CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Electric vehicles are swiftly transforming the landscape of the auto industry, but critics have noted how significant their emissions are from manufacturing to disposal despite being marketed as more environmentally friendly than gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

However, they noted, there are also many challenges associated with the use of biobased parts in the auto industry. Sustainability/carbon foot print. Definitive measures of carbon foot print and broader assessments of sustainability will require utilization of formal lifecycle assessment tools.

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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% to a new low of 165.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The 2030 target should be supported by a number of modalities, ACEA said, focusing on off-cycle credits, super credits (or similar measures supporting the market uptake of alternatively powered vehicles), ITS applications and measures stimulating the use of low-carbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

million) in highly innovative collaborative R&D projects within low carbon vehicles that aim to achieve significant cuts in CO 2 from road transport. The aim is to create new low carbon solutions that can position the UK at the global forefront for these specific strategic areas. energy storage and energy management.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2016

RMX Technologies and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have signed an exclusive licensing agreement for a new technology that significantly reduces the time and energy needed in the production of carbon fiber. Oxidation is the most time-consuming phase of the multistep carbon fiber conversion process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

Value of low carbon investments by year and cumulative. A major new report published at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s Annual Conference shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. —“Investing in the low carbon journey”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a laser arc method with which layers of carbon almost as hard as diamond can be applied on an industrial scale at high coating rates and with high thicknesses. Applying such carbon coatings to engine components such as piston rings and pins contributes to lowering fuel consumption.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 17, 2023

NIO (NYSE: NIO) is confident it will see sales double this year, despite a rare price war that disrupted the Chinese auto industry in the first quarter. The price war has had a big impact on the auto industry, and NIO will not follow suit. percent year-on-year and 23.6 percent from a year earlier and up 14.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Compared to the conventional blast furnace process, CO 2 emissions from steelmaking that are a feature of production can be significantly reduced by this innovative technology while maintaining product quality—which also significantly reduces the carbon footprint of products with a high steel content, for example in the automotive industry.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 26, 2023

The price of lithium carbonate, a key raw material for batteries, has fallen sharply in the past few months , with the current price having dropped about 50 percent from its high point last November. After Tesla cut prices earlier in the year, several NEV makers followed suit. In January-February, Chery's NEV sales were 13,293 units, down 57.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2022

Aggressive emission and carbon neutrality targets set by regulators worldwide entails a faster transition from traditional automakers to next-gen electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers. Nevertheless, the investment announced remain important for automakers from a perspective of sustaining the ongoing disruptions in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The reductions in carbon emissions are therefore not great. When BC’s rebate jumped from $1,000 to $2,000 in 2005, the actual cost of reducing carbon emissions more than doubled ,” Chandra says, noting that Ontario recently increased its rebate to a maximum of $10,000 per hybrid vehicle. for every liter (US$1.50/gallon) Chandra et al.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 12, 2010

BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. First, the raw feedstock to make carbon fibers–just call it a “polacrylonitrile-based precursor&# –is made in Japan by a joint venture between SGL and Mitsubishi Rayon and flown to the U.S. BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 13, 2023

The price war in China's auto industry has intensified the wait-and-see mood among car buyers, and Li Auto 's move helps to allay potential consumers' concerns to some extent. He said at the time in the comments section of that Weibo that Li Auto's models would not be reduced in price.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

million) Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project (LCVTP) Based in the UK’s West Midlands were revealed at a launch event held at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire. The Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project comprises 15 separate technical R&D workstreams, each of which is led by a partner who will work closely with selected SMEs.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2011

Carbon fiber is seen by many in the auto industry as one of the most effective ways of reducing vehicle weight and thus improving fuel economy and emissions levels, but the relative expense of the material means that it’s still reserved for only a handful of high-end production cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The facility’s operational footprint has been gold-certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) and represents a major step forward towards achieving Schaeffler’s goal of making its production activities worldwide carbon-neutral by 2030. million between 2026 and 2029.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In the coming years, the world's auto industry will continue to shift its product mix to electric and electrified vehicles to meet growing concerns over carbon emissions and stringent fuel-economy regulations across the globe. However, the passenger-car segment isn't the only area that will see electric powertrains implemented.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Carbon fiber is seen by many in the auto industry as one of the most effective ways of reducing vehicle weight and thus improving fuel economy and emissions levels, but the relative expense of the material means that it’s still reserved for only a handful of high-end production cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

The US auto industry, via the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, is lining up to support a new national, harmonized program to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption that President Obama will announce on Tuesday, 19 May. Autos represent 17% of all anthropogenic CO 2 in the US, according to EPA. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink. It begins with energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan’s latest approach to engine development has raised the bar to world-leading levels, accelerating past the current auto industry average range of 40% thermal efficiency, making it possible to even further reduce vehicle CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2021

and its long-term Chinese partner BYD Auto Industry Co., In 2019, Daimler was among the first auto companies to announce a comprehensive carbon neutrality plan that covers all stages of the automotive value chain. Daimler Greater China Ltd. Earlier post.) Both partners intend to complete an equity transfer in DENZA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

With Germany set to introduce CO 2 -related taxation in July of 2009, all Western European countries levy passenger car taxes that are partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption, completing a trend that peaked in 2007 and 2008, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’s Association’s (ACEA) Tax (..)

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

This will result in 321 million fewer tons of carbon emissions in Australia by 2050. The numbers are also lower than they would have been in the original proposal, which would have cut 369 million tons of carbon emissions. The other threat is possible future Chinese dominance in the auto industry.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“In the auto industry, Detroit is leading the world in electric vehicles. By February, Musk revealed that he had spoken to the Biden administration about a possible carbon tax, which his companies like SpaceX would be paying. share of the US EV market in the fourth quarter. . Credit: General Motors.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. The great zero-carbon emitting, zero-particulate emitting, zero-petroleum consuming electric cars. They sued back then, too.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2020

PSI says that the HA coating enables: Increased active material content to 98-99% from commercial standards of 92-95%, while also eliminating the need for high surface area carbons. The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

With a mature manufacturing ecosystem, India is poised to contribute to global sustainable mobility solutions, fostering both domestic and international growth in the auto industry. The auto industry is making strides to replace the traditional sources of fuel with the carbon-free fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Segregating mixed end-of-life plastic by type for recycling has been a long-term problem for the auto industry, Tour said, and it’s becoming more critical because of potential environmental regulations around end-of-life vehicles. Wyss et al.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Tesla China’s Global Vice President Grace Tao recently visited the China EV100 to discuss key issues about developing the auto market. Tesla China is willing to work with China EV100 to study upcoming challenges for the auto industry and promote development in the industry. ” .

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

The goal of the mandate is to improve the environment by spurring the sale of vehicles with alternative powertrains thus reducing carbon emissions. —Auto Alliance. Maryland is one of nine states that has adopted California’s ZEV Mandate. SB 1234 is a good step in the right direction.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2023

“Frankly, there has been such a flurry of existential crises in the auto industry, this has been off to the side, sort of brewing like a good cup of tea, that car companies are rethinking everything.” — Lindsay Chappell, Car Information writer, at the business’s shift towards carbon neutrality “I think that the car companies probably need to look (..)

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The $27 million contribution will help accelerate Canada’s efforts to create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. This project will help position Canada as a world leader in batteries and will strengthen the critical minerals sector in the Calgary region.”

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Teslarati

MARCH 5, 2024

Tesla says an Australian automotive industry lobby group is attempting to delay climate action by making false claims about the government’s clean car policy. The FCAI said in response to Tesla’s submission that wants to continue supporting automakers and their goals to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

While the auto industry grows in India at a phenomenal speed, our government is focusing on fuel efficiency, security, road safety and reduction in carbon emission,” Pandey said during a virtual address at the symposium of international automotive technology organised by the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).

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