Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
However, as required by the Clean Air Act, automobile manufacturers began installing onboard refueling vapor recovery (ORVR) technologies in 1998, making gas stations’ systems increasingly redundant. Since 2006, all new automobiles and light trucks (pickups, vans and SUVs) are equipped with ORVR systems.
Green Car Congress
JULY 11, 2011
systems in areas classified “Serious,” “Severe,” or “Extreme” for nonattainment of the ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). Gasoline-rich vapors in an empty automobile fuel tank are forced out when liquid gasoline is pumped into the tank. The CAA requires states to implement Stage II gasoline vapor recovery.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2016
The first vehicles to use vacuum sensing hoses made from biohydrin rubber will be produced in May, with usage expected to be rolled out to all Toyota automobiles manufactured in Japan by the end of this year. Click to enlarge. Vacuum sensing hoses are used in engine intake system components.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2016
A US Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2009
The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. 40 CFR § 80.27
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2009
The global warming provisions in the discussion draft are modeled closely on the recommendations of the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a coalition of electric utilities, oil companies, chemical companies, automobile manufacturers, other manufacturers and energy companies, and environmental organizations.
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