Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

LiquidPiston announced a $9-million award from the US Army to design, build and demonstrate an advanced, heavy-fueled combustion engine that uses up to 30% less fuel than comparable gasoline-powered engines in the same power class and reduces size and weight by up to 10x over diesel engines with comparable power output. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that the government will accelerate the ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles, bringing it forward by ten years to 2030, as part of a “Green Industrial Revolution.” The sale of hybrid cars will be allowed until 2035. billion (US$1.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2021

The 2022 Sorento Turbo Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) SUV is the latest addition to Kia’s ambitious ‘Plan S’ electrification strategy and the fourth-generation Sorento model range, which was introduced last year in both gasoline-powered and turbo hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) forms. kW electric motor and a 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2023

Given a spark, gasoline will burn in any environment. The key is figuring out how to build on the issues that emerge. As a result, the station can be four times smaller compared to stations for gaseous hydrogen, and fuel can be refilled in the pit area in the same way as gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

BYD Japan, Keihan Bus and Kansai Electric Power announced a tripartite deal in Kyoto, Japan, which will see the three parties work together to help the city achieve Japan’s 2050 carbon neutrality target and build a carbon-free society. This will also become the country’s first loop line operated solely by electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Lightning eMotors, a provider of medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, has expanded its partnership with Forest River ( earlier post ) to offer a factory-certified all-electric repower program for shuttle buses and passenger vans. —Forest River Bus president David Wright.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Motiv Power Systems (Motiv), the leading provider of all-electric medium-duty fleet chassis, announced a commitment from Detroit Custom Chassis LLC (DCC) to install Motiv’s all-electric EPIC chassis on the base Ford F-59 platform, which is assembled by its affiliate Detroit Chassis Plant (DCP), both owned by Spectra. F-59 EPIC chassis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2022

These include both battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric vehicles, as well as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. New gasoline vehicles will still be allowed for sale through 2034. Known as Advanced Clean Cars II , the set of rules builds on regulations in place since 2005.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The participants reported virtually no difference in driving experience compared to regular gasoline- or diesel-fueled cars. liter, 127 hp engine which can run on both 100% methanol (M100) and gasoline. The version used in the fleet test has a 50-liter methanol tank as well as a 10-liter gasoline tank. It features a 1.8-liter,

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 27, 2022

The Massachusetts Senate made big news last week by passing a massive climate bill that tackles transportation, buildings, and our electricity supply. Here’s what this bill means for our efforts to phase out gasoline in Massachusetts – and the key next steps.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he’s delaying bans the government had previously made for gasoline-powered vehicles. Most of the United Kingdom’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been attributed to the nation moving away from fossil fuels (mainly coal) in electricity generation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

President Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days, through the busy summer driving season—18 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24 cents per gallon for diesel. For context, in the first quarter of this year, EV sales accounted for less than 5% of new car sales, despite rising gasoline prices.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A specter of EV charging prices eventually going the way of gasoline prices, complete with dynamic pricing and unpredictable costs. The latest? You know – things with which drivers of ICE-powered vehicles have been dealing for decades. Been going on for years. All of which is to say: welcome to the real-world EV owners.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

E10 gasoline blends (10% ethanol) will be introduced at gasoline stations across the UK in September 2021. The 2 gasoline blends that are currently widely available in the UK contain no more than 5% ethanol, known as E5; the fuel being rolled out in September has up to 10%. —Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

CoolPlanet BioFuels, a start-up developing technology to convert low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ), claims it has achieved a conversion yield of 4,000 gallons gasoline/acre biomass in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This drop was offset by an increase in the sale of gasoline engined vehicles. Automakers are cautioning that this shift to gasoline engines—with their higher CO 2 values—will pose additional challenges to meeting future CO 2 reduction targets. Gasoline vehicles now account for 48.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

There are now more than 29,000 electric vehicles registered in New York City and Westchester, including 1,262 added in February, the most recent month for which data are available, according to Con Edison, the electricity, gas and steam utility for New York CIty and Westchester County, NY. Electrifying Con Edison’s Fleet of Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

The depot, a hub for zero-emission vehicle services, is the largest commercial EV charging installation in the US that supports medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle fleets. The LA-area depot is the first in a series that Zeem plans to build across the United States to enable medium- and heavy-duty fleet owners to electrify.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The City of Boulder is partnering with Fermata Energy to test the ability to reduce the city’s building energy costs with an innovative pilot at the North Boulder Recreation Center. This vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology can provide the city new ways to manage its energy load, and to reduce energy costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mated with a responsive new transmission, the 2022 Rogue delivers improved power, best-in-class gasoline-engine fuel economy, most standard torque of any gasoline engine in its class and a more thrilling driving experience. which supplies engines and electric motors for all of the company’s US assembled models.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

Ahead of Beijing International Motor Show, INFINITI announced it will build five new vehicles in China in the next five years, beginning with the all new QX50 SUV, and electrify its portfolio ( earlier post ). —Roland Krueger, chairman and global president, INFINITI Motor Company, Ltd.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2013

Chinese automaker BYD, or ''Build Your Dreams'', could be on the verge of abandoning convenionally-fueled car production in favor of electric vehicles. Already known for electric vehicles like the e6 crossover, BYD is aiming for a "re-birth" plan to counter a recent slump in sales.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

The end of production of the Golf Variant concludes the Volkswagen Zwickau plant’s 116-year history of building combustion engine vehicles. liter gasoline engine—left the assembly line on Friday at the Zwickau car factory. The trend towards electric mobility will continue to pick up speed. Series production of the ID.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Collins Bus, a leading manufacturer of Type A School Buses and a subsidiary of REV Group, and Lightning eMotors announced a strategic partnership to manufacture and deploy all-electric Type A school buses. billion dedicated to building additional charging stations for electric vehicles, while another $7.5 The bill includes $7.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2021

US regular gasoline retail prices averaged $2.78 In June, monthly retail gasoline prices averaged $3.06/gal, EIA forecasts regular-grade gasoline prices to average $2.92/gal Electricity. EIA forecasts that US retail sales of electricity will increase by 2.8% EIA then expect inventories to rise by almost 0.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

The XTS-210 is heavy-fuel compatible (diesel, Jet A, JP-8, kerosene) and multi-fuel capacble (gasoline, propane, hydrogen). This announcement builds upon a $9-million development contract from the US Army to develop a prototype core engine based on the XTS-210 design for military applications. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

and Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) announced that MHTL intends to partner with G2X Energy to construct the world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG)-ready, methanol production facility being developed by G2X Energy in Lake Charles, Louisiana. G2X Energy, Inc. Earlier post.). The Big Lake Fuels LLC facility will produce 1.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Hydrogen: not a stand-in for gasoline. As I watched this, I started to believe that there is actually enormous potential in the characteristics unique to hydrogen engines instead of simply treating it as a substitute for gasoline. —Yamaha President Hidaka at the Nov 2021 venue. —Takeshi Yamada.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Air Liquide expects to invest more than US$150 million to build a liquid hydrogen plant in the western United States, with construction to begin in early 2019. The plant will have a capacity of nearly 30 tons of hydrogen per day—an amount that can fuel 35,000 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Electric vehicles are no exception. according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. Cars catch fire. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ford celebrated the production start of the all-new F-150 at the Ford Rouge Center and confirmed construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center where it will build the all-electric F-150 by mid-2022. Rendering of the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Electric truck company Tevva and Vattenfall signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunity to provide a complete zero-emission transport solution for businesses looking to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations. Tevva is an electric truck company with optional range extension technology that allows its 7.5-19t

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Credit: ACS, Tessum et al. Click to enlarge. the contiguous US).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Managed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control ( DNREC ), the ZEV program is designed to accelerate the commercialization of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles. million grant program to expand Delaware’s electric charging network. DNREC Secretary Shawn M.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and to build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, which would utilize Gevo’s low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology: Alcohol-to-Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

billion investment in its Kentucky factory to build EVs, including its three-row electric SUV for the US market. It says it has 26 “electrified” models, but it only sells two battery-electric vehicles, the bZ4X SUV and the Lexus RZ. Dow explains: Hybrid vehicles like the (non-plug-in) Prius run entirely on gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

Stellantis is investing £100 million (US$139 million) in Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port manufacturing plant in the UK to transform the site for a new era in electric vehicle manufacturing. The plant aims to be 100% self-sufficient for electricity and work will commence imminently on potential wind and solar farms. Electric Passenger Car.

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