Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

European automakers including Volkswagen and Jaguar Land Rover had to pay $552 million in fines for missing CO2 emission targets in 2020, the first year new regulations were put in place, according to a new report. The CO2 target for 2020 was 95 grams per km on the old NEDC test cycle, or about 120 g/km on the new WLTP cycle.

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Land Rover CO2 Suzuki Bentley 52

EV Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And it wants the $100 per gram fine proposed for exceeding CO2 emissions limits under the governments preferred ‘Option B’ version of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) reduced. The NVES will work by providing car companies with targets for average emissions per kilometre from new vehicles sold. 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.

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Hyundai CO2 Australia Tucson 105

EV Central

MARCH 26, 2024

Australia is on schedule to have a CO2 reduction scheme for motor vehicle in place by January 1 2025. Hyundai calls for more EV support under Labor’s new CO2 reduction scheme READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Get out of the way diesel!

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CO2 Toyota SUV Isuzu 110

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Luxury sports car maker Lamborghini plans to go all-electric in the coming years, and now the automaker has set another climate goal for itself by pledging to reduce CO2 emissions across its operations. The post Lamborghini wants to reduce carbon emissions 40% per car by 2030 appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Cars 118

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. Two years ago the two companies built a facility in Hinwil, Switzerland, that filters CO 2 from the air and provides it to the beverage industry, where it is converted to carbonic acid.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon 446

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. In the recently concluded first phase of the fleet test, the cars were driven roughly 150,000 kilometers (93,000 miles). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.). It features a 1.8-liter,

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Drive Electric

MAY 25, 2021

April 2020 was a watershed moment for electric vehicles (EVs) as company cars. The UK government slashed electric company car tax, instantly making EVs much more attractive for businesses and employees. Here we take a look at what company car tax is, what’s changed, and how it compares between different types of cars.

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Tax Companies Cars Electric 95

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 12, 2022

How to reduce CO2 emissions from commercial fleets through taxation.

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France Tax CO2 Companies 139

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. Earlier post.).

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Audi CO2 Emissions Vehicles 275

Electrek

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Swedish EV maker Polestar just released its first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the brand’s SUV crossover Polestar 4, which the company says emits as little as 19.4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Made in China, the model ranks as having the smallest carbon footprint in the company’s four-vehicle lineup.

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CO2 Cars SUV China 107

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Elevators use electricity to lift the elevator car up to the top floor of the building, and some elevators convert the potential energy stored in the lifted car back into electricity for the grid as the car is lowered to another floor. We have never done that before; we’d always gone to the load banks.

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Grid Power Powered CO2 396

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The researchers also took into account data on company cars that had been provided by fleet managers. For company cars, the deviation is even four times the official values. For company cars, an average UF of 63% for NEDC and approximately 20% for real-world driving was found.

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PHEV Emissions Re-Charge Plug-in 334

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

With “Ambition2039”, Mercedes-Benz Cars aims for a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet in less than 20 years. In relation to this as part of STARTUP AUTOBAHN, the company has started a pilot project with a key battery cell manufacturer and Circulor, a start-up specializing in blockchain technology. Earlier post.).

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Mercedes Supplies Emissions CO2 337

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

From 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. In Germany, green electricity procurement is ensured not only for the passenger car production plants, but for all Daimler locations.

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Wind Germany Mercedes Solar 418

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Bosch will debut Blue Gasoline at its company filling stations as early as May 2021, starting with its Schwieberdingen site, with a rollout to the company’s filling stations at its Feuerbach and Hildesheim sites scheduled for the course of 2021. The supply of conventional Super 95 E10 gasoline will then be gradually phased out.

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Gasoline Renewable CO2 Gasoline-Electric 393

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 , has closed a successful pre-seed round of €500,000, in addition to €1.59 million in grant funding secured earlier this year.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Poland 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Rock Tech, which plans to supply lithium hydroxide to manufacturers of batteries for electric cars from 2024, plans to build the first European lithium hydroxide factory (converter) in Brandenburg, Germany. The company’s customers include Volvo Cars, Polestar, Jaguar Land Rover, BHP and Boeing. Earlier post.)

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CO2 Land Rover Germany Supplies 186

Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2022

Over 10,000 Toyota drivers have signed a petition with over 110,000 signatures urging the Japanese car maker to embrace electrification efforts and stop “lobbying to prevent electric vehicle mandates and clean air laws.” It plans for only 14 percent of its total production to be electrified by the end of the decade.

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Toyota Future Companies CO2 97

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

In doing so, the manufacturer is pursuing the approach of a “hot-spot analysis”: it is concentrating on reducing CO 2 emissions where they are mainly generated during the production of a car. Cooperation between the two companies on green steel has already begun. This would avoid one percent of Germany’s total CO 2 emissions.

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Low CO2 Supplies CO2 Purchase 273

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2014

of CO2/km per vehicle (source: AAA-DATA) based on its passenger car sales over the full year 2013. In the small five-seater diesel car sector, New Clio Energy dCi 90 eco² is the class leader with 83 g/km. Renault Group has moved into pole position in Europe in terms of low CO 2 emissions, with an average of 114.7g km to 114.7g/km

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Low CO2 2013 CO2 Europe 240

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a vote of 340 votes for, 279 votes against, and 21 abstentions, the law will push for new performance standards for new cars and vans in line with the EU’s climate goals. However, several car companies, including Volkswagen, have already committed to stop manufacturing gas-powered engines before the 2035 goal.

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Sale Engine Bulgaria CO2 98

The Driven EV News

MARCH 5, 2024

Australia's top selling fossil fuel car companies are responsible for more CO2 emissions than some of Australia's largest coal mines according to a damning new report from the Climate Council.

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Coal Toyota Emissions Ford 87

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

This saves precious primary raw materials and helps that the cars enter the use phase with a better environmental balance. In 2018, the company had already initiated a joint CO 2 program with its suppliers to identify measures for further CO 2 reductions in the supply chain. The production of aluminum is very energy-intensive, however.

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Audi CO2 Polymer Parts 307

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Since early November, the cars chauffeuring the management board members of Robert Bosch GmbH have been running on fully renewable diesel. diesel reduces the CO 2 emissions of these cars by around two-thirds, or 65%, from well to wheel. Known as “C.A.R.E. diesel,” this fuel is synthesized mainly from by-products and waste materials.

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Renewable Germany Diesel Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

EV Central

JUNE 8, 2024

No-one would fall for such a flim-flam of fakery, of course, and yet, in some cases at least, the wider world is being asked to swallow something similarly slimy from car companies, in the shape of hybrids and plug-in hybrids. But the cars will run until 2033, 2034. READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles!

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PHEV Future Fuel Audi 133

EV Central

APRIL 30, 2024

Mitsubishi’s impossibly cute and cuddly “kei” car (it’s Japanese for “as small as a Tamagotchi’s testicle”), the all electric EK X, could become the cheapest EV on Australian roads if the company’s local arm succeeds in its mission to put it on sale here for “between $30,000 and $35,000”. 2024 Mitsubishi EK X dashboard. m long, 1.48

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Mitsubishi Australia Cars CO2 105

Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2012

CO2 emissions from new company cars achieved an all-time low last month. Vehicle leasing company ALD Automotive says that the average level of carbon dioxide emitted by new company cars purchased in the first half of 2012 dropped from 138g/km to 127g/km, following their lowest ever point in June (123g/km).

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2021

BMW Group has set a goal of reducing its CO2 emissions by over 200 million tonnes by the year 2030. Earlier this month the company announced this goal at its Annual General Meeting. This equals well over 20 times the annual CO2 emissions of a city with over a million inhabitants, such as Munich, the […].

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BMW CO2 Electric Vehicles Vehicles 145

Electric Cars Report

MAY 24, 2023

LEVC (London Electric Vehicle Company) has announced an enhancement for its TX taxi and VN5 light van, with both vehicles benefitting from a larger and more efficient battery.

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Taxi Batteries Battery London 104

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2019

And a California startup company wants to turn CO2 into gasoline. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla is introducing a larger stationary battery pack for businesses. The Kia Optima Hybrid merges back in for 2020 with minor changes. Audi's new version of the electric E-tron.

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Audi Kia 2020 Range 122

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some 800,000 vehicles in Europe could be affected, the company said. These cars can be offered for sale by dealers without any reservations. The deviations found in the figures for only nine model variants amount to a few grams of CO2 on average, corresponding to increased cycle consumption in the NEDC of approximately 0.1

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CO2 International Diesel Audi 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The warning came as a new report published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) confirmed that the fleet average CO 2 of newly registered cars rose for the first time in 2017, despite vehicles becoming ever more efficient. million strong new car market still powered, wholly or in part, by gasoline or diesel.

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2017 Auto Industry Diesel CO2 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Wind Mercedes Cars Germany 286

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Daimler AG aims to have a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet by 2039, said Ola Källenius, the future Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, and currently still responsible for Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development as a member of the Board of Management. Our current focus is on battery-electric mobility.

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Carbon Fleet PHEV Sale 230

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel Price 357

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Using its standardized on-road cycle, the company determined the average CO 2 reduction from hybridization was 23% for the EU and 34% for the US, with an average of 30% across all pairings. The EU’s post-2021 CO2 reduction target for passenger cars is 37.5%

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Gasoline-Electric 294