The Truth About Cars

APRIL 5, 2024

But the shapes were smoother, lines cleaner, and side profiles more aerodynamic and less rounded. That name applied to two- and four-door models, as well as the convertible. 6200 was available as a two-door hardtop and convertible, as well as two new four-door configurations.& Space age design knocked at the door.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s climate change mitigation policy is currently based on four basic programs: the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the cap-and-trade program, the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate and the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). Source: CARB GHG Inventory.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Overall this research highlights that more needs to be done by businesses, special interest groups and local communities to convert consciousness into action. This demonstrates how difficult it is to change ingrained behaviors, despite many becoming even more appreciative of cleaner air and healthier environments in recent months.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. million gallons US) of cleaner-burning sustainable jet and road fuel each year. million gallons US) of cleaner-burning sustainable jet and road fuel each year.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The cleaner sweeper has been adapted by retrofitting a standard EURO 6 DAF truck to run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. It deployed a 10 kg hydrogen unit on the side of the truck—an approach that enables the company to reduce the costs of converting other vehicle types. 350 bar refueling pressure nozzle.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The UOP Ecofining process technology converts waste oils, fats, and greases into Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, a drop-in replacement for jet fuel. The renewable hydrogen is then injected back into the Honeywell Ecofining process to remove feed impurities and create a cleaner burning renewable fuel.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Amyris has applied for certification under the Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and is a member of Bonsucro, the world’s leading sugarcane sustainability standard. We are committed to working with the aviation industry to bring cleaner skies, starting in Brazil in 2014. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Bayou Fuels project will take waste woody biomass and convert it into transportation fuels—such as diesel for heavy trucks and sustainable aviation fuel—using Velocys’ proprietary Fischer Tropsch process. This has a meaningful positive impact on returns. It also helps to de-risk the project and others that follow it.

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JUNE 25, 2011

The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. This could ultimately be the cleanest, most efficient and cost-effective way of converting coal into electricity. gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

A new torque converter provides a wider range of lock-up operation (versus the outgoing 6-speed automatic transmission) to imbue a more enveloping and direct driving feel. The converter contributes to low fuel consumption and passenger comfort, since engine revving is kept to a minimum. Avalon Hybrid. A new TNGA 2.5-liter Safety Tech.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

California Yellow Cab of Santa Ana will convert its Transit Connects to CNG, to take advantage of the availability of natural gas fueling stations in Orange County. Driving interest in Transit Connect Taxi in California is the mandate of many of its municipalities adopting standards for fleet operators to use cleaner, low-carbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

In the report, The Economic and Environmental Impacts of a Corporate Fleet Vehicle Purchase Program, the group examines the economic and environmental contributions of converting corporate fleets from gasoline to compressed natural gas (CNG) and hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2018

The new policy calls for an increase in the carbon intensity reduction requirements of ethanol used as a feedstock to make ETBE to meet a 55% reduction, up from 50%, and recognizes corn-based, US-produced ethanol’s ability to meet that goal, even with the higher greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction standard.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The San Pedro Ports Clean Air Action Plan will start imposing a container rate, scheduled to start next year, on containers that are hauled by trucks that do not meet stricter emission standards. The Kansas City region remains committed to displacing diesel fuel with cleaner-burning CNG. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Startup US Fuel Corporation (USF), which plans to design, build, own and operate scalable facilities near coal mine sites to convert coal into synthetic fuels, will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property (IP) that USF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams and Steve Luck.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The air would be cleaner, and people could knock out two birds with one stone, fueling their ride while tending to other necessary chores. Parking lots seem logical places for solar farms, blocking the sun’s rays from baking vehicle interiors and converting that energy to usable power to make the cars run.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

The school district is purchasing 86 Blue Bird Propane Vision school buses, and hopes to convert more of their diesel fleet to propane buses in the future. This new autogas bus offering expands Blue Bird’s propane autogas portfolio, which also includes the 70-gallon standard and 100-gallon extended-range autogas tanks.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that air is cleaner today than it was in the 1970s, more than 130 million people in the US still live in places where smog or particle pollution rises to unhealthful levels. Smog can cause coughing and shortness of breath, and can aggravate asthma or trigger asthma attacks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

Approximately 35% of the FedEx Express diesel vehicle pickup and delivery fleet has already been converted to more efficient and cleaner emission models that comply with 2010 US Environmental Protection Agency diesel emission standards. FedEx Express is not alone in its efforts to increase its overall vehicle fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

Metro will also initiate a new solicitation to convert six existing Metro gasoline electric hybrid buses to Super Low Emission Bus standards. After an initial period of testing and evaluation, Metro may then choose to purchase up to 20 additional buses. —Michael D. Antonovich, LA County Supervisor and Metro Board Chair.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

in a 2013 paper in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , can be converted into hydrocarbons using a range of processes and a range of products depending upon the feed alcohol and the process selected. Renewable jet embodies the potential of cleaner, greener, and as we scale up, cost competitive drop-in fuels. —Wilson et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Roush engineered and calibrated the Ford E-350 Propane fuel conversion system to meet the stringent SULEV-II emissions standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The propane-powered Ford E-350 can qualify for Federal tax credits up to 80% of the incremental cost to convert.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Fuel combustion releases energy by converting carbon to CO 2 , but some is only converted to CO, losing some of the available chemical energy. High-efficiency combustion processes, such as modern power plants and cars that meet current standards, produce little or no CO, and are thus both more energy-efficient and cleaner.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

However, as sustainability is central to the mission of the EV industry, we need to hold ourselves to much higher standards than those of past transportation technologies, and there’s a long way to go before we have a true circular supply chain for batteries. Developing and scaling more sustainable recycling methods is a high priority.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Imagine yourself driving down a busy highway in a convertible, and spending your entire commute sitting behind a very large diesel truck. Cars being pushed by diesel trains during a return trip had air that was generally cleaner than that next to busy city streets. That’s comparable to the levels we see here. —Greg Evans.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ULEMCo, the UK company converting commercial vehicles to run on hydrogen, has commenced the largest single deployment of hydrogen dual fuel vehicles yet. Around half of the fleet of 20 vehicles will be converted to hydrogen dual fuel, while the rest will be hydrogen-enabled from the start. EGR, SCR etc.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. 1492, and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard. 109-58, 119 Stat. 110-140, 121 Stat. NPRA President Charles T. LCFS Complaint.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 24, 2023

Digital controls may look a little cleaner, but sometimes simple is better – and digital controls tend not to be as simple as physical controls. The EcoBoost is available in coupe – “fastback” in Ford speak – or convertible body styles and in base or Premium trims. Total with the $1,595 destination fee: $43,905. It’s not perfect.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

Amyris uses its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons for fuel and chemical applications; Solazyme has developed a technology that harnesses the oil-producing ability of microalgae to develop renewable oil products.). Jurgen Leohold, Head of Volkswagen Group Research.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

This is cleaner and better for the environment than producing petrol and diesel. This will allow the grid to draw renewable energy from cars and vans which are plugged in, with their batteries replenished when energy is cleaner at off-peak times. That’s why the UK Government has banned the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2024

The inverse text normalizer, most often used by text-to-speech tools on phones, converts speech into written expressions. It is now used in a variety of Samsung products including air conditioners, cellphones, and robotic vacuum cleaners. It suppresses the effects of background noise by using statistics to estimate characteristics.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Existing policies contributing to this include: Federal and California light duty vehicle standards (2.6% reduction); Federal emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (0.3% reduction); Federal renewable fuel standard and regional low carbon fuel standard (1.6% reduction). by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Compared to gasoline or diesel methanol however offers much cleaner combustion, free of soot and emits no traces of sulphur or carcinogenic compounds which are formed in the combustion of liquid fossil fuels. Several Chinese provinces and the municipality of Shanghai have adopted standards for methanol and gasoline blends.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Compared to the 2010 “Business as Usual” scenario—which includes all adopted emission control measures for the South Coast—NO x levels must be reduced by 65% and by 75% to meet the 2023 and 2032 ozone standards, respectively. California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

The reason is simple: cars are getting cleaner. Ozone pollution in the Los Angeles Basin has decreased since the 1960s, but levels still don’t meet ozone standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Even on the most polluted day during a research mission in 2010, we measured half the VOCs we had seen just eight years earlier.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Two additional vehicles are set to be converted to apply the dust suppressant enabling the two trial sites to be expanded into more areas including construction sites. In addition, action is being taken to deliver a permanent legacy of cleaner air right across the Capital.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

a leading manufacturer of engine components that converts vehicles to operate on cleaner gaseous fuels, such as propane. CleanFUEL North America, Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with IMPCO Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary of Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc.,

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