Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Hermes and Mercedes-Benz Vans have agreed on a wide-ranging strategic partnership to electrify the courier service’s vehicle fleet. With this in mind, we are continuing along the path of sustainably renewing our fleet of vehicles. An important key aspect for the future is the gradual electrification of our fleet in urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Transport for London already has a star rating system for truck visibility called the Direct Vision Standard, which comes into effect from October 2020. In parallel with the demonstrator schedule is a program to manufacture a fleet of prototypes for field trials in London and Paris with interested parties during 2021. ?

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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. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. —Harold P.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2015

The NTSB is also issuing a companion Safety Alert for consumers and commercial fleet owners that urges them to consider vehicles with collision warning and autonomous emergency braking functions. The progress on these recommendations, however, has been very limited.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

stemming from claims reaching back to Dynegy and the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001) that will mostly be applied to fund the construction of a statewide network of plug-in vehicle charging stations, including at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. database) from another global inventory for the year 1996.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

The transportation sector was the second largest sector source, at 27%. Transportation emissions increased as a result of a small increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and fuel use across on-road transportation modes. Transportation sector GHG emissions 1990-2013. Transportation End-Use Sector. Source: EPA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

It has been re-refining waste oil since 2001 and was the first company in Australia to produce fully re-refined lube oil to international standards. Southern Oil is a private, 100% Australian owned company, based in Wagga Wagga, NSW.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Solaris has signed a contract with Rigas Satiksme, the transport operator in the city of Riga, Latvia for 10 of the Trollino trolley buses. These fuel cell buses represent a highly flexible clean energy mass transportation solution, since they will be capable of operating on routes that have no overhead or catenary wiring.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

To encourage taxi companies to adopt lower emission models for their fleet, the CEV rebate and registration surcharge for taxis is set at 50% higher compared to cars, i.e. between $7,500 and $30,000 (US$6,146 to US$24,584). The outgoing Green Vehicle Rebate (GVR) scheme was introduced in 2001 to encourage the take up of green vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In just three years, between January 2008 and January 2011, the operational fleet grew from 1,737 high-speed trainsets worldwide to 2,517. Two-thirds of this fleet is found in just five countries: France, China, Japan, Germany, and Spain. By 2014, the global fleet is expected to total more than 3,700 units.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2009

SAE 2001-01-0655), and optimizing fuel reactivity (Bessonette et al., million barrels of oil per day in transportation. Dean (2001) Mechanism of the Smokeless Rich Diesel Combustion By Reducing Temperature (SAE 2001-01-0655). Other researchers have looked at high EGR rates (Akihama et al. SAE 2007-01-0191).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The ICCT team assessed baseline and alternative system emissions under a variety of different transition pathways using an ICCT model of MAC emissions in the passenger vehicle fleet. China fully embraced HFC-134a in 2001 when it implemented its obligations under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Examples are the anti-lock braking system ABS (1981); acceleration skid control ASR (1985); the Electronic Braking System EBS and roll control (both 1996); adaptive cruise control and Lane Assistant (each 2000); stability control (2001); Brake Assist (2002); and Active Brake Assist (2006).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. Primary technical concerns with using intermediate-level blends of ethanol in the vehicle fleet include: Fuel economy. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. Implementation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In other words, the automakers still have to meet the fleet-based emissions requirements through their sales mix. Its goal was and is to reduce the environmental impact of light-duty vehicles through the gradual introduction of ZEVs into the California fleet. ARB first adopted the ZEV Regulation in 1990.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. PEV makers pursue revenue beyond vehicle sales. million tons.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

A partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation is launching the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) at the upcoming Geneva motor show. The global vehicle parc is predicted to triple by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

A new white paper published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) comparing official and “real-world” fuel consumption and CO 2 emission values for passenger cars in Europe and the United States shows that the average discrepancy between the values in Europe increased from less than 10% in 2001 to 25% in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV). The USPS fleet travels more than 1.3 The payload capacity is approximately 1,400 pounds.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

Although Black Rock City probably has the worst air in the west during its brief annual existence, it is where I had my first electric transport epiphany. Google founder Sergey Brin drove one of the 2001 Th!nk The plug-in Priuses are almost doubling the fuel efficiency of Google standard Prius fleet, getting 74 MPG rather than 41 MPG.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. And were gratified that General Motors recognizes this study as validation of its decision to evolve to the electrification of transportation. The GREET 1.6

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“I haven’t paid for electricity for my house or my EV since 2001,” he says. But even better, to me: Darell’s daughter, Kyra Lee, 20, has never known a world without EVs and certainly doesn’t consider them “alternative” transportation. ICE cars are about to become the flip phones of transportation.”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

nk City Electric car www.thinkelectric.org Documentary about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and the future of transportation. Who Killed the Electric Car?" Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

XL delivered 154 hybrid electric (HEV) GMC Savana Cargo vans to the California Vanpool Authority (also known as CalVans ) to improve the fuel efficiency and sustainability of its agriculture transportation fleet. According to the company, the order represents the largest single hybrid electric van deployment in California to date.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

Renault-Nissan Alliance has formed a partnership with the Energy Market Authority (EMA), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore to explore the development of Zero Emission Vehicles Programme. Land Transport Authority. Energy Market Authority. Economic Development Board.

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