Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

The first Mercedes-Benz Cars plant in Poland is to be established in Jawor, about 70 kilometers west of Wroclaw, and will produce four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. The investment of approximately €500 million covers the first stage of the new engine site.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2011

Fiat’s 875cc TwinAir engine ( earlier post ) was named the International Engine of the Year 2011. The top award for the two-cylinder turbo was Fiat’s first, and only the second time a sub-1-liter engine took the top prize (the first being Toyota’s 1-liter Yaris VVT-i engine in 1999. Compared with a 1.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

EcoBoost engine. liter EcoBoost engine into its lineup. The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally launched volume production of Ford’s smallest gasoline engine—the 1.0-liter, liter, turbocharged, direct injection EcoBoost engine ( earlier post )—at Ford’s Cologne (Germany) Engine Plant. The plant’s 870 employees will build up to 350,000 units a year of the new engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Ford revealed further details of the upcoming four-cylinder versions of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injected EcoBoost engine family (earlier post) at the Frankfurt Motor Show, prior to their first European production applications in 2010. liter engine catering for applications of 200 PS and above, the 1.6-liter liter and 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2016

during the cold start/warm-up phase, driving at extreme altitudes or when using the air-conditioning system)—the vacuum produced by the engine is no longer sufficient—or sometimes even available. is the most powerful electric vacuum pump in HELLA’s product range. With the advent of new powertrain technologies (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How quickly you can charge – the average power capacity of public EV chargers. The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. Likelihood of finding an unoccupied charger – the ratio of registered EVs to public chargers. Highlights of the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ford Motor Company is doubling the production capacity of its Cologne, Germany, engine plant to produce more than 1,000 units per day of the 1.0-L L EcoBoost engine to meet growing European demand. liter EcoBoost engines accounted for a growing share of overall sales. In the first eight months of 2013, models equipped with 1.0-liter

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Baua Electric

MAY 22, 2023

The international locations mentioned the more difficult limits for pollution together with nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide may divert a very powerful investments wanted to succeed in the EU’s objective of successfully banning unutilized combustion engine automobiles nearest 2035.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Series production will start in Romania and Mexico in 2025; in this context, Forvia Hella will also bring the NCAP-relevant safety function “Child Presence Detection” based on ultra-wideband technology onto the streets for the first time. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

501,000 auto supplier jobs in Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) powertrain components production are expected to become obsolete if technology is phased-out by 2035 (84% of current ICE jobs). The study is also the first to evaluate the impact of different policy pathways to reach Green Deal objectives with a focus on automotive suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. The majority of vehicles registered in 2018 were powered by gasoline engines, with the fuel type making up 57% of all registrations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. i-DTEC engine provides 120 PS (118 hp, 88 kW) of power and 300 N·m (221 lb-ft) of torque, 62 mpg US (3.8 i-DTEC engine to out-perform its quoted fuel efficiency in real-world driving conditions consistently. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

That last one works by holding the car within the local speed limit not by braking but by limiting the power the engine sends to the wheels. The rules require that the driver retain the power to override the systems, which makes for less intrusive nannying. Some people, however, kind of like being nannied.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In the LF Hybrid, this engine produces a maximum power of 118 kW/160 hp and is linked to an automatic Eaton six-speed gearbox (Autoshift). Depending on the degree of charge of the lithium-ion batteries, a central computer determines when the diesel engine provides the drive and when and to what extent the electric motor is used.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The motor is powered by a battery pack of up to 222 kWh, providing a range of up to 220 kilometers when the truck is fully laden. The truck uses VDL’s advanced E-Power Technology for fully electric operation. The DAF LF Electric is a 19 tonne fully electric truck for zero emissions city distribution. in 2017 to 16.5%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

The business segment Chemicals & Materials will instead be the growth engine of the company. At the same time, E&P will act as a cash engine for the Group strategy and support the transformation of the business. Production of sustainable fuels and chemical feedstock will be increased to 1.5

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

a nuclear engineer at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance think tank. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Still, a steadfast consensus remains that nuclear power isn’t just desirable for a clean-energy transition— it’s necessary.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. On a trip to the U.S.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 27, 2022

Several European countries, including Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania are pushing to delay the EU’s potential ban on combustion engine powertrains in 2035. This news comes shortly after a public statement from the German Finance minister saying that Germany will oppose the 2035 combustion engine ban.

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