Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. —Jon Moore, CEO of BNEF.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2024

. “The electrification of our fleet is a clear commitment to achieving our climate goals. But we also want to be a pioneer in our industry and send a clear signal for sustainable fleet management in line with our DEGREE framework,” explained Stefan Kurz, Head of Global Fleet Management at Siemens. The post Volkswagen ID.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

A climate-neutral alternative to petroleum-based fuels, they also offer the potential for significantly reduced overall emissions, allowing Tenneco’s Clean Air experts to better manage any remaining pollutants through the aftertreatment process. We are excited to be an active part in the development of this type of technology.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. On 12 September, CSTF and IRENA presented a Youth Day event.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the clean hydrogen market capacity can grow to 170 million tons (MtH 2 eq) in 2030 and to 600 MtH 2 eq in 2050. Decarbonizing current and developing new end-uses, it can abate up to 85 GtCO 2 eq in cumulative emissions by 2050, more than twice global CO 2 emissions in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The Paris Agreement calls for global warming to be limited to 2 ?C Climate neutrality. Vehicles on the road, when powered by synthetic fuel, are ultimately climate-neutral. A compact electric car charged in Germany with renewable electricity from Germany converts around 60% to 70% of that grid power into road performance.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

As global auto manufacturers continue to invest in electrified vehicle (EV) production, internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains dominate future US intentions, with 69% of US consumers looking to retain the technology for their next vehicle, according to Deloitte’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study report. Source: Deloitte.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Long-term measurement data of the equivalent black carbon (eBC) mass concentrations and particle number size distributions (PNSD) from the Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory Chacaltaya (CHC; 5240?m From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

These should be traveling the world’s oceans by the end of 2023, serving the North American route between Emden in Germany and Veracruz in Mexico. Volkswagen was one of the first car manufacturers to subscribe to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement that aim to limit global warming to significantly less than two degrees by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Rolls-Royce experts based in Germany, Norway and Hungary are developing the turbogenerator design and working on its system integration and are focused on ensuring smart power distribution during flight. The research and development of this technology is being part funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 13, 2017

And that's just what California is doing in an agreement announced this weekend that expands its efforts to battle climate change. But that doesn't necessarily prevent them from working with other countries on matters of mutual interest.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

Holcim is a global manufacturer of building solutions, with headquarters in Switzerland. The first 130 electric Volvo FH and Volvo FM trucks will be delivered to markets including France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK during the fourth quarter of 2023 and throughout 2024.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2023

Mercedes has broken ground on a new battery recycling facility in Germany, focusing on “closing the loop” and allowing the automaker to source more battery materials sustainably. The post Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

The BEL is the first facility of its kind for Volkswagen of America and one of four strategically located units in the Volkswagen Group globally, with one in Germany (Braunschweig) and two in China (Shanghai, Changchun). The first American-assembled Volkswagen EV, the ID.4 4 compact SUV, is poised to roll off the assembly line in 2022.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The plant, which is part of the Electrified Powertrain Technology division, supports the company’s efforts to achieve climate neutrality across all value chains by 2040. One of the primary challenges is to convert existing ZF plants around the world so that they can be operated with climate-neutral energy from now on.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Deutsche Post DHL Group is introducing a global DHL Green Carrier Certification to reward road transport subcontractors for their efforts to become more sustainable. To reduce CO 2 emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, the Group is investing €7 billion in climate-neutral logistics solutions through 2030.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Germany is expected to be one of the major global markets for zero-emission commercial vehicle technologies in the coming years. Germany recently announced support for a total ban on sales of combustion engine cars from 2035, and there are already significant domestic incentives in place to transition heavy vehicles off diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Ukraine accounts for 40% of the global sunflower oil exports and is also Europe’s largest supplier of rapeseed oil. In Germany, for example, cooking oils are among the six food categories with the highest price increase. Policymakers should end support for food crop biofuels now and help to avoid a growing global food catastrophe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2022

In this context, the Indian market is considered a pioneer of a global trend: the electrification of public transport with a focus on large cities. With the fifth generation of the AC353, Eberspaecher offers an all-purpose inline roof-mounted AC system to be used in intercity buses and coaches in any climate conditions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is not only the first production facility for high-performance cathode active materials in Germany, but also the first fully automated large-scale cathode active materials production facility in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ford is targeting zero emissions for all vehicle sales and carbon neutrality across its European footprint of facilities, logistics and suppliers by 2035, and carbon neutrality globally no later than 2050. Additionally purchases of Ford Pro Special Vehicles with a customized box for inner city distribution in Germany, were concluded.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

This is what researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) conclude from a measurement campaign in the Thuringian Forest in Germany. Aerosol particles in the atmosphere affect global climate, human health and ecosystems. However, soot does not only have a negative impact on human health. Poulain, L.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD has launched a major global initiative towards carbon-free transport. Transport activity currently contributes 23% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, with the share expected to rise. The COP 21 Paris Agreement created a political pathway for global CO 2 mitigation efforts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2023

Placed by an alliance of two globally active, well-known automakers, the order encompasses several hundred thousand engines blocks worth a figure in the mid-double-digit million-euro range. KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH will carry out the project in Neckarsulm, Germany. HASCO), a subsidiary of China’s SAIC Group.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

These are some of the findings of a new health assessment based on the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR), an effort by the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project to create the world’s most comprehensive database of surface ozone observations from all available ozone monitoring stations around the globe. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

Moreira’s technology also helps to track the effects of climate change. While leading a research team at the DLR in the early 1990s, Moreira saw the potential of using information gathered from such radar satellites to help address societal issues such as sustainable development and the climate crisis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Customcells, a Germany-based battery developer, has closed a €60-million Series A funding round. Europe’s leading climate-tech venture capitalist World Fund is a lead investor together with the Hamburg family office Abacon Capital. —,Dirk Abendroth, CEO of the Customcells Group.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

As a result, although air quality has largely improved in many regions, surface ozone can still be a problem, according to Guy Brasseur, an atmospheric scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and lead author of one of the new studies. —Guy Brasseur. Shi and Brasseur.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

Ministers of transport from around the world called for more international co-operation to create transport systems for the needs of a changing world in a declaration agreed today at their Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

. “The largest market segment in absolute terms by a wide margin in Germany, but also in Europe and worldwide, is the internal combustion engine. “If you try to ban this technology in Germany and Europe, but the world market is not even that far, you will lose this technology in the world market as well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Green Hydrogen Catapult aims to align the production and use of green hydrogen with a trajectory that displaces fossil fuels at a rate consistent with achieving net zero global emissions by 2050, and limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Last week, the European Commission adopted a package of proposals to make the EU’s climate, energy, land use, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels (Fit for 55). Earlier post.). As a result, all new cars registered as of 2035 will be zero-emission.

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