Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2011

The Wind Explorer pilot vehicle is a two-seated electromobile that weighs just 200 kg (441 lbs) and with a range of 400 kilometers (249 miles) per battery charge. The bodywork consists mainly of a carbon fiber composite with ROHACELL structural foam from Evonik Industries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

Global average values for the year 2000. The researchers used a suite of climate chemistry models to consider the climate effects of all long- and short-lived gases, aerosols and cloud effects, not just carbon dioxide, resulting from transport worldwide. Car travel emits more carbon dioxide than air travel per passenger mile.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With a total tank capacity of 500 liters—2x 250 liters in two tanks accommodated separately in the QUANT’s substructure—the QUANT F has a projected range of 800 km (497 miles)—a 30% increase in comparison to the QUANT E from 2014. Side view of the new QUANT F. Click to enlarge. This is unique.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2013

million tons of carbon equivalents per year and an expected reduction in criteria pollutants of over 2,000 tons per year. The vehicles that will be deployed under this grant are based on Smith’s latest production model Series 2000, which has been fully deployed in several locations across the country.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Credit: Solomon et al., Click to enlarge.

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JULY 14, 2014

Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. More than 1,000 miles and 1,500 hours have been accumulated on the ETHOS 2.8L The ETHOS 2.8L demo truck. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

With more than 100 miles on the vehicle, the range and durability has been shown. A conventional vehicle with a gasoline engine would use $9 of fuel to go 100 miles. Atrex Energy has worked on research and development of a commercially viable power generator utilizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) since 2000. worth of fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

The CNG fueling stations and vehicle purchases are part of UPS’ ongoing commitment to diversify its fuel sources, implement a fleet infrastructure that can utilize lower carbon intensity fuel sources and increase experience using alternative fuels in freight transport applications. billion km) in this fleet by the end of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. The FedEx hybrid-electric fleet has logged more than four million miles of revenue service since being introduced in 2004, reducing fuel use by 150,000 gallons and carbon dioxide emissions by 1,521 metric tons.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

For example, recent on-road emission measurements in California and other locations have shown that the 99 th percentile is responsible for more than a third of the carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions and more than 15% of the nitric oxide (NO) emissions on a fuel-specific basis, and these imbalances continue to grow each year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2013

The proposed vehicle emission standards, combined with the proposed reduction of gasoline sulfur content, would significantly reduce motor vehicle emissions, including nitrogen oxides (NO x ), volatile organic compounds (VOC), direct particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), carbon monoxide (CO) and air toxics. Evaporative emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

One of the key findings in the California’s Energy Future Summary Report is that California will likely have limited availability of low-carbon biofuels for use in the transportation sector, because of biomass availability and competing uses for biomass for heat and power (CCST 2011). 40+ mile all-electric range) to minimize liquid fuel use.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

A bill under consideration in the California state legislature would require California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) to include Class III (280 cc or greater) model-year 2000 and newer motorcycles in the state’s smog check program beginning 1 January 2012. Background. The original HC standards ranged from 5.0 g/km to 14.0

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. I have an 86-year-old mother-in-law with a 20-mile electric range plug-in hybrid and she almost never uses gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Fourteen production aircraft were manufactured, but one was scrapped in 1994 and another crashed in 2000.). What these aircraft manufacturers are contending is that their eventual customers are going to be willing to pay to prevent net carbon emissions. Boom has stated that its plane will go supersonic only over water.

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Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel 110

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

harmonized with NHTSA’s CAFE standards, are projected to require 163 grams/mile of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in model year 2025. The 163 g/mile limit would be equivalent to 54.5 mpg by 2016 and result in an average light vehicle tailpipe CO 2 level of 250 grams per mile. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It features a new generation ECCS (Extreme Conventional Combustion System) combustion chamber; a variable-geometry low-inertia turbocharger; and a high-pressure pump with a maximum pressure of 2000 bar combined with a common rail and solenoid injectors with 8 apertures. Dual lithium-ion battery packs provide a range of 120 km (75 miles).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The Canadian oil sands are not alone as a higher GHG source of crude, IHS CERA points out.they are part of a group of higher carbon-intensity crudes consumed within the United States, including Venezuelan heavy crude oil; Nigerian crude oils; and crude oils from mature assets that require steam for enhanced oil recovery such as California heavy oil.

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Green Cars News

MAY 4, 2009

Currently there are around 575,000 motorcycles registered in California with the model year of 2000 or higher. It is estimated that motorcycles currently produce up to 15 times the emissions per mile than the average new car or light duty truck prompting calls for this bill. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It delivers a single-fueling travel range of more approximately 400 km (249 miles). HHM will position itself in Europe's fuel cell electric commercial vehicle market as well, where green mobility with strict regulations about carbon emissions are hugely embraced.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But the report authors note that, while California has the second-lowest rate of carbon emissions per capita in the nation, and a carbon intensity relative to GDP that is 54.3%

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

We’d set up at intersections with the heaviest traffic, but where cars weren’t traveling at more than 30 miles per hour. Traveling to Atlanta to complete the training in early 2019, he met up with 2000 like-minded people from all over the world. So the planet is not abused. “We We started in mid-September last year,” Baum said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. Middle layer: carbon fiber reinforced plastic (structural element). For example: A quick flashback to the year 2000.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 8, 2024

But at least for now, it seems as if a great deal of the raw materials going into electric cars are coming from China - so there may be a minor carbon footprint win in assembling the entire car where the batteries are made. A single motor variant can handle 320 miles on a single charge, where the standard dual motor is rated for 276 miles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

kg, enable the vehicle to travel a total of 594 km (369 miles) on a single charge, and it can reliably start in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius. The next-generation Honda FCEV is anticipated to deliver a driving range of more than 300 miles (483 km) with a quick refueling time of about three minutes at a pressure of 70 MPa.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Per capita transport CO 2 emissions are decomposed into the product of two terms: per capita LDV use (horizontal axis, veh-km person -1 yr -1 ) and propulsion carbon intensity (vertical axis, g CO 2 veh-km -1 ). L/100 km) plug-in hybrid electric cars fueled on a mix of cellulosic biofuels and low-carbon grid electricity. Sager et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. By 2050, as many as 1 million circuit miles of new transmission lines may be needed, with some 140,000 miles required just for the replacement of existing aging transmission lines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The proposals are part of a £250m strategy, seen by the Guardian, spelling out a revolution in Britains road transport network based on ultra-low carbon vehicles. Something like 35% of all our carbon emissions are caused by domestic transport," he said. "Of Of that, 58% of the emissions are caused by motor cars." My Web del.icio.us

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A consortium brought together by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas. Originally powered entirely by diesel, the Mercedes-Benz engine has been adapted by the Hardstaff Group ( earlier post ) to run for 60-80% of the time on low-carbon biomethane.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The main study shows that under all nine scenarios for both rates of market penetration of PHEVs and the evolving power grids characteristics (capacity/carbon intensity), PHEVs will vastly reduce greenhouse gases for the next 40 years. A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2014

miles) on electric power alone. Nanoslide was developed starting in the year 2000 by Daimler and is protected by more than 90 patent families and more than 40 patents. The passenger cell was also made entirely from carbon fibre. seconds from zero to 100 km/h, and can go 33 km (20.5 It has certified fuel consumption of 2.8

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Honda set a global target for two-thirds of all sales to come from electrified models by 2030 and to halve its total company CO 2 emissions from 2000 levels by 2050. In the long term, electrified vehicles are key to the future of carbon-free mobility. —Takahiro Hachigo, President & CEO of Honda Motor Co.,

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APRIL 29, 2009

The researchers, involving scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, concluded that the limit is 1,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide between the years 2000 and 2050. 2009) Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne. Meinshausen et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Meinshausen, N.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

we are going to need extremely low carbon emitting vehicles.the answer to when we are going to need these vehicles s probably sooner and quicker, so its going to be within the next decade, and that’s going to create a substantial challenge.we Earlier post.). Michael O’Brien. Michael O’Brien.

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