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MARCH 10, 2023

Whereas the GR Corollas competing in previous Super Taikyu events were fueled by gaseous hydrogen ( earlier post ), this official test featured a GR Corolla using liquid fuel. Doing so will accelerate efforts to expand fuel options in pursuit of a carbon-neutral society. The car ran three sessions on the day.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Volvo Cars revealed the XC90, its new 7-seat SUV, at an event in Sweden. The two launch engines are the D5 twin turbo diesel and the T6 supercharged and turbocharged gasoline unit. The two launch engines are the D5 twin turbo diesel and the T6 supercharged and turbocharged gasoline unit. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2016

New research published today (23 May) in Scientific Reports has found a marked and progressive 80% decline in atmospheric CO (carbon monoxide) in SE England since 1997, following adoption of strict controls on gasoline vehicle emissions begin in the 1990s. The open-access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

As part of this approval, the EPA determined that ethanol produced from the Algenol Direct to Ethanol (DTE) process resulted in an approximate 69% reduction in greenhouse gases when compared to gasoline. The EPA approval is a milestone event for Algenol. It is then isolated and purified for use as a transportation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Naphtha refers to the light fraction produced by distillation that is roughly in the gasoline boiling range of ~30 °C to ~200 °C. Naphta is characterized as light or heavy depending upon its distillation cut, and is used as a feedstock of high-octane gasoline. impact compared to diesel or gasoline. —Chang et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

By focusing on the implementation of an extremely pragmatic and synergistic mix of powertrain electrification using available and near-market technologies, we have already shown in the HyBoost project the very significant and cost-effective benefits that can be achieved in a gasoline powertrain and 12+X volt electrification.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

bp plans to invest $269 million investment in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, aimed at improving the refinery’s efficiency, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions and increasing its renewable diesel production capability. The three projects are: Hydrocracker Improvement Project.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

A CNG vehicle reduces CO 2 emissions by about 25% compared to a gasoline-driven equivalent. In normal driving scenarios, SEAT’s CNG vehicles only use gasoline as an alternative fuel when the CNG tanks are empty, although with significant gas ranges, the need to use gasoline should be infrequent. New SEAT Arona TGI.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Compared to gasoline, combustion of natural gas emits 25% less CO 2 due to the lowest carbon content of all hydrocarbons. Reducing the size of the gasoline tank not only frees up the necessary space for this additional gas tank, it also makes the new Audi A3 Sportback g-tron a quasi-monovalent vehicle. lb) of gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

In a fairly bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that, despite a few bright spots such as the rapid expansion of renewable technologies and the growth of hybrid and EV sales, the progress is far below that required to achieve a 2 °C pathway—i.e., Source: IEA.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). grams of carbon dioxide-equivalent per megajoule (gCO 2 e/MJ), compared to ARB’s range of 47.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Ricardo will display the first functional integration prototype of the Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) collaborative research project ( earlier post ) in public for the first time this week at the Low Carbon Vehicle Event (LCV 2014) in the UK. 48V Diesel Fuel Efficiency'

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APRIL 17, 2018

This industry will rely on sustainable aviation fuel for a crucial contribution to reduce its carbon footprint. Jet fuel is the fastest developing segment in oil products, growing at a pace of 4-5% per year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Ford’s new plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) Transit Custom van ( earlier post ) made its debut at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle 2017 event in Millbrook, UK. liter gasoline engine as a range extender. liter gasoline engine as a range extender.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants to control 90% of their carbon emissions or shut down. National Archives is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Coal plants that intend to stay online beyond 2039 will have to cut or capture 90% of their CO2 emissions by 2032.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The three-year ADEPT (advanced diesel-electric powertrain) project ( earlier post ) in the UK set the target of developing and validating a range of advanced mild hybrid technologies with 48V “intelligent electrification” utilizing an advanced lead carbon battery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Together the partners have sought to demonstrate an extremely cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car delivering the performance of a baseline 2.0-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder gasoline engine has been replaced with a 1.0L Earlier post.). three-cylinder EcoBoost engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The unveiling will take place during a private event, which will be live-streamed. Some of the Fisker Ocean’s features include (but are not limited to): Full-length solar roof: Supporting the car’s electric power source, boosting fuel efficiency and lowering carbon dioxide emissions. Result: 1,000 free, clean miles per year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The MMHP is a fully integrated, plug-in hybrid drive that incorporates a highly efficient 2- or 3-cylinder, turbocharged gasoline engine featuring the latest MAHLE technologies. MAHLE says that the MMHP offers several advantages over established hybrid technologies, including cost-efficiency, compactness and reduced weight.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Stelvio features extensive use of ultra-lightweight, hi-tech materials including carbon fiber for the drive shaft and aluminium for the engines, suspension systems, hood, wings, doors and the tailgate. Turbocharged gasoline engine and a 210 hp, 2.2-liter Turbocharged gasoline unit and the 180 hp 2.2-liter liter diesel.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s part of its “electrified diversified” campaign, which, as my colleague Jameson Dow wrote in November 2023, “is Toyota’s attempt to push vehicles that are entirely powered by fossil fuels as if they are an important part of an automaker’s strategy toward carbon neutrality.” Because if it doesn’t, its home country could suffer for it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Cost per ton of carbon reduced. The program resulted in a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of only 8.58 The program resulted in a small gasoline consumption reduction of 884 to 2,916 million gallons—equivalent to about only 2 to 8 days’ worth of current usage. Cost per job created. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Ford’s all-new 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks are equipped with new diesel and gasoline engine powertrains that deliver improvements in torque, horsepower and fuel economy. liter V-8 gasoline engine also boasts best-in-class numbers of 405 lb-ft (549 N·m) of torque at 4,500 rpm and 385 hp (287 kW) at 5,500 rpm. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding to reduce the cost of algal biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. Redirection of carbon flux to a metabolic pathway that results in synthesis of a valuable chemical. Earlier post.). Improving a strain to make a valuable protein.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The goal is to improve DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO) 2019 projected cost of algal biofuels from mature technology of about $8 per gallon gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) to less than $5 gge through creation of valuable products alongside fuels and achieving increased biomass productivity that leads to higher feedstock yields.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

SFO is positioning for increased interest in the California market for SAF producers and suppliers, given the additional incentives likely to be made available, through a California Air Resources Board ruling allowing the opt-in inclusion of SAF in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has successfully demonstrated that its HEDGE (High-Efficiency, Dilute Gasoline Engine) technology, using cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and advanced ignition systems, suppresses low-speed pre-ignition in turbocharged gasoline direct-injection engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

LSPI is considered an impediment to aggressive engine downsizing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Low-speed preignition events are random, infrequent occurrences that happen at low speed and high torque, and their causes are not completely understood. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

million kg/year and carbon generation by 21.7 This plastic is net carbon negative. CB&I, The Woodlands, Texas and Albemarle are being recognized for developing and commercializing safer technology to produce alkylate, a clean gasoline component produced at about 30 billion gallons per year, 60% of which is produced in North America.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same. Gasoline always emits 20 lbs of toxic air pollutants per gallon, and can only be burned once. km, 49% lower than the CO2 production of a comparable gasoline car. km over their lifetime.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The authors identified a number of challenges for new fuels for a low-carbon transportation sector: Fuels tailored to engines with cycle and system advances that increase overall conversion of chemical energy to useful work. —Kalghatgi et al.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The V2H system is to start testing, using Prius PHVs, at the end of 2012 in approximately ten households as part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project (Toyota City Project) that began in April 2010. Earlier post.). when running the engine in the Prius PHV as a generator.

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MARCH 1, 2012

The LC Super Hybrid, conceived by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) to show that significant CO 2 reduction can be achieved through electric hybridization at low voltages (12-48 volts) using the latest lead-carbon batteries, will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2014

In conjunction with its annual media and investor conference, Volkswagen is staging a two-week (8 - 21 March) e-mobility event at Berlin-Tempelhof. and e-Golf) with other plug-in models following, the event marks a very large and public stake in the ground, in terms of defining the current and future importance of e-mobility for Volkswagen.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same. Gasoline always emits 20 lbs of toxic air pollutants per gallon, and can only be burned once. km, 49% lower than the CO2 production of a comparable gasoline car. km over their lifetime.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

At the CENEX Low Carbon Vehicle event in the UK, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is showcasing three Concept_e research demonstrators—a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicle—including a new novel high performance, modular electric drive module (eDM) developed in-house by Jaguar Land Rover. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 31, 2021

liter, supercharged and turbocharged gasoline four-cylinder engine producing 326 horsepower and 384 pound-feet of torque. The Polestar system automatically switches between the electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine, and gasoline-only engine power. Carbon Fiber Exterior. Carbon fiber curves.

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