Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

million liters of vehicle exhaust gas catalyst in the first half of 2019—a decrease of 13% year-over-year on weak passenger vehicle production. Fluid catalytic cracking catalysts are a form of molecular sieve used by the oil refining industry to break down crude oil into lighter hydrocarbons, such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

One of the first areas expected to benefit from the technology is storage tanks for natural gas vehicles (NGVs), according to the company. There are an abundance of sites where gas molecules can adsorb to the material. The same gas supplies that power our central heating and gas ovens. —Prof.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Gas is cheap in the U.S. and has been for years. Hybrids are no longer a cutting-edge or cool technology; they're just another powertrain. The result is that hybrids have been quietly ebbing as a proportion of total vehicle sales.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

New Jersey was always the place for residents of neighboring states—Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania—to buy cheap gasoline. That era ended two days ago, when a political deal struck between its legislature and the governor raised the state gas tax by a whopping 23 cents a gallon.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Natural gas vehicles aren't particularly common on U.S. roads, and with relatively cheap and plentiful gasoline, it's fairly clear why. Pumps are few and far between and only the 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas gives private buyers an option over gasoline or diesel.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Hits New All-Time High; Gasoline. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards require carmakers to achieve a fleet average of 54.5 mpg by 2025. That's equivalent to roughly 40 mpg on the window sticker. DON'T MISS: Miles Driven In U.S.

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Fuel Economy Economy Cheap Fuel 60

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2015

gas prices have now hit six-year lows, and many analysts believe that cheap gasoline will hurt sales of fuel-efficient cars. Paying less for gas removes much of the financial incentive of switching to a more-efficient car, encouraging consumers to turn back to gas guzzlers--or so goes the narrative.

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Gas Obama Cheap Power 60

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When water is added from an onboard tank, the ensuing reaction generates hydrogen gas in a quantity dynamically adjusted to the actual requirements of the fuel cell. This means that POWERPASTE can offers a range comparable to—or even greater than—gasoline. —Marcus Vogt.

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Hydrogen Energy Storage Water Li-ion 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

In recent years, all six Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain—have begun to challenge the notion that citizens are entitled to cheap energy. The authors said energy subsidies have long outlived their usefulness.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2011

Even if some of us suspect that cheap gasoline may never come back for good. In the face of national gas prices averaging $4 a gallon, and fillups that can cost three figures, several hundred lucky drivers in Los Angeles hit the jackpot yesterday morning: They paid just $1.10 well, we can dream, right? It was all.

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Los Angeles Gasoline Cheap Gas 84

The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. The battery is a large cube and sits where the gasoline engine resided on my old pressure washer, consuming about the same amount of space.

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Juice Water Gasoline-Electric Lithium Ion 92

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Amazingly, the right-side mirror was included at no extra cost on all 1992 Metro models except the gas-mileage-king XFi. Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. liters of gasoline on the Canadian highway.

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Suzuki California Chevrolet Kuwait 100

Plugs and Cars

MAY 29, 2008

One cornerstone of the policy is cheap gas. Pandering politicians have ensured the true cost of gas remains shrouded in tax policy and the defense budget. Now the pressures of a changing global market have provoked a precipitous rise in gasoline prices for the heretofore protected American driver.

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Obama Gas-Electric Gas Electric Cars 100

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2010

One of the criticisms of hybrid cars has historically been that there's no payback, especially given the cheap gasoline prices in the U.S. The extra money you spend on a hybrid isn't returned in gas savings, say critics. Well, that may be true, especially when regular gasoline is averaging $2.77 a gallon this week.

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Hybrid Cheap Gasoline Cars 134

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Test bench results showed that the TEG was able to deliver 500W e at the design point, with inlet gas at 450 ?C to US$2) per W e using cheap thermoelectric material and automating the thermoelectric module manufacturing process. This requires cheap, lightweight thermoelectric material standing temperatures up to 650 ?C.

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Waste Cheap MPH Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

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Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. —Adam Fowler, economist at Beacon Economics.

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California Light Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

The undisputed king of oil and gas is making some moves that could change the face of the global refining sector. The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. Gaurav Agnihotri is an ME and an MBA-Marketing, and an oil and gas professional based in India. In fact, at $5.60

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Saudi Arabia Price Oil India 150

Plug in America

JULY 21, 2023

EVs are Better for the Environment Over the course of their lifetimes , EVs generate less than half of the GHG emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles. EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. In addition, electricity in the U.S. petroleum consumption.

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Tax Credit Cars Tax Gasoline-Electric 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Thomas Buhl. Audi e-fuels.

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

Plug N Drive

JUNE 19, 2019

When we surveyed 1,000 gas car owners in the Greater-Toronto and Hamilton Area last year, we learned that cost is the number one barrier to purchasing an EV. Many gas car owners believe that EVs are just too expensive. T here are a lot of myths in this one line that I want to break down. Nothing could be further from the truth!

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Affordable Available Electric Vehicles Vehicles 86

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

For systems incorporating high levels of wind power, ramping natural gas combustion turbine plants in response to changes in output from variable resources has typically provided this flexibility. It is already cheaper to charge an electric vehicle than fill up a gasoline vehicle.

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Wind PHEV Cost Of Power 286

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Low-cost but not cheap. liter gasoline engine with multi-port injection, good for 120 horsepower and 112 pound-feet of torque, mated to an intelligent variable transmission (iVT). This well-built small car should not be considered “cheap” as some people see that as meaning poorly built. Drivetrain. Functional and fuel efficient.

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Kia Fuel Economy MPG Economy 72

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

He has come to like the car so much that the fact that now it is costing him closer to his gasoline past doesn’t seem to get him down. Many became very interested after Bill showed up in his LEAF and told them the hundreds he had been spending on gas paid the lease on his cool new ride -- and then some.

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San Francisco Cheap Plug-in Plug 147

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Not all succeed as talk is cheap, actions are tough, and many don’t do so well following through. The current line-up, a combination of gasoline-powered and battery electric sedans and SUVs, will be all-electric in 2030. In this time Genesis went from being a model in the Hyundai line-up to becoming a car company on its own.

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Dealers New Jersey New York City Hyundai 77

Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. Beyond this, a gas-electric hybrid with an additional storage battery and a plug-in capacity would allow us to use electricity for short distance driving, such as the daily commute or grocery shopping. This could cut U.S.

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Cheap Gasoline-Electric Wind Oil 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Although electric vehicles have lower tailpipe emissions than gasoline powered vehicles, the changes in emissions associated with vehicle electrification on a life cycle basis will depend on the emissions associated with the operations of the power plants used to charge the battery. Credit: ACS, Weis et al. Click to enlarge.

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Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia 150

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. These European designs are perfectly good EVs, although their limited battery range and high price compared to the gasoline versions are major drawbacks. It debuted in the U.S.

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 70

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The hydrogen fuel cell in the FCEV acts to keep the battery charged, but can directly power the electric drive motor, similar to the function of a gasoline-powered range extender. The FCEV takes on hydrogen fuel in a compressed gas cylinder similar to, but much stronger than an LPG cylinder. The reasons are numerous. .

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Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

For a while, gas scooters held sway piled high with people and products. While I think selling gasoline cars by the tens of millions to the domestic market is perceived to be of prime economic importance, I hope they choose to forgo following the Japanese and Korean model of aggressively competing on the low end in the export market.

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China Chinese Coal North Korea 133

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. And oil only seems cheap. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Then market speculators got into the act, sending wholesale prices up 800 percent and bankrupting Pacific Gas & Electric.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 139

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto.

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Carbon San Francisco Sacramento Cleaner 100

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 11, 2009

The extra lead-acid batteries will run the car about twelve miles on just electricity and they increase gas mileage when the car's using both power sources. At 34 miles per hour, the hybrid uses a mix of gas and electricity. It costs pennies to use electricity versus dollars for gasoline." It takes about two days.

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Lead Acid Conversion Cheap Florida 36

Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture? However, while this argument seemed to carry strong weight when US gas prices reached $4 a gallon, they now seem less relevant. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 11, 2009

The extra lead-acid batteries will run the car about twelve miles on just electricity and they increase gas mileage when the car's using both power sources. At 34 miles per hour, the hybrid uses a mix of gas and electricity. It costs pennies to use electricity versus dollars for gasoline." It takes about two days.

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DC Lead Acid Conversion Cheap 36

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Increased use of alternatives to oil-based transport fuels (gasoline, diesel and LPG) also help to temper oil-demand growth, though to a much smaller degree than efficiency gains in vehicles with internal combustion engines. Click to enlarge.

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