Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

A US federal indictment is charging Martin Winterkorn, the former chairman of the management board of Volkswagen AG (VW), with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with VW’s cheating on US diesel vehicle emissions requirements. The remaining three counts charge Winterkorn with wire fraud in connection with the scheme.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. The BMW Group has already succeeded in implementing methods of intelligent charging control in pilot projects.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2017

On Sunday, the BMW Group issued a strong rejection of German media reports charging that the company had colluded with Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Daimler on the design and pricing of diesel exhaust systems and that its diesel emission systems did not function properly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2017

The US has charged a former Audi manager via criminal complaint for his role in a conspiracy to defraud US regulators and customers by implementing defeat device software in thousands of Audi diesel vehicles to cheat US emissions tests. According to CW1, and as corroborated by contemporaneous documentation, the proposed Audi 3.0

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Teslarati

MAY 25, 2022

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has reached a $300 million plea deal after pleading guilty to criminal conduct concerning an emissions fraud probe involving its vehicles with diesel engines, a new report from Reuters said. In 2015, Volkswagen admitted that it had used cheat devices in TDI vehicles to pass emissions testing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Daimler AG announced that it is conducting an internal investigation regarding its certification process related to exhaust emissions in the United States upon the request of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Daimler said it is cooperating fully with the authorities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

The new JV will have rights to sell e1NA’s S-Series product for applications in backup power generation, the M-Series for on-board vehicle hydrogen generation, and the L-Series product for EV charging, hydrogen refueling stations, and distributed power generation. Element 1 L/M-Series Hydrogen Generator.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

This will further improve their emissions in real driving conditions beyond the current legal requirements. Earlier this week, Daimler announced it was extending its diesel emissions upgrade actions to more than 3 million Mercedes-Benz vehicles. In this way, Audi intends to reduce overall emissions, especially in urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

The design allows the diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) and particular filter/selective catalytic reduction (DPF/SCR) units to reach optimum working temperature more quickly which, even when driving in the low-load range, significantly cuts emissions. However, the emission benefit also comes with a downside. Topology of the variants.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging. It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. A Considerable Way to Reduce Emissions. Parking Lot Solar Panels and EV Charging. The way it could be.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

million of Fiscal Year 2013 funds ( FTA-2014-001-TRI ) for the deployment of low- or no-emission (LoNo) transit buses. The program gives priority consideration to the deployment of buses with the lowest energy consumption and least harmful emissions, including direct carbon emissions. Of that amount, $21.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

The defect leads to lower fuel economy, non EPA-compliant emissions levels, and costly and frequent vehicle repairs, the complaint charges. The defect leads to lower fuel economy, non EPA-compliant emissions levels, and costly and frequent vehicle repairs, the complaint charges.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It appears that Tesla is looking to strengthen its legal team in Sweden, with the company posting a job opening for a government affairs specialist for the Nordic region. ” The job opening comes amidst Tesla’s efforts to navigate an ongoing union strike in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Those buses have cumulatively amassed more than 40 million real-world service miles and displaced more ethan 180 million pounds of CO 2 emissions. The company has also installed more than 100 megawatts of heavy-duty EV charging infrastructure to support commercial vehicle fleets across North America.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 6, 2023

The benefits of solar energy are numerous, including a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, increased energy independence, and lower electricity bills. One of the latest innovations in the solar power industry is the combination of EV charging and solar storage systems. This is where solar storage comes in.

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2023

As per Rhode Island Energy, there are currently about 500 electric vehicle charging stations in the state. Tesla has deployed its rapid charging system, the Supercharger Network, at various locations in the state as well. Watch a news segment about the upcoming Providence Tesla hub in the video below.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The European Parliament and the Council have reached provisional agreement on a regulation setting, for the first time in the EU, strict CO 2 emission standards for trucks. Under the agreement, emissions from new trucks will have to be 15% lower by 2025 and 30% lower in 2030 compared to 2019 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

German environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) ( earlier post ) has charged that an Opel Zafira 1.6 In three additional tests under normal test conditions—and thus with non-rotating rear wheels—however, the NO x values were below the legal value limit of 80 mg/km in each case. Select raw NEDC test results. Source: DUH.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2021

The Commission did not determine whether the car manufacturers complied with EU car emission standards or cleaned to a higher standard than that required. The Commission charged that Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen group reached an agreement on AdBlue tank sizes and ranges and a common understanding on the average estimated AdBlue-consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

Electrify America and the City of Sacramento announced new projects that will increase access to zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) in the Sacramento region, expand ZEV technology use, and prepare the City for future electric vehicle adoption. EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE. mile “Home Zone.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) is suing the California Air Resources Board (ARB), challenging the legality of ARB’s Truck and Bus Regulation. CDTOA charges that ARB has repeatedly refused to address these challenges, and that CDTOA was left with no remaining option other than litigation. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Another element in the plan includes possible civil and criminal charges against manufacturers implementing emissions defeat devices, with fines of up to £50,000 (US$65,000) per instance. The UK assesses air quality, as well as legal compliance with these obligations, via a combination of monitoring data and modeling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Covered vehicles include new buses, trucks, locomotives, ferries, tug boats, and cargo handling equipment, as well as the availability of electric vehicle charging equipment statewide. million as part of this legal settlement. Cuomo announced that New York will utilize the $127.7

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“We will require new homes and buildings to have electric vehicle charging points,” Johnson told the annual conference of the Confederation of Commerce and Industry (CBI). . At present, 250,000 charging station s have been installed in homes and workplaces across the UK. million charging stations. billion pounds.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

Weaving a new framework in the climate space, carbon credits incentivize sustainable practices by assigning a financial value to reductions in GHG emissions. How carbon credits work Carbon credits refer to units of measurement that signify the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions below a particular threshold.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2021

By using green hydrogen in refineries, in steel production and for other industrial uses, the overall project should be able to avoid CO 2 emissions of up to 16 million tonnes by 2030. However, the financing of network operation requires a long-term solution to the charging issue in the EnWG.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

kWh/100 km in the WLTP cycle; and CO 2 emissions of 36 – 33 g/km in the WLTP cycle. seconds, accompanied by an energy-charged soundtrack of rare emotional appeal for an eight-cylinder unit. The Combined Charging Unit in the BMW XM enables AC charging at up to 7.4 The BMW XM sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

liter, four-cylinder diesels include software (a “defeat device”) that circumvents EPA emissions standards for NO x. Volkswagen would need to initiate the process that will fix the cars’ emissions systems. The alleged violations do not present a safety hazard; the cars remain legal to drive and resell. —EPA NOV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford was one of the first full-line US automakers to pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicles, operations and supply chain in alignment with goals of the accord. The committee comprises senior representatives from Treasury, Sustainability, Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, Ford Credit and Legal.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Two-way EV charging will reduce that even further- using EV batteries to power homes (vehicle-to-home V2H), buildings (vehicle-to-building V2B) or feed it back to the grid with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. For example, businesses will be able to use the energy from EV fleets at rest to charge a significant portion of their campuses.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2018

The Volkswagen diesel emission scandal has now largely vanished from U.S. But among the thousands of pages of legal documents to settle dozens of civil and criminal charges in. media coverage, much to VW's relief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

We are excited to be partnering with Mercedes-Benz Trucks to electrify our fleet, accelerating our goal for 30% of our heavy-duty truck purchases or contracts to be zero-emission by 2030.” This is made possible by intermediate charging during the legally prescribed driver breaks – even without megawatt-charging.”

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In particular, instead of convincing consumers about the benefits of EV, the next challenge is in reassuring them that the charging network is in place. Availability of charging stations A survey of US drivers revealed that the availability of charging stations is the #1 concern shared by 49% of potential EV buyers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The DTM has initiated a long-term development program for a emission-reduced high-performance fuel, beginning with trials at this weekend’s season finale, at the Hockenheimring (4-6 October). It not only maintains the same high-octane rating required by the DTM, but also meets the requirements of the legal fuel norm, DIN EN 228.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

The RMS reorder is consists of nine Extended Duty (160 kWh) trucks, each with galvanized frames but built to three different configurations: new, on-road (DOT compliant), with standard onboard charging; re-manufactured (aka re-powered), off-road, with offboard fast charging; and re-manufactured, off-road, with standard onboard charging.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor called this a brilliant opportunity to support the British car industry and promote the early uptake of ultra low emission vehicles. Charging more-polluting diesel cars is a key part of the Mayor’s proposals for an Ultra Low Emission Zone, which will be introduced in central London from 2020 (subject to consultation).

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