Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2015

The LH gasoline hydraulic hybrid shows an extreme reduction in NO x compared to a diesel baseline. liter gasoline V8 engine, loaded with a concrete dummy load to bring the weight up to 10,800 lbs (4,899 kg). NO x results for the gasoline engine vehicle (started with the engine already hot). Source: Lightning Hybrids.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, noisy, polluting, two-stroke gasoline engines are still ubiquitous across Asia,” says Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Research Analyst for Mobility Ecosystems at Guidehouse Insights “Converting those to electric power will go a long way toward helping countries reach their greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets. “It

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

Comparison of global passenger vehicle fuel consumption standards normalized to NEDC L/100km. Comparison of overall and annual average fleet fuel consumption reduction rates under proposed or enacted standards across regions. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. 100km (34 mpg US) in 2015. annually—between 2015 and 2020. Source: ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Gevo is well positioned to play a role in this growth, as the company believes its ATJ is cost advantaged in comparison to other renewable jet alternatives derived from carbohydrate-based feedstocks. We believe Queensland offers huge potential for low-cost, biomass-based feedstocks to produce biofuels.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

Hybrids better than EVs According to a letter from Toyota’s India country head, Vikram Gulati, to the Niti Aayog, the corporation is asking for an 11 per cent point tax differential for hybrid vehicles and 14 points for flex-hybrid choices over petrol automobiles.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

One natural comparison that people will make, for example, is what it’s like to “fill up” your vehicle at a station (either with gasoline or using a charger). This massive gap between user experiences at EV charging stations and traditional gasoline/petroleum pumps is a fundamental problem facing the EV industry today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Comparison of brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption at rated power (ICOMIA Mode 5), hydrogen vs. gasoline engines. Oh’s hydrogen engine matched the rated power of the original gasoline engine, with an achieved best-point gross indicated thermal efficiency is 42.4%. Oh and Plante. Click to enlarge. kW) rating.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Hybrid technology was also viewed as important, along with variable valve timing, gasoline direct injection, and mass reduction. That translates to an average of 36 miles per gallon in actual on-road performance, which is about what today’s gasoline-powered Honda Fit already achieves.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2016

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) and Mitsui Zosen Machinery & Service (MZM), a subsidiary of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding are partnering to produce and sell zeolite membranes, with a focus on ethanol dehydration. pressure swing adsorption (PSA) with pellet-form general-purpose zeolite). Bastidas, Iván D. Pierucci and G.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The sixth annual analysis conducted by T&E, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, of new car CO 2 emissions in Europe ( 2011 Cars & CO 2 Report: How clean are Europe’s cars ) found that Volvo Car Corporation led the pack with a CO 2 reduction of 9%. Source: T&E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

has developed a Dual Injector system designed to improve fuel efficiency in small-displacement gasoline engines using port fuel injection (PFI). Fuel Injection Comparison. Shuichi Nishimura, Corporate Vice President, Nissan Powertrain Engineering Division. Nissan Motor Co., doubling the number of injectors per cylinder.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. Their results showed that in comparison with gasoline mode, CO emitted in methanol mode decreased 11.2%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2015

In comparison to other gasoline substitutes, isobutanol offers cleaner burning combustion with less corrosion, holds more of gasoline's energy content allowing longer travel, is cheaper to blend with gas, and its compatibility with the current petroleum infrastructure offers a dramatic improvement in efficient transport of the fuel itself.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

federal government has worked on two programs in particular: EPA’s Light Duty Vehicle Emissions (LDV) Standards and NHTSA’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. See our table below for a side-by-side comparison. Reduce our dependence on oil by avoiding the need for more than 88 billion gallons of gasoline through 2050.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

While light-vehicle sales have been strong in the first quarter of 2012, rising gasoline prices—which averaged $3.92 By comparison, the proportions of consumers with credit ratings in the A+-tier (720-999), A-tier (680-719) and B-tier (650-679) grew by rates of 7%, 11%, and 15%, respectively, during the same period.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

—Peter Mertens, Senior Vice President Research and Development at the Volvo Car Corporation. The electrical architecture will enable all future multimedia and connectivity solutions, and forms the backbone of the Volvo Car Corporation’s drive to reinforce its leading position in active safety. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Tesoro Corporation is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Tesoro’s retail-marketing system includes more than 880 branded retail stations, of which more than 380 are company-operated under the Tesoro, Shell, Mirastar and USA Gasoline brands.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2012

Comparison of demand projections for REE (total summed). Also, corporate social responsibility policies may influence some firm’s decisions to use REE unless environmental concerns around their mining are addressed. Credit: ACS, Alonso et al. Click to enlarge. the end, prices are not the only forces that will influence the REE markets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has begun taking orders through Toyota dealers around Japan for the Prius PHV (plug-in hybrid). liter gasoline engine, electric motor and reduction gear) coupled with a high capacity, new 4.4 Prius PHV S. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) TMC will launch the vehicle in Japan on 30 January 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

Put another way, even when driving the conventional T6 model and accelerating briskly up a winding road, the driver has no idea that only a 2.0L (1,969 cm 3 ), 4-cylinder gasoline engine is doing the work. 2 Audi is also developing a gasoline-engine version of the Q7 e-tron specifically for the Asian markets China, Singapore and Japan.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. At the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit in Minneapolis, Dr. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Coskata process can produce more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry, ash-free biomass material at a cost competitive with expected gasoline prices—around $1.00 By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4 We will produce ethanol directly cost-competitive with gasoline.” —Wes

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. MPGe is a measurement of how far a car can travel electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in 1 gallon of gasoline. The closest comparisons for hydrogen-only cars are the Toyota Mirai and Hyundai Nexo.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

It’s actually a corporate objective. TSI (gasoline) and Golf Mk VII 1.6 The main focus of the comparisons is on five environmental impact categories during production, use and recycling. Comparative life cycle impacts of the Golf (gasoline and diesel) and the e-Golf, rounded values. This really is what drives us.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

By comparison, the popular light plane Rotax 912 engine produces 0.76 Moller expects the Rotapower rotary engine to perform equally well during gasoline-fueled tests to be conducted in the near future. This result establishes a power-to-weight ratio exceeding 3 for the four-passenger Skycar 400 engines. horsepower per pound.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This is not much different from diesel and gasoline which are produced from refining and cleaning crude oil (a process which heavily involves the use of hydrogen). The ability to carry more energy on-board the fuel cell vehicle in comparison to a battery powered car means that the fuel cell vehicles have greater range.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

In this paper, we investigate variation in life cycle cost and emission benefits of hybrid and plug-in vehicles under a range of driving conditions with a sensitivity analysis to critical factors such as gasoline prices, vehicle costs and electricity grid mix. Base case cost and GHG comparison. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

For comparison, the 2009 Toyota Highland Hybrid achieves an EPA-estimated rating of 26 mpg combined fuel economy and has a full-tank range of approximately 450 miles. With premium grade gasoline currently priced at about $3.25, the gasoline-powered V6 Highlander hybrid is estimated to travel approximately 26 miles at a cost of about $3.25.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

We offer a unique fully independent rear suspension to give driving dynamics that are on par with a conventional gasoline car. —Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning. A reduction of 5 lbs (2.27 kg) per front lower arm unit saves 13 lbs (5.9 kg) at the front suspension, while nearly 9 lbs (4.08

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Comparison of fuel consumption of Omnivore, homogeneous Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) and Spray-Guided GDI engines. The first testing phase of Lotus Engineering’s Omnivore variable compression ratio, flex-fuel direct injection two-stroke engine ( earlier post ) has been successfully completed on gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In an earlier rulemaking, NHTSA reformed the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards with a size-based standard based on footprint. Combustion restart (CBRST): can be used in conjunction with gasoline direct-injection systems to enable idle-off or start-stop functionality. Data: Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% We are the highest fuel economy of any hybrid, of any gasoline car without a plug sold in the US. Market background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% We are the highest fuel economy of any hybrid, of any gasoline car without a plug sold in the US. Market background.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller operating carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. In comparison, EV engines run on lithium batteries. A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) contains both an electric powertrain and an internal combustion engine. .

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. In comparison, EV engines run on lithium batteries. A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) contains both an electric powertrain and an internal combustion engine. .

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