Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. They first defined the extent of urbanized land between 1985 and 2015 by fusing four available global urban-extent maps with similar spatial resolutions for 1985 and 2015.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

GM will introduce the 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. A four-speed automatic transmission will also be available. The original version of the Spark is already on sale in Europe, Asia, Australia, Mexico and South America. lb-ft (111 N·m). The dual-overhead cam 1.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

BEV owners in particular use their app at least 68% of the time, primarily to monitor the charging process and to view their vehicle’s available range. The higher usage and unique BEV use cases translate to more problems experienced using the app in comparison to those with an internal combustion engine vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

That trend continued during the first six months (the most recent for which data are available) of 2011, with diesel exports averaging 730,000 bbl/d, a 32% increase over an average of 554,000 bbl/d during the same period in 2010. Growth in US distillate exports, 2003-2010.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1). The work underlying the classification is published in IARC Scientific Publication No. 161, Air Pollution and Cancer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

A new study provides the most detailed picture available to date of the global, regional, and local health impacts attributable to emissions from four transportation subsectors: on-road diesel vehicles; other on-road vehicles; shipping; and non-road mobile engines such as agricultural and construction equipment. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

The 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas—a challenge for high school, university, and college students from across North and South America to design vehicles to go the farthest distance using the least amount of energy—has expanded its categories to include plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2014

Black (Solenopsis richteri) and red (Solenopsis invicta, Buren) imported fire ants (IFA) were introduced to the United States form South America by the early 1930s and now represent a considerable nuisance to humans in both rural and urban settings. Thus, the unusual amount of oil extracted from the imported fire ant (Solenopsis sp.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

By rightsizing engines with available technologies, automakers are able to continue applying the benefits of smaller turbocharged engines while fine-tuning powertrain systems to further optimize fuel economy, emissions and performance. liters and 1.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Beginning with its February Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA incorporated revisions to historical international liquids consumption data into the STEO’s international liquid fuels market balances. Smaller amounts of China’s methanol supply are imported from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

UK-based Modec and Navistar International Corporation are finalizing a joint venture for the production and sales of electric Class 2c-3 commercial vehicles in North, Central and South America. President Obama announced the awards for the $2.4B in funding at Navistar in front of a Navistar Modec prototype. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

AUGUST 1, 2023

SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the European Automobile Manufacturing Association (ACEA) proposed the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in 2011. Through 2023–2024, CCS1 will remain the predominant standard for non-Tesla EVs and EV charging networks in North America (U.S. When was CCS developed?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption. Source: Policy package.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Individual wind projects are consistently delivering electricity for US$0.05

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2012

liter EcoBoost engine—paired with a paddle-shifted six-speed SelectShift Automatic transmission, available 19-inch wheels and tires, and all-wheel drive with the ability to send additional torque to the rear—is the Fusion performance option. The car will appear in Ford showrooms in North America and South America later this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

It could also mean fewer droughts than predicted for some areas and more water available for human consumption and farming. With elevated CO 2 levels, leaf pores contract and sometimes close to conserve internal water reserves. More runoff could mean more contamination and flooding of our waterways. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

All this could grant the ultimate, elusive wish for EV makers: Price parity with internal-combustion automobiles. That combination of efficiency and infrastructure will allow us to create competitive prices versus internal combustion cars,” Dlala says. Nicholson notes that 90 percent of the U.S. supply chain,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge. Transmission.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2009

Modec, based in the UK, is finalising a joint venture for the production of electric Class 2c-3 commercial vehicles with Navistar International Corporation. The all-electric delivery vehicle will be used for urban-suburban pick-up and deliveries across North, Central and South America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

On their urban journey, customers will move through a seamlessly connected and sustainable ecosystem that combines CarSharing, Ride-Hailing, Parking, Charging and Multimodality from a single source and is available with just a few taps. More than four million customers already use these carsharing services.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Wanser: We start from the point of view of public safety, which is a concept in international environmental law and environmental law in the United States. Wanser: One of them is in the Pacific off the west coast of North America, another is off the west coast of South America, the third is off the coast of southern Africa.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Tropical South America, central Africa, and all tropical islands in the Pacific are likely to regularly experience heat waves of unprecedented magnitude and duration. Projections for a 4°C world show a dramatic increase in the intensity and frequency of high-temperature extremes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

The company has just announced its first expansion in the Americas, though you may want to brush up on your Spanish. South America will be the first to receive Gogoro’s scooters and battery-swapping network. The first scooters and battery-swapping GoStations in South America will become active in Q2 of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2012

MM Bbl/day from Caribbean and Atlantic Basin (CAB) sources: Eastern Canada, Mexico, South America, and West Africa. This framework includes electricity and natural gas used in the production of hydrogen. Of the CAB imports, about 2.6 MM Bbl/day (51%) were light and medium crudes and 2.5 MM Bbl/day (49%) were heavy crudes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. When the car is filled at the pump, an internal system analyses the mix of the two fuel types and adjusts accordingly. Brewster, S.C.,

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Deciding that the future of transportation, and therefore their survival, will be based on EVs, many of the top auto companies have promised to end production of their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, if not earlier. Yet, even with the global EV market share projected to grow from only about 2.6

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

In an International Space Station major milestone more than fifteen years in the making, a long-delayed Russian science laboratory named Nauka automatically docked to the station on 29 July, prompting sighs of relief in the Mission Control Centers in Houston and Moscow. This is a guest post.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The MINI E will initially be made available to select private and corporate customers as part of a pilot project in the US states of California, New York and New Jersey. Based on the current MINI, the car will initially be available as a two-seater. The possibility of offering the MINI E in Europe as well is currently being considered.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! Time will tell how Brexit will affect things like the availability of England-assembled Nissan Leafs on the Continent, and vice versa.

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