Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

The vehicle produced virtually zero emissions during the 3,000 mile (4,828 km) Australian journey, a distance roughly 200 miles (322 km) further than from New York City to Los Angeles. The Wind Explorer took advantage of crosswinds by using large, steerable kites to cover hundreds of miles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

The new plant in Changsha is about 900 kilometers (559 miles) to the west of Shanghai. Production at the Changsha vehicle plant will therefore be carbon-neutral. Volkswagen has been at home on the Chinese market for more than 20 years and is among the country’s western automobile pioneers. over the previous year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Because when burnt, algae biofuel only releases CO 2 recently removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis as the algae grew, Mazda considers its development to be critical to achieving the carbon-neutrality of cars powered by the internal combustion engine. Microalgae biofuel has numerous positive attributes as a renewable liquid fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Although a lightweight steel vehicle has a lower production phase environmental impact, those initial gains are erased by higher energy use and carbon emissions during the steel vehicle’s use phase, the study found. Compared to a lightweight steel vehicle, the breakeven point is at 27,340 miles (44,000 km). Source: Sujit Das, ORNL.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Teaming solar panels with an electric car can drastically reduce your energy costs and lower your carbon footprint. Just like standard automobiles, some electric vehicles are more energy efficient than others. Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent is a measure of the average distance traveled per unit of energy consumed.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For corporate automobiles that also see private use, benefit-in-kind taxes are calculated as a perk on top of the base salary. Dumbed down to the simplest explanation, that amount of taxes owed equates to a combination of income, vehicle price and carbon-dioxide emissions. Previous rates didn’t even include battery powered automobiles.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Unassuming Speed McLaren lets you know right away the GT is a serious driver’s car—the carbon fiber steering wheel is void of all buttons and controls for the audio, telephone and cruise control—meaning serious driving ahead. The 16-inch front and 15-inch rear midsize-pizza-like polished rotors are for the carbon ceramic brakes.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

A Tesla Fashion S Plaid is as soon as once more the quickest manufacturing electrical automobile round Germany’s infamous Nürburgring racetrack, due to a pristine Monitor Package deal introduced in Might that unlocks the automobile’s true manage velocity of 200 mph. poised via a Porsche Taycan Turbo S latter August.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. It is anticipated that the e-gas from Werlte will power 1,500 new Audi A3 Sportback g-tron vehicles for 15,000 kilometers (9,321 miles) of CO 2 -neutral driving every year. Audi’s e-gas plant.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The J6 electric bus made by BYD can carry up to 29 people and achieve fast charging within 3 hours for a range up to 90 miles. Hiromi said his company has set a goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. million miles) since the first one was delivered here in Kyoto in 2015. BYD J6 electric buses. million kilometres (nearly 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

The glass-on-glass solar modules of the carport are supported by exclusively designed bamboo and carbon elements that authentically reflect the hallmark lines and surface sculpting of the BMW i automobiles. Thanks to its rapid growth, bamboo is considered a particularly sustainable raw material.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

And she had a point: Carmakers and countries are announcing efforts to phase out fossil-fuel burning automobiles in the next two decades. In the United States, we might be happy with a car that gets 25 miles per gallon, whereas in the rest of the world that same car would be said to have an efficiency of 9.4 She's 90 years old.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) Total cost: $6.

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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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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Polestar, the Swedish luxury electric car company spun out from Volvo Car Group, declared a “moonshot aim” of building the first carbon-neutral vehicle by 2030. But before digging deep into Polestar and their crazy goal, let us discuss Carbon neutrality. Carbon Neutrality. Now the tough part….

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

It also provided an update on how it’s working to effectively reinvent retread technology with sustainability in mind, allowing the original tire plus four retreads to provide up to a million miles of service in heavy commercial trucks. “If Even the lighter oil can be used to create resins used in the tires.

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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. And the automotive industry is no different.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The 403 hp (300 kW) prototype Karma Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) attained a speed of 100 mph (161 km/h), but used no gasoline as it made its way around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races. Carbon emissions are also lower than today’s hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We will soon lay down thousands of miles of power lines that can carry new energy to cities and towns across this country. 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. It begins with energy. Millions of jobs depend on it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Cost per ton of carbon reduced. miles per gallon (9.4 The program resulted in a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of only 8.58 While the program did accomplish both of its goals of stimulating the automobile market and decreasing carbon emissions, there are more cost effective policy proposals to achieve these objectives.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

mile runway. It is not the outright speed that is impressive about this record attempt, but the engineering challenge of accelerating a 1000kg electric vehicle to such a high speed and sustaining that speed over a measured mile, before stopping safely all within a relatively short distance then turning round and doing it again within an hour.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering. A team at the Engine Research Center (ERC), University of Wisconsin-Madison has demonstrated the viability of reactivity-controlled compression ignition (RCCI) in a two-stroke engine. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2016

Co-authors are from Argonne National Laboratory; the US Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies, Fuel Cell Technologies, and Bioenergy Technologies Offices; the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; the Electric Power Research Institute; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; General Motors; Chevron; and Ford. Elgowainy et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In addition, the BMW M3 CS—featuring significant new work in lightweighting via carbon fiber—will make its world premiere, and the BMW X7 SAV Concept and the BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo will make their North American premieres. seconds, has a top speed of 120 mph with a range of 373 miles. seconds.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

While battery-electric vehicles, super-light carbon fiber composites, and hydrogen fuel cells will all be available, a new report from Lux Research has concluded that micro-hybrids will provide the most economical route—$1,700 additional average vehicle cost—to meet aggressive fuel efficiency targets in 2025: 54.5

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 27, 2021

Electric vehicles are becoming more common in fleet manufacturers, e-commerce companies are opting for electric vehicles for their fleet operations for the first and last-mile operations. Euler Motors has also said that it has set to launch its first three-wheeler L5 cargo automobile.

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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. WO 2013175239 A2.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 25, 2021

The electrification of automobiles is more than a conversion of technology. While we look for its technical terms, it has a four-wheel drive (4WD), or rear-wheel drive (RWD) system powered by a 75-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery with an estimated towing capacity of 1360kg (3000lbs) and acceleration of zero to sixty miles per hour in 6.2

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

By doing more in just one trip, you decrease the times your automobile has to do a cold start. The tires on your automobile don’t even need to look underinflated to be so. These are the estimated fuel cost savings of over 125,000 miles (the lifetime) of a car. Both of these make the engine work harder, which burns more fuel.

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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. AA also presented estimates that 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. The proposed 2025 US standard would bring that down to 163 g/mile in MY 2025. The 163 g/mile limit would be equivalent to 54.5 Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

“Through our innovative strength, we offer individuals sustainable and carbon-neutral mobility options,” Duesmann said at the Berlin Climate Conference. Audi debuts e-tron GT: 293 mile range, 155 MPH top speed, 590 HP, $99,900 starting price. Instead of banning, he is looking at it as innovation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

cap and trade or a carbon tax) is a likely key part of a US strategy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, such a market-based approach alone will not induce the investments in long-lived technology required to achieve a 50 to 80% reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by mid-century. For electric power. Samaras et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

Total emissions of the six main greenhouse gases in 2012 were equivalent to 6,526 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. Carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks totaled 1,061.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year program is open to any all-new or substantially upgraded 2015 automobile. Efficiency—low fuel consumption and carbon footprint, relative to the vehicle''s competitive set. liter turbo-diesel inline-four return an EPA combined rating of 36 mpg, while the e-Golf has an EPA-estimated range of 83 miles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

CO 2 tailpipe emissions are less than 95 grams per km (153 g/mile) in gas mode. CNG provides a range—based on standard fuel consumption—of around 400 km (249 miles), with gasoline providing another 900 km (559 miles) if necessary; the total range of 1,300 km (808 miles) is approximately on a par with an Audi TDI.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Similarly, in the USA there’s also been an uptick in EV sales in states like Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York, all of which have ambitious carbon-reduction goals and cold winters. An Automobile Association of America study released in February, 2019 tested five EV models in 20 degree and 95 degree Fahrenheit temperatures.

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