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DECEMBER 1, 2013

Now, researchers at Imperial College London have shown that bioethanol production from bamboo in China is both technically and economically feasible, as well as cost-competitive with gasoline. million tons in 2008. An open access paper on their study is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. gallon US) with tax exemption and a $0.16/liter

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) showcased the utility’s first extended-range electric truck with manufacturer VIA Motors at three Bay Area National Plug-In Day events—in San Francisco, San Rafael and Cupertino—on Sunday. The gasoline engine extends the range to 350 more miles.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

EPA projects advanced transmissions (6+ speeds and CVTs), gasoline direct injection (GDI) systems, and turbocharged engines will be installed on at least 15% of all MY 2013 vehicles. The majority of the emissions and fuel savings from current vehicles, EPA noted, is due to new gasoline vehicle technologies. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 9, 2015

While alternative powertrains still represent a small percentage of market share compared to gasoline engines, the report noted, clean diesels saw a 10% increase in 2014 sales over 2013 sales, while hybrids saw a 10% decrease, pure electrics saw a 20% increase and compressed natural gas saw a 33% decrease. Belzowski 2015. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The refreshed 2012 Mazda3, making its debut at the 2011 Canadian International AutoShow, will offer the option of Mazda’s new SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine and SKYACTIV-Drive automatic transmission ( earlier post ) when it is launched later this fall. SKYACTIV-G gasoline direct injection engine. Click to enlarge.

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Gasoline 2012 Engine Mazda 186

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Peugeot is introducing new Euro 6-compliant versions of its three-cylinder PureTech gasoline and four-cylinder BlueHDI diesel engines. The introduction of the new engines has reduced the average weighted CO 2 emissions of Peugeot’s European range to 111.2 The 308 range will expand to include the 1.2-liter liter BlueHDi engines.

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Gasoline Diesel Engine MPG 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

The new Peugeot 208 B-segment supermini, which launches this spring in Europe, will be available in 3- and 5-door bodystyles with a range of gasoline and diesel engines including a new 3-cylinder gasoline engine range and the latest generation of Stop & Start System (e-HDi) diesel engines. 208 gasoline range.

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Gasoline Diesel Engine France 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Brazilian government has rolled back the anhydrous ethanol blend level in gasoline from 25% to 20% for a period of 90 days, effective 1 February. Under Brazilian federal law, the anhydrous ethanol content of all gasoline sold in the country must be between 20% and 25%. Hydrous ethanol is the more popular fuel in Brazil.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Right now, here in 2008 the cat is on the roof for global warming. You’ll have free fuel for life for your new clean burning electric car, you’ll end your dependence on gasoline of any kind and you’ll stop pumping more C02 into the atmosphere. ” “What!? I understand. How’s mom doing?”

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2008 Climate Change Climate Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Average CO 2 emissions from new cars sold in the UK in 2008 fell to 158.0 g/km in 2008—4.2% mpg US for gasoline and 39.9 The SMMT report notes that the slowdown in the overall new car market in 2008/09 is likely to mean a reduction in the pace of fleet renewal, resulting in a slower pace for dropping emissions in the parc.

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2008 Emissions CO2 2007 150

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APRIL 22, 2010

The total lead inventory for 2008 will be available in 2010. EPA has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on lead emissions from piston-engine aircraft using leaded aviation gasoline (avgas). The concentration of lead in avgas can be one of four levels (ranging from 0.14 Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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EPA Gasoline Emissions 2008 199

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JULY 14, 2014

Volkswagen is endowing its the new version of its Scirocco sports coupé with a range of six new gasoline (TSI) and diesel (TDI) engines delivering more power and better fuel economy. Coupés have been an important part of the Volkswagen model range for decades. With its entry-level engines, the Scirocco consumes 5.4 l/100 km (43.6

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 26, 2022

Then along came petroleum and the refining of gasoline. 80 mile range. 35 mile range. 40 mile range. 70 mile range. 50 mile range. 50 mile range. 100 mile range. 72 mile range. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 211 mile range.

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Future Los Angeles Building EV1 84

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

liter PureTech e-THP three-cylinder turbocharged gasoline engines and new BlueHDi diesel emissions technology, to appear on several versions of PEUGEOT 308, 308 SW and 508—at the forthcoming Geneva Motor Show. Peugeot is extending the 308 range with a second body style: the SW. The Peugeot 108. liter VTi 68bhp and 1.2-liter

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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.” The full range of SKYACTIV technologies (i.e., air-to-fuel ratio. pumping loss.

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Mazda Engine Gasoline Diesel 322

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The new Regal, drawing on work on the award-winning Opel Insignia, will offer two gasoline direct-injection engines and is directly targeted at competitors such as the Acura TSX and Volvo S60. The Regal has already gone on sale in China in December 2008 and more than 64,000 Regals have been sold there. The 2011 Buick Regal.

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Buick 2011 Gasoline GM 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. There are a number of possible reasons for the large range.

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Davis Renewable Gasoline Market 300

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MARCH 19, 2014

The Peugeot 308, recently awarded European Car of the Year 2014, completes its range with the arrival of the new PureTech e-THP 1.2-liter liter turbo gasoline engine ( earlier post ), producing 130 bhp (97 kW). liter e-THP 130 turbo gasoline engine with a manual six-speed gearbox was driven for more than 32 hours to consume the 51.4-liter

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Engine Fuel Fuel Economy MPG 220

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JANUARY 20, 2020

With more than 550,000 hybrid electric vehicles sold, representing 52% of the total mix, Toyota and Lexus offers a total of 20 hybrid models, the widest range of full hybrid electric vehicles in the industry. With sales of 1,002,216 vehicles, Toyota sold more than one million vehicles for the first time since 2008 delivering 4.5%

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Europe 2019 Toyota Hybrid 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

The Shell-branded station offers both Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gasolines and hydrogen and will be open 24 hours a day. Shell opened the first integrated gasoline/hydrogen station in California in 2008 (in West LA) and, most recently, its first pipeline-fed hydrogen fueling station in Torrance in 2011.

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Hydrogen California Fuel North America 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

This bio-oil will then be upgraded to gasoline, jet and diesel fuels using catalytic hydroprocessing technology being developed by UOP. The process tends to deliver predominantly a gasoline fraction; the size of the jet fuel and diesel fractions vary depending upon the biomass. UOP, Ensyn and Envergent. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp.

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Hawaii Gasoline Oil-Sands Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2011

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company has filed a US patent application (# 20100326387 , published 30 December 2010) on methods using a wide range of fuel-alcohol blends to expand the operating envelope of engines operating in advanced combustion modes. reduced maximum rates of pressure increase during HTHR.

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Alcohol Blend Fuel Range Exhaust 199

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JANUARY 1, 2011

Key developments in the transportation sector that they note include: Positive for gasoline demand: Strong Chinese car growth in 2010, particularly in the first half of the year, with vehicle sales up 30% year-on-year (YoY) through the first eleven months of 2010. In the US hybrids fell from about 3% of total sales in 2008-09 to 2.2%

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Transportation Gasoline Lithium Ion Gasoline-Electric 250

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AUGUST 25, 2017

In the UK, Hyundai Motor has launched a gasoline and diesel scrappage and trade-in scheme that offers up to £5,000 (US$6,416) off the price of a new model and seeks to improve air quality across the UK by making it easier and more affordable to drive a new, lower emission car. i10 will also benefit from £1,500 saving.

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Scrappage Hyundai Price Tucson 150

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APRIL 4, 2012

million units, according to Autodata—the highest monthly total since 2008. While light-vehicle sales have been strong in the first quarter of 2012, rising gasoline prices—which averaged $3.92 of new light vehicles sold in 2008, these engines were fitted in only 14.6%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

The results mark the highest February volume since 2008, when 1.19 million cars were registered, as well as constituting the highest YTD volume since 2008, with 2.44 in February, as gasoline car registrations increased by 16%. This was due to the performances of its SUV range and its compact cars, which accounted for 24.4%

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SUV Diesel Europe Market 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2011

A 2008 paper by a team at the University of Michigan. The effect on long-term savings for the LED system depended upon the type of vehicle in use (gasoline-powered vs. electric). While the long-term fuel cost savings (dollars) were higher for the gasoline-powered vehicle, long-term distance savings (range) favored the electric vehicle.

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Light All-Electric Electric Vehicles Vehicles 244

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2009

Australia-based Revetec is designing what it calls the Controlled Combustion Engine (CCE)—a cam-drive gasoline spark-ignited internal combustion engine that is smaller, lighter, cleaner, less expensive to manufacture and that produces higher torque due to higher mechanical transfer than equivalent conventional engines. Click to enlarge.

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Engine Gasoline Production China 240

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MAY 12, 2009

EnerFuel is developing advanced high-temperature PEM fuel cell systems and is currently focused on developing a range extender for electric vehicles, said Daniel Betts, EnerFuel’s Principle Engineer and on the executive management team, on the conference call.

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Range Electric Vehicles Fuel Li-ion 150

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Mazda Engine Concept Fuel Economy 170

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MAY 29, 2010

EnerFuel is developing a HT PEM cell/on-board reformer system that enables the use of conventional fuels in the fuel cell range extender. In 2008, EnerFuel developed a prototype to demonstrate the advantages of a fuel cell EV range extender. Source: EnerFuel. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Car makers continue to update and modernise their traditional models, while the range of SUVs on offer continues to grow and appeal to all kinds of budgets and needs. The diesel crisis certainly affected the speed of growth in the market, but consumers are overcoming this by turning to more attractive gasoline and AFV solutions.

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SUV Diesel Market Finland 236

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MARCH 5, 2013

Like electric hybrids, the hydraulic hybrid system is able to support gasoline and diesel engines in ranges where they do not work at optimum efficiency. The pressure accumulator has a more limited capacity and range than the lithium-ion batteries found in electric cars. Hydraulic hybrid powertrain. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We introduced the FCX Clarity sedan in 2008. One significant advantage of FCEV technology is its ability to provide long-range driving capability without requiring lengthy recharging times. The upcoming Honda hydrogen vehicle is expected to come in 2024 with improved performance, range, and affordability compared to its predecessors.

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MAY 28, 2009

GM approaches to extending the operating range of classic HCCI. General Motors last week again highlighted the progress it is making with advanced HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) gasoline engines by showcasing a demonstrator unit. Then in the Spring of 2008.we Adapted from Yun et al.

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Range GM 2009 Engine 150

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

This includes determining the optimal operating conditions for processing algae crude oil into American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)-certified diesel, gasoline and jet fuel. In 2008, the Company successfully produced 91-octane gasoline from algae that fully conformed to ASTM standards.

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Oil Energy San Diego Columbus 199

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline. The Cool Planet plant will produce approximately 8 million to 10 million gallons of high-octane, renewable gasoline blendstocks (reformate), as well the biochar, all made from sustainable wood residues. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308