reported in a 2007 SAE paper, Common Rail without accumulator: development, theoretical-experimental analysis and performance enhancement at DI-HCCI level of a new generation FIS. doi: 10.4271/2007-01-1258. Catania, A. Applied Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Attitudes towards measures to reduce car emissions. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. The report found that in 2009, 58% of adults believe that “Individuals should try to limit their car use for the sake of the environment”. Source: DfT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

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. The global car fleet is predicted to grow from 800 million to 1.6 Standardization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Baidu is developing autonomous vehicles with the intention to increase passenger safety and reduce traffic congestion and pollution in China. By 2007, Hall had transitioned the focus of Velodyne to LiDAR sensors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2009

This year’s road tour demonstrates how far the industry has come and how near we are to putting these cars in the public’s hands. As part of ARB’s 2006-2007 budget, the California legislature allotted $25 million for the purposes of encouraging the use of biofuels and high efficiency, low-emitting vehicle technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

By sector, power plants were the largest source of emissions, accounting for 31% of total US greenhouse gas pollution. Commercial aircraft emissions increased slightly between 2012 and 2013, but have decreased 18% since 2007. CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks peaked at 1,181.2 Source: EPA. MMT CO 2 Eq.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 21, 2007

You can't beat a free car and free fuel. Especially a super luxury car that switches to gasoline with the flick of a finger. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600. The 7 Series has get a combined sub-20mpg and has an air pollution index of 6 out of 10.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan compared regulated and unregulated emissions from both light-duty passenger car (1.7 They found that the level of emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants in diesel exhaust depends on fuel, load, engine calibration, and exhaust aftertreatment technology.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Here’s your chance to catch the first glimpse of Nissan’s upcoming global compact car (view the sketch here ) which will be launched in Thailand in March 2010 before being made available in more than 150 countries. 94 and Reg. 94 and Reg.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2015

SYNC, is Ford’s in-car free connectivity system offering hands-free control of phones, entertainment, climate control and navigation. In China, SYNC also will be the first in-car connectivity solution to feature support for Tencent’s new in-vehicle app, Chelian. —John Lawler, chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

ARB estimates that motorcycles produce up to 15 times the emissions per mile as the average new car or light-duty truck. The original 1975 standards applied to hydrocarbons (HC), one of the two most important contributors to smog, and carbon monoxide (CO), a toxic air pollutant. Background. The original HC standards ranged from 5.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2009

Wiartalla (2003) A compact Solid-SCR System for NO x -Reduction in Passenger Cars and Light Duty Trucks. Elsevier, 2007 ISBN 0444530584, 9780444530585. Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control , M B Hocking. MTZ Worldwide. Past and present in DeNOx catalysis, Pascal Granger, Vasile I. Pârvulescu.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? Brooks: No.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels Vehicle Technology Program was established by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) and is an essential element of the California's climate change and energy policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This study builds on the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by EPRI and NRDC ( earlier post ), which showed that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could contribute to reductions in national greenhouse gas emissions, while also leading to improved air quality. levels throughout the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The non-profit BPC was founded in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to be an organization focused on driving principled solutions through analysis, negotiation and dialogue. car warranties, cost, food-vs-fuels arguments). Earlier post.). Effects on emissions.

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