Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2018

EMT, the transport company of the Spanish capital Madrid, is set to receive another 276 Mercedes-Benz Citaro NGT urban buses with natural gas drive in the next two years. The vehicles now on order are two-door, 12-meter solo buses powered by the Mercedes-Benz OM 936 G natural gas engine. The fleet comprises 2000 buses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Deret Transport, one of France’s largest logistics companies, has recently opted for the Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid. According to Deret spokesperson Jean-Luc Fournier, initial trips with the hybrid fleet have revealed a 25% reduction in fuel consumption compared with trucks with conventional engines.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 20, 2024

I’ve now been driving electric cars for years, but the cars at Autopia still sputter with their little gas engines, filling the surrounding air with noxious emissions. horsepower Honda gasoline engine, with a top speed of 6.5 Autopia Finally Will Be Without Fumes Disneyland opened on Sunday, July 17, 1955.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. Modern Truck Scenario.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Norwegian transportation company Fjord1 launched the MF Boknafjord , the world’s largest gas ferry. The new gas-operated ferry is designed by Multi Maritime AS in Førde, Western Norway and has a total length of 129.9m, a maximum width of 19.2m The gas motors will give a service speed of approx. MF Boknafjord.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2024

Image: ChargePoint ChargePoint’s (NYSE: CHPT) new Megawatt Charging System for commercial electric trucks is capable of dispensing enough energy to power around 1,000 homes. The Megawatt Charging System cable and connector will be available on ChargePoint’s Power Link 2000 stations, part of its modular Express Plus DC fast charging platform.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The research also confirmed REG Life Sciences technology is capable of achieving substantial reductions of full-lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional diesel fuel. —Vijay Swarup, vice president of research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2013

UPS released its annual Sustainability Report announcing that while the total number of packages shipped in 2012 increased, the company reduced its total Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The new Sustainability Report also cites the greenhouse gas reductions, fuel savings and miles avoided through the innovative use of technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

To support the purchase and planned deployment of the 1,400 new CNG vehicles, UPS plans to build 15 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations. Twelve of the CNG stations will be in new natural gas vehicle deployment areas, and three will replace existing CNG stations with more robust, higher capacity equipment. Doraville, Ga.;

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Adopted in 2000, the Fleet Rule for Transit Agencies required reductions in diesel particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen emissions from urban buses and transit fleet vehicles, and required zero emission bus purchases for transit agencies with 200 or more urban buses.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

UPS announced the purchase of 130 next-generation hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet. UPS already operates one of the largest private fleets of alternative-fuel vehicles in the transportation industry—2,022 in total. —Mike Britt, UPS’s director of vehicle engineering.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

When the first gasoline-electric hybrids vehicles began arriving in 1999 and 2000, early adopters did their research and were quite knowledgeable about the then-new and revolutionary transportation mode. But the mass market was confused; these new cars had an additional battery to provide electricity to an electric motor.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020. CO 2 remains in the atmosphere for up to a century.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

Require use of renewable fuels and the cleanest available engines as soon as feasible. About 57% of the transit vehicles are operating on natural gas while six% are hybrids. Many transit operators installed natural gas refueling infrastructure at their facilities. Minimize Emissions from Conventional Fleet. Source: ARB.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

As a result, they conclude, uncertainties in the net greenhouse gas (GHG) effect of ethanol, particularly when used in a low-level blend with gasoline, are considerably larger than previously estimated. This can be caused by poor engine tolerance of ethanol. Carburetor- and FI-engine vehicles on E5-E20 achieve mean ESR of 1.25

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The reason why electric vehicles are developing rapidly is that they rely on batteries as their power source. As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. Today I will tell you about the types of batteries used in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The state’s per capita GDP has grown more than 41 percent while per capita greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by just over 25 percent since 1990. Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. five years ago.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

liter engine, coming away impressed with the styling and performance. They kick-up that performance with a more powerful engine which takes the K5 to an all new level of fun. The 2022 Kia K5 GT is offered with one engine and transmission. engine that has power ratings of 180 hp and 195 lb.-ft. So what does Kia do?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

EA888 TSI engine (red) delivers its peak 250 N·m of torque as early as 1,400 rpm, and maintains the strong and flat torque curve through 4,750 rpm—far outpacing the performance of the 5-cylinder 2.5-liter liter engine (blue) it replaces. Volkswagen first launched the EA888 engine generation in spring 2007 (Gen 1).

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. We'll also be taking Burning Man art projects off petroleum generators by switching them to solar electricity.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. So youll have a cleaner, cheaper, quieter car for your local travel, and the gas tank is always there should you need to drive longer distances.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Using advanced cell engineering technologies at Synthetic Genomics, the ExxonMobil-Synthetic Genomics research team modified an algae strain to enhance the algae’s oil content from 20% to more than 40%. —Vijay Swarup, vice president for research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

liter diesel engine produces 154 kW/210 hp at 4,000 rpm and develops strong torque of 480 N·m (354 lb-ft) from only 1,500 rpm using sequential two-stage turbocharging. The top-of-the-line engine is combined with an eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive with torque vectoring. The newly designed 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

The work on advanced lithium ion and multivalent ion batteries is led by Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and Evgeny Antipov, professor and electrochemistry chair at Moscow State. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6 L/100km) in model year 2025.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

To continue to decrease CO 2 emissions from the transportation of vehicles from its plants to dealers. gigawatt-hours of energy annually, is anticipated to meet more than half of the site’s total electricity needs and offset an estimated 576 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Source: Honda North America.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

With the addition of the top-of-the-line Calligraphy trim model, Hyundai also gave the 2021 Santa Fe more power, two new engines and improved fuel economy. liter four-cylinder engine. engine is standard on the Santa Fe Limited and Calligraphy models. The other Santa Fe engines are the 1.6L Propulsion Options.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

EnerDel believes its Hague Road plant is the first, and as yet at this time only, plant capable of achieving high volume production of transportation-grade, lithium ion cells within the US. The current collectors extend beyond the circuit via tabs and are welded together to make an electrical connection. volts at this point.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the report, “On the Road Toward 2050: Potential for Substantial Reductions in Light-Duty Vehicle Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” each element is separately important, but must collectively be pursued aggressively to achieve necessary emissions reductions. —John Heywood.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry. transportation sector; and industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before they are phased in.

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