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What’s the State of Hydrogen Vehicles in 2022?

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A Look at the Lightest Alternative Fuel. This van ran on a fuel cell utilizing liquid hydrogen and oxygen. It could drive approximately 124 miles and had a top speed of nearly 70 miles per hour. NASA used hydrogen fuel for its Apollo 11 mission and continued to do so for more undertakings in the 1980s and 1990s.

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California’s newly ZEV rule introduces the BEVx; ARB staff expects these vehicles to play a longer-term role than plug-in hybrids

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The Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation—one of the three main regulatory packages that constitute ACC—introduces a new regulatory vehicle category: the BEVx, or a battery-electric vehicle with a small “limp-home” range extending engine or APU (auxiliary power unit)—i.e., Most of these vehicles. conventional vehicles.

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EPA annual trends report finds new vehicle fuel economy at record 24.1 mpg; new powertrain technologies rapidly gaining share

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Fuel economy has now increased in eight of the last nine years; average carbon dioxide emissions are also at a record low of 369 g/mile in model year 2013. The report also noted that: Since alternative fuel vehicle production [CNG, PHEVs and EVs] has generally been less than 0.1% Top: Engine power and displacement.

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Road Test: 2024 Genesis G70 3.3T RWD Sport Prestige

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Power and style Plentiful Propulsion 2 engine options–this is the big one The 2024 G70 has two engine options, both available in rear-wheel or all-wheel drive. Running on unleaded premium, the EPA has rated the fuel economy at 18 mpg city/27 highway/21 combined. The base engine on the G70 is a turbocharged 2.5-liter

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Road Test: 2022 Genesis G70 RWD 3.3T

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Genesis says the 2022 G70 sport sedan is “designed to perform, tailored to be driven, engineered to care.” We spent a week in the smallest Genesis sedan that is designed to take-on the BMW 3-series and Mercedes-Benz C-class sports sedans and found it was a lot of well-engineered car for the money. The base 2.0-liter A robust V6.

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SAE’s highest technical safety award goes to hydrogen fueling paper

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Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award, including the lead author, Jesse Schneider, (BMW); along with co-authors Jihyun Shim (Hyundai); Graham Meadows (IMPCO); Steven R. Hydrogen is now emerging as an alternative fuel and they are starting to build infrastructure in places such as California, Europe and Japan.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Acura ZDX Type S

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In Acura-speak, Type S is the performance division (like BMW has M, Hyundai has N, Mercedes-Benz has AMG and so on). Ask any race car engineer the importance of getting the weight low to the ground and evenly distributed. miles per hour of charging. Please let us know your views at publisher@cleanfleetreport.com.

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