Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USDepartment of Justice (DOJ), and California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a proposed settlement with Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC resolving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and California law associated with emissions cheating.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

According to a new report from Navigant Research ( Market Data: EV Geographic Forecasts ), 2017 sales of PEVs in North America are on track to be 50% greater than in 2016. California continues to lead the United States with strong PEV penetration. Beyond 2017, sales are likely to continue to grow, but the rate of growth will slow.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a draft Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy. Black carbon is not one of the climate pollutants originally included in international climate frameworks, and is not included in California’s AB 32 inventory. Black Carbon.

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MAY 26, 2015

Hyundai began the US rollout of the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) and its conventional hybrid sibling (HEV) with a series of media drives in California—one of the main markets for the PHEV, which offers some 24 miles (38.6 The 2016 Sonata PHEV features a 9.8 Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Commute times in California increased 2.8%

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AUGUST 18, 2016

the largest heavy-duty transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is adding the 2016 Cummins Westport ISL G Near Zero engine ( earlier post ) to its Xcelsior bus family. Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc., —Wayne Joseph, New Flyer Executive Vice President, Bus.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. In December 2016, interoperability between the so-called Double D (DD) and Circular Topologies was demonstrated between 3.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

An aerial methane survey conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), California Energy Commission (CEC) and NASA has found that just 10% of the point sources were responsible for 60% of the total methane emissions detected. The most startling finding, however, was that less than 0.2%

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AUGUST 6, 2022

This analysis builds on a previous comprehensive life cycle analysis, updating that study’s 2016 assumptions and methods. By far the largest and the most consequential change in the input assumptions between the 2016 study and this current update is in battery costs for BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

The requirements of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) can be achieved through modest changes in the diversity of transportation fuels supplied to California, according to a report of the first phase of a two-phase, year-long project assessing the economic and environmental impacts of compliance with California’s LCFS out to 2020.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2016

Today, a European fix for Volkswagen diesels runs into problems, the 2016 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid gets significant discounts in California, and The Netherlands considers banning sales of new internal-combustion cars in 2025. Cash-back offers on the 2016 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid spike, in.

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JULY 23, 2015

Today, drivers find that California hydrogen fueling stations often don't work, we sample the 2016 Hyundai Tucson, and the 2015 Nissan Leaf gets bigger discounts. The United Arab Emirates ends its fuel subsidies, and attempts to bring prices in line with international rates. The 2016 Hyundai Tucson compact.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

Gevo has signed on to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a group of eight airlines and certain fuel producers to work cooperatively on expanding the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Gevo’s ATJ has been used to power commercial flights since 2016. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2022

Gemilang International Limited (GML) will deliver 140 units of fully-electric school buses to California in 2022. The Hong-Kong-listed company said it has been supplying electric buses to the US since 2016. Based in Johor, Malaysia, GML has designed and manufactured coaches and assembled buses for more than 30 years.

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MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The project is part of the California Climate Investments, which use proceeds from the state’s cap-and-trade auctions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing a variety of additional benefits to California communities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Using data scraped from the application programming interfaces of Uber and Lyft, combined with observed travel time data, the researchers found that between 2010 and 2016, weekday vehicle hours of delay increased by 62% compared to 22% in a counterfactual 2016 scenario without TNCs. Erhardt et al.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Toyota is also planing to begin sales in the US—especially in California—and Europe in the summer of 2015. The current sales plan is 400 Mirais in Japan by the end of 2015; 3,000 or more in the US by the end of 2017; and 50-100 units per year in Europe around 2016. The system accelerates Mirai from 0–60 in 9.0

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

California is separately issuing an In-Use Compliance letter to Volkswagen, and EPA and the California Air Resources Board (ARB) have both initiated investigations based on Volkswagen’s alleged actions. The NOV alleges that Volkswagen and Audi cars from model years 2009-2015 equipped with 2.0-liter,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The recent increase in natural gas or dual-fuel capable reciprocating internal combustion engine units has been driven in part by advancements in engine technology that increase operational flexibility and by changes in natural gas markets that have generally provided ample supply and relatively stable fuel prices, EIA said. MW of capacity.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

He is internationally recognized as a leader in the aviation research community and was elected to the Chair of the International Forum for Aviation Research (IFAR) for a two-year term in 2014. Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has appointed Dr. Jaiwon Shin as Executive Vice President and Head of its newly established Urban Air Mobility Division.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). Click to enlarge. —Kwan et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2024

She routinely managed international projects. In 2016 she created the IEEE MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle) program to assist with disaster relief efforts and for science, technology, engineering, and math educational purposes. In 2011 he joined Michigan State as a professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received a Ph.D.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Autopia is one of the longer-running attractions at the Anaheim, California, Walt Disney Co. Honda might have issue with the term “smog-spewing,” as it noted to Green Car Reports that when it began its sponsorship of Autopia in 2016 it replaced existing engines at the attraction with more efficient Honda iGX270 engines.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Up to 80% of brake-dust particles have an electric charge, which could serve as a means of controlling brake dust and improving air quality, according to a new study from the University of California, Irvine (via Green Car Congress ).

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JULY 25, 2017

A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas. Electric vehicle share of new 2016 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area. Source: The ICCT.

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APRIL 19, 2016

The BASF and Volkswagen international “ Science Award Electrochemistry ” is now in its fifth year ( earlier post ) and has opened the application period for this year’s award. Applications are due by 12 August 2016. The award ceremony takes place in Berlin on 21 November 2016. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

While electric vehicles are stealing the headlines these days, we are continuing to make great strides with technology on our internal combustion engines. These include the Oxnard Engineering Campus, which was recently expanded from 65,000 to 150,000 feet and now houses the Design Center California.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

FP GreenFleet, the clean transportation manufacturing, sales and service division of First Priority Global, will serve as a vehicle builder for EDI customers requiring volume builds, beginning with initial production orders in the latter part of 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. First, it contains very little sulfur.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The company made an internal announcement on February 27th, 2024 which leaked to the press immediately via several Apple employees. 2016 brought more Titan hires, and a statement from Elon Musk that Apple hired over 1,000 engineers for the secretive project. A product unveiling in 2019 was generally believed.

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MAY 17, 2023

A “park outside” layout was once issued Tuesday via Stellantis for 219,000 Jeep Cherokee SUVs from the 2014 to 2016 style years. California leads at 245,000, adopted via Texas, Florida, Unused York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. “Any car at any point can get a recall,” Olsen stated.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

At the Awards Ceremony at the SAE 2016 Government/Industry Meeting, SAE International honored the recipients of the Ralph H. To support international standardization of hydrogen fueling of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, multiple automakers released their onboard and laboratory data into one report. Mathison (Honda); Michael J.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The other study assesses the Sacramento BioDigester, the first food-waste digester in California to turn commercial organic waste into R-CNG vehicle fuel using anaerobic digestion. Renewable natural gas production for transportation totaled 151 million gasoline gallon equivalents in 2017, up from 125M GGEs in 2016 and 90M GGEs in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

The Honda FCV Concept ( earlier post ) will make its North American debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. million in financial assistance to build additional hydrogen refueling stations throughout the state of California in an effort to support the wider introduction of fuel-cell vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

7.7kW) in 2016. Further, SAE International has made a proposal to Electrify America to start a build-out of multiple hundreds of Light Duty Wireless Chargers starting in 2019 in public locations in California and ZEV states in three stages. —Jesse Schneider. to be able to autonomously charge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Major international and Chinese automotive and energy companies will also be invited to participate.

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