EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

The shock news was confirmed to EV Central at this month’s 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD launch by Jess Bala, Managing Director of Chevrolet’s local outpost GM Australia and New Zealand. And tow them very long distances, where diesel fuel pumps are far more ubiquitous (and quicker filling) than electric charge points.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But more recently it has struggled to gain access to EVs because of the absence of a federally mandated CO2 emissions reduction structure and purchase subsidies. The lack of direction in electrification in Australia has directly impacted the availability of the new Nissan Ariya mid-size SUV here. “We

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The SMMT states that “such a step would cost the Treasury an average of just £1,125 per car, which is less than the cost of the previous Plug-in Car Grant and would put more than a quarter of a million electric – rather than petrol or diesel – cars on the road by the end of 2026, on top of those already expected.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The German manufacturer has buddied up with US-based fuels specialist Joule to produce e-ethanol and e-diesel. These combine salt or waste water with waste CO2, sunlight and special genetically modified microorganisms suspended in pipes. Audi says its e-ethanol can power petrol vehicles with only minor [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In the Darwin to Adelaide run, the petrol driven Alto managed to complete the journey at an average consumption of 72mpg overall, an 18.5 Alto won the ‘Light’ and ‘Small’ car categories; ‘best urban cycle’ category and an overall CO2 emission of 89.9g/km, km, using just 123 litres of fuel for the seven day trip. per cent and 12.2

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 20, 2010

Motorists in New Zealand are increasingly turning to the power of diesel to reduce CO2 emissions and boost fuel efficiency, the country's Motor Trade Association (MTA) reveals. Tags: Latest news alternative fuel diesel engine fuel economy MTA petrol.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 15, 2012

With European emission standards looming, it seems a shift from petrol to diesel engines could be the key to climate mitigation efforts. It suggests that passenger transport affects the environment through a number of areas – including long-term effects like CO2; [.].

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2022

The Breathe fleet is estimated to prevent 338 tonnes of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere per year. The service provider plans to replace existing petrol, diesel, and hybrid vehicles for an all-electric platform in London by 2025. Breathe with Tesla Model 3s.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 22, 2013

The European car industry is expected to reach its average of 95g/km CO2 emissions target by 2020, thanks to improvements in existing diesel and petrol car technology, rather than through the sales of hybrid and electric cars, a new report concludes. Electric cars diesel electric car petrol RAC Foundation'

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2013

Bosch is developing petrol and diesel engine technologies that will cut CO2 emissions by 20 per cent across all vehicle classes. Latest News' A plug-in hybrid system that can deliver up to 60 kilometres driven purely on electricity is also in the works, the technology company has revealed. Bosch believes the [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Now at the Frankfurt Motor Show Ford has announced a new family of petrol engines offering the opportunity to down size engine capacity without suffering a reduction in performance. In fact, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced by up to 20 per cent compared to a conventional petrol engine. “With the 2.0-litre

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2010

The new generation of the Smart Fortwo, scheduled to be launched this autumn, will boast a number of green improvements compared to its predecessor. Among them, the 40kW turbo-diesel will feature fuel consumption of 71.3mpg with CO2 emissions slashed to just 86g/km.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2013

Vauxhall and its parent company General Motors are in the process of rolling out 13 new engines between now and 2016, as the manufacturer looks to improve the refinement and emission levels of its powertrain line-up. One new unit has already debuted in the new Cascada convertible and more petrol and diesel engines ranging from [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Notably among them is the new concept from Volkswagen - the L1 – a diesel-electric hybrid vehicle constructed from aluminium and carbon fibre weighing just 380 kg and capable of returning a staggering 189 mpg on the combined cycle while emitting just 39 g/km of CO2. The 800 cc engine is derived from the 1.6-litre

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2012

Ford is set to introduce no less than an impressive 15 new models with class-leading efficiency levels this year. Using its range of EcoBoost petrol engines, TDCi diesel engines and low CO2 ECOnetic Technologies, Ford is to lead an assault on excessive CO2 with its new range of Focus, C-Max, Grand C-Max, B-Max and Transit [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 16, 2012

Emitting 98g/km of CO2, this is the sporty supermini’s second sub-100g/km road-tax exempt engine, following the 1.3L 85bhp diesel engine which goes three grams further at 95g/km. Forget about that though, we’re in petrol land right now. This two-cylinder 875cc TwinAir petrol engine aims [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2013

The four-cylinder SKYACTIV-G petrol engines and SKYACTIV-D clean diesel units, which appear in the CX-5 [below] and Mazda6, significantly improve fuel economy and CO2 emissions, compared to [.]. Mazda will increase production of its fuel efficient SKYACTIV engines by 25% in response to popular demand.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2009

At the 2009 SAE World Congress, a Ford study revealed that a separate E85 direct injection boosting system combined with a petroleum port fuel injection makes an engine more efficient in its use of petroleum - and can be viewed as a more cost effective alternative to diesel.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

After years of waiting Australia will have a CO2 emissions standard by January 1 2025 officially encouraging the purchase of electric vehicles if an ambitious Albanese Labor government timetable comes to pass. Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes appeared first on EV Central.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

Well now Controlled Power Technologies has developed the first belt-driven Integrated Starter Generator to use a conventional 12volt vehicle electrical system - this will provide excellent stop-start functionality on the majority of European cars whether they are equipped with diesel or petrol engines.

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2010

The US carmaker continues to use the low CO2 sub brand on its greenest Fiesta and Focus models but its lowest emitting Mondeo models will not be labelled under the ECOnetic badge. Oddly, the carmaker has however introduced a new powerful and low emitting petrol [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 15, 2012

This September, a brand new Mercedes-Benz A-Class (pictured) will go on sale across Europe – and it will feature a family of petrol and diesel engines that can reduce fuel consumption by as much as 26 per cent. When it is launched, the Mercedes A-Class 180 CDI will emit only 98g/km of CO2 while achieving [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 18, 2012

Some truly remarkable emission statistics have been achieved by several carmakers – but surely the new Peugeot 208 super-mini, which launches in spring, is among the absolute best.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Fiat has the lowest average CO2 emissions figure on all cars sold in Europe the latest figures show. The new figure – corroborated by automotive data provider, JATO – means that Fiat is the only mainstream car brand to achieve the European average goal, of 130 g/km by 2015, five years early. Tags: Fiat CO2 emissions leader.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

The C3, which was Citroen’s first production vehicle fitted with a stop-start system, will feature controlled weight and aerodynamics that contribute to its low fuel consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission levels. There are three HDI units available with the C3 (70, 90 and 110 DPFS) as well as four Euro5 petrol engines (1.1,

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 12, 2009

All of them runs on diesel engines making even more pollution than the ordinary petrol engines. This blog is not about promoting the pedicabs or pedicab industry but about making people's awareness of light weight electric vehicles and their contribution these could make to reduce CO2 emissions. Maxpro Pedicabs - [link]

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

Vauxhall will debut an all-new Astra at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 15, with a highly competitive line-up of petrol and diesel engines, alll boasting reductions in CO2 over almost all equivalent models in the current Astra range. Completing the petrol line-up for the new Astra is a normally aspirated 1.4-litre

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Already a long way ahead of the competition, smart has cut the diesel-powered fortwo’s emissions down to 86g/km of CO2. Its nearest rival is the hybrid-petrol Toyota Pruis with emissions of 89g/km CO2. [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2010

The highly anticipated new supermini A1 model is available to order from today (May 6) as the carmaker reveals full pricing and specification details. The German premium carmaker’s first entrant into the mini car segment has emissions from just 105g/km of CO2 and 70.6mpg [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Manufacturers continue to make efforts to slash carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and now Citroen has introduced two new greener power plants to its C5 range. In comes a new BMW co-developed 1.6i 16V THP 155hp petrol engine that replaces the out-going 2.0i Both are Euro V rated.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

Ford Australia will invest A$230million into a number of environmentally focused projects including the first global rear-wheel drive application of the company’s turbocharged, petrol direct-injection 2.0l Tags: Ford Green cars Latest news Ford Australia Ford Falcon Ford Territory.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

The new figures come on the week the Government increases the amount of biofuels in our petrol and diesel from 2.5 It reveals that when the full impact of deforestation is taken into account, biofuels added to UK petrol and diesel may be producing more than twice the carbon dioxide of the fossil fuels they replace.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

According to Australia’s GoAuto, the new Ford Fiesta Econetic diesel, which has fuel consumption of 63.6mpg under the Australian combined fuel test cycle, has lower fuel consumption than the third generation Prius at 60mpg under the same test cycle. By contrast, the Ford Fiesta Econetic diesel has an emissions rating of 98g/km.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

He outlined the company’s goals across a number of areas: - Diesels: Fiat diesel engines will be adapted into Chrysler applications, and starting on Euro5 compliant engines the company will introduce a new generation of common rail with the Multijet2 injector. Battery electric vehicles will follow.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

French carmaker Citroen has lifted the lid on its latest generation supermini the C3 and in a first for the manufacturer the car will be available in a variant which produces less than 100g/km of CO2. The company is hoping to launch two diesel versions which emit 90g/km and 95g/km of CO2.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2009

With car buyers continuing to demand vehicles with better fuel consumption and lower emissions, Mercedes Benz is adding two new BlueEFFICIENCY four-cylinder models to its engine line-up for the new E-Class. In addition, the diesel engine is boosted by the latest generation common-rail direct injection.

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EV Central

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Electric Vehicle Council is calling for EV incentives to be linked to fuel efficiency standards as it ramps up its pressure on the Federal Government to introduce CO2 emissions standards. CO2 standards are key to that, according to Jafari. “We The key to any CO2 standards lies with the Federal Government.

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