Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015. g/km—in model year 2016. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. As part of this, we have built a demonstration facility in Varkaus with Stora Enso to process and refine forest-derived biomass into traffic fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Emission measurements conducted by Institute of Transport Economics in Norway, in collaboration with VTT in Finland, show that new Euro 6 cars with diesel engines are struggling with NO x emissions well in excess of regulatory type limits when in real traffic. Figure credit: Institute of Transport Economics. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Overall, the majority of countries are moving toward low-sulfur, cleaner fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017. White House climate pledge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

Neste Oil has increased its capacity to produce NExBTL renewable diesel following the start-up of a second dedicated NExBTL plant at the company’s main refinery at Porvoo, Finland. The start-up of the plant in June went well, the company said, and has been producing the advanced fuel for a couple of weeks. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Truck Platooning involves trucks driving a short distance apart using automated driving technology; platooning offers benefits in terms of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, safety and the flow of traffic. Furthermore, Truck Platooning will further enhance traffic safety, thanks to the combination of Wifi, radar and camera systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

In Helsinki, Finland, two driverless buses were employed last year—one of the first programs of its kind. The research found that “traffic emissions were reduced by one-third, and 95 percent less space was required for public parking,” and the vehicle fleet necessary would only be 3 percent of today’s fleet.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Finland / 163 / 165 / 22. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Ireland / 157 / 162 / 13. Netherlands / 158 / 165 / 15. Austria / 158 / 163 / 16.

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