Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

Members of the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee approved a draft law setting out rules for achieving a 147 g CO 2 /km (235 g/mile) target for new light commercial vehicles by 2020, down from 203 g/km (325 g/mile) today—i.e., The vote was 53 to 4 with 1 abstention. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2012

Europe’s car are getting cleaner, the latest data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows, suggesting that carmakers are on the way to achieving EU targets. km CO2-a 4.6g/km Last year, 12.8 million new cars were registered in the EU, with an average emission level of 135.7g/km km improvement on 2010. per [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The environment committee of the European Parliament approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 gCO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015. The draft also sets indicative targets for post-2020 CO 2 emissions in the range of 68-78 g/km (109-126 g/mile) from 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Funded by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, the case study is described in a paper published in the May issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production. If the 3-D components evaluated in the case study are used to their full potential, Masanet predicted it would greatly benefit the environment in more than one way.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Manufacturers measure vehicle fuel consumption in a controlled laboratory environment, using a test procedure called the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). for selected brands in 2001 and 2015. United Kingdom), km77.com com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. Source: The ICCT.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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