Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

(TOTE) cargo ships will now plug into electrical power and shut down diesel engines while docked during weekly calls at their Tacoma terminal. million shore power project will reduce diesel and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% during TOTE’s 100 ship calls each year in Tacoma. That equals about 1.9

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

has introduced a fuel-efficient, high-performance diesel hybrid electric powertrain, “Q-Force”. million contract ( earlier post ) to develop a diesel hybrid electric version of its Alternative Mobility Vehicle (AMV) “Aggressor.” ( Earlier post.). Tags: Diesel Hybrids. Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.

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MAY 30, 2009

the maker of Subarus, is planning to introduce diesel light-duty vehicles in the Japan market as early as 2011. The automaker will introduce passenger cars powered by a diesel version of its unique boxer engine, aiming to develop diesel models of its existing car lines. The diesel Legacy accounts for 54.1%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

Ford will bring the all-new Ford Transit commercial van to market with an option for an all-new diesel engine as well as the 3.5L in 2008 to 53.7% EcoBoost V6. Earlier post.) Ford says that the new Transit, which begins production in Kansas City in 2013, will achieve at least 25% better fuel economy than current E-Series vans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Shore Power is a shore-to-ship connection that provides electrical power to the ship, thereby significantly reducing diesel and other air pollutant emissions from ships while they are at berth. With our shore power project we expect to knock another 11 tons of diesel particulate matter out of the air.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2010

The European Investment Bank and PSA Peugeot Citroën signed a €200-million (US$259-million) loan agreement to finance the carmaker’s program to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles. Since December 2008, the EIB has granted €8.6 Tags: Europe Hybrids Plug-ins. billion in loans to carmakers and automotive equipment manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Navistar Corporation for negotiation of a cost-shared award of up to $10 million to develop, test, and deploy plug-in hybrid electric school buses. Navistar subsidiary IC Corporation—North America’s largest school bus manufacturer—has already introduced a hybrid school bus with a plug-in option.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

However, while Mazda plans to offer hybrid vehicles in the medium-term, its engineers are pushing hard to increase the efficiencies of both the gasoline and diesel platforms, moving toward what they call “the ideal Internal Combustion Engine.” Mazda said it is weighing bringing the diesel to North America as well.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Using ultracapacitor energy storage to further reduce life cycle costs, this next-generation hybrid bus has achieved Ultra Low Emission Bus certification with 37% lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional diesel buses. miles) zero-emission range without a need for plug-in charging. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The American Lung Association oversees the Clean Air Choice program throughout the United States promoting alternative renewable fuels such as biodiesel and E85, partnering with fleets to replace legacy diesel engines, and by supporting the clean-air advantages of electric and hybrid vehicles. Upstream GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines have increased market share ten-fold from less than 3% in MY 2008 to more than 30% in MY 2013. Turbochargers, which are often used in conjunction with GDI, have increased market share by a factor of five since MY 2008. l/100 km) or more in MY 2013 than in MY 2008.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Advanced durability of ignition components to allow longer maintenance intervals comparable to diesel engine operation. Current ignition systems in natural gas engines are also experiencing premature wear, leading to replacement of spark plugs and spark plug wiring in shorter time intervals compared to conventional?fueled

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The second generation of MINI, introduced in 2000, optimized the relationship between fun driving and fuel consumption, including the introduction of diesel engines. In 2008, MINI was a trailblazer for electromobility in the BMW Group. With the MINI Countryman Plug-in Hybrid alone, (combined fuel consumption: 2.0 – 1.7

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Grail Engine Technologies , the designer of a two-stroke engine using forced semi-homogeneous charged compression ignition (FS-HCCI) combustion, has adopted the Pulstar pulse plugs from Enerpulse ( earlier post ). All of the fuel in the chamber is burned simultaneously. Matthew Riley. Elements of the Grail Engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the SKYACTIV-X, spark plug ignition is used to control compression ignition, resulting in significant improvements across a range of important performance indicators. Coming after Mazda’s SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine and SKYACTIV-D diesel engine, this third SKYACTIV engine has been given the new name of “X” in recognition of this dual role.

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Mazda Engine Concept Fuel Economy 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. 29f21c0cbca83138705c33c58e16f247. >. Indeed, the BEV figures were only 10,000 units less than the hybrids.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The switch to an all-electric won’t be easy for Alfa engineers as the current Tonale, that offers diesel, mild-hybrid and full plug-in hybrid powertrains, is based on an old platform never designed to package heavy batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In July 2008, Westport announced an agreement with Volvo to integrate and test Westport’s HD system on Volvo engines. The Westport HPDI fuel system uses natural gas as the primary fuel, along with a small amount of diesel as an ignition source or “liquid spark plug”. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2007

In the wake of the Chevy Volt presentation by GM, my "plug-in hybrid" google alert has filled my inbox with reports from other automakers about their PHEV projects. You can't keep such a good idea as plug-in hybrids down, but it can be delayed. 50,000 grants of $10,000 to purchasers of plug-in cars might just drive the market.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The system will support the growth in manufacturing and demand for plug-in electric vehicles. Additionally, UC Riverside plans to convert a trolley from diesel to electric power to shuttle students and area residents around UC Riverside.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Each colored stacked bar represents credits generated via low carbon fuels; the red line represents the deficits from forecasted CARBOB and ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) consumption. Apart from biofuels, increasing natural gas supplies and lower fuel pricing than diesel have renewed interest in natural gas in the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

By 2030, the study concludes, low-carbon fuels could replace more than a quarter of the gasoline and diesel used by vehicles in the Pacific Coast region by 2030, with a reduction in the overall carbon intensity of on-road transportation fuels of 14%–21%. First-generation biofuels (e.g.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. as stated.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Capstone microturbines can run on diesel, bio-diesel, ethanol, methanol, jet fuel, propane and compressed natural gas. The diesel-fueled Capstone microturbine produces ultra-low emissions and requires less maintenance than the traditional combustion engine found in today’s hybrid-electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

His body of work on on the underlying the theory and algorithms for this this extends back several years to his 2008 doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan (subsequently published as a book: Real-time, self-learning identification and stochastic optimal control of advanced powertrain systems ). Malikopoulos, Andreas A. and Tzortzis, I.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well. billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2008. PECO serves 1.6 PECO serves 1.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2010

Bosch anticipates that electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will take almost a 3% share of the global new car market in 2020. PSA Peugeot Citroën and Bosch have formed an engineering alliance to develop diesel hybrids with electric four-wheel drive, which will go into series production in 2011. Source: Bosch. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Plug-ins are trending in key markets around the country, although much of the action remains focused in California and other West Coast states. The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S. Don’t forget the Korean plug-ins. BMW starts adding plugs throughout its lineup. for 2016, followed by the Model X.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Norway also lets EV use bus lanes and special parking bays making ownership more beneficial than ICE in the city, Norway plans to outlaw pure Petrol or Diesel vehicles in 2025 – the country with the earliest ICE free deadline and 5 years before the UK’s deadline. 12 Peugeot e-2008 Electric car 2 257 2.04 Cliff edge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

was improperly secured by Remy and referenced in Remy’s application for $60 million in taxpayer grants from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in October 2008. The lawsuit claims that proprietary technology (called High Voltage Hairpin (HVH) stator winding technology by Remy, earlier post ) developed by Tecnomatic S.p.A.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The Energy Commission’s first investment plan combined $176 million in funds from fiscal years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. 24 million to help develop and produce biofuels such as gasoline and diesel substitutes and renewable natural gas. The second investment plan, for fiscal year 2010-2011, provided $83 million.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Of those surveyed, 28% say they would consider buying a vehicle with an electrified powertrain; though few have first-hand experience of such vehicles (8% have owned or driven a hybrid electric vehicle and 6% have owned or driven a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or pure battery electric vehicle). Future mobility solutions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Strong income tax credits for the purchase of new diesel, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles are very expensive and essentially ineffective at reducing GHG emissions from transportation. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels. Second, the tax credits give a significant boost to diesel vehicles.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

W e've had the people in our shop go over the new energy bill with an eye for Plug Ins and electric transportation in general. 90 million per year authorized (2008-2012). 90 million per year authorized (2008-2012). Clearly, this bill will accelerate the development of Plug Ins and energy storage in general.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Commission also approved funding of $220,554 to expand the campus’ burgeoning charging network for plug-in electric vehicles, through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. The Commission approved a $1.6-million

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 30, 2008

A nother major manufacturer is jumping on the plug in hybrid bandwagon. If all goes as planned, VW is hoping to introduce the technology on vehicles by 2010, that magical year when plug-in electric vehicles being promised by multiple automakers are supposed to hit the world's roads. But, there's also a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

liter twin turbo diesel with 2,000-bar injection pressure; and an 8-speed automatic transmission that can also be used in a hybrid application. According to statistics compiled by the German Motor Vehicle Registration Authority cited by BMW, the average fuel consumption of all BMW and MINI vehicles registered in Germany in 2008 is 5.9

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