Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The law firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Ford and Bosch of knowingly installing emissions-cheating software devices in 2011-2017 Ford 250 and 350 Super Duty diesel pickup trucks, allowing the affected pickups to pollute at levels up to 50 times legal limits. Ford called the claim “baseless”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

EDI ) has integrated integration its EDI PowerDrive 4000 into a Class-4 General Motors Low Cab Forward platform, creating an electrified work truck for agriculture applications. The truck will be operated in San Joaquin Valley, a 250-mile-long region susceptible to air pollution due to its bordering mountain ranges.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

In the last year, Co-Optima research has: Revealed strong potential for many candidate blendstocks to reduce criteria pollutant emissions and cut life cycle GHG emissions by more than 60% compared to petroleum-derived diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2017

billion trust, established as part of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions settlement, will be used to implement approved air pollution mitigation initiatives in US states and federally-recognized Native American nations. WorldCom, General Growth Properties, and Tribune Company bankruptcies, among others. Wilmington Trust, N.A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors in SDCmaterials include the venture capital arms of General Motors, Volvo Group, and SAIC Motor as well as BASF Venture Capital. SDC catalyst ingredients enable more pollution reductions at the leading edge of emissions control than would otherwise be possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

MOBI and partners, including, BMW, Bosch, Ford, General Motors, Groupe Renault, ZF, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Services USA and others seek to foster an ecosystem where businesses and consumers have security and sovereignty over their driving data, manage ride-share and car-share transactions, and store vehicle identity and usage information.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

—Britta Gross, director, General Motors Advanced Vehicle Commercialization Policy. Our signature on the Accord is a promise to meet that demand through greater grid efficiency and reduced air pollution in a way that benefits all communities. —Christopher Budzynski, director of utility strategy, Exelon Utilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) developed MOVES; the emission modeling system estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics. EPA has advised states to use MOVES2014 in SIP development as expeditiously as possible.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

General Motors demonstrated eight safety applications for its latest intelligent and connected vehicle (ICV) technology for the first time in China at the National Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Pilot Zone in Shanghai, which opened in June. The first version will be published by the end of this year. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Volkswagen, the first overseas automaker to enter the Chinese market three decades ago, joins Nissan Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Daimler AG in planning electric vehicles in the country.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

It emits 44% less global warming pollution than its closest conventional counterpart, the Toyota Matrix, and its hybrid drivetrain costs a little more than $3,000. The Honda Insight, conversely, has no forced features, delivers more than 40 miles per gallon, and emits relatively little global warming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

General Motors LLC, $1.4 General Motors will develop and demonstrate a novel technology that enables the use of high dilution in the combustion chamber significantly improving the fuel economy of vehicles compared to conventional engines. The initial focus will be on US heavy-duty vehicles. Earlier post.).

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EV Connect

APRIL 27, 2021

green house gas emissions, air pollution, and the associated public health issues. Transportation is one of the main causes behind CO2 emissions, accounting for about 29% of total U.S

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EV Connect

APRIL 27, 2021

green house gas emissions, air pollution, and the associated public health issues. Transportation is one of the main causes behind CO2 emissions, accounting for about 29% of total U.S

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2012

One of the biggest criticisms of electric cars is that they only move the pollution from the tailpipe of a car to the smoke stack of a power station. But a new application developed by General Motors' OnStar devision aims to help Chevrolet Volt owners charge their plug-in hybrid when it will have the smallest carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

With urban populations constantly increasing, issues such as traffic jams, pollution and road fatalities will continue to rise concurrently. NXP V2X products for series cars will hit the road next year in General Motors cars as part of Delphi’s V2X platform.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. Our customers expect us to help mitigate, if not eliminate, issues such as congestion and pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. RelayRides reservation app. Click to enlarge. —Bardhi and Eckhardt.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

General Motors LLC (GM) - GM will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop residual stress models for laser-welded dissimilar joints (HSLA/CE steel) for car light-weighting in a project titled “Simulation Tools for Characterizing Stress Distribution in Laser Welded Dissimilar Joints.”. Praxair Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

The University of Michigan’s Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) announced that key industry leaders from a variety of sectors, including Bosch, Econolite, Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Xerox have joined the center as its initial industry partners. Earlier post.).

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Plug in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In his visionary words, “It is the policy of my Administration to organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis to implement a Government-wide approach that reduces climate pollution in every sector of the economy.”. This is beyond great news, and it has been a long time coming.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Stuart Grange works in Empa’s Air Pollution/Environmental Technology Laboratory and also at the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York. Retrofitted VW diesel engines emit up to a third less harmful nitrogen oxides in everyday use than engines with the original software dating from the Dieselgate era.

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Diesel Engine Exhaust Emissions 207

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. Despite this progress, UCS noted, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler still have higher than average new fleet smog-forming and GHG emissions. Source: UCS. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

He will share his perspective on several recent hydrogen developments, including Chevrolet’s Project Driveway passing 1 million miles of gas-free driving with no tailpipe pollution and the announcement in Germany of a partnership to build up to 1,000 hydrogen fueling stations by 2015. Burns holds a Ph.D. Burns holds a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The proposal aims to enable all communities to benefit from electric vehicles, alleviating the disproportionate impact of pollution borne by low income communities and communities of color. NRG EV Services LLC, Smart Grid Services Siemens AG, KN Grid, CALSTART, General Motors, Honda Motors, and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

General Motors is introducing a flame-treatment technology developed by FTS Technologies that lets paint stick to plastic vehicle parts such as instrument and door panels without using primers that contain solvents. Decreased air pollutants from 810 tons a year to 80 tons a year.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 31, 2023

Image: General Motors] Become a& TTAC& insider. Originally published in 2011, the NBER study goes into all of the above without focusing on powertrain types. But it has seen renewed interest this year as more people seem to be noticing the mounting issues associated with modern vehicle designs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. The components can be combined to model a large variety of new or existing fuel blends.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. Steve Cadle, formerly at General Motors. Source: HEI. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The tech incubator is aiming to deliver innovative mobility and transportation solutions that help alleviate growing global challenges such as traffic congestion, parking availability and pollution. On the connectivity side, Ford launched the third generation Sync 3 system. Power and General Motors. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

General Motors Corp. Trends indicate that urbanization is growing, and with that comes increased congestion and pollution. The Project P.U.M.A prototype takes a test drive in New York. Click to enlarge. and Segway are unveiling a new type of personal mobility vehicle targeted for city use. Under “Project P.U.M.A.”

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The talented engineers at General Motors’ research and development centre are hard at work developing a new low-cost concept for nitrogen oxide control. However, they also have the potential for increased pollutant formant and therefore require careful control of combustion for reduced engine emissions.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

With the American automotive industry continuing to spiral, General Motors has taken the decision to simply close down its Pontiac division. Tags: Green cars Latest news general motors Pontiac Pontiac scrapped. What do you think of this proposal for Pontiac? And is GM right to scrap the brand?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Concern over pollutants in vehicle exhaust has led to the development of the catalytic converter, which is a key component of exhaust gas mitigation systems. The partnership with USCAR brings significant industrial input from all three major North American automotive manufacturers—Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 11, 2008

for years, if ever, it would be the first plug-in to be commercially available—allowing BYD to steal a march on General Motors ( GM ), which is expecting to launch the Chevrolet Volt in 2010. BYD plans to exhibit a plug-in hybrid , the F6DM (for "dual mode"), that it says will hit the market in China this summer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

million on projects to reduce nitrogen oxide and other pollutants, including replacing high-polluting diesel school buses and locomotive engines with models that meet current emissions standards. The school bus and locomotive replacement projects in the settlement will reduce ambient air levels of NO x and other pollutants.

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