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Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2017
Not to be confused with biodiesel, RD goes through a hydrotreating process instead of a transesterification process through which an ASTM D975-compliant diesel product is created. Therefore, offering a better solution for fuel filters, elastomer seals and components, and storage tanks.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015. In President Obama’s first term, the DOE established new minimum efficiency standards for dishwashers, refrigerators, and many other products. The standards for new plants—already being developed by EPA—are to be done this fall.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2009
A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 20, 2014
Among the proposed changes were additional production lead time; a reduced compliance obligation (i.e., Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2012
This is even the case under widespread adoption of the most promising technologies for all transportation modes, due primarily to limitations in biofuel production capacity and a lack of technologies that would drastically reduce CO 2 emissions from heavy trucks and intercontinental aviation, they found. R&D plus electric vehicle subsidy.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2022
Then there is the fuel cycle—the activities associated with producing and using the fuel or electricity to power the vehicle through its working life. For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. AFP/Getty Images.
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