Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

The changes to the regulation implement legislation signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in February to provide temporary relief to firms that have reduced used of their vehicles due to downsizing or work stoppage. These changes will allow the hardest-hit fleets to postpone their compliance costs until the current recession has eased.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2011

The new Solaris Urbino 18 DIWAhybrid features a 150 kW electric motor supporting the downsized diesel engine. Three more followed in 2010 and when the new Urbino 18 DIWAhybrid arrive in mid-2011, the company´s fleet will increase to 15 hybrid buses. Field testing by Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG is under way.

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Hybrid Diesel 2011 Downsizing 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The federal government is pushing their fleet-procurement decisions almost completely to EVs and hybrids irrespective of costs. The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines. Diesel/hybrid US take-rates, June 2010-June 2011.

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Standards Transportation Fuel Economy MPG 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

The analysis, an update of an earlier work using data from 2010 and 2011, found that the global average for light-duty vehicle fuel economy was 7.2 USA, Mexico, Chile to a lesser extent) had strong increases in their vehicle sales between 2010 and 2011. The trend is toward smaller displacements (downsizing). Earlier post.)

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel 2005 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The latest Euro VI emission standards, for example, comparable in stringency to US 2010 standards, became effective in 2013. This can be achieved without the cost and complexity of replacing an entire fleet with brand new vehicles before older vehicles have been fully amortized. —Jog Lall, sales and marketing director Eminox.

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Vehicles Exhaust Emissions Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

The 2010 NRC study, conducted under contract to. CAR did not assume any downsizing of the vehicle sales fleet or significant reduction in performance by vehicles in any segment as a means for increasing fuel economy standards by 2025. base case assumes a continuation of the fuel economy increase from the 2010 to 2016 regulation.

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Fuel Economy Economy Auto Industry Standards 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

California’s current LEV II emission standards run through 2010. Many improvements in fleet fuel economy in Europe have been achieved through increased diesel market share, with the diesel market share in Europe now above 50%. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially.

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Gasoline Diesel Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter DTNA began work on the SuperTruck program in 2010 together with Detroit and other partners, including national labs, universities and suppliers. Fleet: Schneider, Walmart. Engines Fleets Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty' DTNA SuperTruck technology elements.

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2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Rapid downsizing, improved fuel economy and simplification of the company’s engine line-up – they are the key elements of Chrysler’s new powertrain strategy. 4.0litres with the first application to be the Jeep Cherokee in mid 2010. Its new V6 family will replace all existing V6 engines from 2.7-4.0litres

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Chrysler Dodge Petrol Downsizing 39

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Light duty vehicle fleet by type and average fuel efficiency. Exxon Mobil Corporation’s new The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 , released last week, projects that global energy demand in 2040 will be about 30% higher than it was in 2010 as population grows to 9 billion and global GDP doubles. Source: ExxonMobil Outlook.

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Personal Global Transportation Fuel 408

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

The SuperTurbo’s supercharger function enhances the transient response of a downsized and turbocharged engine, and the turbo-compounding function offers the opportunity to extract the available exhaust energy from the turbine rather than opening a waste gate. Downsizing from a 3.2L improved fuel economy 17%, and downsizing from a 4.2L

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Waste Engine Downsizing Hybrid 218

Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). Starting from 2010 its 2.4l Ecotec VVT I-4 will include E85 engines and the number of flex fuel models will increase from 17 in 2010 to 28 in 2012.

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General Motors Green Motor Motors 40

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The proposed CAFE standards are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis for cars and trucks combined, 40.1 Taken together, these two actions would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half and result in model year 2025 light-duty vehicles with nearly double the fuel economy of model year 2010 vehicles. mpg US (5.87

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy MPG 338

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Chrysler’s new powertrain strategy is relying on the rapid transfer of Fiat Group technology for Multiair; Gasoline Direct Injection; turbocharging and alternative fuels to support rapid downsizing and improvement of fuel economy, along with the simplification of the company’s engine line-up, according to Paolo E. Earlier post.)

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Chrysler Engine Hybrid Global 199

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. V6 EcoBoost engine in the 2010 MY Ford Taurus SHO and Flex as well as the Lincoln MKS luxury sedan. Planning background. —Dan Kapp.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186

Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The EPA’s regulatory framework assigns customized fleet standards to each auto manufacturer based on the footprints of its product offerings. If an automaker sells a relatively high number of large vehicles, its fleet is assigned a fleet standard that is easier to achieve.

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EPA Fleet Fuel Economy 2019 71

Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The EPA’s regulatory framework assigns customized fleet standards to each auto manufacturer based on the footprints of its product offerings. If an automaker sells a relatively high number of large vehicles, its fleet is assigned a fleet standard that is easier to achieve.

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