Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2019

A new report released by the Air Quality Expert Group ( AQEG ) in the UK recommends as an immediate priority that non-exhaust emissions (NEE) are recognized as a source of ambient concentrations of airborne PM, even for vehicles with zero exhaust emissions of particles. of all UK primary PM 2.5 Currently they contribute 7.4%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. The customer is the refuse collection company Arma, and this is the first heavy battery-electric truck from a global manufacturer to be in commercial operation in Africa.

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Morocco Volvo Africa Electric 259

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Volvo Trucks and Deutsche Post DHL Group have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the shift to zero-exhaust-emission vehicles. DHL intends to intensify its transition to heavy electric trucks by deploying a total of 44 new electric Volvo trucks on routes in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Volvo Trucks will deploy eight multi-configuration battery Class 8 electric demonstration units (GVW +15 tons), and an additional 15 pre-commercial and commercial units, throughout California’s South Coast Air Basin. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $44.8

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Teslarati

MARCH 16, 2023

Goodyear is ready for the arrival of all-electric construction machines. Goodyear’s Powerload lineup hints that the construction, loading, logistics support, and landscaping markets are also transitioning to battery electric vehicles. The company announced battery electric machine prototypes, including a 301.9

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Green Car Reports

MAY 5, 2020

Garbage trucks will never smell pleasant, but at least it's possible to get rid of the stench of diesel exhaust. Dutch truck manufacturer DAF just released an electric garbage truck for testing in its home country.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

The levels of these non-fuel-derived gases will likely remain unchanged, even as more drivers transition from gas-powered to electric vehicles. These emissions are independent of the vehicle energy/propulsion system and therefore applicable to all road vehicle types including those with battery-electric powertrains. Cliff et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Vitesco Technologies, formerly (until September 2019) the Continental Powertrain Division, has won a major contract from an European vehicle manufacturer for the supply of innovative electric heating elements for diesel catalytic converters. In the Super Clean Electrified Diesel, the efficiency of exhaust gas aftertreatment rises to 97%.

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Convert Diesel Exhaust Gas-Electric 392

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Storied Italian car brand Lancia revealed its first new car — electric or otherwise — in over a decade, and it did so without warning, without fanfare, and weeks ahead of schedule. All-new Lancia Ypsilon reveal Electrek’s Take Once upon a time, I owned a Lancia. I’ve included that here, as well. More than once.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

But activists put the pressure on to ensure that Disney goes all-EV with the ride, and fast. Late Thursday, those activists got their wish , and Disney announced that it would go all-electric with the ride within the next 30 months. Just imagine how much more fun the ride will be when it goes electric.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Extensive modifications to the drive, chassis, design and equipment will provide the hallmark AMG driving experience with all-electric drive. This is a P3 hybrid configuration.).

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Mercedes Hybrid Batteries Battery 448

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2023

BMW has unveiled two new protection models developed on the basis of the new BMW 7 Series, including an all-electric version. As the first protection sedan with an all-electric drive system, the BMW i7 Protection (electric power consumption combined in WLTP cycle: 30.0 Earlier post.) kWh/100 km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Researchers in China have developed a novel free-piston linear generator (FPLG) to recover exhaust waste heat efficiently from a vehicle engine. The FPLG can be used in a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the thermodynamic energy of working fluid into electricity.

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Exhaust Waste Conversion Engine 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has developed a solution to convert the L120 wheel loader to electric, fulfilling market appetite for more sustainable solutions in the mid-size range. The L120H Electric Conversion will be available this year for selected customers in Europe.

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Conversion Volvo Electric Electrical 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

million) into the production of electric wheel loaders from its plant in Arvika, Sweden. A milestone in the company’s ambition to be entirely fossil free by 2040, the move will also go a long way to fulfilling Volvo CE’s aim for 35% of machines sold to be electric by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks and mining company Boliden are joining forces to implement electric truck transport in underground environments. The Swedish mining group Boliden is becoming one of the first in the world to start using battery-electric trucks for heavy underground transport starting 2023.

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Volvo Sweden Electric Electrical 284

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

IAV has developed a particularly closed-coupled diesel exhaust gas aftertreatment (EAT) system. A key contribution to this performance must come from the exhaust gas aftertreatment system—across the entire speed and load range. This way, exhaust gas flows through DOC and SCRF before it enters the turbine.

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Exhaust Diesel Gas Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

BMW unveiled the seventh generation of its 7 Series, including the first all-electric i7 XDrive60. liter TwinPower Turbo V8 with BMW xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive. The new V8 borrows technology from BMW Motorsport, and features a new exhaust manifold, external oil cooling, and further developed turbocharging.

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BMW Batteries Battery Electric 446

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Wear and tear from brakes, tires and road surfaces will soon overtake car exhaust fumes as the leading source of fine particles released into the air by road traffic, according to a new OECD report. Heavy electric vehicles with long-distance batteries could compound the problem even as they slash emissions from engine exhaust.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

the criteria pollutants and CO 2 that emerge with the exhaust from the tailpipe. However, there is more than 15 years of research showing that the contribution of non-exhaust primary particles to the total traffic generated primary particles is significant in urban areas. Further, a 2013 review by Denier van der Gon et al. Background.

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Exhaust Emissions Belgium Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Volvo Trucks leads the market in Europe and in North America for heavy electric trucks after the first quarter of 2023. In total, the manufacturer has sold almost 5,000 electric trucks in about 40 countries. Now, its electric product range is being made available in new markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

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Volvo America Europe Market 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Scandinavian transport operator Nobina has ordered 60 Volvo high-capacity electric buses which will enter service in Malmö, Sweden next year. It is immensely gratifying to receive yet another significant order for electric buses. In a short space of time we have taken orders for 220 electric buses from two of Sweden’s largest cities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Ford Next is collaborating with Uber to deliver a new lease option for rideshare drivers going electric. California is Uber’s leading North American market for EV uptake, with close to 10% of all on-trip miles completed in fully electric vehicles as of late 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

By the end of 2023, Bucher Municipal expects to deliver up to 80 fully electric sewer cleaner trucks to cities in Europe. The introduction of more zero emission zones in cities around the world is generating demand for fully electric trucks. Volvo Trucks goal is that electric models will account for half of its truck sales in 2030.

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Cleaner Volvo North America Denmark 475

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ZF has reached the milestone of two million electric motors produced. The technology company supplies automotive manufacturers with electric motors for different vehicle types—from hybrid and electric axle drives for electric passenger cars to electric central drives for commercial vehicles.

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Motor Motors Motoring Hybrid 195

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

An actuator in the exhaust system, as fitted to the first SQ5 TDI, gives the V6 a sonorous sound. This offers the advantage since exhaust gas cleaning responds more quickly. The exhaust manifold benefits from improved insulation; the exhaust gas reaches the optimum temperature more quickly after a cold start. liters (0.2

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Audi Diesel Exhaust Gas-Electric 269

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. We will continue to develop our electrified offering.

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Volvo Electric Electrical Sweden 305

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

CASE Construction Equipment introduced “Project Zeus”: the 580 EV, the construction industry’s first fully electric backhoe loader. Electric motors, on the other hand, have instantaneous torque and peak torque available at every operating speed. —Eric Zieser, director — global compact equipment product line, CASE. and Moog Inc.,

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Fully Electric Electric Electrical Diesel 536

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, improved when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered by electricity. In the fall of 2019, all-electric buses were introduced on bus route 60 in Gothenburg. The other half, who lived some distance away, made up the reference group.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

A new study by a team from the University of Edinburgh and independent engineering company INNAS BV has found that, when factoring in the additional weight and non-exhaust PM factors, total PM 10 emissions from electric vehicles (EVs) are equal to those of modern internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). Click to enlarge.

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Exhaust Emissions Gasoline-Electric 2016 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Freight operator Dependable Highway Express (DHE) has received two Volvo VNR Electric trucks—the first battery-electric Class 8 trucks to join DHE’s fleet. The electric trucks will be added to DHE’s existing fleet of more than 500 Volvo trucks operating across North America. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2022

Able to convert waste heat directly into electrical power, the E-PowerPack uses Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology to reduce ship fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Where heat pumps use electrical power to create thermal energy for various purposes, an ORC system uses heat energy to generate electricity. Basic ORC concept.

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Waste Mariner Gas-Electric Exhaust 448

Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Automakers often bring their dirtiest cars to Australia, and don’t offer better and cleaner electric models in the country. These include the Toyota LandCruiser, Ford Everest, Isuzu MUX, Nissan Patrol and Mitsubishi Pajero Sport – all mid- or full-size SUVs. As a result, the average new car in Australia consumes 6.9L/100km,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It turns out that at least one website will let you order an exhaust system for the Tesla Model X--a seemingly impossible request for an all-electric crossover, especially one that hasn''t even been released yet. Here''s a tale of online shopping gone wrong.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2010

(MHI) has developed a generator-integrated hybrid turbocharger for marine propulsion diesel engines which utilizes engine exhaust gas not only to drive the turbocharger but also to generate electricity. The MET83MAG is capable of supplying all electric power necessary during normal sea going. Click to enlarge.

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Exhaust Mariner Gas-Electric Gas 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The EPFL system captures CO 2 directly in the trucks’ exhaust system and liquefies it in a box on the vehicle’s roof. First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. The process itself uses little energy, because all of its stages have been optimized. 2019.00143.

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Emissions CO2 Exhaust Carbon 332

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mass production of the all-new 2023 Honda CR-V hybrid began at Honda of Canada Mfg. Representing a key step in Honda’s electrification strategy, starting with the 2023 model year, about 50% of CR-V’s annual sales in the US will be powered by Honda’s new, more powerful fourth-generation two-motor hybrid-electric system.

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