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. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

Fuel Cell Black Cabs are on the roads of London for the first time since being awarded Road Legal status by the UK Vehicle Certification Authority (VCA). These prototype zero-emission taxis are a shining example of British ingenuity, combining revolutionary fuel cell technology with an iconic design classic. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

In 2018, the Government will publish a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy which will address other sources of air pollution. Air quality in the UK has been improving significantly in recent decades, with reductions in emissions of all of the key pollutants, and NO 2 levels down by half in the last 15 years. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A wide range of public service vehicles, from buses to fire engines, are about to get cleaner, thanks to the government’s £5 million Clean Vehicle Technology Fund. Seventeen local authorities will share the fund, enabling them to use a variety of pollution-reducing technologies, which will now be [.]. Green credentials'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The vehicles were specifically designed for Transport for London (TfL) using technology developed by ISE, Wrightbus and Ballard. The RV1 route passes through some of London’s most polluted areas, so its conversion to hydrogen power will help to improve London’s air quality.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Additionally, the government has set ambitious targets for electric vehicle adoption.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

From 1990 to 2007, the total number of registered civil-use vehicles in China grew from 5.5 The majority of these vehicles are used in populous metropolitan areas. Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. million miles) per day.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

London Mayor, Boris Johnson has unveiled a plan to ban taxis over the age of ten years from the capital’s streets in a bid to cut air pollution. The strategy likely to anger cabbies, outlines the key sources of London’s harmful airborne pollutants and proposes an action plan to reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Rochester), with Blue Lake Associates (Rochester) are working on a device that could reduce pollution from a diesel engine by generating an ionic field to oxidize particulate matter in the exhaust, breaking down complex pollutants and making engines more environmentally friendly. Environmental Energy Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. 1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. About the authors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Faced with worldwide emissions regulations and rising gas prices, the small engine market is migrating from mechanical carbureted systems to cleaner, more efficient electronic control and electronic fuel injection (EFI). A three-wheel taxi with a two-stroke engine can produce harmful emissions equivalent to about 50 modern automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2015

However, while the number of cars is drastically lower, total vehicle kilometers travelled (VKT) increase—more than doubling in one scenario at peak periods due to detours for pick-ups/drop-offs, repositioning and a shift from bus trips to shared cars. TaxiBot plus high-capacity public transport scenario, vehicle-kilometers).

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Clean Car

OCTOBER 7, 2020

However, to this auspicious list, we must now add (at least) one more category; the end of the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The UK Government has committed to banning the sale of new ICE vehicles (and hybrids) from 2035. We all know it is coming and probably sooner than we think.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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