EV Central

MARCH 12, 2025

The political fall-out Automotive lobby group the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) took the opportunity offered by declining EV sales to attack Australia’s freshly introduced CO2 reduction regulations, the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES). We must stay the course to see these benefits realised in Australia.

PHEV

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 25, 2025

The analysis focuses on five key policy reversals, covering issues such as weakened emissions standards, rollbacks on EV incentives, and shifts in manufacturing regulations. Unlike opinion-driven discussions, this report is rooted in data, quantifying the consequences for both the industry and the environment.

Sustainable Transportation

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 17, 2025

Hybrid and EV Adoption Adds to Healthy Living Many industries have increased their adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles, especially as decision-makers realize these options could be ideal for a more sustainable future. Emissions-free patient transport For now, these ambulances are standard vehicles converted by third parties.

Fleet

InsideEVs

JULY 29, 2025

A big part of the push is to reduce Americas reliance on China and build a robust domestic battery industry. For example, suppliers that moved in to serve LG Energy Solution and Samsung SDI can also work with other customers, Swan said, since many supply agreements in the battery industry are non-exclusive. Have a tip?

China

InsideEVs

JULY 30, 2025

Heres What It Means For Your Next Car The EPA wants to undo greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and trucks. This week, the EPA specifically targeted electric vehicles in its announcement of a planned rollback of greenhouse gas emission standards entirely. Meanwhile, TikToks parent company may be trying its hand at cars.

EPA

The Truth About Cars

JULY 30, 2025

With Trump back in office, the White House has resumed efforts to try and scale back subsidies for all-electric vehicles and create less aggressive emission standards. Its passing technically eliminated civil penalties for noncompliance with federal fuel economy standards. being electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030.

EPA

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.).

Obama

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2013

The Government of Canada is adopting stricter environmental standards to reduce air emissions from ships navigating in Canadian waters. These changes further align Canada’s air emission standards with the United States. The changes we are announcing today will help make our oceans and lakes cleaner by reducing ship emissions.

Canada

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.

Standards

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2019

Orange EV and California-based Super Store Industries (SSI) announced the deployment of Orange EV T-Series pure electric terminal trucks to multiple SSI facilities, supporting both grocery distribution and dairy and beverage manufacturing. Super Store Industries is the first dairy manufacturer in the U.S. tons of NO x annually.

Store

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

ILSAC GF-5 represents the latest performance standard set by the International Lubricant Standardization and Approval Committee (ILSAC). We now have extensive, proven results that these Biosynthetic oils can exceed the industry’s toughest standards, as well as the most challenging environmental standards.

Fuel Economy

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread use of electric vehicles (EVs)—including lawn and garden equipment and heavy industrial equipment such as forklifts—could improve air quality, particularly in densely populated urban areas. This research points to the importance of two fundamental and parallel trends in energy and the environment.

EPRI

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbons for next-generation energy storage ( earlier post ), has begun production of nano-structured hard carbon for Li-ion battery anodes that it says can boost anode capacity by more than 50% over standard graphite. Aaron Feaver.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Specifically, the LCSFA represents the Biomass-to-Liquids (BtL) industry, with members including TRI, Rentech Inc., The renewable fuels produced are predominantly synthetic diesel and jet fuel, which are nearly identical to current crude oil-derived fuels, although significantly cleaner.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

The increased pressure to further focus on vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency performance has driven the US and other countries to evaluate the adequacy of their fuel and vehicle standards. Overall, the majority of countries are moving toward low-sulfur, cleaner fuels. —Kiuru-Griffith, Executive Director of IFQC.

Gasoline

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

School districts and transportation contractors can now purchase buses fueled by compressed natural gas that are 90% cleaner than the national emissions standard, opening more opportunities for funding that supports reduced emissions. As a lower-carbon fuel, CNG is naturally cleaner than diesel and gasoline. V10 engine.

Gas

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

EPA

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The dominant strategy in the vehicle industry is to generate more power from smaller engines using turbocharging or other technologies that create extremely high exhaust gas temperatures. Federal-Mogul has addressed these challenges through its development of a family of HTA gasket materials.

Cleaner

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Tritium, a global developer and manufacturer of DC fast chargers for EVs, and Miller Technology , a supplier of mobile mining equipment for safety and productivity, are partnering to provide fast chargers and light-duty battery EVs for the mining industry.

Light

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The robots feature a newly developed swivel head with optional tool cleaner, which Dürr is optionally offering. The door opener can be installed as a standard or mobile version on a compact interior rail at different heights. New Scara robots (EcoRP L030i/L130i) as door openers with extended Z-stroke complete the new product line.

Industry

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 The BMW Group Plant San Luis Potosí will be a full plant, comprising body shop, paint shop and assembly, characterized by an innovative production system and comprehensive sustainability standards. production.

BMW

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico.

Mexico

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In that 1998 rule, EPA adopted three tiers of emission standards: Tier 0, Tier 1, and Tier 2. The Tier 2 standards began phasing in for new locomotives and engines built in 2005. EPA adopted its first regulation to control the emissions from new locomotives and their engines in 1998.

EPA

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

The US Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California have announced a single timeframe for proposing fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for model year 2017-2025 cars and light-duty trucks. The EPA standard would be equivalent to 35.5 Earlier post.) mpg US (6.9

Fuel Economy

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

According to the plan, local government will eliminate high-polluting vehicles and control discharges from key industrial plants to reduce PM2.5, It will also adopt a stricter National V emission standard, equivalent to European V, on new cars, as well as require cleaner fuel, next year. measurement.

Pollution

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

In the face of rising global gas prices, methanol fuel offers a viable cleaner affordable alternative, Geely said. The Group’s subsidiary brands have produced the Geely Auto Emgrand methanol sedan while Geely Commercial Vehicles have produced the Farizon M100 heavy truck, which have both passed “China VI” emissions standards.

Hybrid

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

ADI’s wBMS includes all integrated circuits, hardware and software for power, battery management, RF communication, and system functions in a single system-level product that supports ASIL-D safety and module-level security building upon ADI’s proven industry leading BMS battery cell measurement technology.

Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released their long-expected notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.

Fuel Economy

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

Due to strong federal and state emissions standards, the average new car has gotten 43% cleaner since 1998. Honda continues to lead the way in many vehicle classes, but it has started to lag the industry average in its midsize fleet—which includes its best-selling Accord, and accounts for a quarter of the company’s sales.

2013

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Loop Energy, a hydrogen fuel cell company providing solutions for the commercial vehicle markets, announced that Skywell New Energy Vehicles Group (Skywell) received index approval from China’s Ministry of Industry & Information and Technology (MIIT) for a zero-emission public transport bus powered by Loop Energy’s fuel cell systems.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark for 100% synthetic jet fuel. Groenewold, Director of the EERC. Camelina oil.

Coal

Green Car Congress

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.)

Renewable

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. There are also proposals to tighten the standards for the London-wide Low Emission Zone from 2025.

London

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., This development is consistent with Air Products’ growth strategy of executing global megaprojects that enable a transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. The project relies on an innovative combination of well-established technologies.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

A LCFS (Low Carbon Fuel Standard) program is a market-based, fuel-neutral program to address the carbon content of fuels. This policy will allow the fuel industry flexibility to determine when and where new infrastructure can be introduced most efficiently, such as use of electric vehicles or additional supplies of liquid low carbon fuels.

Carbon

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It has numerous industrial, commercial and consumer applications, including as a solvent in the production of electrodes for Li-ion batteries. 1-BP (1-Bromopropane) is used as a solvent in commercial and industrial applications and as a reactant in the manufacturing of other chemical substances. Earlier post.).

EPA

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

This branded product launch supports Renewable Energy Group’s ongoing efforts to help the transport industry meet its sustainability and business growth objectives, while strengthening the company’s position in the marketplace. REG introduced the following high quality, cleaner fuel brands to the market: InfiniD.

Renewable