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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.

Chevron

Chevron Gasoline Renewable Toyota

Bi-fuel evolutions of the LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van; range extender engines run on LPG/biopropane and CNG/biomethane

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

HP Taxis, Prins Alternative Fuel Systems and SBL-Automotive revealed [link] of the plug-in hybrid range-extended electric LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van allowing the range extender engine to run on LPG and CNG and their renewable counterparts of biopropane and biomethane. LPG/biopropane fuel tank or CNG/biomethane fuel tank.

Taxi

Taxi Engine Range Fuel

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. The participants reported virtually no difference in driving experience compared to regular gasoline- or diesel-fueled cars. liter, 127 hp engine which can run on both 100% methanol (M100) and gasoline.

Iceland

Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable

Deutsche Post DHL Group sees mass market potential for synthetic fuels in 5-10 years

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is where sustainable fuels play a crucial role as they could be pivotal in reducing the climate impact of transport emissions. Today, the term “alternative” is used for all fuels that are not a part of the fossil fuel group—diesel, gasoline, heavy oil and kerosene.

Fuel

Fuel Market Alternative Fuels Clean Alternative

Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Good fuel models are required for good predictions. Reaction Design is introducing the first volume of the industry’s most well-validated available Model Fuel Library, the result of seven years of research and validation under the Model Fuels Consortium ( earlier post ). Source: Reaction Design. Click to enlarge.

Fuel

Fuel Design Engine Emissions

2022 Tesla Model 3, Lucid Air, Model Y lead DOE’s highest MPGe list

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As per data from the DOE, 17 electric vehicle models achieved 100 miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent (MPGe) or higher. MPGe represents the “fuel economy” of electric cars in a unit that’s common with fossil fuel-powered vehicles, where 33.7 As per the DOE’s data, the Lucid Air achieved 131 MPGe.

Tesla

Tesla Gasoline-Electric Fuel Economy Available Today

EPA finalizes greenhouse gas standards for LDVs MY 2023-2026

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The final program represents will reach a projected industry-wide target of 161 grams CO 2 /mile, or 40 miles per gallon value on fuel economy window stickers in 2026. CO 2 , Compared to the Proposal and 2012 and 2020 Rules, grams/mile, 2021-2026. Source: EPA. The standards they replace increased in stringency by only 1.5% year over year.

EPA

EPA Standards Gas Pollution

Dynamotive Produces Renewable Gasoline and Diesel from Biomass in Three-Stage Process: Pyrolysis, Hydroreforming, Hydrotreating

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2009

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation has successfully produced renewable gasoline and diesel from biomass at its research facility in Waterloo Ontario through a novel two-stage upgrading process of its pyrolysis oil, BioOil. Among the technologies commercially available are FCC (catalytic cracking) and hydrotreatment/hydrocracking.

Gasoline

Gasoline Renewable Diesel Oil

Audi survey finds more than half of US drivers would support government initiative to spur diesel vehicle sales

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Government has set very rigorous standards for future fuel economy, and we believe that clean diesel is perfectly positioned to help us achieve those goals. Audi believes there are a variety of viable alternative fuel solutions, including electric, but diesel is readily available today. We need to level the playing field.

Audi

Audi Diesel Sale Available Today

US light-duty diesel sales climb in 2018 to 500,000 units; 3% of sales

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

More than 40 diesel models are available today in the United States from 10 manufacturers and brands. More products are expected to hit showroom floors along with revamped products that have proven popular with car buyers this year. —Alan Baum, a Michigan-based automotive industry analyst. Mazda 3 with a SKYACTIV-D engine.

2018

2018 Light Diesel Sale

Neste Oil to launch the first diesel complying with Category 4 WWFC diesel specification; reduces fuel consumption by 5% and emissions

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Neste Oil will launch a completely new grade of diesel fuel in Finland this fall: Neste Pro Diesel. The new fuel is the first to comply with the most stringent diesel specification (Category 4) drawn up as part of the Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) by automotive manufacturers in Europe, the US, and Asia. density 800/820 kg/m 3 ).

Diesel

Diesel Oil Fuel Emissions

Deloitte Survey finds only 4% of global consumers likely to be satisfied with current EVs despite increasing consideration and willingness to buy; higher ICE fuel economy reduces interest in EVs

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings available today, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. Click to enlarge. —Craig Giffi.

Fuel Economy

Fuel Economy Buy Global Gasoline-Electric

EPA and NHTSA Issue Notice of Intent to Develop New Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy Standards for Light-Duty Vehicle Model Years 2017-2025; Proposal Expected by 30 Sep 2011

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. Earlier post.). Technologies.

Fuel Economy

Fuel Economy EPA 2017 Economy

HK Motors, American Public Gas Association and NGVAmerica to Collaborate to Promote Natural Gas Hybrids

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2010

Natural gas hybrids will use similar electric-drive technology to gasoline-powered hybrid vehicles available today, only natural gas will be the power source rather than gasoline. Working with natural gas distribution companies to install home fueling appliances and provide services for NGV purchasers.

Gas

Gas Hybrid Motor Motors

Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Most climate mitigation efforts are intended to decrease the rate at which people add carbon from fossil fuel reservoirs to the atmosphere. For example, combustion of a gallon of gasoline releases approximately 10 kilograms (kg) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Emissions Carbon

Study: even with high LDV electrification, low-carbon biofuels will be necessary to meet 80% GHG reduction target; “daunting” policy implications

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

Within the transportation sector, the two basic options for reducing petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are fuel-use reduction and fuel substitution. consumer attitudes, fuel prices, battery technology advancement, vehicle costs and subsidies). —Meier et al.

Carbon

Carbon EPRI Climate Gasoline-Electric

Novozymes On Track With New Enzymes For Cellulosic Ethanol

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This new enzyme family is the highest performing and most cost-effective enzyme solution available today, according to the company. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requires the US to blend 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol into gasoline in 2010. —Peder Holk Nielsen.

San Antonio

San Antonio 2010 Available Today Texas

IEA working paper highlights potential role of natural gas in reducing global road transport CO2

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. For various reasons, the potential to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing large quantities of diesel fuel consumption in HDVs by natural gas has been underutilised.

Gas

Gas Transportation CO2 Global

Electrification gaining momentum in fleet vehicle industry – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, from delivery vans to tractor-trailers, are major fuel consumers and greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters. In recent years, vehicle emission standards have also seen significant advancements, with a marked decrease in CO2 emissions and an increase in fuel economy.

Fleet

Fleet Industrial Industry Charging

California Energy Commission Adopts $176M Green Transportation Plan

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.

California

California Transportation Energy Green

Primus Green Energy synthetic gasoline demo plant hits 720 hours continuous operation

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

an alternative fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly into drop-in transportation fuels, announced that its natural gas-to-gasoline demonstration plant ( earlier post ) has achieved 720 hours of continuous operation, indicating the reliability and stability of its STG+ technology.

Gasoline

Gasoline Green Energy Alternative Fuels

BMW H2 BS

Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 21, 2007

You can't beat a free car and free fuel. Especially a super luxury car that switches to gasoline with the flick of a finger. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600.

BMW

BMW 2002 Hydrogen Gasoline-Electric

Toyota’s second turbocharged gasoline engine now available in Auris in Japan; 36% thermal efficiency

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

liter in the Lexus NX 200t turbo last year, earlier post ) from a series of new engines with improved thermal and fuel efficiency. liter direct-injection turbo engine is now available as an option for the partially redesigned Auris, which went on sale in Japan today. Engines Fuel Efficiency' Earlier post.) Source: Toyota.

Gasoline

Gasoline Japan Available Engine

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. 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 It is much more than that.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

P G & E Plugs Drive

Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Today’s hybrid cars, such as the Toyota Prius, use electricity generated by gasoline-fueled engines. But Marc Geller, vice president of the San Francisco Electric Auto Association , believes car companies just do not want to incur the high cost of altering a 100-year-old practice of building cars with gas-fueled engines.

Plug

Plug San Francisco PHEV Cleaner

Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

Advances are being made worldwide that allow us to more efficiently convert our renewable resources into a range of liquid transportation fuels. Most of these processes produce single-component fuels like ethanol, butanol, dimethylfuran, alkyl esters, and a narrow distribution of straight-chain alkanes.

Convert

Convert Renewable Hydrogen Carbon

Study suggests current levels of methane leakage would result in numerous decades of more rapid climate change from a shift to natural gas vehicles

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Technology warming potential (TWP) for three sets of natural gas fuel-switching scenarios. (A) 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. Source: Alvarez et al. Click to enlarge.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Gas Coal

ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Select projects in OPEN 2012 include: ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Fuels. Energy-Dense Aviation Fuels from Biomass. high performance liquid aviation fuels. density of these terpene-based fuels could outperform existing. petroleum fuels by increasing flight range up to 20%. High-Density Algae-Fuel Reactor.

2012

2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion

Volkswagen of America debuts 2016 Passat; 38 mpg highway from the 1.8 TSI

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

liter TSI gasoline; 2.0-liter liter gasoline VR6—as well as a strong suite of new connectivity and driver assistance features. The 2016 Passat is planned to be available in the United States with three powertrains: the 1.8-liter has an EPA estimated highway fuel economy rating of 38 mpg (6.18 liter TDI; and the 3.6-liter

2016

2016 MPG America EPA

NHTSA Modeling and Technology Projections Underlying the Proposed CAFE Target of 34.1 mpg by MY 2016

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

On 15 Sep, NHTSA and the US EPA proposed a joint rulemaking on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty vehicles: an average new car 34.1 mpg if the automotive industry were to meet this CO 2 level just through fuel economy improvements.) ( Earlier post.). mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. Earlier post.)

2016

2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA

EV Driven

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Bi-fuel evolutions of the LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van; range extender engines run on LPG/biopropane and CNG/biomethane

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Deutsche Post DHL Group sees mass market potential for synthetic fuels in 5-10 years

Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

2022 Tesla Model 3, Lucid Air, Model Y lead DOE’s highest MPGe list

EPA finalizes greenhouse gas standards for LDVs MY 2023-2026

Dynamotive Produces Renewable Gasoline and Diesel from Biomass in Three-Stage Process: Pyrolysis, Hydroreforming, Hydrotreating

Audi survey finds more than half of US drivers would support government initiative to spur diesel vehicle sales

US light-duty diesel sales climb in 2018 to 500,000 units; 3% of sales

Neste Oil to launch the first diesel complying with Category 4 WWFC diesel specification; reduces fuel consumption by 5% and emissions

Deloitte Survey finds only 4% of global consumers likely to be satisfied with current EVs despite increasing consideration and willingness to buy; higher ICE fuel economy reduces interest in EVs

EPA and NHTSA Issue Notice of Intent to Develop New Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy Standards for Light-Duty Vehicle Model Years 2017-2025; Proposal Expected by 30 Sep 2011

HK Motors, American Public Gas Association and NGVAmerica to Collaborate to Promote Natural Gas Hybrids

Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Study: even with high LDV electrification, low-carbon biofuels will be necessary to meet 80% GHG reduction target; “daunting” policy implications

Novozymes On Track With New Enzymes For Cellulosic Ethanol

IEA working paper highlights potential role of natural gas in reducing global road transport CO2

Electrification gaining momentum in fleet vehicle industry – Charged EVs

California Energy Commission Adopts $176M Green Transportation Plan

Primus Green Energy synthetic gasoline demo plant hits 720 hours continuous operation

BMW H2 BS

Toyota’s second turbocharged gasoline engine now available in Auris in Japan; 36% thermal efficiency

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

P G & E Plugs Drive

Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

Study suggests current levels of methane leakage would result in numerous decades of more rapid climate change from a shift to natural gas vehicles

ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Volkswagen of America debuts 2016 Passat; 38 mpg highway from the 1.8 TSI

NHTSA Modeling and Technology Projections Underlying the Proposed CAFE Target of 34.1 mpg by MY 2016

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