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JUNE 26, 2015

The application process for the fourth (2015) BASF/VW “ Science Award for Electrochemistry ” ( earlier post ) is now open. Researchers have until 24 July 2015 to apply. The awards ceremony will take place on October 28, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

Beijing government hopes, 25% of people will use cycling to commute in 2015 (source: The Guardian, November 2013). 4,533 cyclists were injured in Berlin only in 2012 (source: The Guardian, November 2013). 55% of cyclist fatalities in EU-23 countries occur in urban areas (source: CARE Database, European Commission 2012).

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Toyota has given its European 2015 Prius+ (Prius v in the US) an upgrade including a more dynamic exterior, better interior execution, and expanded range of equipment and a Euro6-compilant powertrain. First launched in 2012, the Prius+ was the first full hybrid 7-seat vehicle to go on sale in Europe.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Distance to 2015 target by individual manufacturers in 2010 (only manufacturers registering > 100 000 vehicles in Europe). The data also show that almost all manufacturers must reduce emissions to meet 2015 targets under European legislation for new passenger cars, based on average CO 2 emissions for each manufacturer. Source: EEA.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The Austrian automobile club ARBÖ (Auto-Motor und Radfahrerverbund Österreiche) has awarded the Toyota Mirai with the “2015 Environmental Award”. In 1999, the first Toyota Prius was awarded the Environmental Award by ARBÖ for its pioneering hybrid technology, followed by the Prius Plug-in Hybrid in 2012.

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.& & Kia’s recalling several models, including: ·& & & & & & 2010-2019 Borrego ·& & & & & & 2014-2016 Cadenza& ·& & & & & & 2010-2013 Forte (includes Koup) ·& & & & & & 2010-2013 Sportage ·& & & & & & 2015-2018 K900 ·& (..)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. In addition to the 2015 Honda Fit, the plant will begin production late this year of an all-new compact SUV. million units.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Renault-Nissan will provide the EVs to Orange by 2015. Orange already owns a fleet of about thirty tandem 2-seat Twizys it has acquired from Renault since 2012. Orange will use the electric vehicles mostly for car-sharing purposes between its buildings and installations in France. available for car-sharing purposes.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Total lithium-ion transportation battery revenue by region, world markets: 2012-2020. billion in 2012 to almost $22 billion in 2020. Pike forecasts that China will likely succeed Japan as the leader in global automotive Li-ion battery production by 2015. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Renault will supply DHL France with a fleet of electric vehicles by 2015. models— will be delivered by the end of 2012. A total 50 vehicles—Kangoo Z.E. and ZOE models— have already been confirmed. The first four—which are Kangoo Z.E.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The Municipality of Copenhagen, as part of its initiative to be carbon-free by 2025, will be supplied with 15 ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles for fleet use, according to an agreement announced in September 2012. Two ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles will be supplied to Skåne, Sweden.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

BMW will use it to build a prototype vehicle by 2015, with plans for a market release around 2020. Toyota, which has been developing fuel cell vehicles since 1992, plans to launch a fuel-cell vehicle by 2015 in Japan, the US and Europe. The Nikkei reported that Toyota Motor Corp. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Therefore, the researchers suggested, the existing regulations are not sufficient to fulfill China’s target of reducing NO x emissions by 10% by 2015 as compared with 2010. In 2012, ICCT supported Tsinghua University in the investigation of emission factors of diesel vehicles in China. More stringent NO x requirements (e.g. Background.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. Since January 2012, he has been in charge of planning and development for fuel cell vehicles. Powertrain elements, including the two hydrogen storage tanks.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The total size of the global hydrogen and fuel cell market—including revenues from fuel cells and from hydrogen for fuel cells and internal combustion engines (ICEs)—will reach $785 million in 2012, according to a new white paper from Pike Research.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In December 2012, Hyundai will begin production of the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover vehicle at its Ulsan manufacturing facility in Korea, with a target of building up to 1,000 vehicles by 2015. The program was launched in 1998 with a roadmap targeting series production of fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2012 and consumer sales by 2015.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

The redesigned 2015 Honda Fit earned an acceptable rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s challenging small overlap front test, a significant improvement over the 2009-13 model, which was rated poor. The Institute introduced the small overlap evaluation in 2012. The rating applies to vehicles built after June 2014.

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MAY 1, 2014

2015 target: 130 g CO 2 /km. The average CO 2 emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 g CO 2 /km; the target for 2015 was 130 g/km. Thus, in 2013 the European Union fleet already collectively met its legal target for 2015. 2020 target: 95 g CO 2 /km. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. million vehicles were registered.

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MARCH 5, 2013

From 2013-2015, Ford of Europe will increase total EcoBoost gasoline engine production by 35%. liter EcoBoost engine was introduced in the Focus in 2012 and production has already been extended to include the new B-MAX, new Fiesta, C-MAX and Grand C-MAX. Ford’s family of EcoBoost engines applied in Europe currently includes the 1.0-liter

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AUGUST 10, 2013

is introducing a new turbocharged V6 engine to LMP1 endurance sports-car racing in 2014, to be followed in 2015 by a range of bespoke energy recovery systems (ERS), for FIA World Endurance Championship competition. Honda Performance Development (HPD), the racing arm of American Honda Motor Co., —Steve Eriksen.

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MARCH 22, 2013

between 2011 and 2012—putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of 4 cubic meters per vehicle globally by 2015. Outside of the company, The Ford Fund in 2012 supported 19 different water-related projects in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, India, Germany and South Africa.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

IHS Automotive forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 For the APAC region in 2015, IHS forecasts that China’s economic growth will decelerate further, to 6.5% However, IHS Automotive analysts still expect light vehicle sales in China to grow by 7% in 2015 to 25.2 million, an increase of 2.4% North America.

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JANUARY 3, 2015

Android Wear users can download the app from Google Play for free starting in the first quarter of 2015. The first-generation Blue Link system rolled out on the 2012 Sonata and expanded across the lineup through 2013. Next-generation Blue Link equipped models include the 2015 Genesis, Sonata and Azera.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The 2015 Volkswagen Jetta earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest award, Top Safety Pick+ , after a structural upgrade to improve small overlap protection and the addition of an optional front crash prevention system. IIHS introduced the small overlap evaluation in 2012.

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MARCH 18, 2013

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) released the results of its survey of the total number of diesel retrofit devices sold by MECA member companies in 2012. Under the regulation, ARB projected that approximately 12,000 filters would be installed in 2012 and approximately 66,000 filters overall from 2011 through 2015.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

DENSO plans to introduce the new larger-display HUD to the global market in the 2015 timeframe. DENSO will exhibit the new HUD in its booth at the 19 th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The HUD is embedded in the dashboard behind the steering wheel.

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JUNE 21, 2011

Ford plans to start mass production of new models of both kinds of vehicle in 2012. Toshiba already has a June 2010 contract with Ford under which it will supply high-performance drive motors for HEV and PHEV from 2012, from its facility in Houston, Texas. The automotive inverters will be supplied to Ford with the motors as a set.

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In 2012 Audi’s Hungarian plant opened a geothermal facility to supply most of its heat requirements. Since 2012 Audi Hungaria has used this source for most of its requirement for heat at the site. Since 2015 the company has made use of 250 gigawatt-hours of geothermal energy, reducing emissions of CO2 by 50,000 tonnes.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Between 2015 and 2020, the eVMT of all plug-in electric vehicles more than quadrupled. Total US Light-Duty Annual eMVT, 2012-2020. Beginning in 2014, annual all-electric vehicle eVMT has exceeded that of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the US, reaching a new high of nearly 10 billion miles in 2020. Source: DOE. More than 1.7

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APRIL 9, 2014

2015 Focus four-door sedan. with 1,097,618 cars sold worldwide in 2013, compared to 1,014,965 units in 2012. 2015 Ford Focus Electric. China registrations were up 50% in 2013 to 403,219 vehicles, up from 268,354 vehicles in 2012. increase from 2012. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 28, 2014

With highway economy of 36 mpg, the 2015 Chrysler 200 isn''t the most fuel-efficient vehicle we''ve written about recently, but it has an important job to do. In 2013, it topped 122,000 units and in 2012.'

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JUNE 25, 2019

In 2012, less than one percent of all cars and light-duty trucks were produced with a non-hybrid stop/start system. Through 2015, cars had the greatest share of stop/start systems installed. After 2015, the greatest share of start/stop systems was installed on light-duty trucks, rising to 35.7%

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

OXIS predicts it will achieve a cell capacity of 33Ah by mid-2015. OXIS CEO Huw Hampson-Jones says that the company is on schedule to release commercial cells for use in applications in the USA and Europe in 2015. In addition, OXIS has achieved an increase in cell capacity to 25 Ah—a twelve-fold improvement in 18 months.

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Dr. Jochem Heizmann, said that it was planned to offer vehicles with an electrified powertrain from 2014/2015. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2015, outside of road transport, 81% of emissions were untaxed, according to the report. The report assesses the magnitude and coverage of taxes on energy use in 2015, and considers change between 2012 and 2015. Comparing taxes between 2012 and 2015 yields a disconcerting result.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

In a notice to be published in the Federal Register , the agency said that it intends to take action on the 2014 standards rule in 2015 prior to or in conjunction with action on the 2015 standards rule. Background. The RFS requires a certain percentage of renewable fuels in the US fuel pool.

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