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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2015 Downsizing CO2 Sale 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

Sulfur (1,000 ppm) content within 200 nautical miles of coastal areas could reduce annual premature deaths resulting from emissions-related affects by around 43,500 by 2012—approximately 50% of the 87,000 deaths estimated to occur in a no control scenario (assuming 2.7% Regulations. Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1%

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Mariner 2012 Emissions Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

Current National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulations require automakers to achieve a CAFE rating of 35.5 Before those rules were enacted last year, Hyundai had already announced its own plan to reach 35 mpg by 2015. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Manufacturers. mpg by 2016.

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MPG Hyundai America Fuel Economy 223

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

WorldAutoSteel,the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has presented findings on the progress of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2, a global steel industry effort to develop advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) architectures for electrified vehicles that reduce life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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South Korea Global USA PHEV 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

While full electric powertrains (battery and fuel cell) will at some point become pervasive in light-duty vehicles, the dominance of the internal-combustion engine will remain unchallenged over the next twenty years, according to Robert Bosch GmbH executives at their annual International Automotive Press Briefing in Boxberg, Germany.

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Engine Li-ion Lithium Ion Gasoline-Electric 150

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. Germany / 165 / 169 / 19. Tags: Green credentials drivers ETA Europe green credentials. The average British driver comes sixteenth in the list with 158g/km (eg. VW Passat). Netherlands / 158 / 165 / 15. Latvia / 181 / 183.

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