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JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh TWh range—13–26%—respectively, of total electricity demand in 2050.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Poole, UK-based Continental Landscapes has contracted for four battery-electric Ford Transit-based light commercial vehicles from Carillon Fleet Management: two 4.6-tonne Ford and Smith announced a collaboration on all-electric light commercial vehicles in 2008. tonne Ford Transit beaver tail and two 3.5-tonne tonne tippers.

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Maintenance Light Commercial Ford 150

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APRIL 28, 2011

Mercedes-Benz Vans will supply a double-digit number of Vito E-CELL vehicles ( earlier post ) to Europcar for customer trials in Hamburg and Paris this year. It was also the first European company to develop an Environmental Charter, which sets out measurable goals and which was certified by Bureau Veritas in 2008.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Since 2008, when Foton Motor and Cummins established a joint venture, engines produced by Foton Cummins have covered light-duty and heavy-duty engine series, with emission standards meeting the requirements in the globally strictest emission-related laws and regulations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

In December 2008, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology selected China BAK’s “Electric Vehicles Lithium-phosphate Power Battery Industrialization Project” as a key project of the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program), with associated funding. Xiangqian Li, CEO of China BAK. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Unconventional liquids become increasingly important in the total supply of liquid fuels, according to IEO2011. The transportation sector accounted for 27% of total world delivered energy consumption in 2008, and transportation energy use increases by 1.4% per year from 2008 to 2035 in the reference case. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Another key characteristic of the niobium market is its highly concentrated supply. The Award Seminars were added to the annual Award event in 2008. The three largest producers—Brazil’s CBMM, CMOC and Canada’s Magris —have a combined 97% market share.

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Li-ion Industrial Industry Lithium Ion 378

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Other highlights of the latest Trends report include: Light truck market share decreased in MY 2012, but continues to be variable. Light trucks (pickups, minivans/vans, and truck SUVs), accounted for 36% of all light-duty vehicle production in MY 2012, the second lowest level since 1993. mpg, or 22%. square feet in MY 2012.

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MAY 7, 2011

On-road alternative fueled and hybrid vehicles made available 2009 (including light-, medium- and heavy-duty. more than in 2008. 2% from 2008. 2% from 2008. Inset pie chart shows type percentage of total AFV units. Click to enlarge. EIA estimates the inventory of AFVs in use by fleets in the US totaled 826,318 in 2009, 6.5%

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Vehicle kits will be supplied by GM China’s SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) joint venture. The N300 was introduced by SGMW in 2008 to address demand in China for a spacious vehicle for family and business use. It currently produces light commercial vehicles, light duty trucks and passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2013

Highlights from the major crude oil supplying countries to the United States in 2012 included: Canada. million bbl/d, up 14% from their 2011 level, and were the highest since 2008. Crude oil imports by the United States averaged a record 2.4 million bbl/d, up 8% from their 2011 level. Saudi Arabia. Crude oil imports averaged almost 1.4

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Saudi Arabia Oil Iraq Venezuela 262

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APRIL 3, 2019

concluded in a 2008 paper published in Science that the emissions associated with ethanol production and combustion exceeded the emissions associated with producing and combusting an energy-equivalent quantity of gasoline. Our objective is to assess corn ethanol’s current GHG profile in light of this new information.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. million barrels per day in 2008) will be challenging. The two volumes are mutually exclusive—the same supply of biomass is used in each case.). The report projects cellulosic ethanol could deliver 1.7

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

overall from 2008 to 2035. CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector are projected to remain at 33% of the total in 2035, but increase from 1,925 million metric tons in 2008 to 2,115 in 2035. It does include the revised handling of fuel economy standards to reflect the proposal for light-duty vehicles in model years 2012-2016.

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Renewable Oil 2010 Energy 199

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AUGUST 7, 2015

Refinery margins are currently supported by high gasoline crack spreads (the difference between the price of crude oil and the price of specific petroleum products extracted from it) that reached a peak of 66 cents per gallon (gal) on 8 July, a level not reached since September 2008. Total US motor gasoline product supplied is up 2.9%

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Gasoline 2014 Louisiana Oil 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has sold ten Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid ( earlier post ) trucks to Ireland’s leading utility company, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), in Dublin. The Canter Eco Hybrid light truck features a parallel hybrid system and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 5, 2023

When I first became a wise and fair judge for the 24 Hours of Lemons race series , back in 2008, I got a lot of static from Internet Car Experts who noted the large quantity of BMW E30s in every race and proclaimed that any E30 in any condition was worth at least ten times more than the Lemons $500 limit on car cost.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Codexis had earlier filed an S-1 in April 2008 anticipation of an IPO then; the company withdrew the registration in September 2008 in light of the collapsing economy. Biocatalyst company Codexis, Inc. Codexis’ objective is to be the leading provider of optimized biocatalyst-enabled solutions across a wide range of industries.

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Companies 2008 Water USA 170

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The purified syngas is processed through a fixed-bed tubular reactor where it reacts with a proprietary catalyst to form three intermediate FT products: a Heavy Fraction FT Liquids (HFTL) product; a Medium Fraction FT Liquids (MFTL) product; and a Light Fraction FT Liquids (LFTL) product, commonly called Naphtha. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 22, 2013

In an initial phase, it is to be used in the compact car segment, but it is also suitable for other passenger-car segments and light delivery trucks in urban traffic. The close collaboration between PSA Peugeot Citroën and Bosch dates back to an engineering alliance set up in 2008.

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Hybrid 2016 Gasoline-Electric Fuel 391

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APRIL 13, 2010

Approximately one hundred Renault and Nissan electric vehicles (sedans and light commercial vehicles) will be tested out by individual customers and professionals on the territory under the Opération d’Intérêt National Seine Aval, in Yvelines. million (US$8.8 Other partners in the project include Schneider Electric and Better Place.

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France Nissan Batteries Battery 199

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APRIL 18, 2011

Among domestic transportation sources, light duty vehicles (including passenger cars and light-duty trucks) represented 64% of CO 2 emissions, medium- and heavy-duty trucks 20%, commercial aircraft 6%, and other sources 9%. Light-duty truck CO 2 emissions increased by 60% (193.4

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2009 Emissions EPA Climate Change 207

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MARCH 2, 2013

The majority of the WCSB oil is considered a heavy crude oil, while Bakken crude is considered a light crude oil. Keystone XL is expected to carry predominantly either dilbit, synbit, or both, as well as synthetic crude oil and light crude oil produced from the Bakken. Nigerian light crude). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Shortly thereafter an Apple board member stated Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) suggested the company could build an EV around the time Tesla arrived on the automotive scene in 2008. Through several other negotiations, light glimmered in an actual agreement with VW. News slowed between 2022 and this week.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. To improve his chances, he worked as an intern for two of them. He began researching how solar energy technology worked.

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Nigeria Africa Solar Grid 70

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MARCH 17, 2010

Clearly, the development and production of clean energy technologies in the light-duty vehicle sector represents an enormous opportunity to maintain and create domestic employment. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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Clean Cleaning Climate Fuel Economy 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Construction in the United States will consist of two components that would have independent utility: the Alberta Clipper Pipeline itself and the Southern Lights Diluent Pipeline. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was published 5 December 2008. Public comments on the DEIS were accepted until 30 January 2009.

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Oil-Sands Oil Wisconsin United States 220

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APRIL 9, 2010

The Roadmap proposes completely transforming the US light-duty vehicle fleet into one in which grid-enabled mobility (grid-enabled vehicles, GEV) is the new conventional standard. By 2040, the report proposed, 75% of the light-duty vehicle miles traveled in the US should be electric miles. Federal Revenues. Annual Household Income.

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Grid 2008 Vehicles Oil 186

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The expanded upgrader capacity would be supplied by bitumen from the undeveloped Aurora South mine. This volume will exceed the upgrader’s expanded processing capacity, resulting in roughly 115,000 barrels of excess bitumen supply. and Imperial Oil. Nexen Oil Sands Partnership, and Petro-Canada Oil and Gas (Suncor).

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Oil-Sands Oil 2020 Canada 199

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MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. The strategy aims to provide a technology-neutral policy framework. Resources.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Vehicles 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While only 5% of all new vehicles in Europe were equipped with this system in 2008, Bosch predicts that this share will increase to 50% by 2012. For this system, Bosch supplies a special starter, whose electric starter motor as well as low-noise, enhanced meshing mechanics provide safe, fast, and quiet engine starts.

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Deep Cycle 2008 Kia Engine 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

NRC projections of number of PHEVs in the US light-duty fleet. Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 15, 2023

This was the biggest (relative) volume growth in the top 10 in May, let’s see if MG can sustain this level of supply (there’s no lack of demand). Jeep is now part of Stellantis Group, and the Avenger shares a powertrain with the updated versions of the Peugeot 2008, Citroen e-C4, Opel Mocha, Opel Astra, and similar Stellantis BEVs.

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France Plugin PHEV Jeep 59

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

from 2008–2012. from 2008–2012. By 2030, advances in vehicle emission controls can cut air pollution from light and heavy-duty vehicles by almost 70% compared to 2010. Efficient supply chains can increase farmer income 10-100%. from 1990 to 2012, with a negative GDP growth rate of –0.8% Non-Annex I countries averaged 4.8%

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 10, 2021

Panasonic Energy India Company is one of India’s largest manufacturers & suppliers of dry cell batteries and lighting products which was established in 1972 as Lakhanpal National Limited. The Company is a leading manufacturer and supplier of Zinc carbon, Alkaline, Lithium, Rechargeable batteries and lighting products.

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India Manufacturer Electric Vehicles Lithium Ion 105

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JUNE 13, 2013

The requirements of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) can be achieved through modest changes in the diversity of transportation fuels supplied to California, according to a report of the first phase of a two-phase, year-long project assessing the economic and environmental impacts of compliance with California’s LCFS out to 2020.

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