Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

The auto industry has now grudgingly accepted that battery-electric cars will make up some portion of the world's new vehicles in years to come. Policy makers in the world's most populous country, and largest car market, are developing a timetable to end production and sales of.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When considering the transition from gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles to electric, it is easy to see the disruption this will bring to the auto industry, where fewer workers are required to construct an electrical motor than a fossil fuel powered engine. But it goes further than that.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Li Qiao, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics in Purdue’s College of Engineering, said the technology her team is working with already has been used in large bore natural gas engines and in some F1 racing cars because of its superior performance, but it is new to passenger car gasoline engines. —Li Qiao.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Editor’s note: A little more than a month ago, I wrote an article about 500 million gallons of gasoline being displaced by electric vehicles in 2020. In response, friend and longtime reader Remco van der Horst sent along an email that teased out some superb points about what that means more broadly for the auto […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Plug-in hybrids dominate market penetration in 2025 under CAR scenario IV (62 mpg CAFE standard). Source: CAR. The CAR report, the US Automotive Market and Industry in 2025 , relies on technology and market forecast data from the National Research Council (NRC) and J.D. CAR researchers estimated the best (i.e.,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How Mazda plans to integrate plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles into its range of increasingly efficient gasoline and diesel models is a topic that interests parts of the global auto industry.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2018

Today, we've got a Chevy Bolt EV without a steering wheel, an update on available 2018 diesel vehicles, an analysis of the per-mile costs of electricity versus gasoline, and predictions by auto-industry execs. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

MAY 25, 2023

Recent data from the UK that’s released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) indicates that electric vehicle maker Tesla saw a massive surge in new car registrations last month. Electric vehicles (EVs) gained popularity last month, with the UK seeing 20,522 new battery electric car registrations, a 59.1%

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2015

Progress must be coming at a much faster pace than we thought: Conventional gasoline engines will power only a minority of the new cars sold just two years hence, according to a new report. DON''T MISS: Auto Industry Doing Fine.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Nodes join aerospace-grade carbon fiber tubing into standardized building objects, resulting in an industrial-strength chassis that can be assembled in a matter of minutes. At the same time, Divergent 3D’s platform will help us optimize our customers’ value chains by lowering costs and speeding up development timelines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Green Car Congress and Charles Territo of the Auto Alliance on 17 April briefly discussed the blend wall (ethanol supply greater than US’s ability to absorb it in 10% blends) and mid-level blends of ethanol being used on existing, non-flex-fuel, vehicles. Some of the catalytic converters showed significant wear and others didn’t.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Cars and light trucks are the largest source of GHG emissions in the US transportation sector. This will enable long-term planning in the auto industry, while also benefiting consumers and the environment.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2012

Last week, governors of more than 20 states joined together to ask the auto industry for a specific kind of car: a mid-size sedan powered by natural gas, rather than gasoline.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

There was a time when Toyota was one of the world’s greenest auto manufacturers. Today, Toyota lags behind its American and South Korean competitors in battery-electric cars, and its hydrogen-powered sedan, the Mirai, remains a niche vehicle. . The company has become a stern critic of the rapid transition to all-electric cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

According to a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory , there was a shift away from smaller, more fuel-efficient cars toward larger SUVs and trucks. When it comes to choosing a new car, most people have a long list of factors to consider. But for many people, one of the most important considerations is the cost of gasoline.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2023

The post Highlights from the untouched ‘Day by day Force’ podcasts, July 17-20 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. The material is out there somewhere. Pay attention to those and alternative presentations at autonews.com/dailydrive. . — Pay attention to those and alternative presentations at autonews.com/dailydrive.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 18, 2023

These cars rely on battery-electric engines as their motor, which must work harder to carry the excess weight. The newest EV models are expanding how far users can take these cars, but they still lag behind ICE cars. The average range for a gasoline vehicle eclipses 400 miles , so there is still a significant gap.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

First, some background from the New York Times : The rule increasingly limits the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time so that, by 2032, more than half the new cars sold in the United States would most likely be zero-emissions vehicles in order for carmakers to meet the standards. It's just not.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2015

LEV III (3 rd generation) regulations were approved by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in January 2012 as part of the Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) program. LEV III tightens the PM standard for light-duty vehicles (cars and trucks) and medium-duty passenger vehicles in two phases. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

This will include new investment in a host of incremental improvements to conventional gasoline powered internal combustion engines, from new controls for valves and timing, to variable speed transmissions and advanced electronics. Driving Growth: How Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Cackette was in effect suggesting that the future tailpipe emissions baseline (LEV III) for light duty passenger vehicles—both diesel and gasoline—was likely to be or to approximate CA SULEV/US Tier 2 Bin 2. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially. John Kirwan.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc (JAMA), a nonprofit industry association comprising fourteen manufacturers of passenger cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles in Japan, recently issued position statements on and recommended specifications for bioethanol and biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME). Specifications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

In an expected ruling, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy finalized her decision to maintain the current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model years 2022-2025 cars and light trucks. Bottom: Footprint-based CO 2 (g/mile) passenger car standards curves. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The study finds that the rebates had a large and positive effect on the market share of hybrid vehicles, largely at the expense of intermediate cars, intermediate SUVs and some high performance compact cars. gallon) of gasoline that a vehicle consumes over its 15 year average life expectancy. for every liter (US$1.50/gallon)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

Professor Neville Jackson, Ricardo’s chief technology and innovation officer, presented the results of a research project carried out by the Automotive Council UK to establish a long-term (to 2050) transition from current gasoline and diesel fuels to a majority renewable energy portfolio. Summary of the roadmap to 2050. Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

RUSSERT: How long before our automobiles are off of gasoline oil and, and using something like an alternative fuel? You know, we should continue to investigate the possibilities of electric cars. Now we're seeing a huge growth in fuel-efficient cars that is benefitting the Japanese automakers, and Detroit is getting pounded some more.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) represents the top producers of sugar and ethanol in the country’s South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country’s sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. 152,945 autos, 25,748 light commercial.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2010

While the auto industry in general offers an average incentive of more than $1,000 off the sticker price of any new vehicle, many buyers somehow assume this doesn't apply to hybrids. You can get money off pretty much any hybrid out there at the moment, since gasoline prices are far from the heights they reached in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

A report published by Cambridge Econometrics and Ricardo-AEA concludes that overall, the cost of technologies required to meet proposed European 2020 CO 2 regulations for vehicles (95 g/km for cars and 147 g/km for vans) will be more than offset by the resultant fuel savings. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed CAFE standards are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis for cars and trucks combined, 40.1 —Jack Gillis, Director of Public Affairs for CFA and author of The Car Book. mpg US (5.87

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The size of the contraction of the Russian car market remains a significant wild card that will impact the European market throughout the year, according to the analysis, while other countries in the region continue to recover at a rate of 2.5 in 2014 as a result of industrial overcapacity and weakness in the real estate sector.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The partners anticipate that the ALABC advanced lead-carbon battery and CPT switched reluctance motor-generator technologies can appear in the next generation of cars from 2015 onwards, when tighter CO 2 emission limits are imposed. Click to enlarge. —Nick Pascoe, CPT chief executive. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it didn’t go public with its electric pickup truck and SUV until the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. Finance coverage at the end of October suggested a valuation of $50 billion or more—higher than Kia or Nissan, both of which are decades old and make millions of cars a year.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

During the meeting, GM estimated the auto industry as a whole could see penalties ranging from $1,300 to $4,300 per vehicle by 2031. GM, which in 2021 vowed to halt the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, said this month it could face compliance challenges under the EV efficiency rules and vehicle emissions regulations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Right away, we are strengthening our competitiveness in the small and compact car segment and are reducing our CO 2 footprint—both on a long-term basis. The Renault-Nissan Alliance knows how to work successfully in collaborative partnerships, and this experience is extremely valuable in today’s and even more tomorrow’s global auto industry.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture?

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