Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Fuel Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to opening the fuel market to allow alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity fairly to compete with gasoline at the pump. Why aren’t we more thoughtful about the future? —John Hofmeister. —John Hofmeister.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7 million electric vehicles (EV) were sold in 2021 and predicts this will rise to more than 74 million by 2030. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The goals, available in the company’s 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report , support UPS’ commitment to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global ground operations 12% by 2025, a goal developed using a methodology approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. —David Abney, UPS Chairman and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

gigatons of CO 2 : three times Germany’s carbon-dioxide emissions in 2016. Achieving our future climate targets calls for other intelligent solutions apart from electromobility. Even if all cars were to drive electrically one day, aircraft, ships, and even trucks will still run mainly on fuel. Earlier post.) liter (US$4.47

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2016

The US DRIVE Cradle-to-Grave Working Group has published the “Cradle-to-Grave Lifecycle Analysis of US Light-Duty Vehicle-Fuel Pathways: A Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Assessment of Current (2015) and Future (2025–2030) Technologies” Argonne National Lab Report. C2G GHG emissions of various vehicle-fuel pathways.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) and president of Honda North America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We believe that increasing use of these “biointermediates” will likely provide an important component of the growth in renewable fuel production in the future, particularly for advanced and cellulosic biofuels. FFVs are designed to operate on any gasoline-ethanol mixture of up to 83% ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. Vehicles operating on electricity. Vehicles operating on hydrogen. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. Vehicles operating on biofuels. The committee also considered crosscutting technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota’s view of hydrogen. From the perspective of mobility zones based on travel distance, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles can match the everyday usability of a current gasoline car, and become mainstream environmentally friendly vehicles. However, the hydrogen infrastructure needs to be developed. —Yoshikazu Tanaka.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will establish an in-house venture company responsible for developing electric vehicles (EVs). Denso Corporation and TMC—and which will be independent of other internal structural organizations, is set to launch in December 2016.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In the first step, renewably generated electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. In the second step, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 to yield synthetic methane. Highly specialized microorganisms absorb the hydrogen that is dissolved in liquid and the carbon dioxide through their cell walls.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Honeywell’s Transportation Systems Forecast projects that turbocharged vehicles will acount for 48% of annual global sales by 2021, up 9 percentage points from 2016. In addition, Honeywell’s forecast calls for electric boosting products to help support compliance with more stringent national environmental standards. million in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

For example, the report finds that of the more than 1,300 conventional vehicle model configurations available in 2016, 23 truck configurations, 23 sport utility vehicle (SUV) configurations, and 26 passenger car configurations meet 2020 or later GHG standards with a conventional gasoline powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

GHG levels from the MY 2016 fleet-wide average of 250 g/mi, using different technology pathways to achieve the reductions. A principal goal of the Supplemental Notice will be to narrow the range of potential stringencies for the future proposed standards, as well as to reflect new. Earlier post.). A common theme across the.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

There will be world premieres for new advanced technologies, such as the Integrated Starter-Alternator (ISG); the 48 V electrical system; and the electric auxiliary compressor (eZV). Each of these types of drive system has its justification and future prospects. —Prof. Systematic electrification: new M 256.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

The authors concluded that it will be important to consider the implications of transportation and energy policy changes on water resources in the future. Petroleum-based gasoline and diesel consume slightly more water than CNG because of the water consumption associated with enhanced recovery technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to focus on significantly increasing the amount of cost-competitive electric power from renewable resources across the nation by further accelerating the development and commercialization of these technologies. Reduce the cost of plug-in vehicle battery technology to $300/kWh by 2015 and $125/kWh by 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future. Here's my June column. Plug-in cars are inevitable.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Innovative Technology for Emissions-free Driving Mirai translates as future in Japanese. If there was ever a car on the road fitting the bill as future, it is the 2024 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). In its second generation, the 2024 Toyota Mirai makes electricity onboard to drive its electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. And at this writing, the issue of Opel’s future ownership has yet to be settled.] Henderson goes on to say “ We (GM) have never missed a fuel economy standard and don’t intend to miss one in the future. ”. Build better products.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Overall, the company says, it intends to continue to work to conserve energy by improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions, and by diversifying fuel sources by encouraging the use of electricity, hydrogen and other alternative energies. Toyota’s EQ EV will deliver electric power consumption of 104 Wh/km. Gasoline engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The package also includes provisions that will ensure adequate fueling infrastructure is available for the increasing numbers of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles planned for deployment in California. The standard targets would reduce car CO 2 emissions by about 36% and truck CO 2 emissions by about 32% from model year 2016 through 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. Audi is systematically driving forward the electrification of its cars with both high-voltage, electric drive e-tron models as well as lower voltage mild hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Beginning in 2016, NHTSA and EPA will coordinate a mid-term review that must be finalized by April 2018. Men and drivers over 45 were more likely to favor engine improvements, while younger motorists preferred alternative fuel sources (diesel, electric, hydrogen) as the primary means to save fuel and reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will issue , on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), a FY 2016 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement, with an estimated $56 million of total program funding, in the January 2016 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

Electricity generated at the Yokohama City Wind Power Plant (Hama Wing) will power the electrolytic production of hydrogen, which will then be compressed, stored, and then transported in a hydrogen fueling truck to four sites: a factory, a vegetable and fruit market, and two warehouses. Hydrogen supply chain feasibility study.

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