Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. We analyzed data for more than 1.1

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, while the world of automobiles is thriving towards zero-emission mobility by introducing various cleaner and greener powertrain technologies, the rising demand and sales of fossil-fuel-run SUVs are offsetting the benefits coming from electric vehicles and other cleaner fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

Port Glasgow-based Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited has successfully led a European consortium in a bid for EU funding support for the building and launch of the first sea-going car and passenger ferry fueled by Hydrogen. The supported development is expected to cost around €12.6 million (US$14.6 million) of which €9.3 million (US$10.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

million), 4-year European project—ecoDriver—to develop innovative new technologies for both in-vehicle and remote devices, such as downloadable smartphone apps, that will help motorists to significantly reduce their fuel consumption by driving in a more energy-efficient way. —Oliver Carsten. —Olive Carsten.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

A new study by Deloitte, the business advisory firm, concludes that despite rising fuel prices, the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe is still some distance away. The online survey captures the views of more than 10,000 consumers across the Americas, Asia and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

ArcelorMittal, Yara, Dow Benelux and Zeeland Refinery support the development of the required regional infrastructure to enable sustainably produced steel, ammonia, ethylene and fuels in the future, helping the Netherlands and Belgium to accelerate carbon reductions towards 2030 and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

In view of this situation, MAN Truck & Bus has put forward a variety of ideas and studies from the truck and bus sectors in recent years. Combined with the maximum speed of 90 km/h, this re-sults in fuel consumption of around 20 kWh per 100 kilometers. It has 290 N·m of torque at its immediate disposal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Truck Platooning involves trucks driving a short distance apart using automated driving technology; platooning offers benefits in terms of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, safety and the flow of traffic. IVECO will depart from Brussels and DAF from their production location in Westerlo, Belgium. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

According to the engineers’ experience, this results in a fuel consumption reduction on long-haul journeys of approximately four to five percent in real conditions. In the Actros Record Run covering 10,000 kilometers on European motorways, the Euro VI version of the Actros 1845 achieved a fuel consumption of 25.9 in long-haul usage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Fuel Efficiency Materials Weight reduction'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers in the United Kingdom and Belgium are the most sensitive to paying a price premium with 71% opposing. The survey also shows consumers in the United States continue to see high fuel prices as a motivating factor for purchasing an electric vehicle. —Craig Giffi. —Craig Giffi.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Accordingly, there have been a number of recent studies working to assess the impact of non-exhaust emissions from EVs and suggesting a regulatory or policy response (e.g., A 2014 study by Weinbruch et al. Compared to earlier studies, Weinbruch et al. A new Rotterdam-specific study by a pan-European team (Tobollik et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A study describing the research is published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Their study regions focused on North America, Europe and East Asia during the summer months, when abundant sunlight triggers the highest rates of ozone formation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The fuel economy of the supercapacitor fuel cell hybrid, they noted, is higher despite the vehicle being heavier and more expensive. A stand-alone FC [fuel cell] system integrated into an automotive powertrain is not always sufficient to satisfy the load demands of a vehicle. —Hegazy et al.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2020, after performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market , where testing took place in EV hotspot California in early September 2020. Ionity secured victory among the CPOs in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. The EU has set a recommendation for its member states with the aim of replacing 5.75% of traffic fuel with biofuels by 2010 and a mandatory target of 10% renewable energy sources in traffic by 2020. Click to enlarge. NEMO (CORDIS).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows that Volkswagen is currently selling the least polluting (Euro 6) diesel vehicles. million) and Belgium (1.4 However, the report “ Dieselgate: Who? also found that no brand in Europe complies with the latest Euro 6 air pollution limits for diesel cars and vans in real-world driving.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In 2014, any weight increase in new cars will be studied. Smaller charges between €5 and €25 for excesses of 1 – 3 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additional countries will become available before the end of 2011 and into 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

The EU-funded three-year NELLHI project has concluded after successfully developing a new stack design of solid oxide fuel cells, from an all-European supply chain. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) produce the highest efficiencies of any electrical generation, above combustion engines, gas turbines or other fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Estonia deciding to buy 500 MiEVs in 2012 or Belgium offering high financial incentives but perhaps not to the right market, noted lead author Will Sierzchula. Of those, charging infrastructure was the best predictor of a country’s EV market share. These differences are likely explained by country-specific factors—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2011

Researchers from Belgium and France are exploring the use of a tri-component blend of biofuels derived from low-value biomass wastes—ethyl acetate (EtAc), ethyl propionate (EtPr), and ethyl butyrate (EtBu)—in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines. —Contino et al.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Belgium / 148 / 153 / 5.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

Particulate matter and NO 2 air pollution are associated with increased risk of severe heart attacks despite being within European recommended levels, according to research presented at ESC Congress by Dr. Jean-Francois Argacha, a cardiologist at University Hospital Brussels (UZ Brussel-Vrije Universiteit Brussel), in Belgium. increased risk.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Toyota Motor Europe’s (TME’s) Belgium-based Technical Center led the development of the Verso 1.6 Torque (N·m/rpm). 270/1750-2,250. 310/1,600-2,400. 340/2,000-2,800. 400/2,000-2,800. CO 2 (g/km). —Didier Leroy, Senior Managing Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation, and President and CEO of Toyota Motor Europe (TME).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

We [need to] wonder whether the sum of all likely fossil fuel demands in the early decades of the [21 st ] century might not greatly increase the emission of CO 2 into the atmosphere, and by doing so bring up average surface temperature uncomfortably close to that rise of 2 °C, which might set in motion the long-term warming-up of the planet.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Creating a test bed on the island will allow researchers to study how the energy system functions as the number of electric vehicles increases. The studies will be simulation-based and will not impact security of supply on the island.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition looks at generation costs at more than 180 plants—from large nuclear and fossil-fuel facilities to wind farms to residential-sized solar PV installations—in 22 countries, including Brazil, China and South Africa.

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