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AUGUST 2, 2010

The new Saab 9-5 will eventually come with a choice of five engines, fuelled by petrol, E85 (bioethanol) and diesel, all of which will be turbocharged. Tags: Road Tests saab 2010 9-5 road test. Starting with the diesels, there will be one fou.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Tuesday 13 September 2010: The Green Piece Hybrid cars in their conventional form – we’re not talking about range extended vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles – were widely seen as the perfect transitional vehicles between the era of petrol/diesel and electrification. Tags: Hybrid cars The Green Piece.

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JANUARY 1, 2010

Energy Minister Wannarat Channukul said the government had set a goal to increase ethanol content in motor fuels to 2 million litres per day in 2010 from an average of 1.5 Total petrol consumption including gasohol currently averages between 20 million and 22 million litres per day.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Petrol, a mixture of C 4 –C 12 short-chain hydrocarbons (SCHCs), is a liquid fuel primarily used in internal combustion engines. Although short-chain alcohols were produced to substitute for petrol, they are inferior to petrol in their fuel properties. Here we report the development of engineered E.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Fiat’s two-cylinder TwinAir engine family made its debut with the TwinAir 85 HP in the Fiat 500 in 2010. MultiAir Turbo Petrol (with manual gearbox or Alfa TCT automatic transmission); and the 170 HP 1.4 MultiAir Turbo Petrol. Specific power is almost 120 hp/liter, a value on a par with sportier engines. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 4, 2011

In 2010, the average CO 2 emission was 165 gm/km. for petrol cars and from 15.5 The draft fuel efficiency standard based on CAFE will be notified in May, a Road Transport ministry official told HT. The draft standard will be CO 2 emission of 135 gm/km for entire fleet in 2015. It will mean fleet fuel efficiency to improve from 14.1

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2010

It goes without saying that we all want our petrol engines to achieve better fuel economy at a lower cost – however, according to a new study, US vehicle owners would rather existing engine choices achieve this goal over opting for higher priced alternative fuel engines.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

In 2010 DSB and Better Place will establish a pilot project based on a shared EV scheme that will include approximately 10 electric cars at each station. Together, DSB and Better Place will provide a more convenient, more environmentally friendly transportation solution that allows Danes to be green from door-to-door.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

As the Los Angeles Motor Show inches ever closer, more announcements are being made about exciting new vehicles with a distinctly green theme that will debut at the event. It achieves around 30 per cent better fuel economy than a comparable petrol engine and includes an AdBlue SCR system. It will be available from spring 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Despite the buzz around hybrid and electric vehicles, it is clear that automakers will be looking primarily at turbocharged engines to help green their fleets and meet the regulatory targets like CAFE in the US. The growth in all regions is primarily driven by increased adoption of smaller, turbocharged gasoline engines.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Tags: Global warming Green cars Latest news emissions ethanol fossil fuels fuel prices oil prices petrol prices.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

in 2018—the slowest rate since 2010—according to Energy Efficiency 2019 , the IEA’s annual report on energy efficiency. Another factor affecting technical efficiency in recent years has been the shift away from diesel vehicles, which are mostly being replaced with petrol vehicles. This was slower than the 1.7%

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Now at the Frankfurt Motor Show Ford has announced a new family of petrol engines offering the opportunity to down size engine capacity without suffering a reduction in performance. In fact, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced by up to 20 per cent compared to a conventional petrol engine. litre and 2.0 “With the 2.0-litre

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MARCH 18, 2010

It won Green Car Journal’s 2010 Green Car Vision Award recently, for satisfying all the needs of a modern driver, whilst at the same time producing zero localised emissions and requiring no petrol. Nissan is committed to new fuel efficient green cars, expecting the market to fill 10 per cent of the auto industry by 2020.

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Demand is so high for green cars after government incentives were introduced in Japan, that the Honda Motor Company, the country’s number two car manufacturer, has said it will start partial weekend shifts at two factories in a bid to push low emission vehicles off the production line.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The Green Piece: September 8, 2009. However, with Japanese rivals such as Toyota and Honda having burst into an early lead in the green car race and Chinese manufacturers challenging the dominance of the traditional ‘big name’ manufacturers, is there room for the new GM to succeed? Starting from 2010 its 2.4l Faye Sunderland.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Biobutanol is a biofuel that can be made from all the same crops as bioethanol and can be blended into petrol at higher levels, which means that we’ll be able to introduce biofuels more quickly. Biobutanol is a new lower-carbon fuel and we are excited about demonstrating this technology in the Humberside region.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 26, 2010

Compressed natural gas (CNG) has long been seen as a cleaner alternative to petrol and diesel but questions remained about how to get the most out of this fuel. Tags: Green cars Latest news CNG CNG cars CNG efficiency compressed natural gas natural gas cars SAE 2010 World Congress University of Stuttgart. They presented a [.].

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MAY 5, 2010

Where we stand: May 2010 Through its Alliance with Nissan, French automaker Renault has been one of the leaders in the production of zero emission electric vehicles and has plans to mass market a range of electric cars from 2011 onwards (see article). In recent weeks it has released the final designs of its zero emission [.].

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MARCH 9, 2010

liter Ford EcoBoost will be launched in the all-new C-MAX and Grand C-MAX models in late 2010, followed by the next-generation Focus in early 2011. liter engine with 203 PS (200 hp, 149 kW) is being launched in the latest 2010 S-MAX, Galaxy and Mondeo models, which are now in production at Ford’s Genk plant in Belgium. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. This was the first time the average emissions increased since the monitoring started in 2010. g CO 2 /km) since 2012.

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MARCH 12, 2010

A range extended electric conversion of the Ford F-150 has been revealed as part of the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit. It includes [.].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show last month, Ford Motor Company confirmed that its global electric vehicles plan would be extending to Europe with five full electric or hybrid vehicles across its C, CD and light commercial vehicle ranges coming for European customers by 2013. A plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle also to be introduced in 2013.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

What role will green cars play? The entry of biofuels into the system will encourage Brazil to increase its sugar production with sugar cane derived ethanol cutting around 90 per cent of carbon emissions of petrol. The European Union has already established a goal for 10 per cent of all petrol and diesel sales to be biofuel by 2020.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Fuel price: A 5% per annum fuel price escalator is introduced from 2010 onwards producing a 600% fuel price increase by 2050 for all road vehicles. In particular, the fiscal measures alone may render petrol/diesel powered vehicles prohibitively expensive compared with say, PEVs. A short-term elasticity factor of -0.25

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JUNE 10, 2010

The rules for certification schemes are part of a set of guidelines explaining how the Renewable Energy Directive, coming into effect in December 2010, should be implemented. We have to ensure that the biofuels used are also sustainable. The Communication sets standards requiring this auditing to be reliable and fraud-resistant.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This uses a new balanced servo valve that delivers high accuracy in fuel injection quantity control as well as up to three per cent lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and up to 20 per cent fewer nitrogen oxide emissions. - Petrol engines: Chrysler plans to introduce the next generation Pentastar V6 in Q2 2010.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 5, 2011

It was once almost unthinkable that diesel models could out-sell their petrol counterparts – but that’s exactly what is happening with the Audi brand. The German carmaker has reported that diesels accounted for nearly 53 per cent of vehicles sold in the Audi A3 line and 43 per cent of the Q7 line during 2010. [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In Ulm, 20,000 customers currently use the 200 smart fortwo cdis, which will be replaced in the fourth quarter of 2010 with 300 of the new car2go edition smart fortwo mhds. All of the cars are equipped with a consumption-optimized petrol engine, automatic start/stop system, a newly developed telematics generation and a solar roof.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

Though a petrol engine version of the vehicle will also be produced, the hybrid version has won the approval of the British Government which announced it would offer incentives for Land Rover to produce a new, green vehicle. The Land-e concept form allows its drivers to run in petrol only, electric only, or hybrid modes.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Methanol is a petrol and not suitable as a diesel fuel component, but can be dehydrated to form dimethyl ether (DME) with a high cetane number. The comparative figure for diesel is 113 g/km CO 2.). In a 2011 study, a team from MAN Truck & Bus noted that: CO 2 can be recycled into methanol by reaction with electrolysis hydrogen.

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Green Cars News

JULY 7, 2009

The Green Piece - Tuesday 7th July 2009. Once envisioned as futuristic, and the ultimate travelling option of the 21st Century, it has been maligned as slow, clunky and arguably not all that green at all. Tags: The Green Piece Volkswagen green piece. Life has never run smoothly for the electric car. Faye Sunderland.

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APRIL 9, 2015

25 car developed in 2010 using specially formulated Shell lubricants. Why a petrol car? Development of the lubricants, engine and vehicle will be completely integrated. The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

petrol engine is not running. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. The Atkinson cycle petrol engine was made for regular stop-starts and is very reliable. Yes, the climate control is also electric, making it also working when the 1.5

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The green innovations continue to come thick and fast from the leading car manufacturers with Ford announcing the second member of its turbocharged, petrol direct-injection EcoBoost family. While announcing the new EcoBoost at a media overview, Ford also unveiled its 2010 product line-up with 30 new powertrain actions globally.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Our PowerPulse technology is designed to deliver a distinct performance boost to our diesel engine, while the T8 Twin Engine petrol plug-in hybrid will deliver around 410 hp and a pure electric range of around 50 km. In 2010, Volvo Cars was acquired by Geely Holding. We have a very strong offer in the V90.

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JUNE 21, 2013

A Zero Emission on Demand option where the driver can switch between electric and petrol-powered drive is a future direction for road cars, so that will be tested in addition to pure electric power and other new technologies that we still have under development.

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