Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A new European Joint Research Center (JRC) analysis on the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) in Europe concludes that although the sector evolved significantly between 2010 and 2017, progress is still small to be characterized as full-scale commercialization. Market share of M1 EV in Europe between 2010 and 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

Different transport application will require different electric powertrains. We aim to make it easy for customers to select sustainable transport solutions. Electrification will play a key part in the shift to a fossil free transport system. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

In 2002, the Aleris facility in Duffel, Belgium opened its first continuous annealing line to provide automotive body sheet to the automotive industry. In 2017, Aleris opened a new state-of-the-art auto body sheet production capacity at its Lewisport, Kentucky facility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Toyota will launch the Mirai fuel cell vehicle in Sweden and Norway this summer, following other European countries that have introduced the Toyota Mirai in 2015 (UK, Germany and Denmark) or early 2016 (Belgium). Toyota estimates selling around 30,000 units a year globally in 2020 from 3,000 units in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2018

M&S will lease a dual compartment Dearman Hubbard transport refrigeration unit (TRU), on a refrigerated semi-trailer, to be operated out of its Hemel Hempstead depot. It now plans to go even further in cutting its carbon emissions and in June 2017 launched its new sustainability plan: Plan A 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

The vessel’s fuel will be produced from renewable electricity marking a paradigm shift towards entirely emissions-free marine transport. The redeveloped yard achieved another first in November 2017 when it launched the MV Glen Sannox, the first UK ferry build with dual-fuel capability (marine diesel & LNG).

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JANUARY 29, 2024

A study by Transport & Environment (T&E) has revealed that SUVs are increasingly becoming wider, outgrowing roads and eating away parking spaces across Europe. At the same time, SUVs are creating another trouble in the urban environment. The problem is more prominent in the old cities across the continent, where roads are narrower.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Recently appointed by The Volkswagen Group’s Sustainability Council, recently appointed and comprising nine members from several nations—including Margo Oge, former director of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Transportation Air Quality—set the agenda for its work at its inaugural meeting on Monday.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The new Panamera plug-in hybrid models were launched on the European market in June 2017. In France, for example, the figure is 70%, in Austria it is more than 80% and in Belgium it is even more than 90%. Porsche reports that around 60% of all new Panamera models that have been delivered in Europe were equipped with a hybrid drive.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We use the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model to evaluate the quantitative utility of FNR observed from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument over three northern midlatitude source regions. —Jin et al. Murray, L. Lamsal, L. Duncan, B., … Tonnesen, G. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , 122, 10,439–10,461.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2017

Eleven EU Member States breached air pollution ceilings in 2015 mostly due to high emissions from agricultural and transport sources, according to new data and a briefing released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). NO x emissions from road transport contribute 39% of the EU emissions total.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The DAF LF series if for distribution transport, while the versatile CF is designed for a wide variety of applications. DAF’s flagship XF is for heavy and long distance transport. The e-PTO can be used to drive refrigeration equipment on semi-trailers for temperature controlled transportation further enhancing low noise operation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The standard EV80 model can be configured as a passenger bus, transporting eight people plus the driver. Initial deliveries were made to customers in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Slovenia with developments in Belgium, Italy, France and Spain due to be confirmed shortly as Maxus accelerates its Europe-wide growth plans.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In combination with an intelligent operation strategy, this leads to low energy requirements and thus to higher transportation efficiency. The system has already been awarded the “Innovation Label” by the specialist panel of the European Coach Week (ECW) at the international Busworld 2015 specialist trade fair in Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2017

The entire natural porous network, connected within a finite volume, minimizes transport resistance for all the pores and ensures fluent transfer throughout the network. The relationship of the radii of parent and daughter branches is known as Murray’s law. The research was partially supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

Van Hool is a Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicle OEM. Ballard anticipates receipt of purchase orders under the ESA that will lead to delivery of these fuel cell modules to Van Hool in 2015 and 2016. There are currently 27 Van Hool fuel cell buses, powered by Ballard modules, in public transit operation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2013

Thirty-two (24%) have a model that meets the 2017 standard and 12 models (9%) already meet the 2025 standard. But significantly cutting the greenhouse gases from transport will also require a more fundamental change in the transport modes we use and how we use them.” —Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director.

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