Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Many consumers are unfamiliar with electric vehicles and their performance, while at the same time they may harbor common misperceptions about vehicle types, safety, range, impact on their electricity bills, and other facets of electric vehicle ownership. Lack of appeal to a broader market. The author of this policy paper is Ethan N.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

This was made possible by the OppCharge interface, which is compatible with a range of bus models, including electric hybrids. Östersund was presented with the European Mobility Week Award in 2015 in recognition of the council’s work providing sustainable transport options in the city.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Inspired by the Japanese concept of sato-umi —the convergence of land and sea where human and marine life can harmoniously coexist—Honda has established the Honda Marine Science Foundation , a new initiative to address marine ecosystem restoration and the impact of humans and climate change on oceans and intertidal areas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The regulations also provide joint, enforceable standards for development and use of carbon offsets, as well as a range of steps to ensure the security of the market. Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climate change and steer our economy toward a clean energy future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The ranges of the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided carbon are narrower for the future technology pathways, reflecting the expected economic competitiveness of these alternative vehicles and fuels. transportation sector. automotive and energy industries. 350 g CO2 e/mi for ICEVs and ?250

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

But in an open access paper published in the recent edition of the journal Atmospheric Pollution Research , U of T chemical engineer Greg Evans and his partners at Environment Canada have found that concentrations of pollutants from traffic are still double at a distance of 280 meters downwind from highway 400 north of Toronto. Zimmerman, N.,

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Another notable environmental benefit of electric autos is their potential to mitigate climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

In its 2015-2020 Transportation Electrification Action Plan, Québec set a target of 100,000 registered plug-in vehicles by 2020. Every sale or lease of a ZEV recognized by the Minister will earn the manufacturer a number of credits based on the vehicle’s electric range.

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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

JULY 18, 2017

Based on the structure of production in 2015, at least 457,000 employees are involved in producing types of products which would be directly affected by the ban (e.g., Preventing competition among environmental protection technologies with bans is a waste of resources and does a disservice to climate protection. diesel engines).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the really interesting things with these grasses is that the climate in which they have found themselves has changed a lot over the last several hundred thousand years. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. And as glaciers retreated, the populations expanded north. Tom Juenger. Kathrine D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The Smart City Challenge builds on the USDOT's Beyond Traffic draft report issued in February of 2015. Applicants are invited to submit ideas—designed to address or enhance community needs—across a range of innovation and data-driven platforms. Additionally, Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc., Allen’s Vulcan Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

grams in 2011 and a mandatory target of 130 grams in 2015. The proposals would amend two existing regulations establishing binding requirements for manufacturers to meet the 2015 mandatory target for cars and the 2017 target for vans. With our proposals we are not only protecting the climate and saving consumers money.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The competition, which will support a range of powertrain technologies, will open on 2 December 2013, with projects expected to begin from April 2014. The LUTZ project is being developed to explore the potential for intelligent mobility concepts within the urban environment. Autonomous driving Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million) grant from the Regional Development Agency One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Subsequent expansion could turn the initial plant into a fully integrated bio-refinery by 2015. The challenge now, in the current economic environment, is to commercialize in Europe. million (US$5.9 million (US$3.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

Benefits of the PowerPac for the transport sector would be the ability to produce electricity for climate control without running the engines when resting or loading/unloading. It is cheaper than running the engine, and is also silent (which would further improve driver environment). biodiesel, methanol, ethanol, DME and biogas).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

The planned research flights are intended to determine particle emissions and how they affect cloud formation through contrails, thus investigating their impact on the climate. The ECLIF campaign followed in 2015 and was led by DLR in Germany, with the involvement of a number of NASA researchers. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted by 2015—are “ anything but encouraging ”, according to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry. The results of massive plantings of Jatropha worldwide for use as a biofuel feedstock—some 12.8

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Because they make driving safer and more comfortable, because they conserve resources and protect the environment, and because they bring together the mobile and the digital worlds. And, more importantly, this is about our responsibility for protecting the climate. This means the Group is already well below the legal limit for 2015.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at the Arctic University of Norway have discovered a growing Arctic abiotic methane- and methane hydrate–charged sediment drift on oceanic crust in the deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean. —Jürgen Mienert. Arctic Natural Gas'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Potential mainstream usage of PEVs could vary widely by province, where electricity de- mand could range from 6.8 Data collected for this study came from two distinct surveys: the 2015 Plug-in Electric Vehicle Owners Survey (PEVOS, n = 94) and the 2013 New Vehicle Owners Survey (NVOS, n = 1754). kWh/day per vehicle. Axsen, J.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Taking this further, they estimated that the warming associated with the use of heavy oil amounts to this level of emissions could lead to about 0.002−0.009 °C increase in earth surface temperature, based on mid-21 st century carbon-climate response model estimates. The team established a NER range of 2.7-7.3 —Nduagu & Gates.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. In 2015, Neste initiated a two-year study project to verify the methane emission reduction for a newly applied effluent treatment method. —Asta Soininen, Neste researcher.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2012

GFEI was launched in 2009 as a partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation. —“Global Fuel Economy Initiative Plan of Action 2012-2015. 2012 is therefore a very important year. Policy support.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It analyses the methodological issues raised within the scientific community about assessing the impacts of the maritime sector on the environment, and identifies shortcomings in reliable and comprehensive sources of information. of Sulphur content by 2015, as is already the case in the EU ports due to EU legislation.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

A better understanding of this zone is crucial to both improving short-term weather and navigation forecasts as well as long-term climate models. But it’s a tough environment for scientific instruments. Hz, and longer swells, which range from about 0.08

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The project will focus on developing cost-efficient solutions tailored to Finnish conditions that will enable the 20% bio-component target set for automotive fuel in 2020 as part of national climate goals to be achieved. We believe that Finland needs a range of alternative biofuel solutions as we go forward.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

Although NO x emissions were reduced by just under 60% between 1990 and 2015, the NO x load in 28 German cities and agglomerations is still higher—in some cases significantly higher—than the EU-imposed limit values. In this sense, modern and clean diesel technology can also contribute to climate protection.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Ford CEO Mark Fields at 2015 Further with Ford. Click to enlarge.

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Qnovo

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Whether related to the stock market, presidential elections or climate, December is the month to make predictions for the coming year and decade. The number of available electric-vehicle (EV) models jumped from about ten in 2015 to over 75 in 2020, including categories of sports cars, sedans, SUVs and light trucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. Ravindranath et al. Turner et al.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

The first vehicle based on the all-new Modular Electric Platform (MEB) designed specifically for plug-in vehicles, the BUDD-e with its 101 kWh battery pack offers a range of up to 373 miles (600 km) based on the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC), or up to 233 miles (375 km) based on EPA drive cycle) miles. Drive, control, consume.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The combination of innovative steel pistons and the optimized piston ring package with the further-improved NANOSLIDE coating of the cylinder walls results in benefits in terms of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, especially in the lower and medium engine-speed ranges, which are of relevance for day-to-day vehicle use.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Acura RDX has been one of the best-selling compact premium SUVs since 2006, and has sold more than 50,000 every year since 2015. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the next generation RDX is a hybrid or plug-in hybrid to get that fuel economy into the mid-30 miles per gallon range. Restyling a Best-Selling Premium Compact SUV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The USPS publicly began the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV) acquisition program in January 2015 with a Request for Information (RFI). A Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued in October 2015 which included a statement of objectives in response to feedback received from the supplier community and other stakeholders. Sierra Club.

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