Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

2017) in the book Algal Biofuels. In 2019, the ERDC conducted a baseline pilot study of the three stages of HABITATS. In other words, with removal of the algae and associated nutrients such as phosphorus, the water was much cleaner when returned to the lake. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. Figure from Tian et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2019

For travelers who visit cities with high levels of air pollution, even a short stay leads to breathing problems that can take at least a week from which to recove, a new study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine finds. —study lead investigator M.J. The paper is published in the Journal of Travel Medicine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Recent studies have come up with a wide range of results and implications, and there is growing consideration of the possibility of including battery life-cycle impacts into regulatory policy. Electric vehicle battery manufacturing emissions have been studied extensively. … Hall and Lutsey 2018. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The new study, jointly prepared by the ICCT and the Netherlands’ Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), describes the increasing real-world efficiency gap using systematic statistical analysis. When we published our first study in 2013, the gap had widened over ten years from roughly 10% to around 25%. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Diesel-powered commuter trains may expose their passengers to elevated levels of certain black carbon and ultrafine particles, especially in the coach directly behind the locomotive, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto. A paper on the study is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, while the world of automobiles is thriving towards zero-emission mobility by introducing various cleaner and greener powertrain technologies, the rising demand and sales of fossil-fuel-run SUVs are offsetting the benefits coming from electric vehicles and other cleaner fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Using a long-term economic forecasting model that details patterns of vehicle ownership and use across the state, the study— Driving California’s Economy —evaluated scenarios ranging from existing vehicle emissions rules to standards representing higher expectations for emerging advanced technologies. National 4% (Nat4).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the National LNG Platform will be starting a joint study that focuses on opportunities to develop LNG from renewable sources as a transport fuel in the port of Rotterdam—Europe’s largest sea port. The partners aim to round off the study by the second half of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Volkswagen’s first environmental incentive from August 2017 to June 2018 successfully demonstrated that systematic fleet renewal is a swift and efficient way of improving air quality. Throughout the Group, more than 210,000 old diesel vehicles were taken off the roads, scrapped and replaced by modern, cleaner models.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Average CO 2 emissions generated by new cars in Europe increased during 2017—the first rise in 10 years— according to a new analysis by JATO Dynamics. Covering 23 European markets, the study found that average CO 2 emissions increased by 0.3 g/km in 2017, finishing at 118.1 million units in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

To enable automakers to reach the 147g target, innovation should be encouraged by giving “super-credit” weightings to each maker’s cleaner vehicles, the committee said. 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. Earlier post.). vans in 2014, falling to 1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2013

The agreement also provides for “super-credit” weightings for each manufacturer’s cleaner cars (50g threshold) from 2020 to 2023. The European Commission is to indicate its support for a 2017 deadline. The new UN-defined World Light Duty Test Procedure (WLTP) should come into force at the earliest opportunity, the text says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Lotus Engineering has conducted a detailed study to develop a commercially viable mass reduction strategy for mainstream passenger vehicles. This study, released by the International Council on Clean Transportation ( ICCT ), focused on the use of lightweight materials and efficient design and demonstrated substantial mass savings.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The focus of the study is on the behavior of the low-temperature chemistry (LTC) and the way in which it influences the high-temperature ignition. The insights gleaned will contribute to more efficient, cleaner burning engines. The work was supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Car makers would therefore have to produce, in addition to older, heavier or polluting models, enough cleaner ones to achieve a balance of 95g en 2020, on pain of penalties. Makers producing fewer than 1,000 cars a year should be exempt from the legislation, said the MEPs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

These high-quality fuels, with virtually no sulfur and aromatics, burn cleaner than conventional crude-oil-based diesel fuels and are thus able to reduce local harmful emissions such as NO x and particulate matter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads. The sharp drop in system efficiency is due to parasitic losses to the air compressor and other system accessories.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When we published our first study in 2013, the gap had widened over ten years from roughly 10 percent to around 25 percent. Since September 2017, a new test procedure, the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), has to be followed for new vehicle types. We analyzed data for more than 1.1

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This ambitious announcement highlights Volvo’s commitment to take the industry lead and embrace a cleaner mobility. Additionally, every new Volvo car launched in 2019 onwards will have an electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2017

Although today’s passenger vehicle engines are cleaner and more fuel efficient, GDI exhaust can still contain significant numbers of nanoscopic soot particles that are small enough to penetrate the lungs and bloodstream. This new computer model could help car makers improve their engines to cut soot formation. Mani Sarathy. 2017.01.001.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The ARB is beginning work on a follow-up set of greenhouse gas regulations for light-duty vehicles (Pavley 2), targeting model years 2017 and following.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Despite the continuing and significant reductions in the legislated limits of light-duty diesel vehicle NO x emissions under the European Euro 1 through 5 regulations of recent years, many studies have demonstrated that real-world NO x emissions appear not to have been reduced as significantly. Johnson, T.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

According to a 2017 United Nations –supported study, a third of the planet’s land is severely degraded, and fertile soil is being lost at an alarming rate. Using a digital model of the Earth—or digital twin—environmental impacts can be studied. Let’s pledge—and act now—to create a cleaner, greener planet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Convening industry leaders and other stakeholders by spring 2017 as part of a shared vision for a competitive and clean North American automotive sector. Conducting a joint study on the opportunities and impacts of adding more renewables to the power grid on a North American basis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The Clean Sky initiative will run until 31 December 2017. Contribution to the study of the air intake and exhaust integration into a tiltrotor nacelle. Depending on the nature of the participant, the funding will be between 50% and 75% of the Topic maximum budget indicated. funding €1.5 billion (US$2.4

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

So unfortunately, no, I’m not surprised [by the Lancet study]. Over the years I spoke about it at conferences anyway, and at one of these in 2017, Robert Hackett from Fortune asked for an interview and wrote an article that ended with this line : “Turns out e-waste isn’t just an environmental menace, but a cybersecurity one too.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

A paper on their study is published in the journal Fuel. The GTL Fischer-Tropsch process produces GTL diesel (the cleaner combustion and emissions qualities of which have been well studied), GTL naphtha, GTL kerosene, GTL normal Paraffin and GTL base oils. In this study, four gasoline fuels containing up to 23.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

LEV III includes the most stringent PM mass limit in the world—1 mg/mile, starting in 2025; EPA has a 3 mg/mile PM limit starting in 2017. Both Federal and state governments should play a greater role in accelerating the retirement or retrofitting of older, dirtier diesel engines and the introduction of cleaner diesel replacements.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The new rules strengthen the greenhouse gas standard for 2017 models and beyond. They were developed in tandem with the federal government over the past three years, including a joint fact-finding process with shared engineering and technical studies. super ultra-low-emission vehicle (SULEV) levels by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The WEO analysis includes three global scenarios and multiple case studies: The New Policies Scenario—the central scenario for this WEO—assumes recent government policy commitments will be implemented in a cautious manner, even if they are not yet backed up by firm measures. —WEO 2011.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Is it becoming cleaner? This is 2 to 3 times lower than the 150-200kg of CO2eq estimate measured by the same researchers in 2017. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Is it becoming cleaner? This is 2 to 3 times lower than the 150-200kg of CO2eq estimate measured by the same researchers in 2017. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. In Model Year 2017, most large manufacturers used banked credits, along with technology improvements, to maintain compliance with EPA’s greenhouse gas standards. —Andrew Wheeler.

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