Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

—Stefano Mazzetti, AEHRA Head of Purchasing and Procurement The development process will optimize battery sustainability and repairability, to ensure long life of both the battery unit and the vehicle. We have no desire to build vehicles with 1 megawatt or 2 megawatt powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The combination of performance and range, as well as the passenger experience that comes from riding a battery-electric vehicle, all contribute to making it a great choice for door-to-door transit in urban and suburban environments. This makes it critical to know the vehicles’ locations and state of battery charge at all times.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Iveco, the Iveco Group brand that designs, manufactures and markets light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, has received an order for the supply of 178 S-Way CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) trucks to the Post & Parcel Germany division of DHL.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

But the researchers also demonstrated that emissions could be halved with technology already available today—and completely eliminated by the year 2045. —Ida Karlsson, PhD student at Chalmers, and participant in the Mistra Carbon Exit project. Karlsson et al. —Ida Karlsson. 2019.109651.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

An 80% reduction in US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 has been generally established as the de facto required domestic contribution to stabilizing global concentrations at low to medium levels, that is, 450 and 550 ppm carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 -equiv).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

The EU could slash truck carbon pollution by more than a fifth (22%) in a decade by requiring its main cities to have electric truck charging infrastructure, according to a new study released by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Electric trucks are clean, cheaper to run and available today.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

Envia Systems has been awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and another $1 million from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to support development of high energy density Li-ion storage technology, targeted at plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2012

The switch from diesel will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its internal goods transport by about 70%, the company said. By switching to ethanol, Scania is demonstrating that sustainable solutions can be achieved—here and now—with technology that is already available today. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MAY 3, 2024

“Renaming this facility as North American Hydrogen Headquarters represents our leadership in fuel cell development creating real-world products to help reduce carbon emissions.” MW), a scalable test bench for stationary applications, and a hydrogen fuelling station capable of providing fuel for both light- and heavy-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

million of funding for the LX1 project through its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The CEC program provides funding to help both develop next generation transportation technology components and vehicles, as well as speed the deployment of lower carbon transportation product available today.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

A program like this also continues to move us toward a carbon free economy by enabling higher levels of renewable generation to be integrated with the grid. Vehicles can be reserved, picked up and returned to the same location. —SMUD CEO and General Manager Arlen Orchard.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Replacing diesel with hydrogen fuel eliminates vehicle tailpipe emissions. pounds of carbon dioxide per mile using hydrogen reformed from methane, and 6.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile using hydrogen reformed from methane, and 6.3 pounds per mile using hydrogen derived from solar, wind, or other renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Some of the alternative fuels available today can already help significantly reduce emissions with minor or no modifications to engines and infrastructures. Concerns about the availability and sustainability of biofuels are leading to a growing interest in what are known as e-fuels. There’s a lot to be said for e-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

The station development project, known as the Low Carbon Fuel Infrastructure Investment Initiative (LCFI3), has the potential to displace 39 million gallons of petroleum and 187,500 tons of CO 2 emissions per year. The event also announced a $10.9 Approximately $6.9

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2023

V2H, or vehicle-to-home, uses smart EV charging and bidirectional (two way) charging to transfer energy stored in the battery of a parked electrical vehicle (EV) to the home for use as a backup power source during outages. Using the energy stored in your EV battery instead of grid energy can also help reduce your carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The global natural gas vehicle fleet has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, but still represents less than 1% of global transport fuel consumption. 78% of all other vehicles on natural gas (3-wheelers and tuk-tuks) are in Asia-Pacific. Click to enlarge. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Carbon residue. % Tests at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Tampere University of Applied Science, and Neste Oil’s Motor Laboratory have shown that Neste Pro Diesel offers the best set of fuel product properties available today for all diesel vehicles. Total aromatics content. % Final Boiling Point.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

The joint venture will also pave the way for Asia’s fourth-largest economy to take part in a project to develop lithium carbonate in the region, officials said. POSCO plans to bid for construction of lithium-carbonate manufacturing and processing facilities in Uyuni, it added.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. For the vehicle application, Hohm will help owners determine when and how to most efficiently and affordably recharge battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

It turns an EV into a mobile battery that can be used to provide backup power to a home or business, and to provide services to the electrical grid, generating revenue for the vehicle owner and potentially offsetting a significant part of the purchase price of the vehicle. It’s also possible to do V2G through an AC port.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

research vehicle. research vehicle (the “125” marking 125 years of the automobile), a fuel-cell plug-in hybrid with a range of more than 1,000 km (621 miles) that anticipates more than two generations of vehicles to 2025 and beyond. research vehicle. Mercedes-Benz F 125! Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz F 125!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption. Source: Technology roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

Earlier this month, Ford unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. Earlier post.). million project ($10 million from DOE, $10.3 million from Vehma/Ford) has two main objectives.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Combining data from a variety of transportation sources—road networks, cars, buses and trains, road construction and accidents, on-board devices, mobile phones—with different traffic models helps the researchers better understand constantly fluctuating amounts of vehicles on the road and the optimal travel routes are.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2009

Around $176million will be invested over the next two years as the California Energy Commission adopts the Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan to encourage innovation and meet the state’s climate change policies.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The two companies believe this strategy will work, citing research carried out for the French carmaker which indicates that 80% of people in Europe currently travel less than 60km per day; well within the range of many electric vehicles available today. It is hoped that this roll out with begin in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

A) CNG light-duty cars vs. gasoline cars; (B) CNG heavy-duty vehicles vs. diesel vehicles; and (C) combined-cycle natural gas plants vs. supercritical coal plants using low-CH 4 coal. A TWP >1 means that the cumulative radiative forcing from choosing natural gas today is higher than a current fuel option after t yr.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Vehicle Design and Materials. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. electric vehicle motors with alternative higher-performance. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Carbon Capture.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly proposed a rule establishing a national program that would improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gases. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

The way that such large vehicles can be lifted by small engines is that they have large rotor diameters. Assessing Hoverbikes’ Risks Safety concerns are just as big a hurdle to making hoverbikes available for sale. Neither Russia nor Dubai have mature airborne safety standards that cover vehicles of this type,” says Barrett-Gonzalez.

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EV Connect

APRIL 6, 2021

Since 2010, EV Connect ’s path to expand and provide smart electric vehicle charging infrastructure has led them to branch out into numerous industries and sectors. The Challenge When Sunnyvale’s school buses began to show the typical signs of aging the repair costs began to exceed the cost of purchasing new vehicles.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2022

The holy grail of battery development really hasn’t changed much in spite of the exponential growth of the electric vehicle market–make it more energy dense (for longer range), more powerful (for faster acceleration), faster charging and cheaper. More Battery News: Event: Battery Show & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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