Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Following a change of allegiance by General Motors, environmental groups are calling out the remaining automakers that still oppose California's ability to set its own, stricter, emissions standards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Although engine manufacturers routinely develop cleaner engines for new vehicles, older model vehicles continue to contribute heavily to pollution levels. The modified fuel reduces soot production without increasing NO x and without requiring engine design or calibration changes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel). Source: Green Biofuels. GD+ is an EN15940 paraffinic diesel which meets the ASTM D9725 2D specification.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2021

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners earlier this month approved changes centered around incorporating the international Environmental Ship Index (ESI) into the Port’s Green Ship Incentive Program, which began in 2012. Vessels with main engines meeting International Maritime Organization’s Tier III standard (no more than 3.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it will soon propose robust new fuel economy standards. NHTSA’s proposal comes as the automobile industry is retooling future models in response to market demand for cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

On 6 March 2020, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed to set an intermediate FTP NO x emissions limit of 50 mg/bhp-hr in model years 2024-2026 with a final FTP standard of 20 mg/bhp-hr in 2027, representing a 90% reduction below today’s standard of 200 mg/bhp-hr. Source: MECA. ppb and up to a max of 5 ppb.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) has supported an innovative revolution in alternative fuels. billion gallons of petroleum fuel in the past 12 months, providing Californians with cleaner alternatives. Those fuels have replaced more than 2.5 —CARB Executive Officer Richard Corey.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The City Council is in the process of securing green hydrogen for the fleet to refuel. ULEMCo’s H2ICED technology—which converts a standard diesel engine to hydrogen dual fuel—ensures that hydrogen is used in the fuel mix when it can burn most efficiently, and with benefits to tailpipe emissions. EGR, SCR etc.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Battery producers will face tougher environmental and due diligence standards if they want to sell in the European market. Green group Transport & Environment (T&E) said the Batteries Regulation […].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Electric cars keep getting cleaner, despite efforts by the EPA and NHTSA to roll back pollution standards on cars and powerplants. That's the conclusion of the latest report from the Union of Concerned Scientists which annually measures the environmental impact of driving an electric car.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

GreenCell Mobility has secured Rs 300 crore in green funding from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), for its Electric Bus project in Uttar Pradesh. GreenCell Mobility has become the first Indian company to secure Green Financing from global banks Standard Chartered and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

trillion in collective assets under management called on General Motors (GM) to join other OEMs in the compromise agreement with California and other states on clean vehicle standards. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) vehicle standards. Stringer and a coalition of 25 major investors with $1.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2023

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which requires fuel producers to reduce the carbon intensity of fuel sold in the state, is largely responsible for the shift by encouraging the use and production of cleaner alternatives. Compliance with the LCFS began in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

million settlement with Tesoro Refining & Marketing, LLC for violating the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The LCFS encourages the use of cleaner, low-carbon fuels in California. The LCFS standards are expressed in terms of the carbon intensity (CI) of gasoline and diesel fuel and their various substitutes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% Now, a new open-access study published in Nature Communications quantifies these health benefits and finds cleaner shipping fuels will result in a 3.6%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Reducing emissions from mobile sources is key to the San Joaquin Valley meeting federal ambient air quality standards. The District’s successful truck incentive programs have repowered, retrofitted, or replaced more than 7,300 heavy-duty trucks with cleaner alternatives. standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Furthermore, the filter technology with activated carbon layer also converts harmful gases such as nitrogen dioxide, leaving the interior air cleaner and less disturbing. From now on, every Volkswagen will be standard-equipped with the activated carbon filter with allergen function.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. New energy efficiency standards. Earlier post.). Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2019

These two models are the first vehicles in their classes to offer plug-in hybrid technology, and offer a standard eight-year battery warranty. Designed to deliver pure-electric propulsion, the new van will contribute to cleaner, quieter towns and cities, and reduced running costs for business and operators.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As it prepares to launch mass-market electric cars, Ford is touting its stance in favor of California's stricter emissions standards. Ford was the only United States automaker to commit to a voluntary deal to meet tougher California standards—something the automaker reiterated in a short video last week.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2022

The optional ultra-low CARB certification is 90% cleaner than current emissions standards for nitrogen oxides. ROUSH CleanTech is the first original equipment manufacturer to receive California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour certification for 2022 model year vehicles.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 22, 2023

But recently, there’s been a welcome surge of interest among consumers in ways to switch to cleaner, more efficient heat pumps, induction stoves, and electric clothes dryers. Most of us still burn fossil fuels to heat our buildings, make hot water, cook, and dry our laundry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2017

A study by the University of California, Riverside College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) found that a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (Metro) bus equipped with an ultra-low emission natural gas engine performs significantly cleaner than its certification standards across all duty cycles.

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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. The deal follows an agreement reached in December on new CO 2 emission standards for cars and light vans in the EU for the period after 2020. —Erik Jonnaert.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted a plan that demonstrates to the US Environmental Protection Agency how the San Joaquin Valley air basin will attain each of four federal standards for fine particulate matter by regulatory deadlines. Deadlines for attaining these standards are 2020, 2024 and 2025, respectively.

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2021

As indicated in recent reports, a Volkswagen joint venture in China has reportedly agreed to purchase green car credits from Tesla in an effort to meet the country’s environmental standards. . Automakers are allowed to obtain green credits to ensure that they meet the country’s environmental targets. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to extend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ) by ten years to 2030 and to double the program’s carbon intensity reductions target from 10 to 20 percent. The standard currently requires a 10 percent reduction in the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

In an effort to accelerate the movement to zero- or near-zero emission locomotives, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has petitioned the US EPA take action to adopt more stringent emission standards for locomotives. Top: Existing federal standards. Bottom: ARB’s proposed Tier 5 standard. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Combining Geely Auto’s two most sustainable and green powertrain technologies, methanol and NordThor Power hybrid technology, the Methanol Hybrid Emgrand brings to the table low operating costs and ultra-low emissions. In the face of rising global gas prices, methanol fuel offers a viable cleaner affordable alternative, Geely said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has proposed amending the California Low-Emission Vehicle III Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulation to ensure that cars and light-duty trucks for model years 2022-2025 continue to meet California standards even if Federal standards are frozen. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule setting corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) and CO 2 emissions standards for model years 2021-2026 passenger cars and light trucks.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Portable generators, including those in recreational vehicles, would be required to meet more stringent standards in 2024 and meet zero-emission standards starting in 2028. These emission standards of zero will apply to engines used in all equipment types produced for sale in California, except generators and large pressure washers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

An anti-pollution helmet developed by a Delhi-based startup can help 2-wheeler riders breathe cleaner air. Following all mandatory standards stipulated by the government, the 1.5 The helmet developed by Shellios Technolabs has a Bluetooth-enabled app that lets the rider know when the helmet requires cleaning.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The findings of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, with colleagues at UC Berkeley, suggest that changing atmospheric NO x levels over the next two decades will likely significantly reduce the effectiveness of stricter new gasoline vehicle emissions standards in reducing concentrations of secondary organic aerosol (SOA).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

In a joint Federal Register notice , the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) opened the public comment period on the reconsideration of the January 2017 Final Determination for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years (MY) 2022-2025. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 2, 2014

Supreme Court has chosen to decline oil and ethanol companies'' appeal to a decision to uphold California''s Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS). That means the LCFS now has one fewer obstacle in its aim to encourage the adoption of cleaner fuels in the state''s cars and.'

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