Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing the federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks for Model Years (MY) 2023 through 2026. EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A series of several high-profile derailments and explosions prompted the US and Canadian governments to reexamine the safety standards that govern the transport of class 3 flammable liquids. For crude oil alone, 73% of the tank car fleet in 2019 consisted of DOT-117s, up from 46% in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The CTI will include a future rulemaking that will update the existing NO x standard which was last set in 2001 while also streamlining compliance and certification requirements. The US has made major reductions in NO x emissions, but it’s been nearly 20 years since EPA updated these standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2023

A newly approved standard from ASTM International’s recovered carbon black committee (D36) provides a test that will help to differentiate products and provide a quality control tool for producers and users. This standard will improve the adoption of rCB. Recovered carbon black (rCB) is a recycled product made from end-of-life tires.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

The ProGen-powered electric delivery van is one of the first of its kind to operate in a standard commercial environment and is deployed on a standard delivery route for FedEx. FedEx Express Hydrogen Fuel Cell Extended-Range Battery Electric Vehicles (DOE 2017 Merit Review presentation). Source: DOE.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Renewable diesel net supply to California’s fuel market has increased since the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program went into effect in 2011, reaching 100 million gallons during the second quarter of 2018, or 10.1% of the total diesel supplied to California that quarter, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2021

In the war over EV DC fast-charging standards, CHAdeMO has lost a major battle. France will no longer require charging stations to support CHAdeMO alongside the Combined Charging Standard (CCS), according to Electrive (via Charged EVs).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

million settlement with Tesoro Refining & Marketing, LLC for violating the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). In March 2017, Tesoro notified CARB that the company had misreported fuel data from 2011 to 2016. The LCFS standards are expressed in terms of the carbon intensity (CI) of gasoline and diesel fuel and their various substitutes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2019

An in-house study by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more SO x than all of Europe’s 260+ million passenger vehicles. million passenger vehicles in a year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2021

Since 2017, the new Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) has been put in place with the objective to gradually replace the outdated New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). New car emissions were increasing as recently as two years ago, but the sharp drop last year shows that carmakers respond to CO2 standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It is also an initial demonstration following China’s first V2X application layer industry standard that was co-authored by GM and published in 2017. In 2017, GM successfully demonstrated its V2I capability on public roads in Shanghai. The six-seat 2021 GL6 comes with a 1.3L

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

End of route stations will be delivered Q2 2017, with one of the systems to be located at Sales-Lentz’ depot. Sales-Lentz, one of the public transport operators in Luxembourg, has ordered three Heliox Fast Charge Systems with OppCharge open interface to provide fast charging services for its four Volvo 7900 electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The enhanced D13 Turbo Compound (D13TC) engine from Volvo Trucks is now standard on all Volvo VNL models, providing enhanced fuel efficiency and reducing overall cost of ownership. Volvo Trucks North America’s latest-generation D13 Turbo Compound engine is now standard on all VNL models.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

The State of California plans to enact tighter emissions standards in 2024 and will require that heavy-duty engines produce less pollutants. Engineers modified a 2017 Cummins X15 engine architecture, integrated aftertreatment technology and enhanced controls to produce the desired results. —Bryan Zavala.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Since its market introduction in 2017, global sales of the Bolt EV have topped 100,000; in the US, three-quarters of Bolt EV buyers are new to GM. Additionally, standard DC fast public charging capability enables the Bolt EV to add up to 100 miles (160 km) of range in 30 minutes and 95 miles (152 km) for Bolt EUV. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Not coincidentally, the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for new cars and light trucks became effective with 1978 model-year vehicles. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita. Consumption per capita (gallons). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule requires the sale of at least 30% zero-emission trucks by 2030; the HDV Omnibus rule requires a 90% reduction in NO x emissions from Model Year 2027 engines; and the California Phase 2 greenhouse gas rule sets standards to improve the efficiency of tractor-trailers. Advanced Clean Trucks Rule from MY2025.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

Based on the EV variant, its length is now 4,355 mm, 175 mm longer than the previous generation in 2017, with a wheelbase of 2,660 mm, which is 60 mm longer. kWh) 2WD Power 160 kW Torque 255 N·m Standard Range (48.4 Its width is 1,825 mm, which is 25 mm wider, and the height is 20 mm taller at 1,575 mm. kWh) 2WD Power 114.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2021

These are certified by the non-profit organizations The Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard.This makes it possible to achieve complete carbon neutrality over the vehicle’s entire life cycle when it is simultaneously charged with green power during the utilization stage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Launched globally in 2017, the Eclipse Cross is the company’s crossover SUV, which fuses a coupe-like style with SUV capabilities. Every Mitsubishi vehicle will receive standard Forward Collision Mitigation with Pedestrian Detection active safety features. The Eclipse Cross will be the second Mitsubishi PHEV on the market.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 13, 2024

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the standardization of three post-quantum cryptography encryption schemes. With these standards in hand, NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to post-quantum security as soon as possible. “Now Today, the U.S. Renes says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

Since launching the eCanter in October 2017, FUSO achieved the initial sales target of 150 units in about two years since the first delivery to a customer. Power is transferred to the rear axle by a standard single-speed transmission. More deliveries in Europe, Japan and the United states are set to follow successively.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Korea-based batterymaker SK On—the recently spun-off battery business of SK Innovation—and Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) signed an MOU to develop technology to maximize the safety of lithium-ion batteries and also to develop related standards. —SK On CEO Jee Dong-seob.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 11, 2022

Because there are now thousands of sensor products on the market, adherence to standards that could improve their performance or accelerate development of new applications has grown in importance, as has the need for independent conformity and certification protocols. IEEE 2700-2017: IEEE Standard for Sensor Performance Parameter Definitions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2017, for the first time, mankind extracted more than 100 billion tonnes of raw materials within a single year—a trend that we also need to counteract in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Certification of the rubber plantations and the complex supply chain for natural rubber and rayon takes place in accordance with the strict standards of the independent Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The organization also applies this standard to products made of natural rubber. The new 22-inch P ZERO ?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2023

All are paired as standard with an 8-speed automatic gearbox and the 4MOTION permanent all-wheel drive. Sales of the Touareg in North America were discontinued in the 2017 model year in favor of the new Atlas, designed for the US. All use a 3.0-liter liter V6 engine. Presales of the new Touareg have started. More than 1.13

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2021

million tons of standard coal and emission of 8.16 Units 1-4 of China’s Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, developed by CNNC, were fully put into commercial operation on 17 Sept 2017. Compared with fossil-fuel energy of the same scale, it is equivalent to reducing standard coal consumption by 40.32

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, it announced an expansion of that capacity to 18,000 bpd. Honeywell Green Diesel is a “Biomass-Based Diesel” under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard. Diamond Green Diesel established its first Ecofining unit at its Norco facility in 2013 with a capacity of 10,000 bpd.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2019

The Lexus Safety System+ will be a standard feature in all US Lexus vehicles starting with the 2020 model year. million reported crashes in 2017 (the most recent available data) many of which were avoidable. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) there were nearly 6.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

During the fourth quarter of 2017 retail e-commerce sales totaled $119.0 The years analyzed were 2007 and 2017 (the latest available survey year). The values in the parentheses are standard errors. For example, retail e-commerce sales during the fourth quarter of 2007 totaled $36.2 billion (in current dollars), or 3.5%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

Source: California Energy Commission The latest data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) shows that in 2021 more than 37% of the state’s electricity came from Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources such as solar and wind, an increase of 2.7% compared to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2019

A team from the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) reports that while average certified fuel consumption (FC) decreased by 15% between 2008 and 2017, real-world FC remained unchanged, resulting in a fuel consumption gap increase from 12% to 30%. The paper is published in the journal Energy Policy. —Dror et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Washington state governor Jay Inslee signed into law HB 1091 , legislation which directs the Department of Ecology to develop a low carbon fuel standard for the state. percent each year in 2023 and 2024; No more than an additional one percent each year beginning in 2025 through 2027; No more than an additional 1.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2018

In Q2 2018, PEV sales were 35,466 vehicles, up from 22,427 from Q2 2017 and up by 8,255 from Q4 2017. in Q2 2017 to 3.7% Standard hybrid sales (HEVs except for plug-in hybrids) were 20,595, down from 24,321 year-on-year. Total market share for PEVs for the quarter was 6.9%, up from 4.3% year-on-year. in Q2 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Earlier this week, the Québec National Assembly unanimously adopted Bill 104, a zero-emission vehicle standard. Automakers that sell or lease a yearly average of more than 4,500 new vehicles (all light models combined) will be subject to the ZEV standard. Québec joins the ten U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) yesterday voted to clarify its requirement that automakers must comply with California vehicle standards if they sell vehicles in the state. A provision adopted in 2012 establishes that cars meeting federal standards for model years 2017-2025 are “deemed to comply” with California’s standards.

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