Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

From a scientific perspective, the adsorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an important measure in addition to reducing emissions for reaching the Group’s climate targets. Furthermore, the rock in Iceland has the ideal composition for storing large amounts of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

ABB was already commissioned in 2018 as technology partner to deliver 340 high-power chargers to IONITY and was the first to market in Europe with 350 kW chargers featuring liquid cooled cables. Financial details of the order were not disclosed. Such a high-power level can enable a charging speed of 200 kilometers in as little as 8 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2020

Our country has the opportunity to be among the world leaders in the sector, reaping the environmental and economic benefits of this climate leadership. Thanks to a partner like Snam we will be able to respond to the market by offering a full-fledged solution. —Michele Viale, Managing Director of Alstom Italy and Switzerland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Volvo Trucks announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks ( earlier post ) in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainable transport solutions in city environments. Sales will start in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. —Jonas Odermalm.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

Across climate science, energy research, space exploration, digital biology, quantum computing and more, the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip form the foundation of the world’s most advanced platform for HPC and AI. NVIDIA Grace speeds up compute-intensive workloads.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039. eCitaro vehicles were also delivered to Luxembourg and Switzerland. All other plants will follow.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

In a 2020 study, also published in Nature, Wang discovered that in cold conditions, such as that of the winter climate in Beijing, the mixture of these three agents contributes and condenses onto nanometer particles, increasing their mass quickly. After learning about the former study, Mingyi Wang, a Ph.D. Source: College of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Green methanol is the only market-ready and scalable available solution today for shipping. Proman (Switzerland). Headquartered in Switzerland, with assets in the United States, Trinidad and Oman, and ongoing expansion into Mexico and Canada, Proman is a global leader in methanol, fertilizer and other products such as melamine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. Switzerland moving to accept CO 2 -neutral synthetic fuels to reduce fleet emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to Québec’s to form a joint carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climate change and steer our economy toward a clean energy future.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

While the United States has been a leader in electric mobility in many ways, we also lag behind several countries in EV market share. This goal is achievable; with more EVs hitting the market and EV technology is rapidly improving, the future of EVs is here. in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2% in the same period.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

In Switzerland this was almost 3 in 4 (72%), followed by the Netherlands (62%), and Spain (61%). The technology was most popular in Sweden (59%), then Norway (58%), and Switzerland (41%). In the past year, 51% of cars sold in Sweden were equipped with the technology, ahead of Norway (28%) and Switzerland (21%). Powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Created with the mission to build cleaner, more efficient engines, Achates Power has an experienced staff of engineers and scientists working with leading engine manufacturers to bring the opposed piston engine to market. Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments and other investors. Aramco Americas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

This review will evaluate the current status of indirect land use change (ILUC) as it relates to biofuels and include an assessment of agricultural, environmental, economic, social and potential market impacts from applying or not applying land use change factors into policymaking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Also, on the occasion of the 5 th ceremony of the science award, a special prize for applied research goes to Dr. Martin Ebner from the ETH University Zurich, Switzerland for his excellent research in the area of fast charging of lithium-ion batteries. With the “Science Award Electrochemistry” he receives prize money of €50,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Rail and inland waterway freight recorded increases of 11% and 17% respectively but saw their market share decline. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Market Background Policy. The total volume measured in tonne-kilometers for EU Member States increased by 35% (650 million tonne-km) between 1996 and 2006.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Under the leadership of BASF Future Business GmbH, eighteen partners from industry and science have formed the cross-sector consortium “HE-Lion” to develop and bring to market safer, more affordable high-energy lithium-ion batteries over the next four to six years for use in plug-in hybrid automobiles and electric-vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

The switch to more polluting diesel vehicles in many countries in part to combat climate change has also added to pollution effects, threatening to arrest the downward trend in emissions from road transport in OECD countries, according to the report. Over the five? This is often because the taxes on vehicles and fuels favor diesel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

120 g/km by 2012, decreasing to 80 g/km by 2020 and 60 g/km by 2025, in the EU27 plus the EFTA countries Norway and Switzerland. It does not consider potential diffusion of the standards to other regions, which, “ would certainly lead to a different outcome on international markets, particularly with respect to the price of oil.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Polestar has released a performance-oriented software upgrade for the Polestar 2 Long-range Dual-motor in selected European markets. Pricing is on average €1,000 with local variances in certain markets. Availability in other Polestar markets will be confirmed in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Underneath the e-fuels banner, Audi also includes renewable electricity for recharging its e-tron vehicles (“e-power”) and, should the market so require it, “green” hydrogen (e-hydrogen, derived in the e-gas process). We are trying to build awareness that you can make a climate impact with existing cars. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

car market. Market 10 years ago—we sold six figures of Leafs—those used a different standard called CHAdeMO. We don't have a ton of data as yet, in part because the 250- to 300-mile range cars are just now entering the market. We now have a 300 mile electric pickup truck hitting the market. John Voelcker Great question.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

car market. Market 10 years ago—we sold six figures of Leafs—those used a different standard called CHAdeMO. We don't have a ton of data as yet, in part because the 250- to 300-mile range cars are just now entering the market. We now have a 300 mile electric pickup truck hitting the market. John Voelcker Great question.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

(United Kingdom); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). The increasing gap also more than halves the official CO 2 reductions achieved during the last ten years, making it more challenging to meet the EU’s climate change mitigation objectives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2014

earlier post ); and currently has two battery-electric passenger cars on the market (e-Up! This last attribute, Volkswagen believes, will give it a key differentiator and competitive advantage, particularly in terms of being able rapidly to expand electric drive offerings across its lines as market demand determines. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Several leading HPC centers have signed contracts to purchase Cray XC30 supercomputers, including: The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. Climate/Weather: 4DVAR, CAM, CCSM, HIRLAM, HYCOM, MM5, POP, WRF. —Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. The Finnish IT Center for Science Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

will participate in the partnership by initiating its EV Micro-Climate program in the Phoenix region to promote sensible policies, intelligent deployment of charge infrastructure, and strong public awareness to foster the successful consumer adoption of grid-connected electric vehicles. ECOtality Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. in the United States; and Israel, Portugal, Monaco, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Volkswagen marked its serious entry into the battery-electric vehicle market with the introduction in Frankfurt of its first two series production EVs: the e-up! Dr. Martin Winterkorn said that the group has set its sights on global market leadership in electric mobility. “ in Frankfurt. Click to enlarge. and the e-Golf. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

APRIL 16, 2009

Renault-Nissan continues to strengthen its foothold in the electric vehicle market by forming a partnership with the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), which represents Phoenix, Arizona. The Renault-Nissan Alliance has also begun initiatives in Israel, Denmark, Portugal, Monaco, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Japan and the UK.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

The first leg from Sindelfingen to the north-eastern border of Switzerland runs along Autobahn 81. At 100 kWh, the power storage unit developed specifically for the VISION EQXX has almost the same amount of energy as the battery of the EQS, which is already a global benchmark among electric cars currently on the market.

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