Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden, and battery labs in China and Sweden. The investments in e-motor design and development represent yet another step towards Volvo Cars’ climate ambitions and electrification strategy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB has provided electrification, connected control and operations management systems, high-visualization and mobile operator workplaces as part of a global mining partnership to visualize a once-in-a-generation technology shift and reduce climate impact.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

The ultimate goal is to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the process by fully using fossil-free inputs and fossil-free energy in all parts of the value chain. This means that we can meet the climate goals in Sweden, Finland and contribute to reducing emissions throughout Europe. The potential cannot be underestimated.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

As a first step for the 50/50 joint venture, Volvo Car Group and Northvolt aim to set up a research and development center in Sweden that will begin operations in 2022. Today, the production of batteries for Volvo Car Group’s fully electric cars represents a large part of the car’s total lifecycle carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. In 2018, the Commission adopted the Strategic Action Plan for Batteries and has promoted a wide range of initiatives as part of the plan.

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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

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?, Another project in Sweden will produce a new fiber from pulp to substitute polyester in textile applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. It was one of the Swedish Transport Agency’s first projects in which a complete climate calculation was made. Ida Karlsson’s research is part of the project Mistra Carbon Exit, which focuses on transformative solutions. Karlsson et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia. As part of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, Solaris has been invited to participate in a mobility roundtable. Solaris unveiled its first buses to use hydrogen in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. By 2040, Volvo Cars’ ambition is to be a climate-neutral company. Source: HYBRIT. This steel will be used for testing purposes and may be used in a concept car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As a versatile energy source, hydrogen has a key role to play on the road to climate neutrality. The BMW iX5 Hydrogen already successfully demonstrated its excellent everyday usability, even at very low temperatures, during the final round of winter testing in Sweden at the start of this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

This component was developed in part collaboration with Rosenbauer. This is one way Volvo Penta has optimized the design and adapted the complete electric driveline system for a specific vehicle, considering the exact application, usage, climate, and environment it will operate in. —Giorgio Paris.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

We are happy to be part of the alliance, working together to promote renewable fuel solutions for both the short and long term. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis. We cannot afford to exclude these options if we want to reach the climate targets and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With the rapid expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines, the company plans to, over several years, invest more than 1 billion SEK (US$116 million) in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. The company will also invest US18.4 million (€15.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

Preem has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel hydrotreating technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. Preem wants to continue the transformation towards a sustainable society and increase the production of renewable fuels in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

To make an effective contribution to climate protection, the overall environmental balance of all vehicle components must be improved and partners brought into the process. Northvolt will produce the battery cells at its own gigafactory currently under construction in Skellefteå in northern Sweden from 2024 on.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Norway, as part of the European Economic Area, also participates to the IPCEI Hy2Use with two individual projects.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there are still major uncertainties regarding the quantities and distribution of soot in the atmosphere. Tilo Arnhold.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In addition, the company says series production of the company’s electric vehicles (EVs) will begin in 2026, and it says the plant will be completely climate neutral upon its opening. Eventually, Volvo says it hopes to produce around 250,000 cars per year at the Slovakia factory, providing several thousands of jobs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

As part of this verification process, Volvo Cars is already testing autonomous driving functionalities on roads in Sweden together with Zenseact, and collecting data across Europe and the US. This includes validation of the technology as safe for use on highways in a number of varying conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

This creates a comfortable climate inside the house and the energy consumption becomes lower. All surplus electricity can be used to charge the family’s electrically-powered Volvo or be used in the joint electricity grid. The solar cells are supplied by a manufacturer that is partly owned by Vattenfall.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Quizzed by The Observer as to which country had objected to the 2050 target, director-general of Sweden’s Naturvårdsverket (Environmental Protection Agency) Lars-Erik Liljelund quipped , “China. by Jack Rosebro. China doesn’t like numbers.” The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. g/m 3 , considerably lower than current European Union standard of 25 ?g/m

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

Battery draining tests, i.e. test drives in which the battery is completely drained of power, are also part of the test program. Another aspect is air conditioning of the interior—both during a journey and beforehand, as pre-climatization is an important comfort factor.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sweden-based international mining and minerals group LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area in the far north of Swedish Lapland (some 200 km north of the Arctic Circle). This is good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Electric aviation is barely beginning to ramp up. We're at the flattest point of the sigmoid curve of adoption, but the steep section of the curve is coming soon. Heart Aerospace is going to be taking off with it.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Heart hopes to be able to show the iron/copper bird working next year and get to architecture-complete. At that point, they'll be able to put in requests for proposals with sharp specifications to manufacturers.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Owen Cooper.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. Global, economy-wide carbon pricing is assumed as climate policy in both scenarios after 2020 (100 US$ per tCO 2 held constant over time). McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Reducing black carbon pollution holds some potential for climate change mitigation, especially in the Arctic, but in order to take effective action, we have to know where it is coming from. —Patrik Winiger, a researcher at Stockholm University in Sweden who led the study. —Zbigniew Klimont. 1613401114.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. °F), according to a new assessment released today in Bonn, Germany, during a meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Measures that improve climate change mitigation and air quality and have a large.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. A Volvo C30 Electric was also part of the One Tonne Life project in which a family was given the task of living as climate-smart as possible for a period of six months.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Portugal-based energy company Galp and Sweden-based battery manufacturer Northvolt have agreed to set up a joint company, Aurora, that aims to become a steppingstone for the development of an integrated lithium-battery value-chain aligned with Portuguese and European ambitions.

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