Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), maritime transport is responsible for more than 3% of the total carbon emissions in the European Union. The Large Engines Competence Center (LEC) in Graz, Austria, was responsible for the overall coordination of the project, while the startup SES-HyDepot e.U. © Fraunhofer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

On another route, from Ghent to a second depot in Austria, emissions were cut by almost half since switching to rail transports. This is one example of our commitment to reducing our impact on the environment through meaningful, concrete steps. Both initiatives form part of the climate action plan that Volvo Cars revealed this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

A new approach developed by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and international colleagues proposes using solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The smelter operates on clean energy from Siberian hydroelectric power plants, which together with modern gas cleaning equipment and a closed water circulation system, has a low level impact on the environment. Full scope CO 2 emissions will be one of the lowest in the industry, the company claims.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Group’s HX family of trucks has been sold to 20 customers globally including an active Allied user group consisting of Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Austria, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still being emitted above legal limits in 10 European Union (EU) Member States according to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The main reasons for the exceedances are emissions from road transport (NO x ) and agriculture (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The sample included 16,037 adults 18-and-over, from the UK, US, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), France, Sweden, Japan, China and India. Founded in 1970, Ansys develops, markets and supports engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will behave in real-world environments.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It is available initially to fleets in France, Germany, Austria and Benelux, with other markets to follow soon. It is offering these large panel vans from its sites across Germany and Austria. German fleet operator, Maske Fleet GmbH, is the first to offer the Maxus EV80 to fleet customers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

KG, EpiGaN, Infineon Technologies Austria AG). Throughout the project, normally-off GaN power transistors in vertical device architecture will be jointly developed by the German research institute FBH and Infineon Technologies Austria.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. The first electric-powered vans from MAN are to be used first in metropolitan areas of Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Norway and the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Twelve European Union Member States exceeded one or more of the emission limits set by the EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, according to recent official data for 2010 reported to the European Environment Agency (EEA). In some instances the limits were exceeded by significant amounts. Jacqueline McGlade. could be introduced.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The signing took place on the margins of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Conference in Vienna, Austria.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2017

This will, for example, enable information about the current traffic situation, accidents and other situations relating to traffic conditions to be shared with the local environment, within a radius of approximately 500 m, even faster than has been possible in the past.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The accompanying report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms an initial assessment published earlier this year, showing 12 EU Member States exceeded limits under the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive in 2010. State of the environment report No 6/2012. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). While past years have seen steady declines, new passenger cars registered in 2017 emitted on average 0.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

We have to remember that the industry was already operating in a challenging environment, especially towards the end of last year. Markets were significantly hit in Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Greece and Portugal, where the combined volume fell from 634,600 units in March 2019 to 161,800 units last month.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Italy had previously reached a similar agreement with Austria, and is in talks with France about proposed changes in their shared border. Maximum border shift is expected to be in the range of 100 to 150 meters at some locations. The border between the two countries was first established in 1861.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Updated emission estimates for the EU for 2010 show just 14 Member States expect to meet their respective 2010 air pollutant limits set under the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive), according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. So far, only two EU Member States (Austria and Sweden) have reached the 10% target.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

ams is proud to have supported BMW’s advanced implementation of ultra-accurate battery parameter measurement in the demanding environment of a vehicle drivetrain. Austria-based ams is a leading designer and manufacturer of sensor and analog solutions including light sensor and controller ICs.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This will involve Volta Trucks engineers replicating a wide range of customer usage and delivery cycles, as well as taking the Volta Zero to the extremes of cold weather environments in the Arctic, hot weathers in equatorial conditions, and crash testing, all to validate the safety, durability and reliability of the vehicle.

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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 of CO 2 /km reduction (-1.2%) compared to 2015 constitutes the smallest annual improvement recorded over the last decade.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The annual status report released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that while EU-27 emissions for three air pollutants are projected to meet the ceilings, nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emissions for the EU-27 as a whole will exceed its ceiling by 17%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

Based on analysis of long-term trends, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report calls for a clear vision defining Europe’s transport system by 2050 and consistent policies to achieve it. Unlike some sectors, transport’s impact on the environment continues to be closely linked to economic growth.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2017

Researchers led by a team from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria have shown that singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) forms in the cathode of a Li–O 2 battery during discharge and from the onset charge, and that it is responsible for a major fraction of side products that cause fast ageing in the battery.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

The BMW Group Forschung und Technik, in cooperation with researchers in Graz and Vienna, Austria, has developed a dedicated (i.e., These injectors were tested and calibrated at the Hydrogen Center Austria, which also provided the hydrogen infrastructure. H2BVplus hydrogen combustion engine. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This increases the quality and reliability of information available to drivers about their immediate environment, other vehicles and road users. Siemens will deploy Cohda’s technology for various ITS field tests and pilot projects, including the A58 motorway in the Netherlands, A9 motorway in Germany, and the Living Lab in Austria.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

REVA is the brand of the Reva Electric Car Company, a Bangalore, India-based company formed as a joint venture between Maini Group of India and AEV LLC of California and backed by US investors Global Environment Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

We know the technology exists to tackle impacts of the transport sector on Europe’s environment. TERM 2008: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European Union. ( Almost 67 million people (i.e. TERM reports have been published since 2000. Transport at a crossroads. EEA Report No 3/2009 ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

The project was carried out in collaboration with Tsinghua University in China, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Investigation of strategies to reduce atmospheric pollution in major cities has already begun in China.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) suggests that new road charges for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs or lorries) should reflect the varied health effects of traffic pollution in different European countries. Costs are also high in Luxemburg, Germany, Romania, Italy and Austria, at around €0.08/km Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2011

Ground sites maintained by the Maryland Department of the Environment form the backbone of the surface network. In the air, NASA investigators will be joined by colleagues from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Considered to be among the harshest and most extreme environments on the planet with low water and nutrient levels paired with high salt and ultraviolet radiation levels, the team seeks to understand how the carbon cycle plays out in this ecosystem. University of Vienna, Austria. Dangl, Jeff. Gross, Stephen. Hazen, Samuel. Ohm, Robin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2017

Eleven EU Member States breached air pollution ceilings in 2015 mostly due to high emissions from agricultural and transport sources, according to new data and a briefing released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Six Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain and Sweden) exceeded their NH 3 ceilings in 2015.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 20, 2023

New analysis of Europe's plans for public charging finds there will be enough infrastructure for higher EU electric truck targets in 2030.

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