Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

The BMW Group has created a closed-loop material cycle for tungsten used in drill and milling bits for industrial machinery used in producing cars; the company is collecting old drill and milling bits at its plants in Germany and Austria for recycling. Responsible management of natural resources plays a key role in our sustainability goals.

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EV Obssesion

APRIL 2, 2021

BMW Group strives for most sustainable supply chain Exclusion of minerals from deep-sea mining from BMW Group supply chain as a precautionary measure Vision of circular economy for resource management Munich. The BMW Group has launched an initiative to protect the deep seas in cooperation with the WWF Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

With alternative fuel vehicles now approaching 1% of new vehicle production, however, they are in fact beginning to have a “ measurable and meaningful impact ” on overall new vehicle fuel economy and CO 2 emissions. In the analysis, EPA uses overall fuel economy in mpg equivalent (mpge) and tailpipe CO 2 emission values.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

BMW unveils electric vehicles BMW i Vision Amby & i Vision Circular concept . BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) a German multinational corporate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles has recently unveiled an electric bicycle and a concept electric car, BMW i Vision Amby and BMW i Vision Circular concept respectively.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) to be the first automaker to join them in developing a world-leading, state-of-the-art autonomous driving platform for global deployment. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

EPA released the latest edition of its annual report on trends in CO 2 emissions, fuel economy and powertrain technology for new personal vehicles in the US. Fuel economy has now increased in eight of the last nine years; average carbon dioxide emissions are also at a record low of 369 g/mile in model year 2013. Fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Partnering with Tenneco and Gentherm are BMW and Ford, as well as CalTech and NREL. Among the objectives of the project is delivering a 5% fuel economy improvement by direct conversion of engine waste heat to useful electric power for light-duty vehicle application. Doug Crane, Gentherm. Fuel Efficiency Thermoelectrics'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) opened a new engine plant with a light metal foundry in Shenyang today. The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The Metals Company has invested significant resources in its deep-sea environmental baseline program, and in November 2021 the company entered into an agreement with Kongsberg Digital to develop a Digital Twin. —Gerard Barron, Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company. Source: TMC. Deep sea mining remains controversial. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the addition of this project, Gentherm adds the US Army Tank Automotive, Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to its passenger car key partners Ford and BMW. This follow-on light-duty vehicle project, funded in 2011, has a target of a 5% fuel economy improvement. Resources. ????

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EV Central

AUGUST 4, 2022

Produced in partnership with BMW. BMW says it can, and does. The BMW Group, which includes BMW , MINI , Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad is embracing this challenge and opportunity utterly. At the same time BMW recognises certain standards are expected by buyers of its vehicles. It’s not alone in this.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2016

Of the 20 selected top models examined: Five models—the BMW 5-series, Mercedes-Benz A-Class, Opel Astra, Opel Corsa, and Toyota Yaris—actually increased real-world fuel consumption since EU-wide CO 2 standards were introduced in 2009. —Tietge et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The legislation is also co-sponsored by US Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Stephanie Murphy (FL-07), Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Terri Sewell (AL-07), and Tom Suozzi (NY-03). The Driving America Forward Act is supported by 60 organizations, including ABB Inc., ITC Holdings Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In a paper in the Journal of Power Sources , they report energy savings of the order of 20%, with a slight increase in vehicle weight (+2%) and with an overall commercial cost that would be compensated in 5 years due to the fuel economy improvement, to which corresponds an equal reduction of CO 2 emissions. Resources. Pipitone, G.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

The BMW Group is preparing for a major realignment of its product range from 2025 onwards, based on the Neue Klasse (New Class). The BMW Group says that the Neue Klasse models will thus provide a completely novel user experience never before seen in series production vehicles. —Oliver Zipse.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The study, written by scientists of the Technical University Berlin (TUB) and PIK, was commissioned and financed by the BMW Group. An economy-wide cap makes inefficient cross-sectoral regulation (e.g. Transport demand is subject to an economy-wide efficient price signal and becomes part of the overall mitigation effort.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos. 10 11 –5.17×10

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

BMW is committed to procuring 100% of electricity from renewable sources for its operations and has an interim target to source more than two thirds of its electricity from renewables by 2020. —GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. Other automakers in RE100.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Hydrogen is an indispensable resource to achieve this transition because it can be used to store and transport wind, solar and other renewable electricity to power transportation and many other things. The sooner we get the hydrogen economy going, the better, and we are all committed to making this a reality.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2012

EUCAR thus called for a budget share of Horizon 2020 to be devoted to automotive R&I initiatives, which corresponds to the industry’s direct contribution to the EU economy—i.e., The EGCI enables the focusing of EU resources to major priorities of road transport and automotive R&I using a system approach. about €5 billion (US$6.3

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2015

SCR technology can also improve fuel economy by allowing engine operation to be tuned to higher efficiency and higher engine-out NO x emissions (which are dealt with by the aftertreatment system), but it is limited by poor catalyst activity at low exhaust temperatures, especially during cold engine start events. km/h, or 81.50 5b04242.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Build better products.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

The Toyota papers were part of the larger World Congress technical session on practical hydrogen fuel cell technology: PFL 720, Advances in Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications, chaired by Jesse Schneider of BMW. Fuel economy. Along with enhanced membrane physical properties, this measure improved fuel economy by roughly 6.5%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In testing on a BMW demo 3-Series vehicle, a 1.6-liter Nevertheless, the most essential fuel economy aspect of the Turbohybrid concept is the possibility of a high level of downsizing and downspeeding. In cooperation with BMW and LUK, AVL applied the Turbohybrid powertrain in the BMW 3-series demo vehicle. Fischer et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

The coalition comprises BMW, Daimler, Honda, NEOT/St1, Neste, OMV, Shell, Toyota and Volkswagen. Placing fuels in a market-based system (MBM) will also lead to GHG abatement becoming an economy-wide rather than a sectorial issue based on the lowest cost to society. Integrated Fuels and Vehicles Roadmap to 2030+.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

The company rebranded as Share Now in fall 2019 as BMW’s Reach Now was shut down and folded in with Car2go. The current iteration of the company features a variety of electric and ICE Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mini and other brands of cars. The company abandoned North America and now operates only in Europe under the Share Now brand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The PFL 799 technical executive expert panel at this year’s world Congress, chaired by Jesse Schneider (from BMW), invited those automakers as well as infrastructure leaders to discuss their progress in fuel cell technology and hydrogen infrastructure and challenges remaining. This is planned to increase in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The team sees further potential for fuel economy improvement with engine downsizing. Estimated drive-cycle fuel economy and emissions—based on the single-cylinder 0.66L research engine efficiency and emissions maps—was 32.4 H2-DI showed a combined cycle fuel economy improvement to 45.4 Source: Wallner 2011.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

The fossil fuels are highly significant in the global economy. Utilizing biodiesel as a fuel option promotes sustainability and reduces dependence on finite fossil fuel resources. Many established automotive giants such as Volkswagen, BMW, etc. Which are the alternative fuels for cars that could replace gasoline in vehicle?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo has integrated second-life BMW i3 batteries to store energy from the grid generated during peak solar hours and later use that stored energy to fast-charge EVgo customers during periods of high demand. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

In this study, BMW focused on Rankine A (exhaust gas only) and Rankine B (exhaust gas and coolant). BMW is exploring two pathways for waste heat recovery in vehicles: one thermoelectric, the other thermodynamic. In the study presented, the BMW team restricted its evaluation to two basic single loop systems. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Light-duty vehicle fuel economy standards, 1978-2025. President Barack Obama announced an agreement with 13 major automakers to pursue the next phase in the Administration’s national vehicle program ( earlier post ) , increasing fuel economy to a fleetwide average 54.5 MY1978-2011 figures are NHTSA CAFE in mpg.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A new techno-economic analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and MIT has found that economies of scale for manufacturing current Li-ion batteries for light-duty EV applications (in this case, prismatic pouch NMC333-G batteries and packs) are reached quickly at around 200-300 MWh annual production. —Sakti et al.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. Sign Up for the Green Options Newsletter Follow us on Twitter Subscribe via email Resources Write for Gas 2.0 » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

of new vehicle registrations in 42 major economies in 2021, an increase from 3.9% This entails reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and minimising environmental impact throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. To support the claim, consider this, fully electric vehicles made for 6.8%

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

While India always had the talent, it struggled to achieve the capex required for setting up manufacturing industries, thereby becoming a services economy. We are evaluating these possibilities, and our future investments will come in human resources, and additional factories.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

General project targets were to deliver diesel-like or better fuel economy using E10 gasoline (RON91), and to achieve low engine-out NO x and PM using low temperature combustion, the intention being to avoid the cost of aftertreatment for NO x and PM, in addition to meeting more stringent standards. Resources. —Sellnau et al.

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