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Study finds technology cost of achieving European 2020 LDV CO2 targets more than offset by resultant fuel savings

Green Car Congress

This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization.

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Advanced Turbocharged, Direct Injected Gasoline Engines Poised to Take on Diesels in US and in Europe for Reduced Fuel Consumption and Emissions

Green Car Congress

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. Differentiated Analysis of Downsizing Concepts”). smog and particulates.

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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

Green Car Congress

The competition against PHEVs in 2030 is likely to incorporate a radically downsized, boosted direct-injection engine; an automated manual or 7-8 speed automatic transmission; advanced tires with C R at 0.006 or below; a 30% weight reduction on the glider; advanced aerodynamics with C D of 0.22 times as much.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

In the past the auto industry has responded to incentives and guidelines set by government agencies and reengineered their product to meet this requirement. Government agencies and others are already talking about change, but not with a vision of how it can be accomplished in a timely and coordinated fashion.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Now Lutz envisions selling hundreds of thousands of Volts a year, probably priced below $30,000. 9/4/07 Nick Reilly, the President of General Motors Asia Pacific, said that GM is looking at leasing batteries for the Volt to customers, rather than asking them to pay a prohibitive price for the new technology. People wont buy a full car.

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