Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

Blue Bird is providing the cleanest propane engine available for school buses on the market, with this version being 90% cleaner than the current emissions standard and 10 times cleaner than any non-Blue Bird propane school bus option available today. NO x engines and emit less NO x emissions than one diesel bus manufactured before 2007.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With propane being domestically produced, it’s proven to have a more stable cost per gallon, while the fueling and maintenance infrastructures are much more cost effective than other alternative fuel options. V10 3V engine with a ROUSH CleanTech fuel system is certified to 0.05 The Ford 6.8L grams per brake horsepower-hour for NO x.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

NO x engine, the first mid-range engine in North America to receive emission certifications from both US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Air Resources Board (ARB) in California that meet the 0.02 NO x engine is designed for medium-duty truck, urban bus, school bus and refuse applications and is available on the market today.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2014

US transit agencies are adopting lower-emissions diesel technology at a faster percentage than the heavy-duty trucking fleet, said Ezra Finkin, the Director of Policy for the Diesel Technology Forum, at last week’s American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo Bus and Maintenance Technical Session in Houston. —Ezra Finkin.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

Pratt & Whitney has completed testing on its full-scale PurePower engine core with more than 260 test hours, successfully validating performance and operability goals. The PurePower family of engines is designed to power the next generation of passenger aircraft with reduced fuel consumption and emissions. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Districts in Canada are specifying the technology due to the superior cold weather operation, reduced maintenance and clean emissions, the company said. liter engine, meet all Canadian Environmental Protection Agency certifications. Southland Transportation first started operating Blue Bird Propane Vision buses in 2007.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

AIDA has been operating a comprehensive sales and service network in India since 2007. Over the last 17 years, the company has offered tailored metal forming solutions and maintenance services support to both local and international clients in India. How important is preventive maintenance for your client’s processes?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Aside from being gas-powered, the ferry’s hull design and more efficient engine technology yield additional energy savings by reducing fuel consumption and methane emissions. The ferry route serving the coastal trunk road in Rogaland and Hordaland Counties has since 2007 been served by five such ferries from Fjord1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Daimler Trucks has launched the Mercedes-Benz OM 47x, under the name “Blue Efficiency Power” The Blue Efficiency Power generation of Mercedes-Benz engines has been specifically developed for use in Europe and is the first of its type to meet, from the outset, the Euro VI emission standard. Mercedes-Benz OM 471, with a 12.8-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The circular economy model implemented in Flins will be based on a set of complementary and convergent loops, aimed at encouraging the use of a vehicle instead of its ownership; extending its life through maintenance; and reusing it or reusing its components for other uses, when other solutions are no longer possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

liter gaosline engine combines turbocharging, direct fuel injection and VALVETRONIC for the first time. For its Technology Day 2009 in Germany, BMW focused on describing its work with aerodyanmics, engines and transmissions in the context of its EfficientDyanmics development strategy. Click to enlarge. Aerodynamic Test Center.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

Nissan sold its truck subsidiary to Volvo in 2007, Volkswagen renamed its truck and bus unit Traton in 2018 and listed it on the Frankfurt and Stockholm stock exchanges the following year. The scandal snowballed later that year when Hino said new problems were discovered in a light-duty engine, among revelations in other power plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

V6 TDI diesel engine. And yet clean diesel, one of the cleanest choices for putting the US on the road to energy independence, hasn’t see any sort of incentive since the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. The survey is similar to surveys run by UMTRI on the same topic in 2006 and 2007. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2012

According to the BMI study, while battery-powered vehicles are quickly making in-roads to this market, at major airports where baggage tractors run nearly continuously, time required for maintenance and battery charging requires costly backup equipment or results in loss of productivity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Funded by the DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), NREL’s Fleet Test & Evaluation (FT&E) team performed a 12-month evaluation of six MY 2007 P70D hybrid vans and six MY 2006 P70D standard diesel vans at a UPS location in Phoenix, collecting and analyzing fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

V8 Turbo Diesel engine. V8 Turbo Diesel since the partnership began in 2007. The new TITAN XD engine features more than 70% parts commonality with the commercial variant of the Cummins ISV5.0 engine family, which includes vehicles with 30,000-pound gross vehicle weight ratings. Earlier post.). V8 turbo diesel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

EEV (Enhanced Environmentally Friendly Vehicle) is a European classification used for engines which comply with a more stringent exhaust emission standard that reduces particulate emissions by roughly a further one-third compared to Euro 5 limits. The engines in the OM 920 and OM 501 series have been developed even further for this purpose.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Asset Management Optimization: improving the allocation of capital and operational expenses in upgrades and maintenance. A shift from “fixed” to “condition-based” maintenance plans based on model-driven asset failure predictions have the potential to deliver significant value creation opportunities for energy and utilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

3B engine maintains the displacement of the 2.0L TFSI turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine introduced at the Vienna Motor Symposium last week is the first of the company’s EA888 Gen.3B TFSI turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine introduced at the Vienna Motor Symposium last week is the first of the company’s EA888 Gen.3B

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 12, 2021

According to the Insurance Information Institute ( III ), data tracked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Fatal Accident Reporting System notes aggressive driving played a role in 56 percent of fatal crashes from 2003 and 2007, with excessive speed being the No. A poorly tuned engine burns more fuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Substantial improvements could be made to truck efficiency through a variety of existing and emerging technologies, including engine improvements, transmission enhancements, better aerodynamics and changes in systems and logistics. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was engaged to perform the vehicle and engine simulation modeling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Work will resume once the front-end engineering design is updated in 2011. The main engineering and procurement contracts for these two projects will be awarded in 2011. In downstream operations, spending is primarily focused on planned maintenance and investments to improve environmental performance. Approximately C$2.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

million tonnes emitted in 2007. Enefit280 was developed by Enefit Outotec Technology using Enefit’s extensive experience in Solid Heat Carrier shale oil technology and Outotec’s world-leading process and plant engineering solutions. Estonia is also working to halve energy sector-related CO 2 emissions in 2020 from the 15.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has published a report summarizing interviews with participants in the hydrogen-powered buses trials underway in more than 20 cities around the world from 2002 to 2007. Most participants noted that developing fuel cell bus maintenance facilities was not as challenging as expected. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

This has great appeal to them because we are extending the useful life of a fully depreciated asset and making it into a maintenance-free revenue-producing vehicle on the grid. Jasna Tomić and Willett Kempton (2007) Using fleets of electric-drive vehicles for grid support. —Dick Johnson. Earlier post.). of Delaware).

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Green Car Congress

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. Greening manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2011

Scania Euro 6 engine and aftertreatment system. Scania is unveiling 440 and 480 hp (324 and 353 kW) 13-liter Euro 6-compliant engines. The engines combine a range of technical solutions to meet the more stringent emission requirements, while the consumption of fuel is as good as Scania’s Euro 5 engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

From 1990 to 2007, the total number of registered civil-use vehicles in China grew from 5.5 Most of the passenger cars were very new (less than 4 years old) and about half of them had engines with displacements of less than 1.5 Inspection and Maintenance programs for in-use vehicles are weak.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV). DNA, RNA, other cellular proteins).We A huge potential market (e.g., —Huang and Zhang. Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The solicitation has two goals: 1) to develop infrastructure necessary to dispense hydrogen transportation fuel; and 2) to provide needed Operation and Maintenance (O&M) funding to support hydrogen refueling operations prior to the large—scale roll—out of Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs). The California Energy Commission (CEC) will award up to $29.9

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When considering the typical 3-5 year lifespan of a lead-acid battery in a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, many drivers assume that an EV battery requires regular replacement. With an extended lifespan, they reduce the need for replacements, minimize environmental impacts, and lower ownership costs.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 9, 2021

Embracing the EV maintenance future By Matt Lamontagne: Member, Electric Auto Association. Most people drove large V8-powered vehicles that required constant maintenance, and emissions and fuel economy standards were just emerging. I’m confident that every general repair shop can, and should, follow a similar path. Matt Lamontagne.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Heres our three-paragaph summary and a link to the first of several postings on the subject at CalCars-News : July 2007 EPRI-NRDC Definitive Study: PHEVs Will Reduce Emissions If Broadly Adopted The EPRI-NRDC studies finally give an environmental stamp of approval to PHEVs. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012.

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