Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Demonstrate that methodological treatments can significantly influence the overall comparisons (e.g. When considering the impact of diverting secondary feedstocks (wastes and residues) from an existing use in another sector (e.g. avoided emissions from manure storage).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

100% reduction in solid waste. The study provides an in-depth comparison of the cradle-to-gate impacts of producing metals from land ores and polymetallic nodules, both sources of the nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese required to build one billion EV batteries. 94% less stored carbon at risk. 94% less land use.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower split-cycle engine concept redefines the processes of internal combustion to enable significantly improved internal thermal efficiency in comparison with today’s state-of-the-art engines. This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Scientists from TUM’s Chair of Internal Combustion Engines are involved in the project, along with DENSO Automotive Germany, IAV and Ford Research and Innovation Center. OME made from waste CO 2 and electricity from renewable sources would even be carbon neutral. Martin Härtl, who coordinates the project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ricardo will host a conference on the challenges and potential solutions for auxiliary power units (APUs), waste energy recovery, and parasitic loss reduction in electric and other low carbon vehicles. The conference will conclude with a comparison of range extended electric vehicles to other low carbon powertrain architectures.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

In Hinwil the DAC plant has been installed on the roof of a waste recovery facility—operated by the municipal administration union KEZO—with its waste heat powering the Climeworks DAC plant. In comparison to other carbon capture technologies, a modular Climeworks plant can be employed almost anywhere.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. New opportunities are opening up for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. Diesel Engines Fuels Heavy-duty Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Air Improvement’s estimates of emissions from Project LIBERTY’s fuel and feedstock transport and fuel production (the last being the sum of storage, electricity, chemicals, waste disposal, and biogas production) are slightly higher than the corresponding elements in EPA’s analysis. Net International Agriculture (EPA RFS2). gCO 2 eq/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution—six or more times higher than international guidelines set by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO)— according to a new UNICEF report. Cleaner cookstoves can help improve air quality within homes.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2023

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Tires Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Dear EarthTalk : What happens to all the rubber waste that wears off tires as cars and trucks roll down the road? Is it bad for the environment? — Jack C.,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Emblemsvåg and the NuProShip team picked three reactor designs after analyzing 93 concepts in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s SMR handbook.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. BEVs do not have an internal combustion engine and produce zero tailpipe emissions. . #2 What are electric vehicles and what are their classifications?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

It is also unusual by international comparison in the separation between the rolling stock leasing companies, passenger service and freight operators, and the ownership of the infrastructure and permanent way.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. Paper presented at IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Burlingame, CA, 26-30 January 2020 doi: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.6.IRIACV-070

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But in recent tests from auto review site Edmunds , it appears that the premium all-electric crossover features a weakness — one that could end up arguing for the internal combustion engine. Edmunds is hardly a pro-Tesla site, with reviewers dubbing vehicles like the Model S Plaid as a “waste of money.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. Yet none have been able to compete with the traditional process in terms of cost and yield.

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2022

Also, there’s a lot of waste. His Small Radiosondes on a Great Mission project was showcased in May at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held in Atlanta. In comparison to launching 2,000 to 5,000 balloons that stay up for just two to three hours, my balloon can stay up in the air for 52 days.”

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the last two decades of the 20th century, we identified thousands of toxic waste dumps and worked to ensure that people were not in the pathways of exposure to poison. They pollute less than vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine. That is the only comparison that matters.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 1, 2023

CES is cranking up this week so there’s not much time to waste thinking about the past year. We took to the road to report on most of the new EVs hitting the market, as well as plug-in hybrids, fuel cell electric vehicles, hybrids and the best of the legacy internal combustion engine models. That Was the Year That Was. and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Internally, the 8-speed transmission features four gear sets and five shift elements (multi-disc clutches and brakes) inside the transmission. In comparison to the fleet of conventional transmissions they replaced, TorqueFlites promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than six million metric tonnes over the same timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Outlines the approach for collecting and analyzing the data needed to evaluate the indicator and for making relevant comparisons to other energy options or agricultural systems. Highlights relevant international and national processes with links to publicly available data sources in an extensive reference section.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

The study appears in the journal Tribology International. of the energy output of the fuel is used to actually move the car; the rest is wasted. By comparison, an electric car has only half the friction loss of that of a car with a conventional internal combustion engine. With current technology, only 21.5%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Serenus HTPEM fuel cells have a higher internal operating temperature of 150 °C or more, enabling them to operate over a wider range of environmental temperatures, and to use less pure hydrogen fuel. The waste heat from the HTPEM system is of high quality, and is concentrated in a usable directional stream. Earlier post.).

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

They are also much more efficient with the energy they do use compared to an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

Comparison of relative contributions from various sources to total BC emissions between China and other countries/regions including India, North America, and Africa. 1970); national data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) (1971? Earlier post.). Credit: ACS, Wang et al. 2007 were used in this study. —Wang et al.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Software also allows for the decoupling of the internal mechanical connections needed in an ICE vehicle, permitting an EV to be controlled remotely or autonomously. It is little wonder that Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls EV factories “ gigantic money furnaces.”.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient. 70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

Then, someone inevitably will tell you why that one pales in comparison. Someone will eventually mention Lockpicking Lawyer and say you’re all wasting your time. We’re talking about expensive transportation machines, and everyone seems to think they know the best lock that is better than anyone else’s.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. So when you open the exhaust valve to dump expanded gas out to the environment, you lose all of that energy stored in the high-pressure exhaust gases and you create a lot of noise. —Timothy Shedd. —Tim Shedd.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Björn Föerster, Porsche A remorseless stopwatch comparison of Formula E—the current state-of-the-art in racing EVs—vs. The GT4 e Performance has 10 handling settings to take advantage of an EV’s extreme torque sensitivity, in a way that makes internal combustion engine (ICE) cars’ “torque vectoring” controls seem primitive.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

By comparison, Chinese per capita CO 2 emissions of 6.8 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per country (left), per capita (center), and per unit of GDP (right). Source: JRC. Click each to enlarge. At present, the US emits 16.9 tonnes CO 2 per capita per year, more than twice as much as the EU-27 with 8.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

at the New York International Auto Show. Comparison of Sonata 2.0T Twin-scroll turbocharger designs have two exhaust gas inlets divided by split walls inside the turbine housing, with both gas passages controlled by a waste-gate. By adapting the motor-driven electrical waste-gate, the boost pressure is precisely controlled.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

The AVL demonstrator vehicle incorporates an advanced 2-liter 4-cylinder engine with gasoline direct injection (GDI), double cam phasing and single-scroll, waste-gated turbocharger to deliver high power and torque outputs of 200 PS (197 hp, 147 kW) and 400 N·m (295 lb-ft) respectively. Earlier post.). TFSI (200PS) gasoline engine.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

In a way what they suggest is true but over the lifetime of an EV, the pollution caused this way will be less in comparison with that of a gasoline car’s tailpipe emission. By 2030, an estimated 11 million tonnes of wasted lithium-ion batteries would be discarded, thus they must be developed with circular economy concepts in mind.

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