Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2017

The US has charged a former Audi manager via criminal complaint for his role in a conspiracy to defraud US regulators and customers by implementing defeat device software in thousands of Audi diesel vehicles to cheat US emissions tests. liter diesel engine that would be the cornerstone for its passenger diesel vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Evolution of taxi drivers, PHV drivers (England), and Uber drivers (London) compared to taxi and PHV CO 2 emissions (UK). This data strongly correlates with a 23% increase in overall CO 2 emissions for the taxi and PHV sector in the UK in the same period. This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a discussion document. ARB staff Staff is evaluating four potential broad elements to the Advanced Clean Transit regulation: Require Zero Emission Bus Purchases. Minimize Emissions from Conventional Fleet. Provide Regional Flexibility for Zero Emission Buses.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Audi will revise , document in detail, and resubmit for US approval certain parameters of the engine-management software used in the US version of the V6 TDI 3 liter diesel engine. That will now be done with the updated software and the documentation. liter diesel engines from model years 2009 through 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

The companies either failed to install particulate filters on their own heavy-duty diesel trucks or failed to verify that trucks they hired for use in California complied with the state rule. Diesel trucks are heavily used in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin, which suffer from some of the worst air quality in the nation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2016

On Friday, Volkswagen AG announced that the Supervisory Board and the Management Board of Volkswagen have decided not to release the interim results of the investigation into the diesel emission cheating as originally planned.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center announced the 2021 release of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. These MCCI fuels are diesel-like bio-blendstocks blended with petroleum diesel. road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Co-Optima).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The document provides high-level guidance for accelerating progress toward a zero-emission future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. The document calls for the ports to reduce GHGs 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% 1990 levels by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted a discussion document. The Cap-and-Trade auction proceeds provide funding for ARB’s advanced technology, clean transportation incentive programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, expanding the types of projects ARB has funded in the past through AQIP.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

million Volkswagen cars in Europe fitted with illegal emissions-control software are technically and financially manageable. Separately, Audi said it will revise, document in detail, and resubmit for US approval the programming of three AECDs (Auxiliary Emission Control Devices) in 3.0L This is a good development.”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is developing a measure to reduce emissions from Transport Refrigeration Units (TRUs) by transitioning to zero-emission technologies. TRUs and TRU gensets emit diesel PM, NO x , greenhouse gases and other pollutants. NO x : 6,100 tons per year. GHG: 770,000 tons per year (CO 2 e).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

Traditionally, a public transit buses life expectancy is measured in terms of the number of miles on its diesel engine. A diesel engine’s life expectancy is 6 years or 250,000 miles before overhaul. FCEB #7 is one of thirteen zero-emission buses operated by AC Transit. —AC Transit Board Director Chris Peeples.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2016

After nine long months, the details of the VW diesel emission proposed settlement are out—hundreds of pages of them in at least 18 documents. liter four-cylinder diesel engines. Right up top is the requirement that Volkswagen buy back at least 85 percent of the affected VW and Audi vehicles fitted with its TDI 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2016

VW’s submitted recall plan for 2-liter diesel passenger vehicles sold in California between 2009 and 2015 which were sold with the software defeat devices. This rejection only applies to VW’s diesel 2.0L This rejection only applies to VW’s diesel 2.0L vehicles, not 3.0L vehicles, not 3.0L The submission of the recall plan for 3.0L

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Public concerns over diesel cars, and their ebbing sales, have become a well-documented phenomenon in Europe after decades of popularity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced a grant solicitation for Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Pilot Commercial Deployment Projects. Medium- and heavy-duty on-road trucks and buses are a significant source of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG); diesel particulate matter 2.5 emissions, and 5% of GHG emissions.

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Grant Commercial California Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Bosch has entered into a settlement agreement with private claimants in the US in order to settle the most substantial part of the civil law proceedings pending in connection with Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche diesel vehicles that were sold in the US. engines for model years 2009 through 2016. million (approx. 304 million).

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Green Car Reports

JULY 29, 2019

Audi played a significant role in the Volkswagen diesel scandal—specifically in developing software that cheated emissions tests for diesels in Europe and the U.S. That's a point that's only come to light in recent days, as documents just have been uncovered as part of European reports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

of the California-Modified Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (CA-GREET) Tier 1 and Tier 2 models. That order designated CA-GREET, version 1.8b, as the model to be used for estimating direct life cycle emissions from the production, transport, and use of transportation fuels.

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California Emissions Fuel Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has released the 2020 version of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. Users can evaluate the impacts on energy use, water consumption, and emissions of e-fuel production pathways using different hydrogen (H 2 ) and electricity sources. PFAD to Renewable Diesel.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2018

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles discussed using illegal software to cheat emissions tests in diesel versions of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram EcoDiesel pickup as early as 2010, newly revealed documents show.

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2010 Diesel Jeep Chrysler 74

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

The transportation sector is the largest and fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Latin American cities. Road transportation accounts for 90% of transportation emissions in Latin America, half of which are produced by passenger traffic. Second-by-second operating parameters were documented during the tests.

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America Diesel Renewable Hybrid 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Pioneering methods to accelerate electric fleet adoption, AMPLY Power will demonstrate and document its Charging-as-a-Service approach for an all-electric school bus fleet in New York City. Medium- and heavy-duty trucks make up 23% of emissions on US roadways. Once this is completed, bus routes will be determined.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

More than a year after its use of illegal "defeat device" software in diesel cars was first revealed to the public, Volkswagen is still dealing with the effects of the "Dieselgate" scandal. The automaker continues to work toward a way to modify affected cars to meet emissions standards, as it continues to negotiate with U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Environment Canada recently released a consultation paper on the development of proposed regulations to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles. The US announced first-ever fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles earlier in August. Earlier post.).

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2024

Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Get out of the way diesel! But it is still a tough document, forecast to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 321m tonnes by 2050. This includes models such as the Toyota Landcruiser and Nissan Patrol; >>> Smoothing the emissions trajectory for light commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Which huge company challenged the public to "read the documents," only to get bitten when two researchers did exactly that? What new and updated electric cars will appear at the Frankfurt auto show? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, September 1, 2017.

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Emissions BMW Diesel Green Cars 73

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Volkswagen AG has agreed with the US government to resolve criminal and federal environmental and other civil claims against the company relating to the diesel emissions cheating débâcle. The Supervisory Board directed the law firm Jones Day to share all findings of its independent investigation of the diesel matter with the DOJ.

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United States Diesel EPA Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2012

In a study of non-metal miners in the US, federal government scientists report that heavy exposure to diesel exhaust increased risk of death from lung cancer. documented the risk of dying from any cause, with an emphasis on lung cancer, using data from the full study population (the cohort study). The first (Attfield et al.

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Exhaust Diesel 2012 Los Angeles 273

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2016

Mary Nichols, the Chair of the California Air Resources Board (ARB), says that Volkswagen has improved its cooperation with California regulators to resolve the diesel emissions scandal, according to a snippet from an exclusive interview with her to be published tomorrow (Monday) in Germany’s business and finance daily Handelsblatt.

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California Diesel Financing EPA 150

Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2018

The Volkswagen diesel emission scandal has now largely vanished from U.S. Tens of thousands of bought-back TDI diesel vehicles still sit in fields awaiting modification and resale, or some other disposition. But among the thousands of pages of legal documents to settle dozens of civil and criminal charges in.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Highly turbocharged alcohol-fueled direct-injection spark-ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

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Diesel Engine Downsizing Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

The suspected cause of these preventable absences is exposure to high levels of diesel exhaust fumes, which can leak into school bus cabins or enter buses through open windows. While it is considered the safest mode of transportation from a traffic accident perspective, concerns about levels of emissions are well documented.

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Pollution Cleaner 2012 EPA 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2017

An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanisms of two families of software defeat devices for diesel engines: one used by the Volkswagen Group to pass emissions tests in the US and Europe, and a second found in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The code allowed for as many as 10 different profiles for potential tests.

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International San Diego Automobile Emissions 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

An investigation by CARB’s Enforcement Division documented that both companies had failed to accurately report all the required information for noncompliant trucks entering 12 separate intermodal terminals. These systems reduce children’s exposure to diesel particulate and other toxic air contaminants.

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California Los Angeles Pollution Diesel 244

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

A study by an international team of researchers, led by Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, has identified 14 measures targeting methane and black carbon (BC) emissions that could reduce projected global mean warming ~0.5°C °F) by 2050, as well as improving human health and agriculture.

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Carbon Ozone Emissions International 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In the UK, CNG Fuels launched its renewable biomethane fuel, the most cost-effective and lowest-carbon alternative to diesel for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). The fuel is 35%-40% cheaper than diesel, and emits 70% less CO 2 on a well-to-wheel basis. gallon US) for diesel—and prices are even lower for bulk purchases.

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