Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. Other partners in the project consortium include Lufthansa; Fraunhofer ICT; Universität Stuttgart; Forschungszentrum Jülich; GEWI AG; CVT Chemical Engineering; and HGM.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel 400

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This corresponds to the emissions of more than 89,900 km driven by a diesel truck and represents 85% of CO2 savings compared to a traditional diesel engine. By investing not only in sustainable fuel but also in fleet renewal, engine retrofitting, and efficiency projects, we tackle the impact of the logistics supply chain.

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CO2 Diesel Climate Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

In summary, the current Golf TDI (Diesel) emits 140g CO 2 /km on average over its entire life cycle, while the e-Golf reaches 119g CO 2 /km. In the vehicle with an internal combustion engine, most of the emissions occur during the use phase—i.e., Here the Diesel reaches 111 g CO 2 /km. In 2015, the figure was 43.6

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CO2 Diesel Carbon Emissions 277

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

The current decline is ales of diesel light duty vehicle in Europe does not put EU CO 2 targets out of reach of automakers, according to a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). In addition, vehicle manufacturers increasingly use electric motors to complement conventional combustion engines in cars.

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Diesel CO2 Standards Emissions 186

EV Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

litre turbo-diesel engine. Better have deep pockets READ MORE: 2024 Toyota bZ4X pricing announced – be very afraid Tesla Model Y READ MORE: 2024 Toyota LandCruiser Prado finally going green? The high-performance hybrid makes 243km/630Nm compared to the diesel engine’s 150kW/500Nm. 100km and 236g CO2/km.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 15, 2024

For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck. The post CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Carbon Diesel CO2 Tesla 96

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

This could prove very problematic for the industry in a year that was supposed to mark the big shift to EVs to reduce fleet CO2 emissions in line with new tighter EU CO 2 targets. Much lower pump prices for gasoline and diesel have been ushered in by the COVID-19 crisis and a big hit to global oil demand.

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CO2 Fleet Emissions Oil Prices 353

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2021

SUVs are typically heavier than other cars and have more powerful engines and larger frontal areas—all features that increase fuel consumption. Diesel vehicles constituted 31% of new registrations. CO2/km, which is about 7 % above the 2020 target of 147 g CO 2 /km. g CO 2 /km. New emission data from heavy-duty vehicles.

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2019 CO2 Emissions Europe 259

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2023

IVECO, the commercial vehicles brand of Iveco Group, will support EDEKA Minden-Hannover—one of the leading food retailers in Germany—in converting the entire 700-vehicle company fleet from diesel to BioLiquified Natural Gas (bio-LNG) propulsion by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2020

More than 14 tonnes of CO 2 was saved in a two-year trial involving just 11 urban trucks and vans running on green hydrogen dual fuel. That is one result of the Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial (LEFT) project to investigate the practical deployment of hydrogen powered vehicles in the UK.

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Hydrogen Fuel CO2 Fleet 446

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. —Sebastian Willmann, head of Internal Combustion Engine Development at Volkswagen. High-quality additives also keep the engine extremely clean and protect it against corrosion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

Power management company Eaton has expanded its portfolio of valvetrain solutions for diesel off-highway vehicles to help OEMs reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. This technology enables precise valve lift control through HLA, coupled with engine braking capability, which in turn helps reduce emissions and improve fuel economy.

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Eaton Fuel Economy CO2 Vehicles 269

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel) has received type approval for the biggest and most powerful LNG-fueled engines yet built. The type approval was awarded following a series of extensive full-load tests in diesel and gas operation. WinGD has received 320 orders for X-DF engines including 60 in operation.

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Engine Power Powered Asia 269

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. decline in new diesel registrations. to a new low of 165.4 of the UK’s 2.5

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2017 Auto Industry Diesel CO2 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale.

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Building Power Powered Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

This rise in average CO 2 emissions correlates with a decrease in demand for diesel cars across Europe—which produce lower CO 2 emissions than gasoline cars—and the rising popularity of SUVs, which emit higher average CO 2 emissions of 133.0 In turn, diesel cars accounted for just 43.8% g/km—a difference of 5.5

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Gasoline Diesel Emissions SUV 244

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has engineered the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha —a microbe now used to produce biodegradable plastic—for the production of fatty acid-derived, diesel-range methyl ketones. Modifications engineered in R. Earlier post.). eutropha and E.

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Carbon Diesel Engine Range 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine. For this test, the engineers heated up the CO 2 using an electrical heater, fairly similar to a home water heater.

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Grid Power Powered CO2 396

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

As expected, the combination of fewer diesel registrations and more SUVs continued to have an impact on emissions. Despite an increase of EV models contributing positively to emission levels, the move away from diesel had a negative impact, one that the market could not offset. BEVs for every diesel car registered.

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SUV Emissions Diesel Europe 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A new analysis by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) concludes that diesel cars emit more CO 2 than equivalent cars on a full lifecycle basis—i.e., According to the T&E analysis, an average diesel car produces emits 3.65 According to the T&E analysis, an average diesel car produces emits 3.65 l/100 km (37.3

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Gasoline Diesel CO2 Cars 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2018

Testing of the latest Nexcel active engine oil management system ( earlier post ) across three different engine types has a{demonstrated} the system’s potential to reduce CO 2 emissions by 2 g/km. Nexcel’s active engine oil management system is an easy to change unit containing engine oil, a filter and an electronic control unit.

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Oil Engine CO2 Downsizing 191

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thirty-seven globally prominent scientists representing the International Journal of Engine Research have published an open-access editorial addressing the future of the Internal Combustion Engine, and stressing the importance for continued development of more efficient and even lower-emitting technologies.

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International Engine Exhaust Emissions 312

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Along with a new generation of engines, the compact SUV now also offers new radio and radio navigation systems. The 2-liter diesel engines will have more power. The output of the 103 kW (138 hp) engine was increased to 110 kW (148 hp), while the 130 kW (174 hp) engine now delivers 135 kW (181 hp).

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Engine Diesel Range CO2 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. It delivers the power (up to 250 hp / 186 kW) and peak torque (up to 450 lb-ft / 610 N·m) of gasoline and diesel engines nearly twice its 2.8-liter

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Engine Emissions CO2 Gasoline 319

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by François Maréchal, at EPFL’s School of Engineering. Simple heat and mass flows for CO 2 capture from diesel engine exhaust: exhaust cooling, TSA cycle, product CO 2 compression, and liquefaction. 2019.00143.

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Emissions CO2 Exhaust Carbon 332

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2017

Diesel has played a major role in the European Union’s efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions from the automotive fleet; the market share of fuel-efficient new diesel cars in the European Union has remained above 50% since 2010. Furthermore, hybrid electric cars today often are cheaper than diesel cars within the same vehicle segment.

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Diesel Standards CO2 Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2017

The Daimler Board of Management has approved a comprehensive plan for diesel engines consisting of a substantial expansion of the current service action for vehicles in customers’ hands as well as a rapid market launch of the completely new OM 654 diesel engine family ( earlier post ). New engine family.

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Diesel Exhaust Mercedes Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The participants reported virtually no difference in driving experience compared to regular gasoline- or diesel-fueled cars. liter, 127 hp engine which can run on both 100% methanol (M100) and gasoline. The average in-use emissions were calculated as 46 g CO2 per kilometer, accounting for the consumption of both fuels.

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Consumption measurements of the dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine as a function of speed and load. Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a light-duty hybrid electric vehicle featuring a dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine. The dual-fuel engine can also serve in a non-hybrid application. Source: Ott et al.

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Gas-Electric Diesel Gas Light 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

A joint study by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) into 48V diesel mild hybrid technology verified a 9% reduction of NO x in raw engine-out emissions, while retaining the fuel economy and CO 2 benefits of diesel engine technology. —Paul Bloore.

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Fuel Economy Diesel Economy Engine 150

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 2, 2021

On Wall Street, the company’s market value has outpaced its auto industry counterparts who specialize in internal combustion engine (ICE) technology. Right now, Tesla is at the vanguard of an all-electric future. Are things changing, though? To that end, are Tesla’s competitors still investing in ICE development anymore?

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Engine Gas Diesel Auto Industry 145

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The realization, which will benefit also from the collaboration with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), of technologies and devices for the capture and temporary storage of part of CO 2 produced by internal combustion engines. This fuel can already be used with existing vehicles, without the need to modify the engine.

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Renewable Emissions CO2 Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The average car stays on the road for over eight years; meaning that even if the whole world switched to buying 100% electric cars tomorrow, it would still take almost a decade for today’s internal combustion engines to be off the road. The effective upgrading of alcohols to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The vast majority of heavy-duty vehicles in the EU fleet (99%) currently run on internal combustion engines, fueled largely by imported fossil fuels such as diesel. In 2019, freight emissions were 44% higher than emissions from the aviation sector and 37% higher than maritime transport emissions.

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CO2 Emissions 2019 Hydrogen 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Ricardo-led Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) project will apply 48V “intelligent electrification” concepts, mild hybridization and waste heat recovery in a Ford Focus diesel demonstrator. In 2011, the HyBoost team reported that the HyBoost demonstrator was achieving comparable performance to the conventional 2.0L

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Fuel Economy Diesel Economy Gasoline 239

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. —Arpita Bose, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and leader of the study.

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Solar Light St. Louis Power 319

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2018

kWh battery in the hybrid vehicles is paired with either a gasoline engine or, for the first time, a diesel engine. l/100 km, combined CO2 emissions 42 g/km, combined electrical consumption 19.1-18.7 It is combined with the OM 654 four-cylinder diesel engine for the first time in the C-Class. kWh/100 km).

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