Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

AutoX’s vision to empower the world with AI drivers enabling universal access to transportation of people and goods, safely and efficiently, makes them go truly hand in hand with our view on the future we want to create. The partnership’s ultimate goal is to deploy a large fleet of robotaxi’s across the globe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

Launched in 2016, ARPA-E’s NEXTCAR program focuses on reducing vehicle energy consumption by developing Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) technologies that optimize vehicle dynamic controls and powertrain operation, allowing a vehicle to automatically process and react to its surrounding environment, traffic conditions and nearby vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

million riders annually in three Upstate South Carolina counties, including the cities of Clemson and Seneca and the towns of Central and Pendleton as well as four universities, the fare-free CATbus system will have the largest zero-emission fleet in the Carolinas. CATbus purchased the Proterra Catalyst E2 buses in part with $3.9

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has concluded that regulatory incentives for OEMs for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) intended to encourage a technology transition in the transportation fleet result in increased fleet-wide gasoline consumption and emissions. Incentives for selling AFVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

To support GM’s growing NEV fleet planned for China, its SAIC-GM joint venture is opening a new battery assembly plant in Shanghai this year. By 2025, nearly all models from GM’s global brands in China—Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet—will offer electrification technology.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 3, 2021

With that in mind, DriveElectric and the Smart Mobility Unit of the University of Hertfordshire have launched a survey to understand more about the access to electric vehicles for businesses and their charging. As a thank you for your time we will be offering all respondents a free consultation on how best to electrify your fleet.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2017

The project aims to demonstrate lower-emissions technology innovation into the UK’s logistics industry and HGV fleets, which account for 17% of all UK road transport emissions. This study follows on the Low Carbon Truck Demonstration Trial, which wrapped up in December 2016, and was led by a Cenex-Atkins study team. million (US$30.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Darker colors represent a higher density of TNC activity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Usage of car2go increased by 40% year-over-year in the first half of 2017 compared to the first half of 2016 across all 11 of the service’s North American locations, with more than 4.5 In July 2016, we released results of our three-year study examining the impact of one-way carsharing across five North American cities.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Up to 80% of brake-dust particles have an electric charge, which could serve as a means of controlling brake dust and improving air quality, according to a new study from the University of California, Irvine (via Green Car Congress ). A similar argument has been made about particulate emissions from tires.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

On a broader scale the trial will help The Metropolitan Police to understand where this clean technology could be adopted across its fleet in the future. This trial complements a Metropolitan Police Service decision made in late 2015 to stop mandating diesel fuel for its fleet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

In the three years since the new CAFE standard for fuel economy has been in effect, automakers have surpassed it each year, improving new-vehicle fuel economy by about a mile per gallon annually, according to an analysis by Brandon Schoettle and Dr. Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

vehicle sharing pilot program ( earlier post ) launched by General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) recently concluded after two years’ operation in a real-world environment. Since its launch in January 2016, Maven has been providing multifaceted vehicle sharing services, primarily in North America. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The CSRC was formed in January 2011 with three charter members; the first phase of research will conclude in 2016. Autonomous driving Big Data Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Safety'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Groupe PSA, Direct Energie, Enel, Nuvve, Proxiserve and the Technical University of Denmark have launched the GridMotion project with the aim of evaluating possible savings achieved by real-life electric vehicle (EV) users through the implementation of smart charging and discharging strategies for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

According to the IEA, the global electric car fleet exceeded 5.1 —Dr Rob McElroy of the University of York, who is a researcher on the R2LIB project. 2016) “ Predicted environmental effects from liquid emissions in the manufacture of levoglucosenone and Cyrene. 50(68), 9650–9652. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04133j . Richardson, D.E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. In fact, the Air Force is aiming to get half of its domestic jet fuel from alternative sources by 2016. The fleet of cars and trucks we use in the federal government is one of the largest in the country. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Outlook predicts a rise in electric vehicles as well as efficiency improvements in conventional engines, both trends likely leading to a peak in liquid fuels use by the world’s light-duty vehicle fleet by 2030. In the forecast, global transportation-related energy demand grows close to 30% from 2016 to 2040. —T.J.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Average monthly and model year fleet-wide achieved CAFE performance levels (light purple) versus NHTSA projected achieved CAFE levels (blue) for model years 2008 through 2016. The first phase, from MYs 2017-2021, includes final standards that are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis, a range from 40.3—41.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). The leading electric vehicle markets identified here are a collection of larger high-technology cities, as well as smaller university towns. The base regional unit for the study was the metropolitan statistical area (MSA).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet. —Zimmerman et al. 5b04444.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2016

GM, Tsinghua University and Chang’an Auto are leading a working group for the development of the V2X application layer and application data-exchange service standard with the support of SAE-China and C-ITS (China ITS Industry Alliance).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2018

Now, in a new study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that secondary organic aerosol (SOA) production from both port fuel injection (PFI) and gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles has been substantially reduced through the tightening of NMOG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

million vehicles, or one-third of the 2016 fleet these vehicles represent.). In 2016 SMDI released a white paper on life cycle GHG emissions; this study includes a comprehensive ISO-conformant peer review of that white paper and incorporates updated baseline vehicle models and data.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Expanding the EV fleet. Municipal fleet electrification. Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Second, the IEA report finds that energy-efficiency improvements for the existing fleet should include aerodynamic retrofits to reduce drag as well as low-rolling resistance tires. The rules of data exchange must be multilaterally defined and transparent for everyone, and confidentiality safeguarded.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

GM announced that late in 2016 it will add a fleet of 2017 Chevrolet Volts designed to drive autonomously within its renovated Warren Technical Center campus. The fleet currently includes eight Chevrolet Trax small SUVs and two Chevrolet Equinox compact SUVs, with more vehicles to be added later. Autonomous Vehicle Deployment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

This follows the completion of a front-end engineering study, which started in July 2016, on technical requirements such as the feasibility of routes for autonomous vehicles to navigate seamlessly around Sentosa. In 2016, the Auto Rider became Asia’s first fully operational AV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives. in 2016 to almost 10% in 2030.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

Henry Liu, Mcity Most companies working on automated driving rely on a small fleet of highly instrumented test vehicles, festooned with high-resolution cameras, radars, and laser-ranging lidar devices. I don’t think a small… fleet will ever be able to handle these [rare] situations,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 L/100km) by 2025. L/100km) falls far short than what would be in the best interest of consumers and society. L/100km) and 60 mpg (3.92

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

will have to ensure that their fleet-wide fuel economy is 36 mpg or better under tough new 2016 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. But according to a University of Michigan study, the average fuel economy of new cars and light-duty trucks sold in the U.S. In four years’ time, every automaker in the U.S.

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Teslarati

JUNE 10, 2021

Known as Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY), a name derived from late science fiction author Iain Banks’ Culture universe, the drone ship supported its first Falcon booster landing attempt in March 2016 and successfully recovered a booster two months later.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2016

The system was presented in a near-production scenario at the Volkswagen AG IT Symposium 2016. Saarland University. University of Bremen. A further exhibit was concerned with automobile fleet data. The collected fleet data are being used as a basis for mobility control hubs. John Deere. Intel Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Lower fuel prices have the potential to slow the deployment of fuel-efficient technologies in new aircraft, with more pronounced effects in the mid-term as the universe of potential technologies expands. Trends in new aircraft fuel burn by entry into service year, 1980 to 2040. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Kharina et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

In February 2016, Scania will start testing electric trucks on the electric road which will become a reality as the Swedish Transport Administration has now approved support for the Gävle Electric Road project. This means that they can be used just as flexibly and universally as conventional trucks. Earlier post.).

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