Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Among the many policy and funding details in the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations , produced by Defra and the Department for Transport is the cessation of the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. The NO 2 plan is one element in the Government’s efforts to deliver clean air.

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Gasoline Diesel Pollution Legal 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Coltura is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. States should avoid basing electrification mandates on vehicle emissions reduction and fuel economy—grounds exclusively within federal control under the federal Clean Air Act and Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

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All-Electric Legal Vehicles London 247

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires. x 10 11 #/km for diesels.

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Exhaust Emissions Pollution Legal 539

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

On 26 June, CLP Motorsports’ Superlite Coupe crossed the finish line in Santa Monica, California, after driving across the USA on one tank of NEXBTL renewable diesel ( earlier post )—the first time that this type of trip was driven using a fuel that is made exclusively from bio-based raw materials. liter TDI diesel engine.

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Renewable MPH Diesel San Francisco 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

Separately, the company announced partnerships with Solazyme and Amyris to evaluate emissions reductions and demonstrate the performance of TDI Clean Diesel technology when powered by advanced biodiesel and renewable diesel fuels. Diesel TDI models accounted for 21.6% E-Golf test. —Prof.

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Diesel Renewable Fleet Fuel 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

As part of a response to a shareholder lawsuit in Germany alleging a violation of the company’s disclosure obligations under Germany’s capital markets law, Volkswagen AG has outlined the timeline and background events leading to the eruption of the diesel emissions scandal last fall. Timeline and events.

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Diesel Emissions 2015 2014 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Additionally, when FCA dealers attempt to fix the SCR system defect, they often simply “flash” the computer to prompt the truck to burn more fuel to clean the filter. The affected vehicles are the 2013-2017 RAM 2500 with Cummins diesel (2WD, 4WD) and. 2013-2017 RAM 3500 with Cummins diesel (2WD, 4WD).

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Fuel Economy Chrysler Diesel Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

EPA has issued a notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. liter, four-cylinder diesels include software (a “defeat device”) that circumvents EPA emissions standards for NO x. Affected diesel models include: Jetta (Model Years 2009 – 2015).

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EPA Diesel California 2015 150

Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2016

Last November, the EPA announced that nearly 100,000 cars and SUVs fitted with VW Group's 3-liter V-6 diesel engines violated the Clean Air Act. The agency said at the time that their emissions were up to nine times the legal limit in some circumstances.

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Diesel Legal Porsche Audi 60

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100% synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on synthetic fuels.

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Diesel Switzerland Audi Solar 150

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It's now a year and eight days since the EPA broke the news that Volkswagen had admitted to including "defeat device" software in almost half a million so-called "clean diesel" vehicles sold in the U.S. That software detected when the cars were undergoing laboratory tests, and kept their emissions within legal limits during.

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Diesel Legal EPA 2009 60

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

EPA issued a second notice of violation ( NOV ) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., The vehicles covered by the new NOV are the diesel versions of the 2014 VW Touareg, the 2015 Porsche Cayenne, and the 2016 Audi A6 Quattro, A7 Quattro, A8, A8L, and Q5. alleging emissions cheating.

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EPA 2016 2014 Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Approximately 50% of renewable diesel production is currently being sold into Canada; all of the SAF is being delivered to Shell Aviation; and the renewable hydrogen plant capacity was demonstrated. Feedstock mix is presently 8,000 bpd untreated and 4,500 bpd of treated safety stock as Montana Renewables rotates from clean to dirty inventory.

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Montana North America Renewable America 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows that Volkswagen is currently selling the least polluting (Euro 6) diesel vehicles. also found that no brand in Europe complies with the latest Euro 6 air pollution limits for diesel cars and vans in real-world driving. The largest number of such diesels is found on French roads (5.5

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Pollution Diesel Europe Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

E-fuels are made by combining green hydrogen with CO 2 to produce liquid fuel that can be similar to gasoline or diesel used in conventional engines (as well as kerosene used in aviation). This was a significant improvement compared to the fossil fuel tested and is many times below the legal limit. pollution.

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Pollution Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Power 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2019

The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, for defrauding US investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company’s “clean diesel” fleet.

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Emissions Charging Chicago Personal 191

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. It would then allow the vehicles to pollute beyond legal limits on public roadways. billion to car buyers.

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Chrysler Emissions Pollution Jeep 88

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The results of the joint study, released by German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), suggest that incentives to promote a higher share of electric driving would increase the potential for plug-in hybrid vehicles to reduce emissions.

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PHEV Emissions Re-Charge Plug-in 334

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Funds from this settlement will go to assist small business owners in financing retrofits or upgrades of heavy-duty diesel trucks or buses to meet California’s clean air regulations. Officials estimate the money will support loans for about 90 clean-diesel vehicles.

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California For Sale Ford Sale 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

With a dual-rotor traction motor output of 565 horsepower, the truck is capable of carrying the legal gross combination weight of a Class 8 vehicle. Our testing shows that this truck performs equally as well, if not better than, current diesel trucks on the market. —Stephan Olsen.

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Kenworth Fuel Los Angeles Long Beach 236

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. liter diesel engine that would be the cornerstone for its passenger diesel vehicle sales in the US.

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Audi Emissions Diesel Charging 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So today I’m announcing a Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force that will be charged with the goal of figuring out how we can deploy affordable clean coal technology on a widespread scale within 10 years. million gallons (mg), or 0.004% of total fuel; and the biomass-based diesel standard is being set at 1.15 Biomass-based diesel.

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Obama Coal Clean Cleaning 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program today for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, and final volume requirements for biomass-based diesel for 2014 to 2017. Biomass-based diesel (billion gallons). Biomass-based diesel. Cellulosic biofuel.

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2016 2014 EPA Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

EPA expects that fewer than 10 counties, out of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States, will need to consider any local actions to reduce fine particle pollution in order to meet the new standard by 2020, as required by the Clean Air Act. By 2030, EPA expects that all standards that cut PM 2.5 Final Rule.

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EPA Standards Pollution Clean 252

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

All ocean-going vessels within 24 nautical miles of California’s coastline must now use cleaner burning diesel fuel in order to comply with a new state regulation aimed at reducing the emissions of oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and diesel particulate matter, starting 1 July. Earlier post.).

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Mariner California Fuel Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

At the 38 th International Vienna Motor Symposium this week, Continental is showcasing a 48-volt hybrid diesel vehicle which meets very stringent RDE (real driving emissions) limits on CO 2 and NO x. The first 48-volt diesel hybrid has already gone into production in Europe, and a second production launch is already in the pipeline for 2017.

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Connect Connected Diesel Clean 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Four separate percentage standards are required under the RFS program: cellulosic biofuel; biomass-based diesel; advanced biofuel; and total renewable fuels. Cellulosic biofuel and biomass-based diesel categories are nested within advanced biofuel, which is itself nested within the total renewable fuel category. Earlier post.).

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2014 EPA Standards 2015 225

Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country, and the increasing number of EVs available in New Zealand , we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Petrol and diesel vehicles both use internal combustion engines (ICEs).

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Gas-Electric Electric Vehicles Gas Power 98

Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Last year the British government set a target to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030. It is part of the “green revolution” and the transition of the UK economy to clean energy. At present, 250,000 charging station s have been installed in homes and workplaces across the UK. million charging stations.

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Fuel Vehicles Climate Change Carbon 98

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 21, 2023

Clean, wide front Smile-inducing torque at any speed is what makes driving an electric car so special, and boy did the Air Touring deliver. Acceleration is beyond what can be safely and legally used on the local roads and freeway we traversed, but the precision of the handling was also evident. seconds and hit 88 mph before lifting.

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All-Electric Miles Tahoe Charging 79

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2009

The planned biorefinery is proposed for construction on five acres of land on the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) in Bourne, Massachusetts, supported by the Massachusetts National Guard pending legal and regulatory reviews.

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Massachusetts Legal Mariner 2007 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

On-road NO x emission levels of Euro 6 diesel cars in Europe are on average about seven times higher than the NO x limit set by the Euro 6 emission standard, according to a new report published in Berlin by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Diesel vehicles make up about 50% of all new cars in the EU.

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Diesel Emissions West Virginia 2014 344

Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

People march, sign petitions, meet with their elected officials, plant trees, clean up their towns and roads. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. It is a day of political action and civic participation. At the time, Americans were slurping leaded fuel through massive V8 sedans.

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Emissions Pollution India Climate 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed. The Montreal Protocol is critical for avoiding abrupt climate change. Mario Molina. (Dr.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

clean diesel trucks and hybrid and plug-in electric cars). Barriers include policy and market failures; lack of access to financing; and other barriers such as political resistance, administrative and legal barriers, public opposition, physical constraints, and institutional, capacity and jurisdictional issues.

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Transportation New York City New York Fuel Economy 246

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

liter BiTurbo top-end diesel, tailored for Opel’s second-generation Insignia. liter diesel engine produces 154 kW/210 hp at 4,000 rpm and develops strong torque of 480 N·m (354 lb-ft) from only 1,500 rpm using sequential two-stage turbocharging. more than 9 times the legal limit—under real-world conditions.

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Diesel MPG Exhaust Engine 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The guide covers federal, state, local and utility resources, as well as legal settlements, state and regional carbon market revenues, future operational savings and the monetization of vehicle-to-grid capabilities.

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Financing Legal Fleet Insight 448