Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Umicore will build an industrial scale recycling facility for end-of-life rechargeable batteries in Hoboken, Belgium. million) is expected to start operating in the first half of 2011. This recycling process has high metal yields and will cut CO 2 emissions compared to the primary production of cobalt and nickel.
Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2016
Regulatory regimes seeking to reduce emissions from transport have largely focused on tailpipe emissions—i.e., 2013 found that the ratio of non-exhaust to exhaust particles is strongly increasing in the last two decades, due to exhaust emission reductions. Further, a 2013 review by Denier van der Gon et al. earlier post ).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 27, 2012
When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
LeasePlan, a Dutch financial institution specializing in fleet management, and Nissan signed an agreement to cooperate in a European-wide project to launch the electric Nissan LEAF in 2011. The project will focus on driver behaviour and the operational side of running a fleet of zero-emission battery-powered cars.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2015
Volkswagen confirmed on Thursday that no software constituting an improper emissions control defeat device as defined in law is installed in vehicles with EA 288 EU5- or EU6-engines in the European Union. In Belgium, some 320,000 affected vehicles—models with the EA 189-type diesel engine and a displacement of 1.2
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 23, 2011
Compared to using a conventional diesel engine, Keolis reduces carbon-dioxide emissions by 70% by using ethanol; for RME, the corresponding figure is 64%. By the second half of 2011 Keolis’ vehicle fleet in Sweden will consist of approximately 2,000 buses, of which more than 60% will be running on renewable fuels.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2016
In 2011, TS LNG and Dunkerque LNG (a subsidiary of EDF) signed a turnkey contract to build the processing plant for the terminal. Its commercial operations are slated to begin in mid-September. Since then, Techint E&C and SENER have worked together to build and launch a high-efficiency, high-performance plant. needed for operations.
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