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MARCH 8, 2013

Volkswagen said it would roll out CO 2 MAC systems progressively over its entire vehicle fleet. Baker (2007) Demonstration of an Energy-Efficient Secondary Loop HFC-152a Mobile Air Conditioning System. Earlier post.). With a GWP (Global Warming Potential) value of 1, R744 is 99.3% Mahmoud Ghodbane, Timothy D. Craig, and James A.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Synthetic and renewable fuels should be factored into the CO2 fleet regulation for passenger cars and trucks. The supplier of technology and services is also gradually incorporating battery-powered electric vehicles into its fleet. In Germany, the CO 2 emissions of newly registered vehicles have fallen by one quarter since 2007.

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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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APRIL 21, 2010

By April last year, sixteen Member States had CO 2 -related taxation, up from fourteen in 2008, eleven in 2007 and nine in 2006. Italy chose not to prolong its one-year fleet renewal scheme which included both CO 2 -based incentives and incentives for electric vehicles. Generally, registration taxes threaten fleet renewal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2013

From 1990 to 2011, transportation emissions rose by 17% due, in large part, to increased demand for travel and the stagnation of fuel efficiency across the US vehicle fleet, EPA said. Commercial aircraft emissions continued to fall, having decreased 18% since 2007. billion gallons in 1990 to 12.3 billion gallons in 2011.

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MARCH 7, 2010

Although most maritime freight carriers have slashed operating costs by cutting staff and reducing ship speeds, as much as 12% of the world’s freight shipping fleet is now estimated to lay idle, in part because many carriers invested heavily in new ships during the strong economic growth of the last decade.

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JULY 29, 2012

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. Policymakers should avoid weight-based vehicle performance standards, as these typically shift fleets toward bigger or heavier models. —Kodjak et al.

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APRIL 2, 2009

In the first scenario (S1), ORT emissions were reduced by 50% in the US and globally, with the assumption that the replacement energy to supply the fleet is provided by a clean zero emission source. The scenarios were run with 20-year and 100-year time frames.

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MARCH 11, 2012

In MY 2010, the average vehicle power was 214 horsepower, an increase of 6 horsepower since MY 2009, but lower than in MY 2007-2008. In MY 2010, the last year for which EPA has final production data, Hyundai had the lowest fleet-wide adjusted composite CO2 emissions performance, followed very closely by Kia and then Toyota.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Efforts to increase fuel economy and lower emissions show no signs of losing pace as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report revealing a fifth consecutive increase in new vehicle fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Hybrids are projected to have a 1.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) created the California Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. Electric vehicles components. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

The following is a summary of results obtained from testing the H2GO™ system on a 2007 Lincoln Navigator with a Ford 5.4 CO2 production is a function of fuel burned per hour and the CO2 emissions will decrease in the same percentage as mileage increases (i.e. Litre Engine (the Ford family 4.6 litre engines show similar results).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles. We then systematically increased the share of EVs among new vehicle sales until the cumulative fleet emissions fell within the budget. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

We already have bio-based foam on more than 2 million vehicles and we’re looking to convert 100 percent of our fleet to it in the future. Natural fiber-reinforced plastics and plant-based polymer resins help reduce CO2 emissions by being entirely compostable, and in some cases reduce weight, which helps improve fuel economy.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. CNG-Hybrid Buses: Purchase CNG-Hybrid buses to replace Ford Diesel vehicles in the ART fleet. Tags: Emissions Fleets Fuel Efficiency Policy Power Generation.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. billion from 1999 to 2007. The survey attempts to close this gap.”. GM achieved a sustainable value of minus €9.87

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

Car maker, Toyota is set to lease over 150 units of its next generation Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) to selected fleet customers across Europe as part of a three-year programme. In partnership with EDF, Toyota has been road-testing its current generation PHV (equipped with a Nickel Metal Hydride battery) in Europe since 2007.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

“Electric vehicles are an important element of our strategy for improving fuel economy and reducing CO2 emissions,” said Bill Ford, Ford’s executive chairman. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology.

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JUNE 26, 2010

The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007). The overbuilding of natural gas combined cycle plants starting in the mid-1990s presents a significant opportunity for near term reductions in CO2 emissions from the power sector.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

If incentives were only made available to buyers of new cars that emit less than 130g/km of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the EU target for 2012, then much of the environmental cost of manufacturing new cars could have been offset. km is the current average quoted by the SMMT, which is well below the average of 188.4g/km

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. There is significant cause vs. effect debate on CO2. The problem for the left is that NG is still a carbon based fuel (note: you are a carbon based lifeform and exhale 12 liters of CO2 a minute.). We have oil! A few warts there too however.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2. I am reluctant to say "spend government money" and I am not sure if it would be the right idea. Many others are not so careful.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009.

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