Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cologne Bonn Airport has switched to Neste MY Renewable Diesel in its diesel-powered ground fleet. Neste’s renewable diesel (also known as HVO100) is made from 100% renewable raw materials, and it is in particular used for powering large and heavy vehicles such as the airport’s fire trucks, which are not easy to electrify.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Hackenberg moved to Audi in 1985, where he took over the position of Head of Concept Development in 1989 and later led the technical project management for the entire product range. There, he was head of the Body Development department and additionally responsible as of late 1998 for Concept Development.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted the peer review of the renewable fuel standards lifecycle analysis—including significant indirect emissions, such as from indirect land use changes— online. The change detection analysis performed on the two MODIS data sets from 2001 and 2004. Earlier post.)

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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. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

With this in mind, we are continuing along the path of sustainably renewing our fleet of vehicles. New concepts are to be developed for the integration of battery-electric vans—including the required charging infrastructure—into existing operational processes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

satellite imagery; from left, 1975, 1989, and 2001. Most strategies are clustered around the concept of making forests “ worth more alive than dead ”. by Jack Rosebro. Progressive deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil as seen in. Sources: USGS. Landsat images via Google Earth. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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