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JULY 23, 2014

The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Leveraging TM4’s licensed technologies, the new company will develop, manufacture, sell and supporting electric traction systems for trucks and buses, as well as commercial, off-road and marine vehicles. TM4 currently offers a range of motor electric power control systems for the transport sector ( earlier post ), including: TM4 M?TIVE

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APRIL 26, 2010

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has approved a $5-million forgivable loan for Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems contingent on its hitting job creation and private investment milestones. With the new expansion, A123 Systems will assemble and commission grid-storage battery systems in Massachusetts.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

and GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Company will collaborate on the development and production of GE’s Hydrocarbon-Selective Catalytic Reduction catalyst technology (HC-SCR), a diesel aftertreatment system for reducing nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions as effectively as urea-based SCR systems. Whisenhunt et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 20, 2012

The data also show that car manufacturers are mostly on track to meeting European Union (EU) targets. In the EU, CO 2 emissions from road transport have increased by 23% between 1990 and 2010, becoming responsible for approximately one fifth of the EU’s total emissions. There were 12.8 million new vehicles registered in the EU in 2011.

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MAY 1, 2017

Cummins Westport (CWI) announced its model year 2018 dedicated natural gas engines for regional haul truck / tractor, vocational and transit, school bus, and refuse applications at the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, California. g/bhp-hr) since 2001. The L9N and the B6.7N

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APRIL 30, 2012

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT) has found that the gap between type-approval and “real-world” fuel consumption / CO 2 values for European cars increased from about 8% in 2001 to 21% today, with a particularly strong increase since 2007. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Mock et al.

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JUNE 18, 2016

The transportation sector in Canada generated 56.0% Of these amounts, rail transportation was responsible for 11.1% Current Tier 4 regulations apply to locomotives manufactured in 2015 or later. The US regulations set emission standards that vary according to the type of locomotive and its year of original manufacture.

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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. Industry and manufacturing were the third largest source, at 21%. Transportation End-Use Sector.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The gap between official fuel-economy figures and the real world for new cars in the EU has reached 40 per cent, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into in-use vehicle fuel efficiency and CO 2 emissions. Earlier post.). Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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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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MARCH 28, 2017

In 2001, Hermes tested a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with fuel-cell technology in normal operating conditions. Together with Hermes and the city of Stuttgart, Daimler is currently performing a fleet test with five battery-powered Fuso Canter E-CELL vehicles in urban distribution transport. The test started in April 2016. Earlier post.)

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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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MARCH 23, 2010

GE and Umicore have completed a technology transfer and technology license agreement to commercialize a proprietary Hydrocarbon Selective Lean NO x Catalyst (HC-LNC) designed to reduce and control diesel engine NO x emissions for various transportation and stationary applications. Earlier post. ). Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

Later that year, Trek went public on the Singapore stock exchange, and in four months—from April through July 2000—it manufactured and sold more than 100,000 ThumbDrives under its own label. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 13, 2010

GE’s HC-LNC technology has been under development since 2001 at GE’s Global Research, the centralized research and development organization for all of GE. HC-LNC also has the potential to remove simultaneously NO x and partially burned hydrocarbons.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The United States allows vehicle manufacturers to obtain equivalent fuel economy (and GHG) credits with alternative refrigerants, which China could also adopt to facilitate transition, the ICCT authors noted. Joint-venture manufacturers are expected to possess little, if any, competitive advantage. Background.

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MAY 11, 2009

A reduction in road casualties and the avoidance of speeding penalties - these are the key targets behind Transport for London’s (TFL) six-month trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

The group, which was disbanded in 2015, focused on developing and managing large, complex systems such as global manufacturing and supply chains, multimodal transportation systems, electrical power distribution networks, and health care systems. In 2009 he joined Centellax as COO and led the marketing and manufacturing departments.

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MAY 11, 2009

Transport for London (TfL) will begin a six-month trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology which aims to reduce road casualties and help drivers avoid speeding penalties. They partners commissioned the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds to produce the report. ISA speed map for Greater London.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The new label, launched by Minister for Transport Sadiq Khan, provides consumers with clear ‘at a glance’ information on the running costs, fuel consumption and environmental performance of used cars available from participating dealers. Sales by private individuals are not covered by the scheme.

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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. As with metals, studies on legacy vehicles (model years 1994–2001) did not observe any degradation of elastomers, polymers, or any other materials with E15 or E20. Source: ICCT.

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MAY 29, 2013

The divergence of real-world CO 2 emissions vs. manufacturers’ type-approval (100%) in Europe from various on-road data sources. It is important to clarify that nothing in this analysis suggests that manufacturers have done anything illegal. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. —“From Laboratory to Road”.

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JUNE 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and BASF have signed a world-wide licensing agreement to mass produce and market Argonne’s patented composite cathode materials to manufacturers of advanced lithium-ion batteries. BASF plans to commercialize these new cathode materials for transportation and other applications.

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JULY 14, 2011

Ten of 14 Honda manufacturing plants in North America are now operating with zero waste to landfill, while the remaining four plants are functioning with “virtually zero” waste to landfill. Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, in Lincoln, Ala., Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, in Lincoln, Ala., pounds (28.5 pounds (0.8

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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. presence in Indianapolis. More than 1.9

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MARCH 19, 2010

In 2001 I began driving an electric car, obtaining the last of the ZEV mandate-required EVs. Hundreds of thousands of Nissan all-electric cars would be manufactured in Asia, America and Europe within a very few years. He defied conventional thinking by moving directly toward the commercialization of all-electric cars. I was thrilled.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

researching, validating, and deploying technologies and methods that save fuel through more efficient operations of trucks and transportation systems. The 21CTP was formed in 2001 to reduce fuel usage and emissions in trucks of Classes 3 through 8. Significant progress has made since the Academies issued its first report in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI, established in 2001, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem of Korea. CPI has 60 employees in its Troy, Michigan facility which acts as a technical and commercial center as well as pilot manufacturing facility capable of assembling packs at prototype quantities using production representative processes. Manufacturing.

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MAY 20, 2009

Transportation-related emissions, which account for about a third of total energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, decreased by 5.2% Since 1990 the next largest yearly decline in the transportation sector was 1.3% Transportation sector CO 2 emissions by fuel types (1990 to 2008). Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Divergence of real-world CO 2 emissions from manufacturers’ type-approval CO 2 emissions for various on-road data sources, including an average estimate for private and company cars as well as all data sources. It is important to clarify that this analysis is not intended to incriminate vehicle manufacturers. Source: ICCT.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

As a small UK-based business aiming to produce highly energy-efficient vehicles for personal transport; Riversimple says its vision is of a world where our relationship with the car is dramatically changed for the better. Our vehicle architecture is not fuel cell-specific; it is based an electric platform anyway.

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In Zeekr’s case, the endmost velocity of transport unutilized merchandise to the marketplace is as it’s a part of Geely Conserving. Lynk&Co was once based in 2016, and manufacturing of the primary automobile, Lynk&Co 01, began in 2017. Amongst many manufacturers, SAIC owns former British MG and Roewe. and many others.

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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. EV Taskforce. Energy Market Authority. Economic Development Board.

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