Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. At the “Salon de l’Auto” in Brussels, the Minister of Mobility and Environment announced a program for the improvement of air quality in Wallonia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

The team modified a commercial tribology testing device to give it the capability to evaluate the impact of electric currents in fluids, measuring the wear and friction on the automobile parts in the presence of an applied voltage. That extends to tribology testing as well.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Researchers at Environment Canada have found that vehicle exhaust is a significant source of isocyanic acid (HNCO), a toxic gaseous acid that is a product of various forms of combustion and a potential health concern. Automobile exhaust is also a known source of inorganic acids such as nitric (HNO 3 ) and nitrous (HONO) acids.

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Exhaust Canada Environment Emissions 207

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) approved new low emission vehicle (LEV) standards for new light-duty and medium-duty motor vehicles sold in Colorado beginning in the 2022 model year. These states now make up nearly 40% of the new automobile market. Earlier post.) Used vehicles brought into the state.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. Not only does carbon dioxide have less impact on the environment than conventional refrigerant, it also has physical characteristics which allow more efficient heating and cooling of vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2013

and PM 10 emissions—mainly from gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles (LDVs)—in the Washburn Tunnel in Houston Texas as a mechanism for better determining the contribution of LDVs to particulate emissions. Researchers led by a team from the University of Houston have characterized the platinum group elemental composition of PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance) is strongly supporting the passage of Maryland’s SB 1234 , a bill that would require the State of Maryland to purchase zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) for state fleets. The bill also includes a reporting requirement for State agencies that purchase vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Of that quarter, cars and light trucks account for nearly half, accounting for 12% of Canada’s total GHG emissions. Earlier post.) Minister Prentice.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. The overall regulatory framework and market environment must be supportive, as also agreed in the recently concluded CARS 21 process. T&E: Super credits = “hot air”.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 5, 2023

The automobile store mentioned it’s vision certain indicators. “The lights are definitely out in the stores that we closed but [that] doesn’t mean they can’t be turned right back on and that would be the intention if the market improves like we think it’s going to do,” Dyke mentioned.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

At the same time, we take responsibility for the environment and the efficient use of raw materials in the supply chain. The recycling process, as has now been established in the Dingolfing press shop, is already being implemented in the light metal foundry of the BMW Group plant in Landshut. automotive plant.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will propose Regulation Number 20, Low Emission Vehicles (Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulations, CLEAR), to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) to the AQCC at its regular meeting on 16 August 16.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The deal follows an agreement reached in December on new CO 2 emission standards for cars and light vans in the EU for the period after 2020. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is the Brussels-based trade association of the 15 major car, van, truck and bus producers in Europe.

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Standards CO2 Automobile Manufacturer Emissions 281

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The European Parliament has voted to introduce CO 2 limits in the EU for new vans and other light commercial goods vehicles. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) issued a statement saying that the new CO 2 legislation for light commercial vehicles sets extremely challenging targets in particular for the long term.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

of CO 2 per km from 2016, according to final data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Average CO 2 emissions of new light commercial vehicles (vans) dropped by 7.5 Automobiles Peugeot and Automobiles Citroen followed with (105 g CO 2 /km) and (106 g CO 2 /km), respectively. g CO 2 /km from 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

In response, MECA (Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association), commented : Suppliers of emission control and efficiency technologies will continue to innovate and introduce new advancements to further improve fuel efficiency while continuing to lower tailpipe emissions across the light-duty vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

tons of CO 2- eq from polluting the environment, leading Life Cycle Assessment auditors Quantis to designate UBQ as “The Most Climate Positive Thermoplastic Material on the Market.”. Motherson is currently testing and evaluating the incorporation of UBQ in the production of a range of interior and exterior automobile parts.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

a developer and manufacturer of flexible organic solar films, is collaborating with Webasto, one of the top 100 automotive suppliers, to integrate Konarka’s Power Plastic organic solar cells in Webasto’s automobile roofing systems. We have had extensive discussions with automobile manufacturers on the value of organic solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Time constraints and the need to consider sustainability aspects that are playing an ever more critical role in motor racing, as well as the automobile industry in general, meant that returning to the drawing board to design a completely new engine and building it at great cost was not an option.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The draft motion for a resolution from the Environment Committee, which had proposed the veto of the relaxed limits, was rejected by 323 votes to 317, with 61 abstentions. The Environment Committee will hold a public hearing on the RDE procedure on 23 February. —Environment Committee chair Giovanni La Via (EPP, IT).

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Diesel Automobile Manufacturer Environment Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2019

Ambient air pollution consists of fine particulate matter as well as gaseous products of combustion (oxides of nitrogen), produced through burning fossil fuels from automobiles emissions to power plants. —Billings et al. Nearly half (48%) of the participants had sleep apnea.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In April 2021 , Tesla was accused by the EPA of violating the federal Clean Air Act regulations known as National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Surface Coating of Automobiles and Light-Duty Trucks from October 2016 through September 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The self-driving S-Class had to deal autonomously with a number of highly complex situations such as traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrians, cyclists and trams. The project thus marks a milestone along the way that leads from the self-propelled (automobile) to the self-driving (autonomous) vehicle, the company said. Initial testing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. Samples of the findings include: Off-peak urban diesel buses has the largest energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT, followed by the three light-duty vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2023

The greening of the automobile trade isn’t just about constructing zero-emission automobiles; it’s additionally about lowering the carbon affect of the dealerships that promote and repair them. The automobile corporate’s retail community in Canada is composed of fifty BMW and 31 Miniature dealerships.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This system is a definite game-changer for the global automotive and machine vision industry because it fundamentally modernizes how automobiles can respond to human behavior. Until now, machine vision was limited to use cases where the environment was extremely controlled and the computational requirements were unlimited.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Favre acknowledged the company’s historical association with plastics but emphasized that Plastic Omnium has diversified into various automotive components , including lighting, electronics, and more. The company’s research includes transparent plastic for lighting integration and exploring applications in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Not only will this benefit the environment, but it will also significantly impact the quality of city dwellers’ lives, with some 700 million automobiles projected to be on city roads by 2019. Smart street lighting is also expected to produce significant cost savings, aided by the fall in LED fixture costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

TEF is organized into four research areas: light-duty vehicles; non-light-duty vehicles; fuels; and transportation demand. Light-duty vehicles are already becoming more efficient due largely to new CAFE standards. Findings are being detailed in a series of nine reports, six of which are now available. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2014

If the driver does not take back control within a few seconds of being prompted, light braking and a more intensive warning are triggered. The car is braked to a stop and the hazard warning lights are activated. Its laser diode emits nearly 100,000 infrared light pulses per second that are invisible to the human eye.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Unbeknownst to many, manufacturing new automobiles exacts a toll on our ecosystem—increased energy consumption and escalating greenhouse gas emissions further exacerbate the situation. The practice serves as a guardian of the environment, combating the harmful effects of both abandoned vehicles and the production of new ones.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

ESI has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to realistically simulate a product’s behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment’s impact on performance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This premium car sharing with BMW and MINI automobiles is independent of car-hire stations. These future routing options create a route based on adaptive traffic management that takes local traffic planning into account and enables you to have a smooth drive through the city with minimum impact on the environment. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2017

This will, for example, enable information about the current traffic situation, accidents and other situations relating to traffic conditions to be shared with the local environment, within a radius of approximately 500 m, even faster than has been possible in the past.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

will participate in the 19 th World ITS Congress from 22–26 October 2012 with a demonstration of automobile and motorcycle V2X communication—how its vehicles can communicate both with each other and with road-side infrastructure to benefit road safety, the environment, driver comfort and convenience. Environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The companies will propose a future lifestyle with deeper links among houses, electric appliances and automobiles. Sekisui House, Ltd., Toshiba Corporation and Honda Motor Co., will jointly exhibit at Smart Mobility City 2013, an organizer-themed project to be held from 22 November through 1 December 2013 within the 43 rd Tokyo Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new CR-V is longer and wider with premium proportions and a significantly broader stance, further advancing the Honda rugged design direction for light trucks with a low horizontal beltline and a long, powerful front end. Honda has produced automobiles in North America for 40 years, beginning in November 1982 at the Marysville Auto Plant.

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