CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Energy Information Administration has created a map showing what portion of the 50 US states’ CO2 emissions come from transportation (as of 2018*). This is an interesting use of data for a state comparison. As you can see above, states in the West and Florida (and Vermont) had the highest portions of their […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

While there are existing regulations to reduce emissions in off-road machinery and vehicles, more stringent standards are expected within the decade. In series production since 2018, Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) uses patented algorithms that choose to skip or fire individual cylinders dynamically to meet an engine’s torque demands.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On the way to selling only fully electric models by 2030, Volvo is taking its ambitious plan to cut the life-cycle carbon footprint of its vehicles very seriously. Compared to 2018 levels, Volvo plans to cut its carbon footprint by 40% by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

Zero- and low-emission vehicles must be deployed much faster across Europe to achieve the stricter targets that apply from 2020, EEA said. After a steady decline from 2010 to 2016 of almost 22 grams of CO 2 per kilometer (g CO 2 /km), average emissions from new passenger cars increased in 2017 and in 2018 (by 2.8 in 2018 to 1.3%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

emissions from the vehicle fleet. Blue Gasoline’s high storage stability makes the fuel particularly suitable for use in plug-in hybrid vehicles. They put the product they developed through intensive testing on engine test benches and in trial vehicles—with consistently positive results.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

Tula’s original Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) software has been shown to significantly reduce CO 2 emissions in gasoline engines and has been in production since 2018 with more than one million vehicles on the road. dDSF is the Dynamic Skip Fire application for diesel engines. Illustration of DSF-affected functions. Srinivasan et al.

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Diesel CO2 Emissions Engine 370

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

International logistics service provider DB Schenker will bring a total of 36 additional FUSO eCanter vehicles into operation in eleven European countries. Europe’s leading land transport provider is thus strengthening its sustainability strategy and further expanding the use of electric vehicles in its mixed fleets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

In 2018, the company had already initiated a joint CO 2 program with its suppliers to identify measures for further CO 2 reductions in the supply chain. metric tons per vehicle on average. Audi is therefore working with its suppliers to address measures that will have an impact in this early phase of production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

SB 375 requires that California’s metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) develop regional Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS) containing land use, housing, and transportation strategies that, when implemented, meet the regional per-capita passenger vehicle GHG emission reduction targets set by CARB for 2020 and 2035.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

In the US, Model Year (MY) 2018 vehicle fuel economy was 25.1 In model year 2018, the average estimated real-world CO2 emission rate for all new vehicles fell by 4 grams per mile (g/mi) to 353 g/mi, the lowest level measured since 1975, when EPA data collection began. miles per gallon, 0.8% higher than the 24.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

g/km higher than in 2018, the delta was lower than the difference between the 2017 and 2018 results—where the growth was 2.4 The average emissions of electrified vehicles, was 63.2 g/km, almost half that produced by diesel and petrol vehicles. The average emissions of electrified vehicles, was 63.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

In 2018, the transportation sector’s consumption accounted for 78% of US CO 2 emissions from petroleum and more than one-third of all US energy-related CO 2 emissions. For instance, EIA projects that natural gas furnaces and boilers will be used in 55% of US homes in 2050, an increase from their 49% share in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The CO 2 reduction effort will be distributed among manufacturers on the basis of the average mass of their vehicle fleet. The Council agreed to adjust the Commission proposal on an incentive mechanism for zero- and low-emission vehicles such as fully electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles as regards passenger cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. For pure battery-powered vehicles, take-up is even lower (0.5%).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

Members of the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee approved a draft law setting out rules for achieving a 147 g CO 2 /km (235 g/mile) target for new light commercial vehicles by 2020, down from 203 g/km (325 g/mile) today—i.e., from 2018 to 2023. The vote was 53 to 4 with 1 abstention.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

The vehicle has been further elaborated into the concept eCanter F-CELL, a light-duty truck that was presented recently in Kawasaki. The vehicle leverages high-pressure hydrogen, allowing it to be driven up to 300 km (186 milers) and significantly reducing filling time to less than 10 minutes, thereby maximizing road time for customers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

(SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands in Germany have also extended their similar offerings.). The extension to the trade-in bonus starts on 1 January 2018 in Germany and will run until 31 March 2018. The end-of-life vehicle is taken off the road and scrapped.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2014

Such heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) are responsible for around a quarter of CO 2 emissions from road transport in the EU. The Commission has developed a computer simulation tool, VECTO, to measure CO 2 emissions from new vehicles. In Europe, HDVs are defined as freight vehicles of more than 3.5 Background.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles and its partners rolled out five new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and introduced two hydrogen fueling stations. The vehicles’ duty cycles will consist of local pickup and delivery and drayage near the Port and short regional haul applications in California’s Inland Empire. Under the $82.5-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

All but three European car manufacturers met their specific emission targets in 2017, based on current European vehicle test rules. The EEA report “ Monitoring CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars and new vans in 2017 ” confirms provisional data published by the EEA in April 2018. g CO 2 /km in 2017 to 118.5 g CO 2 /km, from 118.1

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris Elon Musk is not known for being conservative with his predictions, and once or twice, he’s been a little over-optimistic about timelines (we’re still eagerly awaiting the driverless New York–Los Angeles journey). Sometimes, however, events overtake even the rosiest projections.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2020

SEAT first rolled out the duo trailer in 2018 in a pilot phase, after testing the giga trailer for the first time two years earlier. This truck delivers a 22% savings in logistics costs and lowers CO2 emissions by 14%. This service relies on a 411-meter train with articulated double-decker carriages that can carry 170 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The standards through 2026 also set the light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) program on track to provide a strong launch point for the Agency’s next phase of standards for MY 2027 and beyond. EPA’s analysis shows manufacturers can comply with the final standards with modest increases in the numbers of electric vehicles entering the fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Honda also announced that the platform underpinning the Clarity Fuel Cell will also serve as the foundation for a next-generation Honda plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) that will launch nationwide by 2018, with more than triple the 13-mile all-electric range of the Accord Plug-In Hybrid Sedan.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not in the foreseeable future. For vehicle emission rates, those numbers dropped 2.6% Not that these numbers will blow you away, mind you, but still, it’s good news.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Volvo sold over 113,000 fully electric vehicles in 2023, up 70% compared to 2022. Electric cars accounted for 16% of Volvo’s total vehicle sales in 2023, but this year is expected to be even bigger. More importantly, fully electric vehicles accounted for 23% of total sales.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

The researchers said that, given the strong similarity in combustion system design between Euro 5 and Euro 6 engines, the estimated trends can be considered valid also for Euro 6 vehicles equipped with the same class of engines. In a next step, they plan to validate these results with the WLTP and RDE emission tests. —Napolitano et al.

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Diesel Engine Fuel CO2 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2018

The new figures indicate that the disparity between NEDC test data and NEDC correlated data under WLTP test cycle is higher than the 8g/km JATO monitored back in April 2018, and that the process of concluding the re-homologation of all vehicles could take longer than expected.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 17, 2021

Electric vehicles sales & charging stations need in India. The governments are taking many initiatives to bring in the development of electric vehicle all over the world. By 2030 there will be up to 230 million electric vehicles on the streets, of all the road transport by 12%. EV sales penetration .

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Teslarati

MAY 7, 2021

According to permits submitted by Tesla to the City of Fremont, Tesla will begin to anchor and install Comau’s products that entail highly automated and effective manufacturing techniques that are designed for electric vehicles. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2018. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Around two-thirds of the total investment amount will flow into increasingly efficient vehicles, drives and more environmentally friendly production. billion (US$80 billion), on a level with the planning approved in the previous year for the period from 2014 to 2018. Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers' billion (US$51.3

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Green Cars News

MARCH 8, 2013

Skoda has revealed intentions to deliver increasingly fuel efficient and lower emitting vehicles and cut the amount of energy needed to produce them by a quarter before 2018. The Czech brand recently introduced its cleanest ever model in October 2012 – a Citigo powered by natural gas which emits 79g/km of CO2 – and currently [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Daimler Buses 2 -neutral-vehicles-in-every-segment-by-2030--dual-track-strategy-based-on-batteries-and-hydrogen.xhtml?oid=51925779">aims oid=51925779">aims to offer locally CO 2 -neutral vehicles based on batteries and hydrogen in every segment by 2030. To achieve our climate goals, we need more zero-emission vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions, combined: 0 g/km). These all-new smart and the Renault Twingo were the first vehicles built on a common platform by Daimler and the Alliance. Construction will be completed in 2017, followed by preparation for pilot production of Infiniti vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most importantly at present, it is playing an important role in electrifying vehicles including cars, buses, trucks and ferries and in electric bikes , scooters and autonomous robots. However, electric vehicles basically are emission-free at least when they are powered by electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, etc.

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