Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet. —Zimmerman et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. —Cohan and Sengupta (2016).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Power Asia Pacific 2010 China Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study released last week. Chevrolet, Honda and Toyota each received two segment awards, while FAW Car, Volkswagen and Wuling models each received one award. Entry midsize segment: Honda Fit. Upper premium midsize segment: Honda Accord.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A new study by Honda in Japan has revealed just how much fuel drivers could save by adopting a fuel efficient driving style. It found that drivers using the new Eco Assist system on the Honda Insight Hybrid improved fuel economy by an average of 10 per cent and potentially as much as 20 per cent [.].

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 11, 2023

College Students–Find Your Perfect First Car Wheels To Start Your Studies This article may contain affiliate links. A lot of college students use their first car to look for jobs to earn more money and gain practical experience while studying. The Honda Civic offers a major benefit in terms of its fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2011

A new Carnegie Mellon University study released at the Washington Auto Show finds that for passenger cars, aadvanced vehicles with higher fuel economy—i.e, port fuel injected (PFI) gasoline—during periods of higher fuel costs. But that’s only one element of the equation. Elisabeth A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Engineers from Honda R&D Co., improvement in fuel economy in operation over the Japanese 10-15 cycle. As part of the study, the team also demonstrated switching durability of the dual piston mechanism of more than one million cycles. Kadota et al. Required hydraulic pressure for the switching is 0.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Strategic Vision’s New Vehicle Experience Study (NVES), using a rapidly growing sample of Tesla buyers, finds what it calls “significant” differences between Tesla owners and the rest of the electric vehicle market. By comparison, Fuel Economy is the top priority for Volt, LEAF and Prius Plug-In owners (97%, 94% and 98%, respectively).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

Monthly fuel economy of the retrofitted Honda Civic during the first 9 months of the fleet test. DOE researchers attributed the significant fuel economy reduction for May, June, and July as most likely being due to significant mountain driving and the likely use of the vehicle’s air conditioning. Source: DOE.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2011

The Rankine cycle is widely used used commercially to generate power in stationary power plants, and is under consideration as a potential waste heat recovery system for use in both light-duty (BMW, earlier post ; Honda, earlier post ) and heavy-duty ( earlier post ) applications. on the highway cycle and 0.513 on the city cycle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

This request by the Alliance echoes a similar, earlier request by Global Automakers, the trade association representing the US divisions of 12 international automakers (Aston Martin, Ferrari, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, Kia, Maserati, McLaren, Nissan, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. The study claims mechanical damage and suggests degraded engine performance, emissions and durability on conventional vehicles from the use of E15 or E20 fuel. Earlier post.) The CRC test.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

To study new options, the two companies plan to enter and conduct verification tests of two new vehicles powered by carbon-neutral synthetic fuel derived from biomass in the ST-Q class of the 2022 season of the Super Taikyu Series. Going forward, they are planned to be joined by Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Recent testing by FEV has verified that the innovative, patented ultra-efficient Pinnacle Engine design provides 30-50% fuel economy. In a comparison study with Honda Fit, the standard equipment achieved 36 mpg and with Pinnacle’s technology the same automobile achieved 57 mpg.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

As a result, less fuel is burnt, and the fuel economy improves. Series hybrid vehicles in India include the Honda City Hybrid , Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder , and Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara , among others. Adding electric power can even improve performance in some cases. The engine never truly powers the wheels.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Putting the big picture aside, each debut caught my interest, but it was a car that didn't get a presser that really had me thinking -- the Honda Prelude. Yes, there is an element of disappointment in the fact that Honda has indicated it won't be a true sports car. That said, it also looks good up close. It looks really good up close.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Management consulting firm Zinnov released its latest study conducted on the Automotive R&D Globalization Landscape, presenting a global engineering R&D analysis on the top 60 automotive companies and how are they leveraging the global R&D ecosystems to improve engineering output and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

Following the completion of their feasibility study for collaboration, the two companies agreed to develop hybrid systems individually. By continuing to develop a rear-wheel-drive hybrid system on our own, we can extend our advanced hybrid technologies to new vehicle segments and deliver even better fuel economy across our lineup.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 17, 2023

The Toyota Prius has been the fuel economy king for years Fuel Efficiency: Save Money on Gas Fuel efficiency is a crucial aspect for college students as it can greatly impact their budgets. With the typically restricted funds, having a car that consumes fuel in small amounts can substantially decrease monthly expenses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

Simulation methodologies including topology optimization studies were used throughout the vehicle’s development to ensure a material efficient design. Weight reduction is a key contributor to improved fuel economy. The combination of the two materials contribute to weight savings of 18.5 pounds per vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The vehicles under study were a conventional and hybrid Camry). In other words, they found that they real-world fuel economy benefit of adoption of HEVs may be better than for estimates based on EPA “sticker” fuel economy alone. Studies such as these are critical as HEVs and other electrified vehicles (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

by 2020 and in one case study they were able to save between 70 and 75 lbs (32 to 34 kg) of vehicle mass for a cost penalty of $280-$350 ($4-$5/lb). Honda demonstrated their “ Walking Assist Device ” at the Congress. Department of Defense and Fuel Economy. billion/year to the DOD’s fuel bill.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

Fuel economy. To achieve a similar cruising range as a gasoline vehicle, the fuel economy of the Mirai was improved by 20% compared to the Toyota FCHV-adv. Along with enhanced membrane physical properties, this measure improved fuel economy by roughly 6.5% Mizutani, N. and Ishibashi, K.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. This basically spelled the end of traditional economy cars on the market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The study focused on a portfolio of powertrains: BEVs, FCEVs, PHEVs and ICEs, taking into account significant advances in ICE technology between now and 2020. Over the next 40 years, the study found, no single powertrain satisfies all key criteria for economics, performance and the environment. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Combined fuel economy (mpg). In this study, a battery charging control is proposed using a driving motor during vehicle stops to obtain the improved charging efficiency. … Hyundai is identifying Ford’s Fusion Energi and the Honda Accord plug-in hybrid as its PHEV competitors in the mid-size sedan segment. 40 93 MPGe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

General project targets were to deliver diesel-like or better fuel economy using E10 gasoline (RON91), and to achieve low engine-out NO x and PM using low temperature combustion, the intention being to avoid the cost of aftertreatment for NO x and PM, in addition to meeting more stringent standards. Current study. Honda 2.2L

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

A summary of the study is published in the 14 April IIHS Status Report. The Institute chose pairs of 2009 models from Daimler, Honda, and Toyota because these automakers have micro and mini models that earn good frontal crashworthiness ratings, based on the Institute’s offset test into a deformable barrier. IIHS video. Click to play.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

In this study, BMW focused on Rankine A (exhaust gas only) and Rankine B (exhaust gas and coolant). Researchers at Loughborough University and the University of Sussex, both in the UK, also have concluded that using waste heat from light-duty vehicle engines in a steam power cycle could deliver fuel economy advantages of between 6.3%

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

The IIHS had already issued a study in 2019 noting disparities in chest injuries sustained by children and adults situated in the back seat. This is something the group pointed out last December , noting that it would be upgrading testing protocols to address its own mounting concerns that rearward safety had not kept pace.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda announced recently the CR-V e:FCEV compact crossover will be available combining both hydrogen and a plug-in battery in 2025. (It It previously sold the fuel cell only FCX, Clarity FCX and Clarity FCEV. Some rates that have been quoted in media studies: Electrify America: $0.48/kWh; kWh; Tesla: $0.50/kWh EVgo: up to $.63/kWh

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

In addition, GAC Group has joint ventures with global automakers such as Toyota, Honda, Fiat-Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Hino for vehicle production. Comparing to conventional Trumpchi, the 4x4 hybrid version has demonstrated excellent fuel economy (30% fuel saving), acceleration (2 seconds less from 0 to 100kph), drivability and ride comfort.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." But I can tell you that this is a top priority program for GM, given the huge potential it offers for fuel-economy improvement." ( GM ).

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Green Cars News

MAY 3, 2009

Honda is also looking into use of a Rankine cycle co-generation unit in an effort to boost efficiency of a hybrid vehicle by capturing waste heat exhaust. The BMW study used two basic single loop systems - an exhaust gas only as the heat source; and exhaust gas and coolant. per cent. . per cent and 31.7

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt is a case study. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models. And that means it doesnt necessarily pay the rent. It actually consumes rent when its launched."

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