Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Vehicles using HVO—which chemically mimics fossil-fuel-based diesel—can under optimal condition achieve up to a 90% reduction in CO 2 emissions. In cooperation with customers, the company also initiated a field test in Sweden involving some 100 trucks with Euro 6 engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

AFV are alternative fuel vehicles: electric, LPG, NG-biomethane, E85, biodiesel, hybrid and plug-in vehicles. The average CO 2 emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 g CO 2 /km; the target for 2015 was 130 g/km. The average per-km CO 2 emissions for gasoline-fueled cars was 128.62 Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sweden-based White Smoke Shipping, together with Delta Marine and Omega Marine of Turkey as well as Frederiet AB and Crew Chart Ship Management of Sweden, has developed the WS3 project—a vessel designed for the growing LNG bunkering market of the North European ECA (Emission Control Areas) with special focus on the Baltic sea.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

The fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) continued to improve last year but at a slower rate, according to provisional data from the European Environment Agency. g CO 2 /km, new cars sold in 2016 emitted more than 23 g CO 2 /km above the 2021 target, according to the provisional emissions reported by Member States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Swedish oil company and distributor Preem recently inaugurated a BioDME filling station in Stockholm, and the first five Volvo DME (dimethyl ether) trucks ( earlier post ) in commercial operation have taken to the road in a two-year field test in Sweden. It provides both high energy efficiency and extremely low emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

Volvo Trucks is expanding its alternative fuel program with the launch of the new dual-fuel Volvo FM MethaneDiesel. a developer of dual-fuel technology. If the truck runs on biogas, emissions of carbon dioxide can be cut by up to 70% compared with a conventional diesel engine. Engine installation D13C-gas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The emission spectrum (right) is simultaneously collected and used to probe the intactness and oxidation state of the crystal’s key Mn complex. Conceptual view shows a Photosystem II crystal hit by a femtosecond X-ray pulse. The resulting diffraction pattern (left) is used to map the overall protein structure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

In a joint project with the EU, the Swedish Energy Agency, fuel companies and the transport industry, Volvo Trucks is investigating the potential for large-scale investment in dimethyl ether (DME) fuel produced from biomass (Bio-DME). The combustion process produces very low emissions of particulates and nitrogen oxides.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Coming in second is Norway, followed by Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom rounding out the top five countries for EV adoption, according to the most recent version of the Electric Vehicle Country Readiness Index from ​​ Ernst & Young Global Ltd. China continues to lead the way in terms of consumer solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

The European Commission announced a package of measures to ensure the build-up of alternative fuel stations across Europe with common standards for their design and use. Policy initiatives so far have mostly addressed the actual fuels and vehicles, without considering fuels distribution. Source: EC. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). That will tell you how much energy your vehicle needs to travel 100 miles, a more accurate measurement than our traditional fuel economy (mpg) numbers. Still a bit of a mystery.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Drive Electric Submission: Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document. The Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) has the opportunity to be that plan. E-mobility is an important component to a zero emissions transport system, but is still just a component. . 24 November 2021 . Executive Summary . It’s time to play catch-up.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. Fleisch is a member of Oberon Fuels’ Scientific Advisory Board.). For now, noted Ed Saxman, Volvo Trucks’ Product Marketing Manager, Alternative Fuels, the engines in the customer fleet test trucks in the US are the same as those currently under test in Europe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). Speech by Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe ) 12/27/07 Toyota also said it was preparing to start mass producing lithium-ion batteries for low-emission vehicles.

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