Nissan’s little Pixo city car is the latest model to join the tax-dodging sub 100g/km CO2 club, thanks to a few clever engine tweaks. Nissan CO2 emissions Nissan PixoThat’s not all the Pixo has changed for the summer, the new revised model also benefits from a choice of fresh, new exterior colours and improved interior. Changes to the model’s [.]. MORE
emissions Politics EPA CO2 greenhouse gas climate change carbon dioxide Donald TrumpOn August 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would reopen the Comment Period for the vehicle-emission standards for model years 2022 through 2025 it had finalized in January. The auto industry and its lobbyists had complained that the agency had moved too quickly, despite its issuance last summer of a voluminous Technical. MORE
Renault has become the European leader for low CO2 emission vehicles and the first carmaker to ducked 115g/km CO2 for average emission level for its passenger cars, based on the full year sales data for 2013. MORE
Is it possible to make a gasoline engine so efficient that it would emit less carbon dioxide per mile than is created by generating electricity to run an electric car over that same mile? Small Japanese carmaker Mazda says yes. In an interview published last week with the British magazine Autocar, Mazda claimed that its next generation of SkyActiv MORE
by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank, CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc. and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Thomas. Abstract. The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ MORE
The one-day EV & Low CO2 Fleet Show – held at the world-renowned Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire – will allow fleet decision makers to experience the plus-points of electric, hybrid [.]. Energy Saving Trust EV and Low CO2 Fleet Show UKThe Energy Saving Trust will be the main sponsor for an annual event aimed at promoting the benefits of low carbon vehicles in April. MORE
Addressing key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion, and degradation of biodiversity, the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 aims to reduce the negative impact of manufacturing and driving vehicles as much as possible. MORE
The UK government has today released figures of regional CO2 emission results with emissions falling in 335 out of 434 local authorities across the country. Today’s results show that total CO2 emissions have dropped by 2% between 2005 and 2007, with emission levels now reduced by 21% in comparison to 1990 levels. The Government is keen to highlight support available to households looking to cut CO2, these include: A new Community Energy Saving Programme starts today. MORE
Vauxhall’s funky small car, the Adam is about to get more efficient with the arrival of a new 1.0 litre, three cylinder engine which will be available with the model from this spring. Set to make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, the new 1.0 MORE
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have demonstrated that adding CO 2 during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralizes the toxicity of ionic liquids, the room-temperature molten salt solvent used at JBEI to break down cellulosic plant material. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again. MORE
Syngas-enhanced mixotrophy (case IV): hexose and CO:CO2:H 2 are fed to the microorganism. MORE
The European Parliament has agreed to delay the introduction of a 95g/km CO2 fleet average standard until 2021, following intense lobbying from the car industry. MORE
It is important that the European Commission not only set new car CO2 targets for 2025 and 2030 but also limit the gap between laboratory and real-world levels by defining an on-road conformity factor for CO2, as it has already done for air pollutants. MORE
Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. The acquisition combines the technologies of both Liquid Light and Avantium to develop a world-leading electro-catalysis platform and to commercialize new process technologies using CO 2 as feedstock to produce sustainable chemicals and materials. MORE
TDI engine which will emit as little as 92g/km CO2 and achieve up to 80.7mpg, compa[.]. Audi is to add new fuel efficiency stars to its new A1 range, with fuel economy now rated as high as 80.7mpg. MORE
litre diesel with headline low emission figure of 89g/km CO2 and fuel economy of[.]. The new Mazda2 supermini is on its way to the European market, with details now revealed on the new car’s drivetrains and equipment. MORE
per cent less CO2 per kilometre, than cars registered in the previous year. Green credentials CO2 emissions eu European Environment AgencyNew passenger car registered in the European Union (EU) last year emitted 3.7 The preliminary data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that emissions from the transport sector are falling after an increase of 23 per cent between 1990 and [.]. MORE
Audi has released its lowest CO2 emission A6 model yet. The new A6 Ultra will emit just 106g/km CO2, despite its vast size. The new executive model will be priced from £31,955 in saloon form and £33,955 for the Avant estate version. MORE
CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, discussed the company’s revolutionary biocatalytic process on Clean Skies Television during a recent newscast of “The Energy Report.&#. because there’s such an enormous supply of CO2, the ability to make copious amounts of fuel is extraordinary.&#. Tags: Latest news byron elton CO2 fuel MORE
The brand new Lotus Elise has a unique claim to fame – for its performance level it has the lowest CO2 emissions of any petrol sports car in the world. That’s the statement after the new entry level 2011 Lotus Elise was certified with an emissions figure of 149g/km of CO2 – that’s a reduction of [.]. Tags: Green cars Latest news Lotus Engineering green sports cars Lotus Elise Lotus Elise S low co2 emissions new Lotus Elise sports cars MORE
A technical brief by Dr. John DeCicco at the University of Michigan Energy Institute shows that transportation is overtaking electricity generation as the largest source of US CO 2. MORE
By actively adopting the supercritical CO2 power system, the team simplified the power conversion system and developed a new nuclear power system that can passively remove the decay heat in the case of reactor shutdown to avoid another Fukushima-type accident. MORE
Daimler''s decision to turn away from HFC1234yf air conditioning and focus on CO2 as a better choice for its vehicles has received support in the European Parliament. MORE
Toshiba Corporation announced the results of year-long field tests of electric buses charged with its wireless rapid rechargeable battery system. Earlier post.) MORE
A number of EV recharging station providers have booked space for April’s EV & Low CO2 Fleet Show. Latest news EV and Low CO2 Fleet Show recharging infrastructureABB, Ecar Connectors, ENSTO and Rolec Services will hope to push home the importance of strengthening the UK’s recharging infrastructure to fleet managers and how their own company can provide the best on-site recharging solution for electric [.]. MORE
Cars are getting more efficient, but the fuels that power them may soon change too. That''s especially true when it comes to diesel, where the loose "biodiesel" category is being expanded to include a new variety of synthetic fuels. These experimental diesel alternatives are chemically identical to petroleum-based diesel--meaning they can be used. Biofuels Carbon Footprint biodiesel renewable diesel fuel MORE
While the figures might be cooked, more customers are buying VED-free, sub-100g/km CO2 cars than every before, according to sales data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). MORE
German carmaker Daimler, the name behind Smart and Mercedes-Benz, has decided to stick with CO2 for its air conditioning systems despite a scientific review of R1234yf suggesting there is no evidence of serious risk associated with the use of the refrigerant. MORE
The UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to recommend adoption of a final Resolution text on a new global market-based measure (GMBM) to control CO 2 emissions from international aviation. ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO 2 emissions from international aviation. MORE
According to Association Auxiliaire de l’Automobile (AAA-DATA), the French carmaker’s average CO2 emissions were just 115.9g/km of CO2 per vehicle sold in first half of 2013. Renault has become the European leader for the sale of low emission cars. MORE
Skoda has added a new low CO2 model of its Octavia hatch model called the Octavia GreenLine, with an official CO2 figure of just 85g/km. Powered by a 1.6 MORE
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an electrocatalyst which operates at room temperature and in water for the electroreduction of dissolved CO 2 with high selectivity for ethanol. Their finding was serendipitous. MORE
According to a new study by Bosch, the use of e-fuels—synthetic fuels based on renewable energy—in Europe by 2050 as a scheduled supplement to electrification could save up to 2.8 gigatons of CO 2 : three times Germany’s carbon-dioxide emissions in 2016. MORE
With the announcement from SMMT that CO2 emissions have fallen for the 19th consecutive year in the UK, the leasing industry is patting itself on the MORE
Ford has cut CO2 emissions by more than a third (37 per cent) per vehicle across its global operations between 2000 and 2012, the carmaker has revealed, as it releases its 14th annual Sustainability Report. MORE
It is the first automobile manufacturer to award not only development contracts but also to place production orders for CO2 air conditioning systems and their components. From 2017, Mercedes-Benz will offer in Europe the S- and E-Class as the first production passenger cars equipped with CO 2 air conditioning systems. MORE
seconds, yet will emit as little as 109g/km CO2. Volkswagen’s new performance Golf, the new Golf GTD, will achieve 0-62mph sprint in 7.5 Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show last month, the new model is now available to order in the UK, with prices starting from £25,285 on the road. MORE
Fuel emissions CO2 alternative energy renewable energy methanolElectric cars may have made great strides recently, but thousands of researchers are still searching for a sustainable liquid fuel. Such a fuel wouldn't require drivers who are used to pumping gas to alter their habits, and it would sidestep the issues of battery weight and charging times. What if there was a sustainable fuel that could do all of. MORE
The new flagship model from the German carmaker will set a new low for sports cars in terms of its CO2 emissions: they will fall to just 110g[.]. Sports cars don''t appear on TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk MORE
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX. MORE
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2017
Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. The acquisition combines the technologies of both Liquid Light and Avantium to develop a world-leading electro-catalysis platform and to commercialize new process technologies using CO 2 as feedstock to produce sustainable chemicals and materials.
Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Renault has become the European leader for low CO2 emission vehicles and the first carmaker to ducked 115g/km CO2 for average emission level for its passenger cars, based on the full year sales data for 2013.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 2, 2015
Fuel emissions CO2 alternative energy renewable energy methanolElectric cars may have made great strides recently, but thousands of researchers are still searching for a sustainable liquid fuel. Such a fuel wouldn't require drivers who are used to pumping gas to alter their habits, and it would sidestep the issues of battery weight and charging times. What if there was a sustainable fuel that could do all of.
Green Cars News
JUNE 12, 2012
Nissan’s little Pixo city car is the latest model to join the tax-dodging sub 100g/km CO2 club, thanks to a few clever engine tweaks. Nissan CO2 emissions Nissan PixoThat’s not all the Pixo has changed for the summer, the new revised model also benefits from a choice of fresh, new exterior colours and improved interior. Changes to the model’s [.].
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 7, 2013
According to Association Auxiliaire de l’Automobile (AAA-DATA), the French carmaker’s average CO2 emissions were just 115.9g/km of CO2 per vehicle sold in first half of 2013. Renault has become the European leader for the sale of low emission cars.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Addressing key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion, and degradation of biodiversity, the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 aims to reduce the negative impact of manufacturing and driving vehicles as much as possible.
Green Cars News
MARCH 9, 2012
A number of EV recharging station providers have booked space for April’s EV & Low CO2 Fleet Show. Latest news EV and Low CO2 Fleet Show recharging infrastructureABB, Ecar Connectors, ENSTO and Rolec Services will hope to push home the importance of strengthening the UK’s recharging infrastructure to fleet managers and how their own company can provide the best on-site recharging solution for electric [.].
Green Cars News
JUNE 14, 2013
Ford has cut CO2 emissions by more than a third (37 per cent) per vehicle across its global operations between 2000 and 2012, the carmaker has revealed, as it releases its 14th annual Sustainability Report.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2016
By actively adopting the supercritical CO2 power system, the team simplified the power conversion system and developed a new nuclear power system that can passively remove the decay heat in the case of reactor shutdown to avoid another Fukushima-type accident.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Syngas-enhanced mixotrophy (case IV): hexose and CO:CO2:H 2 are fed to the microorganism.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 27, 2017
emissions Politics EPA CO2 greenhouse gas climate change carbon dioxide Donald TrumpOn August 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would reopen the Comment Period for the vehicle-emission standards for model years 2022 through 2025 it had finalized in January. The auto industry and its lobbyists had complained that the agency had moved too quickly, despite its issuance last summer of a voluminous Technical.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 23, 2014
Audi has released its lowest CO2 emission A6 model yet. The new A6 Ultra will emit just 106g/km CO2, despite its vast size. The new executive model will be priced from £31,955 in saloon form and £33,955 for the Avant estate version.
Green Cars News
MARCH 12, 2014
German carmaker Daimler, the name behind Smart and Mercedes-Benz, has decided to stick with CO2 for its air conditioning systems despite a scientific review of R1234yf suggesting there is no evidence of serious risk associated with the use of the refrigerant.
Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The European Parliament has agreed to delay the introduction of a 95g/km CO2 fleet average standard until 2021, following intense lobbying from the car industry.
Green Cars News
APRIL 10, 2010
The brand new Lotus Elise has a unique claim to fame – for its performance level it has the lowest CO2 emissions of any petrol sports car in the world. That’s the statement after the new entry level 2011 Lotus Elise was certified with an emissions figure of 149g/km of CO2 – that’s a reduction of [.]. Tags: Green cars Latest news Lotus Engineering green sports cars Lotus Elise Lotus Elise S low co2 emissions new Lotus Elise sports cars
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 2, 2014
Daimler''s decision to turn away from HFC1234yf air conditioning and focus on CO2 as a better choice for its vehicles has received support in the European Parliament.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2017
Toshiba Corporation announced the results of year-long field tests of electric buses charged with its wireless rapid rechargeable battery system. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2016
by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank, CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc. and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Thomas. Abstract. The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
A technical brief by Dr. John DeCicco at the University of Michigan Energy Institute shows that transportation is overtaking electricity generation as the largest source of US CO 2.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
It is important that the European Commission not only set new car CO2 targets for 2025 and 2030 but also limit the gap between laboratory and real-world levels by defining an on-road conformity factor for CO2, as it has already done for air pollutants.
Green Cars News
JANUARY 20, 2014
Skoda has added a new low CO2 model of its Octavia hatch model called the Octavia GreenLine, with an official CO2 figure of just 85g/km. Powered by a 1.6
Green Car Reports
APRIL 23, 2015
Cars are getting more efficient, but the fuels that power them may soon change too. That''s especially true when it comes to diesel, where the loose "biodiesel" category is being expanded to include a new variety of synthetic fuels. These experimental diesel alternatives are chemically identical to petroleum-based diesel--meaning they can be used. Biofuels Carbon Footprint biodiesel renewable diesel fuel
Green Cars News
APRIL 15, 2013
seconds, yet will emit as little as 109g/km CO2. Volkswagen’s new performance Golf, the new Golf GTD, will achieve 0-62mph sprint in 7.5 Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show last month, the new model is now available to order in the UK, with prices starting from £25,285 on the road.
Green Cars News
MARCH 14, 2013
While the figures might be cooked, more customers are buying VED-free, sub-100g/km CO2 cars than every before, according to sales data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2016
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have demonstrated that adding CO 2 during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralizes the toxicity of ionic liquids, the room-temperature molten salt solvent used at JBEI to break down cellulosic plant material. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 13, 2014
litre diesel with headline low emission figure of 89g/km CO2 and fuel economy of[.]. The new Mazda2 supermini is on its way to the European market, with details now revealed on the new car’s drivetrains and equipment.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
According to a new study by Bosch, the use of e-fuels—synthetic fuels based on renewable energy—in Europe by 2050 as a scheduled supplement to electrification could save up to 2.8 gigatons of CO 2 : three times Germany’s carbon-dioxide emissions in 2016.
Green Cars News
MARCH 4, 2014
The new flagship model from the German carmaker will set a new low for sports cars in terms of its CO2 emissions: they will fall to just 110g[.]. Sports cars don''t appear on TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk
Green Cars News
JANUARY 26, 2012
The one-day EV & Low CO2 Fleet Show – held at the world-renowned Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire – will allow fleet decision makers to experience the plus-points of electric, hybrid [.]. Energy Saving Trust EV and Low CO2 Fleet Show UKThe Energy Saving Trust will be the main sponsor for an annual event aimed at promoting the benefits of low carbon vehicles in April.
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2017
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
The UK government has today released figures of regional CO2 emission results with emissions falling in 335 out of 434 local authorities across the country. Today’s results show that total CO2 emissions have dropped by 2% between 2005 and 2007, with emission levels now reduced by 21% in comparison to 1990 levels. The Government is keen to highlight support available to households looking to cut CO2, these include: A new Community Energy Saving Programme starts today.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 25, 2014
Is it possible to make a gasoline engine so efficient that it would emit less carbon dioxide per mile than is created by generating electricity to run an electric car over that same mile? Small Japanese carmaker Mazda says yes. In an interview published last week with the British magazine Autocar, Mazda claimed that its next generation of SkyActiv
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to recommend adoption of a final Resolution text on a new global market-based measure (GMBM) to control CO 2 emissions from international aviation. ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO 2 emissions from international aviation.
Green Cars News
APRIL 20, 2009
CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, discussed the company’s revolutionary biocatalytic process on Clean Skies Television during a recent newscast of “The Energy Report.&#. because there’s such an enormous supply of CO2, the ability to make copious amounts of fuel is extraordinary.&#. Tags: Latest news byron elton CO2 fuel
Green Car Congress
JULY 3, 2016
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an electrocatalyst which operates at room temperature and in water for the electroreduction of dissolved CO 2 with high selectivity for ethanol. Their finding was serendipitous.
Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
Vauxhall’s funky small car, the Adam is about to get more efficient with the arrival of a new 1.0 litre, three cylinder engine which will be available with the model from this spring. Set to make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, the new 1.0
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
TDI engine which will emit as little as 92g/km CO2 and achieve up to 80.7mpg, compa[.]. Audi is to add new fuel efficiency stars to its new A1 range, with fuel economy now rated as high as 80.7mpg.
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