Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2012

The 6 th Aviation and Environment Summit , recently held in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded with the adoption of an industry declaration titled “Aviation Benefits Beyond Boundaries,” as a joint message to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

European Energy is a global renewable energy company and project developer (wind, solar and Power to X). It develops, builds, and operates renewable electricity projects globally with a pipeline consisting of 20 GW renewable energy capacity. Proman (Switzerland). Maersk intends to offtake the full volume produced.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Global urbanization requires urban logistics and truck transport with zero emissions and less noise with increasing urgency. Electric vehicles, charged with electricity from renewable sources, are indeed a powerful step towards more sustainable city distribution. The start of serial production is planned for March 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

With Audi energy, the A3 e tron is totally emission-free when operated electrically. The power all comes from renewable energy sources and is generated exclusively at hydro-electric power stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The cooperating partner is the Hamburg energy provider LichtBlick SE. The Audi A3 e?tron

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

SkyNRG and AEG Fuels completed the delivery of sustainable aviation biofuels for the Bombardier Business Aircraft demonstration fleet flying from KLM Jet Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands to the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the first delivery of biofuel completed by AEG Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

trillion a year in premature deaths and ill health; these costs will rise without government action to limit vehicle emissions, according to a new report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): “The Cost of Air Pollution: Health Impacts of Road Transport”. This necessitates a renewal of the sector?specific

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

The direct injection two-stroke engine could be a very promising and interesting option for hydrogen combustion to achieve zero NO x because of its advantages of high-power density and inherent much lower NO x emissions. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

Aldo Steinfeld, Professor of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich, and his research group developed the technology. Theoretically, a plant the size of Switzerland—or a third of the Californian Mojave Desert—could cover the kerosene needs of the entire aviation industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. eCitaro vehicles were also delivered to Luxembourg and Switzerland. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100% synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on synthetic fuels. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

The energy transition, which includes electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies , is expected to fuel a surge in copper consumption over the coming years as the world moves towards eliminating carbon emissions. “That’s not something that anyone has actually factored into a lot of these supply and demand balances.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

The team developed a simple model to calculate extra emissions and fuel consumption resulting from MAC activity as a function of ambient temperature and humidity: EEMAC, Empa Emission model for Mobile Air Conditioning systems. This is twice the amount of fuel than is saved annually by renewing the fleet. —Weilenmann et al.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Photo: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Renewables firm Helion just switched its entire commercial fleet to fully electric with 100 VW ID. Helion folks are now cruising around Switzerland in one of the largest electric fleets in the country. Buzz Cargo vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The project, designed to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, entails an investment of C$17.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). For the first time, the energy needed will be supplied from the renewable source of hydropower. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2018

Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In July 2021, The Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) an Indian government company that comes under the Ministry of Power has signed an agreement with the New & Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP) to provide 25,000 electric two-wheelers in Andhra Pradesh (AP).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Linc says the Pyromex process produces good quality syngas with almost no CO 2 gas emissions, and without the need for the consumption of high volumes of water or power. PowerHouse now offers integrated waste and biomass-to-energy systems on a turnkey basis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Audi’s basic goal is to combine renewable energy (e.g. Energiewende”, the term applied to Germany’s policy of transitioning to an energy portfolio dominated by renewable energy (as well as a shift to more distributed generation), thus also applies to the vehicle fuel tank for Audi’s e-fuels, Mangold suggests. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When charged with renewable energy, battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) such as IONIQ 5 produce up to 81% lower well-to-wheel lifecycle emissions compared to a normal ICE vehicle, according to a 2021 study from the International Council of Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

About one-third of emissions globally are produced through electricity generation, and Rahman said his mission is to help reduce that amount through engineering solutions. We want to be a solution partner so we can have parties at the table to help solve this problem of high carbon emissions globally.” Many countries already do so.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2011

Shifting from nuclear to other types of power plants could affect the reliability of the electricity supply, electricity costs, air pollution, carbon emissions, and the reliance on fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, the researchers said. That’s the same as the annual emissions of over 4 million cars.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped or transported pretty much anywhere, using mostly existing infrastructure. At the lowest emission rate—0.45 There’s just so much activity.” One is that they are more generous than many analysts were expecting.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Volkswagen implemented an acoustic concept for the e-Golf that is specifically tailored to the characteristics of an electric vehicle, making the zero-emission car into an almost silent cruiser. Through the design of the motor housing unit Volkswagen was also able to achieve an extremely low level of noise emission. e-instruments.

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