Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Norway, as part of the European Economic Area, also participates to the IPCEI Hy2Use with two individual projects.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Preliminary analysis shows eleven Member States exceeding their respective NO x ceilings (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden). The pollutant for which most exceedances were registered was NO x.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

—Haneen Khreis, lead author of the study and an associated researcher at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Based on Volvo’s MethaneDiesel concept ( earlier post ) whereby LNG can be used in diesel engines, and Shell’s LNG expertise and infrastructure investments, the two companies will coordinate their activities and actively support the wider use of LNG in the transport sector. The agreement is non-exclusive both ways.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

Cities increasingly find themselves faced with the challenge of reconciling a healthy climate and their inhabitants’ quality-of-life demands with the transport of goods and deliveries in central urban areas. With this in mind, the vehicle’s theoretical range of up to 160 kilometers covers about three-quarters of all urban-core transport.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

Scania has received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige in Sweden. Keolis Sverige’s vision is to use locally suited, sustainable transport to double transit ridership in Swedish cities. The delivery to Keolis consists of urban, suburban and intercity buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

A large order of double articulated Van Hool Exqui.City tram buses was delivered to Trondheim, in Norway. In 2020, MAN, in cooperation with transport partners from five European countries, will have 15 MAN Lion City E-city buses tested in a day-to-day operation. About 20% of the buses built by Scania are now CNG or biogas buses.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Hopefully, with a similar amount of chargers in the United States, consumers here can also begin to transition to a more sustainable form of transport. This most recent deal follows numerous others from IONITY, BP Pulse, and countless others. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The highest numbers were registered in Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, France and the UK. Electric buses offer an environmentally friendly transport alternative, especially in cities. In Europe, the e-vehicle market is almost equally divided between battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

These initiatives originally brought together the key stakeholders in the hydrogen sector (vehicle manufacturers, hydrogen refueling station providers and Government representatives), to study and to develop strategies to make hydrogen-fueled transport a reality in the respective regions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. Volvo says it will build about 250 cars by the end of 2012, possibly more if market interest takes off.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The transport minister stated this month that Tesla mustn’t promote Chinese language vehicles made in India and as alternative manufacture domestically, however, Tesla has indicated it needs to experiment with first imports. Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y variants might be coming to India.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

The vessel’s fuel will be produced from renewable electricity marking a paradigm shift towards entirely emissions-free marine transport.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Tesla a very popular American electric vehicle manufacturer has received its approval to make or import its vehicle variants in India from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said that Tesla’s vehicles are certified for safe and roadworthiness in India.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

Scania is delivering 85 ethanol-powered buses to Nobina, which operates on behalf of the Stockholm regional public transport company, Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL). In recent years, Scania has also delivered ethanol buses for commercial service in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Norway and elsewhere. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Among the 12,500 pre-orders that it has gathered, about 3,700 came from Norway and 2,700 came from Germany. About 1,200 were from the Netherlands and another 1,000 came from Belgium. “Immediately after the IAA Transportation, we will first start stocking the dealers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

As well as helping individuals find the most efficient route and travel mode, the systems should cut congestion and lower the environmental impacts of road transport. The novel system will be piloted in six European cities: Brno (Czech Republic), Bucharest (Romania), Florence (Italy), Munich (Germany), Oslo (Norway) and Vienna.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In France, for example, the figure is 70%, in Austria it is more than 80% and in Belgium it is even more than 90%. In Norway, 90% of all Panamera customers order a hybrid model, while in Finland the figure is 85%. Earlier post.). In some countries, the proportion of Panamera hybrids is even higher.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

In addition, the adoption of supportive policies will help boost the shift to electric transportation. This goal is achievable; with more EVs hitting the market and EV technology is rapidly improving, the future of EVs is here. For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% in the same period.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric is built on the regular assembly line in the Ghent factory and then transported to Gothenburg for installation of the motor, batteries and other model-specific electronics. kW charger charges the battery at household 230 V outlets in six to eight hours (at 16 Amp) or ten hours (at 10 Amp).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

None of the EEA scenarios considered delivered the targeted reduction in transport GHG emissions. Based on analysis of long-term trends, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report calls for a clear vision defining Europe’s transport system by 2050 and consistent policies to achieve it. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Participating countries will establish pilot projects in several cities for the demonstration of electric vehicles in public transportation and government use. Each participating government will share experiences from at least one of its cities that pilots electric vehicles in the public transportation sector or in government fleets.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The plugin electric vehicle market has exploded in the past year (in a good way), thanks especially to the European Union requiring that automakers sell more efficient vehicles (EVs) or pay big fines. All of a sudden, automakers have discovered that consumers will indeed buy millions of EVs if you produce them and market them […].

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

1997 paper in the journal Transportation Research describes how battery power from EVs in people’s homes would feed the grid during a utility emergency or blackout. On the day I visited Berg, two of his cars were headed as far as the Swiss Alps, and one was going to Norway. Kempton and Letendre’s. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2022

There are now 15 European countries that have 15% or more of new-car buyers buying plugin electric cars (full electric cars or plugin hybrids). There are 12 European countries that have 10% or more of new-car buyers buying full electric vehicles (BEVs). China also passed those milestones in 2021 (15% plugin vehicle share and 12% […].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2016

If the US had the same motor vehicle crash death rate as Belgium—the country with the second highest death rate after the US—about 12,000 fewer lives would have been lost and an estimated $140 million in direct medical costs would have been averted in 2013. People of our nation deserve better and safer transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2009

Scania has sold 85 ethanol-powered articulated buses to Busslink, operator of bus services for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the regional public transport company in the Swedish capital. In recent years, Scania has also delivered ethanol buses for commercial service in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Norway and elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

However, for various reasons (including limited infrastructure, financing and a lack of appropriate policies), refining takes place in other countries, mainly Belgium, China, Finland, Norway and Zambia, which reap the economic benefit.

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