Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. A common theme across the.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

Diesel vehicles have had a rough time penetrating the US light-duty vehicle market, reflecting outdated negative perceptions, higher fuel prices for diesel than for gasoline, the cost of complying with stringent US emission standards, and rapidly improving gasoline engines. —Isenstadt and German (2017). Background.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. The decisive criterion for truck and bus customers is the total cost of ownership, Daimler says. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This evidence can help decisionmakers better understand the human cost of different policy choices governing HAV safety and set policies that save more lives. —Kalra and Groves (2017). Groves (2017) “ The Enemy of the Good: Estimating the Cost of Waiting for Nearly Perfect Autonomous Vehicles ”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2012

According to analysis by the Carbon Trust, a cost of below $36/KW is where future fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are expected to be able to compete with internal combustion engine cars at mass-manufactured volumes on a total cost of ownership basis. DOE says that 2011 costs are $49/kW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. CNG Full Fills with a Complete Smart Fueling System.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Their results, published recently in two papers—one in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and the other in Biotechnology for Biofuels (open access)—point to a promising future for using poplar coppice for biofuel. That’s the problem. Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

The aircraft, which received a Special Certificate of Airworthiness from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in October 2017, took off from Perth’s Jandakot Airport and conducted two circuits around Jandakot (the 5 th busiest airport in the southern hemisphere with more than 375,000 movements last year).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

Compliance with future emissions standards such as Euro 6b (from 9/2014) and Euro 6c (from 9/2017) will call for further improvements in engine combustion processes. The fast-response, high-precision solenoid injector technology prepares the ground for future Euro 6c applications, the company says.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Velodyne LiDAR announced a new design for a solid-state LiDAR sensor that can deliver a subsystem cost of less than US$50 when sold in high-volume manufacturing scale. LiDAR sensors that leverage this new design will be less expensive, easier to integrate due to their smaller size, and more reliable as a result of fewer moving parts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Following the company’s recent introduction of the new OM 654 diesel family ( earlier post ), Daimler will introduce a new family of gasoline engines in 2017, which will again set efficiency standards and will be the first ever to be equipped with a particulate filter ( earlier post ). —Thomas Weber. —Thomas Weber.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In a new study, IHS Markit forecasts that vehicle miles traveled (VMT) will by 2040 grow to an all-time high of around 11 billion miles per year (a 65% increase since 2017) in China, Europe, India and the United States—the key markets examined for the study—and will keep growing. The shift is just beginning.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

While they offer a smoother ride, more passenger and storage space per square foot, and less noise and environmental pollution at a lower “cost of operation” (fuel and maintenance), in terms of “cost of ownership” EVs can yet compete with ICEVs. For a future oil price spike would not indicate a sign of recovery of the oil industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

The Second California Partial Consent Decree would also require Volkswagen to pay ARB $25 million for ARB to spend on ZEV-related aspects of a vehicle replacement program in California in 2017 or later; and would require VW to pay about $41 million into the trust established under the 2.0 personnel, other business expenses). Green City.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The lower operating costs of hybrid propulsion systems are also of distinct benefit to operators. For example, Sailing Yacht A, the world’s largest sailing yacht which was commissioned in 2017, has been fitted out with an MTU hybrid system. MTU has already equipped a number of ships with customer-specific hybrid propulsion systems.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Since starting its battery production activities in January 2017, Gigafactory Nevada has played a key role in Tesla’s overall operations. “He seems to be betting that a huge factory will significantly reduce the cost of making batteries, which remain the most expensive part of electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2013

With a proposed start in 2017, the Tier 3 program is also harmonized with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Low Emission Vehicle (LEV III) program—enabling automakers to sell the same vehicles in all 50 states. 1 Jan 2017. 1 Jan 2017. Vehicle emissions. Model Year. LDT2,3,4 and MDPV. Model Year. Model Year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

The result could be an uptick in the cost of producing oil for the first time in a few years. Rystad Energy estimated the average shale project could see costs rise by $1.60 In fact, Reuters put together a series of charts depicting the fall in costs for shale production in different parts of the United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

For years, the drilling boom was done with a lot of debt, and the revenus earned from steadily higher levels of output were not enough to cover the cost of drilling, even when oil prices traded above $100 per barrel in the go-go drilling days between 2011 and 2014. If we go back down to $50 (or lower) in 2017.then That isn’t a typo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

SEUL is a two-year project that commenced in April 2017. A key part of this initiative is the use of onsite energy storage batteries. Although new batteries have been deployed at this stage, it is envisaged that in the future these could be second-life batteries that have already been used in a UPS EV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

The cost of producing Chinese-Pidgeon magnesium is $2.50/kg. The US Magnesium LLC cost, using a more environmentally sound approach, is approximately $3.31/kg.). The very high purity magnesium crowns produced by distillation are remelted and cast into ingots. kWh/kg and has emissions of 6.9 kgCO 2 /kg, according to ARPA-E.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The study also illustrates how a holistic, total vehicle approach to system mass and cost reduction can help offset the additional cost of a 37% mass reduced body structure. Designing each part to be a structural element. Elimination of parts. which were optimized in a holistic redesign as part of the Phase 1 study.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

billion envisioned by Fields in 2017. That money will go toward: Next-Gen Hybrid Electrics: Part of Ford’s new strategy includes going all-in on hybrids to bring more capability to customers of our most popular and high-volume vehicles like F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Escape and Bronco. Flexible vehicle architectures.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Identifying ideal routes is key to success,” says the LIGHTS group’s final report , and the learnings were underscored by the fleet operators taking part.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Historically, companies that manufacture the trucks and their add-on parts have been permitted to certify their products only through physical testing, often using a wind tunnel. weather, test track availability, and the cost of wind tunnel testing). SmartTruck engineers had never before undertaken such an approach.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The network of transportation technology and infrastructure, in turn, shapes and is shaped by development and land use patterns that can either support or detract from a more sustainable, low-carbon, multi-modal transportation future. The plan is expected to be finalized for consideration in Spring 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

The Tier 3 standards, which come into effect starting in 2017, consider the vehicle and its fuel as an integrated system. The tailpipe standards include different phase-in schedules that vary by vehicle class but generally phase in between model years 2017 and 2025. EPA had issued the proposed standards last March. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Given the low NO x emissions of dual-fuel engines using lean burn combustion and the extremely low sulfur content of natural gas, by choosing our X-DF engines and LNG, CMA CGM is automatically complying with all existing and future emissions regulations. —Volkmar Galke, General Manager of Sales at WinGD.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

As part of its analysis, CEMAC developed a detailed bottom-up cost modeling of regional cell production scenarios based upon total costs that a manufacturer incurs in the high-volume production of LIB cells. Future capacity—e.g., An 8% after tax cost of capital is achieved for US-based facilities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Lightweight Architectures and Efficient Performance are just two of our core competencies and we are delighted to have completed this study with input from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the US Environmental Protection Agency to provide direction for future CO 2 reductions. Mass and Cost Summary.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. In 2015, there were 172,895 ZEVs registered in California, up 45.5%

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Baua Electric

MAY 18, 2024

In those days, India revolved around the pulse of small cars, an automotive ethos that endured for decades, reigning supreme until 2017-18, after which tides started turning in the favour of SUVs (sports utility vehicles). lakh and top-end variants costing as much as an entry-level SUV. Hatchbacks saw peak sales in 2017-18, at 1.5

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 11, 2021

Back To the Future. The Bronco Sport shares mechanical parts with the Ford Escape, but the differences between the two are obvious pretty quickly. The 2021 Ford Bronco has an extensive list of standard and optional safety features, beginning with front, knee, side and side curtain airbags as part of the Ford Safety Canopy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

grams in 2010 (the latest year for which figures are available) and a mandatory target of 175 grams in 2017. The proposals would amend two existing regulations establishing binding requirements for manufacturers to meet the 2015 mandatory target for cars and the 2017 target for vans. Europe and the US. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2017

The process could significantly lower the cost of producing the one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, enabling a broad range of uses in lightweight structural composites, advanced sensors, electronic devices—and thermally-stable and strong battery membranes able to withstand temperatures of more than 1,000 ˚C. —Gleb Yushin.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Like Toyota, Hyundai, GM (Honda’s partner in future fuel cell development), and other OEMs, Honda sees a role for both battery-electric as well as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, depending upon application. Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Neural implants —devices that interact with the human nervous system, either on its periphery or in the brain—are part of a rapidly growing category of medicine that’s sometimes called electroceuticals. Now, as the company fades away, the future of high-tech vision implants seems blurrier than ever.

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