Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We believe the fastest way to lower greenhouse gases in the transportation sector is to offer drivers lower carbon choices that meet their needs. At every price point and with multiple powertrains, we can put more people in cleaner automobiles across North America to have the greatest near-term impact on total carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

Teijin Limited has achieved a significant reduction in the cycle time required for molding carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) automobile cabin frame, bringing it to less than one minute. Long-fiber thermoplastic pellet: high-strength pellet made from carbon fiber, suited for injection molding of complex parts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The latest annual survey of the UK Automobile Association (AA) has found that of the respondents who may be replacing their car within 12 months only 1% will be looking to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle. Our AA/Populus panel reflects the views of motorists.The cost of fuel is top of drivers’ concerns.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2022

Based on the mode of battery-vehicle separation, CAES’s modular battery swap solution will solve the three major problems of facing the electric vehicle industry, namely, the range anxiety, the inconvenience of refueling and the high total cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

million funding opportunity ( DOE-FOA-0002553 ) to support manufacturing innovations for high performance clean energy technologies to drive economy-wide reductions in carbon emissions, including: Topic area 1: Manufacturing Process Innovation. The development and use of tooling is an important process step in the production of automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Tata Motors, India’s leading automobile manufacturer, launched the newest member of its EV family this past week: the Tiago.ev. It is an ideal fun hatch which offers premium, safety and technology features, eco-friendly footprint, spirited performance, all made even more desirable with the added advantage of a low cost of ownership.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2023

Tesla has just lately reduced the cost of its Style 3 sedan and Style Y SUV to produce them eligible, sparking grievance that French taxpayers are subsidizing international manufacturers. The Spring battery-electric minicar from Renault’s Dacia logo may be profitable shoppers in Europe. It’s imported from China.

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Baua Electric

JULY 29, 2023

Hyundai, every other automaker growing hydrogen-fueled automobiles, believes the demanding situations will also be conquer. ” There are extra issues to unravel earlier than hydrogen-burning vehicles and alternative automobiles are on U.S. Torre, a board member, informed Automobile Information. roads or somewhere else. .

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. —“Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles”.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In a bid to reduce the costs of fuel cells for automobiles, the UK’s Carbon Trust (logo, pictured) has poured £1.95million into two fuel cell companies. The beneficiaries are ITM Power and ACAL Energy, which have the goal of delivering a step change to the cost of fuel cell technology: to around $35/kW.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Meanwhile, strong government policy and financial incentives from these countries are laying the groundwork for a more robust EV industry to hit the marketplace as the cost of EV ownership continues to fall. Downsides to the forecasts But not all skies are sunny. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It

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Baua Electric

JULY 29, 2023

consistent with kilogram of hydrogen relying on the cost of herbal fuel, however the median emission for the method is top — 9 kilograms of carbon dioxide consistent with kilogram of hydrogen produced. In carbon seize, emissions are stuck and buried a mile underneath the sea. Manufacturing prices area from $1.43

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

However, the cost of CO 2 reduced was comparable or lower than that achieved through less cost-effective policies such as the tax subsidy for electric vehicles, the analysis concluded. Cost per job created. Cost per ton of carbon reduced. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. million, or 0.7 million tons.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Honeywell and key suppliers will invest approximately $300 million to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf, its low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems in automobiles. Earlier post.) HFO-1234yf’s GWP is 99.9% lower than that of HFC-134a, the current refrigerant in use (GWP = 1,300).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

Consequently, with the advent of new battery technology and charging networks, the EV market is gaining popularity among consumers who are looking into ways of decreasing their carbon footprints. This is the point where the lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) batteries came to revolutionise the automobile sector globally.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Their report, “Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”, was developed for the USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. 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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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

India is the world’s third-largest automobile market. The auto industry is making strides to replace the traditional sources of fuel with the carbon-free fuel. Green hydrogen for mobility will be a gamechanger for India’s automobile space. This is expected to gather momentum in a price-sensitive segment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

In order to optimise fuel efficiency improvements in each vehicle type, automobile manufacturers need the flexibility to choose the most appropriate batteries from a technical and economic perspective. Overview of the three vehicle classes identified in the study, and their corresponding battery technologies. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

A new ceramic hollow fiber substrate for catalytic converters designed by Dr. Benjamin Kingsbury and colleagues at Imperial College London could cut the size and precious metal loading of the devices in automobiles while reducing fuel consumption and and manufacturing costs. Kingsbury has founded MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

Under the ARPA-E award, Blackpak will use high-strength, high-surface-area carbon to develop a sorbent-based natural gas storage vessel in which the sorbent itself is the container, eliminating the external pressure vessel altogether. The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded BlackPak, Inc., Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

Say Goodbye to Fuel Costs. A small margin in the market drastically affects the cost of fuel and its availability. Zero Carbon Emissions. With more users gearing towards purchasing electric vehicles, a surge in demand has drastically hit the electric automobile industry. Constant price fluctuations power the fuel market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The study found that the High Shift scenario could save more than $100 trillion in public and private capital and operating costs of urban transportation between now and 2050 compared to the baseline scenario. Overall, the total costs of the baseline between 2010-2050 are roughly $500 trillion ($200T in OECD and $300T in non-OECD countries).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2010

This solution is designed for automakers and service providers in the automobile sector. In addition, management of vehicle loaning from the car-sharing site is optimized, the cost of use and maintenance can be shared, and the fleet's carbon footprint is considerably reduced, Valeo says.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the expensive carbon fiber 700 bar non-conformable hydrogen gas cylinders, which are employed in today’s first generation hydrogen vehicles, 5 kg of hydrogen occupies a volume of about 125 L, thus placing unwanted constraints on the automobile design. Antonelli et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Among the projects selected are one by GM and EPRI of California to improve welding techniques for automobile manufacturing and power plant builds in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Harper International Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

Either way, as Ronald Coase demonstrated, the social costs of air pollution are internalized into the market decision, resulting in an economically efficient outcome. Cars serve as a means of transportation whose only other dimensions of interest are mpg and cost. —Gayer and Viscusi.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The Institute will focus on lowering the overall manufacturing costs of advanced composites by 50%, reducing the energy used to make composites by 75% and increasing the recyclability of composites to over 95% within the next decade. Doubling the length of a turbine blade can help quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

At last week’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership conference in the UK—prior to the Battersea Formula E Grand Prix run over the weekend—Edmund King, the UK AA’s (Automobile Association) president argued that millions of second cars in households could relatively easily be electric vehicles.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BUSTED: Even including the electricity used for charging, EVs have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. BUSTED: EV automobiles today can travel 200 to 300+ miles on a charge. MYTH 4: EV total cost of ownership (TCO) is higher than ICE vehicles. appeared first on Driivz.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

This report attributes the downward trend primarily to the decrease in demand for transportation fuels associated with the record high costs of these fuels that occurred in 2008. Additionally, electricity demand declined in 2008 in part due to a significant increase in the cost of fuels used to generate electricity. Tg CO 2 Eq).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. Sector analysis: Automobiles. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion in 2005.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2018

Nanostructured Carbon-Based Gas Diffusion Layers for Enhanced Fuel Cell Performance. Fuel cells can be used in powering automobiles and various portable electronic devices, but they are still only used in niche applications because of their high costs. TDA Research, Inc.:

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The product meets European Union regulatory requirements for lower GWP refrigerants for automobile air conditioning systems. Among the concerns raised were: Cost. The refrigerant costs more to make and reportedly requires new plants, rather than conversion of a existing facilities.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

Growing consumer awareness about the need to use eco-friendly transport and the wallet-friendly nature of EV cost of ownership over the long run is proving to be a big catalyst to adoption of electric mobility. This will lead to enhanced optimisation of costs and in turn EV affordability. The same pressure is on all the OEMs.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to industry estimates, the state’s automotive sector is now valued at USD 3 billion, with Gujarat exporting automobiles and auto components with over eight lakh vehicles exported in the fiscal year 2020-21. This will lead to 1.7 times more production and 2.7 times more exports this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Magnetocaloric materials have great potential to lower the energy consumption and carbon footprint of technologies used in building cooling, refrigeration, and gas liquefaction. Electric drive vehicle batteries. per engine cycle over the entire range; Are compatible with existing automotive engine architectures; and.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

“The most significant impact that can be made in reducing CO 2 emissions from automobiles in the coming decades is reducing the average weight and engine size of vehicles.” Both electric and diesel rail systems have low operating emissions but high embedded infrastructural costs and lack route flexibility. Myth Busting.

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