The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

When you write about cars for a living, you can get carefully prepared vehicles dropped off at your door (or at airports) for you to experience and then review. At some point in late 2007, here comes a new Mercury Sable Premier in nobody-will-even-notice-me Merlot. Sometimes you even get the experience of wrecking them !

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

million new vehicles registered in the EU in 2011. A combination of changes in buying behavior, improved technology and engine efficiency was mostly responsible for this reduction, according to EEA analysis. of the vehicles registered in 2011 in Europe were diesel vehicles, an increase from 51.3% There were 12.8

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $5 million to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) to help Southern truckers and small businesses to buy cleaner big rigs. The Clean Trucks Make Cents program will finance up to 100% of the purchase or lease of a pre-2007 tractor-trailer. Rush Enterprises, Inc.

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MAY 11, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of more than $15 million to projects that will advance biofuels and electric vehicle research in California. These grants are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 23, 2014

ZPM intends to follow the MDI “Dealer – Manufacturer – Partner” concept by creating turnkey micro-production factories to manufacture their vehicles locally in regions throughout the United States. These plants are intended to sell 80% of the vehicles in the same geographic location they are produced. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2012

Vehicle efficiency improvements via effective standards and policies could reduce annual CO 2 e emissions from the US, China, and the EU by 1.3 In 2007, the global transportation sector accounted for approximately 25% of total energy-related CO 2 emissions&mdash almost 7 Gt, Of that, road transportation accounted for 5 Gt.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, we know there are plenty of luddites out there who recoil at the thought of any vehicle newer than several decades old squatting in their driveway, shuddering at the thought of OBDII diagnostics and weeping at the image of fuel injectors being involved in firing their heap to life in the morning. & Starting in the cabin, of course.

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MAY 1, 2014

AFV are alternative fuel vehicles: electric, LPG, NG-biomethane, E85, biodiesel, hybrid and plug-in vehicles. grams; and for alternative fuel vehicles (electric, LPG, NG-biomethane, E85, biodiesel, hybrid and plug-in vehicles), 104.14 This figure has declined continuously since its peak in 2007, when 15.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

The Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle will be one of the first GM vehicles to offer this technology. The Chevy Volt will be one of the first applications, but we intend to expand it across our vehicle portfolio. The technology is expected to revolutionize how electronic devices are charged in a car.

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MAY 21, 2014

Tyson and Syntroleum formed Dynamic Fuels in 2007 as a 50/50 joint venture. REG is a long-term customer of ours, buying fats, oils and greases to make renewable fuel, and we hope to continue that relationship. Earlier post.) The Geismar facility, completed in 2010, was the first large scale renewable diesel biorefinery built in the US.

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MAY 9, 2010

Lars Ullrich, director of diesel systems marketing for Robert Bosch LLC, noted that car buyers chose clean diesel vehicles at higher rates than most market watchers expected. These rates compare favorably or surpass the percentage of buyers opting for a hybrid version of a vehicle, he said.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA) has forged partnerships in the St. For the Science Center, GEVA is an important resource when it comes to electric vehicles (EVs). They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

The California Air Resources Board adopted amendments to help business owners comply with its 2007 regulation aimed at reducing toxic diesel emissions from the state’s estimated 180,000 off-road vehicles such as tractors and bulldozers used in construction, mining and other industries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Our estimates indicate that two-thirds of people who buy hybrids were going to buy them anyway.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

less than the 2007 figure and 16.8% Although the UK new car fleet has made above-EU15 gains in six of past seven years to 2007, the UK average new car CO 2 emissions remains 3.7% above the EU15 average, which reached 158 g/km in 2007, according to the report. g/km figure average estimated for the 1997-2007 parc.

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2009

Tesla is the only production automaker selling a highway capable electric vehicle in North America and Europe, and as such Daimler’s investment will see the company furthering its development of battery-run cars. Daimler has set the benchmark for engineering excellence and vehicle quality for more than a century.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The electric Hummer has an important purpose: to reset the image of electric vehicles in US buyers’ minds once and for all.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA) has forged partnerships in the St. For the Science Center, GEVA is an important resource when it comes to electric vehicles (EVs). They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Comparison of 2015-2020 new vehicle potential fuel-saving technologies for seven vehicle types: tractor trailer (TT), Class 3-6 box (box), Class 3-6 bucket (bucket), Class 8 refuse (refuse), transit bus (bus), motor coach (coach), and Class 2b pickups and vans (2b). Source: TIAX. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Again, here are the rules: The vehicle has to be a car/truck/SUV/crossover at least one of us drove during the calendar year, even if only for a few minutes. So, in no particular order, here we go: Chris Tonn If my notes are correct, I’ve driven roughly 67 different vehicles this year as of this writing. on his laptop.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The agreement also advances passenger rail transport through the manufacturing of medium-speed passenger trains and transit rail vehicles for urban areas in the US. GE and CSR are committed to maximizing US content in high-speed passenger trains to meet Buy America standards. —Zhao Xiaogang, Chairman of CSR.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The Russia-based enterprise established under this project will produce, foremost, lithium-ion batteries for all types of electric vehicles, including motorcycles and buses. Thunder Sky plans to buy a large part of the Russian factory’s products to fulfill contracts with Chinese producers of electric transport.

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EV Connect

JULY 8, 2021

As electric vehicle adoption soars and students across the country return to in-person learning, Union College, seeks to have their nine new (mid-2019) dual port EV charging stations around campus continue to be utilized by faculty, staff and student EV drivers. A big barrier of buying electric vehicles is not having somewhere to charge it.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The electric supercharger operates independently of engine speed, making it suitable to maintaining vehicle transient performance and driveability. VTES is optimized to use the standard 12V vehicle architecture. Tags: Engines Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems. When applied to a radically downsized 1.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Daimler is ensuring financial support to the farmers in the communities over a period of five years by providing surety for small loans to buy jatropha seedlings and fulfill their tasks till the first harvest after four years. Thus, the jatropha fuel does not compete with local food production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Because SUVs and trucks have a large number of parts, the authors suggested, they are good candidates to be the vehicle types with the largest amount of biobased material on a part number basis. Other factors used to determine the best material for manufacturing parts for vehicles include: Part performance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

While the details of the scheme were never confirmed, it would have meant that importers of less fuel-efficient vehicles would have needed to buy credits, and more fuel-efficient vehicles would have been awarded credits. The average CO 2 emissions of new vehicles entering the fleet have dropped from 220.6 Steven Joyce.

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MAY 1, 2013

UC Davis researchers helped create the framework for the LCFS, the US’ first, in 2007. Low carbon fuels include biofuels from waste and plant materials, natural gas, electricity used in plug-in vehicles, and hydrogen used in fuel cell vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In spite of the increase in sales of electric vehicles in 2010 and 2011, alternatively?fueled fueled vehicles still only accounted for 4% of all vehicles in the on?road lower in 2011 than its peak in 2007. road fleet in 2010. —TERM 2012 report. Nonetheless, new cars are becoming more fuel-efficient.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

The investment will allow Ford significantly to build up its research and development capabilities in the country—especially at its Nanjing Research and Engineering Center (REC)—and will help Ford create more world-class vehicles in China, for China. Connected consumers. SYNC 3 is faster, and more intuitive to use. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

In a paper published in the journal Transport Policy , Jonn Axsen, Ken Kurani and Andrew Burke explore two aspects of the “ purported problem ” in the context of starting a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs): performance goals, and the abilities of present and near-term battery chemistries to meet those goals. Vehicle mass.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

A 2007 report issued by the Transportation Finance Commission stated: “ The cost of this neglect will be felt in our regional economy and in our way of life. The Transportation and Economic Security Plan also proposes a series of “Green” initiatives that encourage more fuel-efficient vehicles and “Buy and Build Green” provisions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

and Karsan, a Turkish vehicle manufacturer. The City will test the use of all-electric powered taxis starting in 2012 with six fully electric Nissan LEAFs—provided free of charge—to road test electric vehicles. The award comes after a selection process that lasted more than two years. Taxi of Tomorrow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

In January 2007, Volvo Cars and energy supplier Vattenfall launched a joint project with the aim of testing and developing plug-in technology. A new company was founded, V2 Plug-in-Hybrid Vehicle Partnership, as a result of this initiative. The series-production PHEVs will feature “somewhat different” technology. Click to enlarge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. If by 2015, 2.5

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