Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The chief executive of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, and the chief executive of FCA, Sergio Marchionne, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of research projects and technological applications aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from road transport vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

The UK Automotive Council has published a long-term strategy aimed at helping manufacturers of commercial vehicles and construction equipment move to low-carbon solutions. The roadmap assumes that CO 2 regulations will be implemented within the next decade, and will trade-off with emissions regulation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The SMMT New Car CO 2 Report 2018: Driving the transition to a low carbon future showed that carbon tailpipe emissions rose last year for the first time in two decades by 0.8% The report highlights the importance of internal combustion engines in the UK’s journey to a low carbon future, with 99.5% of the UK’s 2.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to recommend adoption of a final Resolution text on a new global market-based measure (GMBM) to control CO 2 emissions from international aviation. outside of the international aviation sector—using the concept of “emissions units”. REDD+) or projects (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2014

Heavy-duty trucks, buses and coaches would use less fuel and emit lower amounts of carbon dioxide under a strategy adopted by the European Commission. Such heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) are responsible for around a quarter of CO 2 emissions from road transport in the EU. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. These scanning electron microscopy images show the copper catalyst structure at different stages.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

Volvo claims the LNG truck emits 20% less CO2 compared to equivalent diesel-run trucks, and there’s no CO2 emission if BioLNG is used to power the trucks. Let’s try and see how we can expand it,” says Arun Bhagavathi, Head – Network Design, Delhivery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As part of a newly released Clean Mobility package, the European Commission is proposing a 30% reduction in average CO 2 emissions for new cars and vans from 2021 to 2030. For determining that share, account is taken of the emission performance of the vehicles concerned. The proposal includes targets both for 2025 and 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The majority of the emissions and fuel savings from current vehicles, EPA noted, is due to new gasoline vehicle technologies. The final model year (MY) 2012 adjusted, real world CO 2 emissions rate is 376 g/mi—a 22 g/mi decrease (-5.5%) relative to MY 2011. MY 2012 adjusted fuel economy is 23.6 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Hydrogen Europe and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) are jointly calling on European policy makers to ramp up investments in EU-wide hydrogen refueling infrastructure for fuel cell electric vehicles. the Connecting Europe Facility). logistic centers).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Carbon dioxide recycling in the methanol economy Source: Olah et al. Considering the need for diverse solutions for different types of transport fleets and the high likelihood of competition for fuels between all transport sectors. 2009, earlier post. Click to enlarge. Market-driven approach.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. It is estimated that DME from renewable energy sources could offer well-to-wheel emissions of about 3 g/km CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. If biogas is substituted for conventional natural gas, total GHG emissions can further significantly reduced (190 gCO 2 /mile). No CO 2 emissions during process.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

2010 Fleet-average weight and fleet-average CO 2 emissions by carmaker, compared with EU target line. Europe’s eight largest carmakers cut their CO 2 emissions by an average of 2% to 6% in 2010. Mazda and Honda were both negative outliers, with small increases in emissions. Source: T&E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2012

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO 2 emissions (ranging between 5.4% and incidental energy losses due to flaring, fugitive emissions, etc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

A new working paper published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) concludes that natural gas can play a significant role in cutting on-road vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, but that over the long term there will need to be a commitment to transition to very low CO 2. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas.

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Baua Electric

MAY 27, 2024

Toyota Motor showcased next-generation engines on Tuesday that can be used in cars as varied as hybrids and those running on biofuel, as it targets tougher emissions standards and doubles down on its strategy of selling more than just EVs. Plug-in hybrid, fuel-cell and all-battery electric vehicles together accounted for just 2.9%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

announced new integrated stop-start technology in conjunction with Project ETHOS, an ultra-low carbon powertrain program created by Cummins Inc. to demonstrate the potential of alternative fuels for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) reductions in medium-duty commercial vehicles. Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. liter displacement.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. This will offset any expected efficiency gains and lead to an increase in emissions by 2050, not a reduction.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

EPA released the latest edition of its annual report on trends in CO 2 emissions, fuel economy and powertrain technology for new personal vehicles in the US. 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.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2018

Due to increased test numbers, JATO has a larger and more robust sample of vehicles from which to calculate the volume-weighted impact on NEDC-correlated CO2 values under WLTP testing. This comes at a time when the carbon footprint of Europe is likely to further increase.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Representation of cost vs. benefit of low-carbon HGV technologies. The UK Department for Transport has published a report prepared by Ricardo on the potential of various technologies for reducing CO 2 emissions that are applicable to the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) sector. Fuel Cell: zero tailpipe CO 2. Source: Ricardo/DfT.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

FedEx expects a fuel efficiency improvement of 30% while also reducing its carbon footprint. Overall, FedEx currently operates 274 hybrid electric and electric vehicles around the globe, and 1,780 alternative fuel vehicles and equipment.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2021

The transportation sector is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the nation, and electric vehicles (EVs) offer a promising ­­pathway toward decarbonization. With decreasing purchase prices, charging improvements, cleaner electricity, and consumer and industry support, the future of EVs has never been brighter.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2009

The proposed CO 2 and H 2 pathway (bottom) rather than the traditional CO and H 2 pathway (top) can improve efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions by 15%. Credit: Adapted by P. Huey/Science. Click to enlarge. A brief description of the proposal, derived via thermodynamic analysis, was published in the 27 March issue of the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. For example, the study found that the availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has a major impact on the lowest cost passenger vehicle fuel and technology choice.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

It provides the opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions without impacting on our vehicles’ distinctive characteristics. And thanks to the technology’s compatibility with renewable bio-methane, it makes it an important part of the fuel mix as we move towards low emission mobility. —Luca de Meo, President of SEAT.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2009

A report, prepared by Ricardo, has been published by the UK Department for Transport outlining the potential of various technologies in reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It then summarises which technologies are the most promising in terms of CO2 benefits with all these additional issues factored in.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Assuming no new policies, growth in energy-related CO 2 is driven by electricity and transportation fuel use. However, assuming no new policies, however, fossil fuels would still provide about 78% of all the energy used in 2035 and CO 2 emissions from energy will grow at 0.3% CO 2 emissions from energy grow at 0.3%

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The discussions focussed on the potential gains to be made in the areas of Fuels and Fuel Economy, Electrification and Traffic Management, each of which were examined through a series of provocative presentations and workshop sessions. If the transport sector gets fixed, that has an enormous downward impact on both fuel and CO2”.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 16, 2009

A consortium, including Alternative Fuel Technology Inc, is seeking funding available through the Federal Transit Administration’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) programme in a bit to convert 20 hybrid diesel electric buses to hybrid dimethyl-ether (DME)-electric propulsion.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Alternative fuel technologies have been embraced in Seattle, after the city was awarded a $1.4million grant from the US Department of Energy to enhance its fleet of green vehicles. So how will the money be spent? It will also pick up $500,000 for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Fuel and vehicle propulsion strategy. Alternative fuels have the potential gradually to replace fossil energy sources and make transport sustainable by 2050, according to a report presented to the European Commission last week by the stakeholder expert group on future transport fuels. Source: ERTRAC) Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

Currently, only alternative fuel vehicles are exempt from the London Congestion Charge. The problem in the case of hybrid cars however, is that their emissions vary widely. Their outputs currently range from 89g/km of carbon dioxide (CO2) to 219g/km of CO2. Its own S40 1.6 Green Car of the Year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

m 3 ) of natural gas per 100 km—equivalent to CO 2 emissions of 79 g/km. The two overhead camshafts are driven by toothed belts; the intake camshaft is variable, further reducing emissions and fuel consumption and improves the power curve in the lower rev range. The four-seat Volkswagen with its 1.0L engine consumes 2.9

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