Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The EIA defines chokepoints as narrow channels along widely used global sea routes, some so narrow that vessel size is restricted. They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits, the agency notes. This represents a decline from 2008, when 1.6 The Suez Canal.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Just three days after Michael Jackson, Coda Automotive's senior vice president of global sales, marketing and distribution, resigned to start his own company, the company's CEO, Kevin Czinger, is also stepping down from his position. Tags: kevin czinger coda miles automotive. Source: AutoBlogGreen ].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

Since August 2008, ten light-duty trucks equipped with hybrid drive systems have clocked around 265,000 km (164,663 miles) in eight fleets operated by customers. The vehicles are in service every day and travel between 400 and 2,800 km (249 to 1,740 miles) each month. Fumio Akikawa, head of the Global Hybrid Center.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2009

Based on a sample group of carriers, US airline passenger revenue fell 21% in July 2009 versus the same month in 2008—the ninth consecutive month in which passenger revenue has fallen from the prior year— according to a report from the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading US airlines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

Since becoming the fuel economy leader in the 2008 model year (average 30.9 It leverages Hyundai’s global Blue Drive strategy ( earlier post ), aligning R&D resources at its engineering centers in California, Michigan, Korea, India and Germany to develop more fuel-efficient vehicle technologies. mpg by 2016. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

The EZ10 provides shared driverless transportation for the last mile. Additionally, EasyMile will benefit from Alstom’s network to increase its global reach. Ligier has marketed electric vehicles since 2008. Alstom will be present at EasyMile’s board. EasyMile shuttles transport up to 12 passengers.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The firm polled and interviewed 23 suppliers, almost all of them global Tier 1 suppliers that sell parts directly to automakers. 65% agreed with the decision to set new miles-per-gallon standards for 2025, with 30% saying they strongly agreed with the decision. miles per gallon under test conditions for the 2025 model year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2009

UPS Airlines CO 2 emissions per Available Ton Mile, historical and targeted. CO 2 lbs/ATM (Available Ton Mile), for a cumulative reduction of 42% since 1990. UPS Airlines aviation gallons burned per 100 Available Ton Miles, historical and targeted. four-million-square-foot heart of UPS’s global air network. MMT in 2007.customers

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Italy-based Micro-Vett SpA, which produces electric versions of several other Fiat vehicles, has developed an electric version of the 500, unveiled by the NICE car company in 2008. Featuring a 22 kWh Li-ion pack and a 30 kW, 100 N·m drive motor, the Micro-Vett electric 500 has a range of 145 km (90 miles) and a top speed of 114 km/h (71 mph).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Sacramento-based Nissan X-TRAIL FCVs have already logged nearly 300,000 miles in ongoing internal tests, with one vehicle very close to the 100,000-mile mark. Versions of this generation X-TRAIL FCV are capable of speeds in excess of 95 miles per hour, with a cruising range of up to 300 miles. The new fuel cell stack.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Here they are, folks, the very Hot List of Global Warming’s Worst Merchants of Death. So let’s take a look, straight from our friends at the California Air Resources Board* , at the Top Emitters of Greenhouse Gases in California, for 2008. BP Refinery, Carson: 4,504,286 metric tons (9 miles from my house).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

kW/h lithium-ion battery that can be recharged from an external 240V power source, Range_e can be driven on electric power alone for more than 20 miles. Improved fuel efficiency from the hybrid system makes 690 miles possible on a full tank of fuel. —John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

In 2008, FedEx Corp. Consequently, FedEx has increased its aircraft emissions goal by 50%, to a 30% reduction in global aircraft emissions intensity by its original 2020 target date. million miles and conserved 345,000 gallons of fuel. and improved vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6% at the end of its fiscal year 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

from a global perspective, the decision whether or not to build the proposed Project would be unlikely to substantially affect the rate of extraction and combustion of WCSB oil sands crude and its impact on the global market.” 2012 Keystone XL plan vs. 2008 plan. Length of new pipeline (miles). —Draft SEIS.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for February 2009 was the ninth warmest since records began in 1880, according to an analysis by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC. Separately, the global land surface temperature was 39.38 °F (4.1 °F),

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JUNE 2, 2011

” —Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development. 3-cylinder EcoBoost was designed at Ford’s Dunton Technical Centre in the US, the company’s global center of excellence for small-capacity engines. The new three-cylinder engine will be available globally in the company’s small cars.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The Global Green Car Challenge took place this week in Australia. Driver Simon Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas set out in the 2008 Tesla Roadster with a goal in. Participants in numerous categories faced off for supremacy. One vehicle, the Tesla Roadster , set a new world record in the battery powered production vehicle class.

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Miles Tesla 2008 Australia 49

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2010

By 2040, the report proposed, 75% of the light-duty vehicle miles traveled in the US should be electric miles. By 2030, the typical US household’s annual income would rise by $2,763 (2008 dollars). trillion (2008 dollars) in aggregate income—money that can be saved or spent on other goods and services. Oil Imports.

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Grid Vehicles 2008 Oil 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The plug-in has an electric range of up to 20 km (12 miles) at speeds up to 100 km/h (62 mph). This project is part of a global Toyota project involving 600 Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles that will also be deployed in Japan, the US, Canada and Australia. CO 2 emissions in the European homologation combined cycle are 59 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Springtime ozone distributions for 1984, 1995–2008 in the mid-troposphere (3.0–8.0 The study focused on springtime ozone in a slice of the atmosphere from two to five miles above the surface of western North America, below the protective ozone layer but above ozone-related, ground-level smog that is harmful to human health and crops.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2009

BP and Irving Oil will not be moving forward at this time with a proposed second refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, as a result of global economic and industry conditions. located 65 miles (105 km) from the US border. The refinery would be situated close to Irving Oil’s.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Development of small electric vehicles is a growth area around the global automotive industry and we are excited that this cooperation with REVA in India will accelerate GM’s progress to meet the emerging needs in many parts of the world. Karl Slym, President and Managing Director, GM India. Both models feature a 2.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

These vehicles, with a combination of a hydrogen fuel cell and batteries, offer an extended range that performs under demanding conditions: mail routes of 100 km (62 miles) or more through the cold, hilly and mountainous terrain. This will significantly improve our level of global CO 2 emissions. The three Kangoos Z.E.s

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

In 2008, GE Transportation took South Africa’s Western Cape Orex line to the next level with the longest production train in the world, made possible through the LOCOTROL technology solution. It feeds the port of Saldanha Bay, for export to a global market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2012

Our focus on increased domestic oil and gas production, currently at an eight-year high, combined with the historic fuel economy standards we put in place, means that we will continue to reduce our nation’s vulnerability to the ups and downs of the global oil market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [ The global solar market is expected to install 22 MW of electricity in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

Saturn currently sells two hybrid vehicles (VUE and Aura with GM Hybrid System) and was scheduled to begin initially offering a two-mode hybrid Vue ( earlier post ), with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version ( earlier post ) due in 2011 for use in a cooperative demonstration test fleet with the US Dept. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

The 1,000-mile/1,607-km pipeline will run from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin. In the US, the Alberta Clipper Pipeline will extend 326 miles from the US-Canadian border near Neche, North Dakota across northern Minnesota to an Enbridge terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. Earlier post.). US State Department.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

On specific test schedules conducted by LG Chem, the demonstration vehicles may achieve a range of up to 160 km (100 miles). This is a key initiative in GM’s global battery and electric vehicle development strategy. The vehicles can go from 0 to 100 km/h in 8.2 seconds with a maximum speed of 165 km/h (102.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Green Car Congress had the opportunity recently to have a discussion with Mark Donaghy, the Global Marketing Manager for Valence Technology, Inc., Two global fulfillment centers—one in Rotterdam and one in Dallas—can ship product to customers within 72 hours. ton 100 miles+ range van and the Newton is 7.5-12 Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

In many respects, hydrogen FCVs could offer features that are similar to today’s gasoline cars and are more challenging to achieve in battery-powered vehicles, including good performance, large vehicle size, refueling time of 3-5 minutes and a range of 300-400 miles. —“The Hydrogen Transition”. Public funding.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

approximately 78% of global warming potential (GWP)-weighted emissions since 1990, growing slowly from 77% of total GWP-weighted emissions in 1990 to 79% in 2010. The number of vehicle miles traveled by light-duty motor vehicles (passenger cars and. Emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel combustion increased at an. from 1990 to 2010.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The authors estimate that globally, ships emit 0.9 A 2008 study by Lack’s team focused exclusively on soot.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

The Battelle project will include designing, building and testing new software applications that will run on cellular smart phones that utilize global positioning system (GPS) to determine location, heading, speed, etc. The technical research is designed to record miles and road use while strictly protecting the privacy of participants.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In reality the race ran its initial course until 2007, then was canceled in 2008 due to intense security concerns in Mauritania. At its far side is our first set piece, a hastily assembled “mine field” with a wooden barrier Clarkson manages to swerve into even though he’s only driving about 35 miles per hour.

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