Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2006, Honda was the first auto company to voluntarily and publicly announce targets for the reduction of its CO 2 emissions for its products and operations globally. To continue to decrease CO 2 emissions from the transportation of vehicles from its plants to dealers. Source: Honda North America. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2013

It’s amazing how one small change can make such a huge difference-and that’s a lesson GM is benefitting from learning this week-as the car giant reveals how it will cut no less than 8,500 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions each year, just by changing a few lightbulbs. OK, a lot of lightbulbs.

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2011

The aim is to increase fuel economy to a fleet-wide average 54.5mpg or 163g/mile of CO2 for cars and light duty trucks by model year 2025. An agreement has been reached with 13 major automakers as President Obama announced the next phase of the administration’s national vehicle programme.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Europe is moving forward with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vans. The European Commission has today proposed tough new CO2 cap for vans at just 175g/km of CO2 or at least 42.8mpg by 2016. There would also been a long term emission reduction target of 135 g/km by 2020.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Alto won the ‘Light’ and ‘Small’ car categories; ‘best urban cycle’ category and an overall CO2 emission of 89.9g/km, Despite some extremely trying conditions for drivers and cars alike, with most teams opting to turn off the air conditioning to save fuel even in temperatures soaring to 43 degrees centigrade, the 1.0-litre

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Green Cars News

MAY 9, 2010

In an effort to encourage the development and uptake of green vehicles including heavy and light duty vehicles, two- and three-wheelers and quadricycles, the European Commission has released a new strategy.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2009

The UK Energy Research Centre has launched an extensive review of policies that could significantly reduce CO2 emissions and finds that in addition to promoting electric cars policies must play a big role in helping drivers leave their cars at home. Tags: Green cars Latest news UK Energy Research Centre.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Efforts to increase fuel economy and lower emissions show no signs of losing pace as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report revealing a fifth consecutive increase in new vehicle fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Hybrids are projected to have a 1.8

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Green Cars News

MARCH 12, 2012

For the seventh successive year, car manufacturers showed they are winning the battle against emissions – by decreasing carbon dioxide emissions and increasing fuel economy.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 11, 2009

The Department for Transport has teamed up with the SMMT to launch the UK’s most comprehensive database on the environmental impact of light commercial vehicles. The database makes for interesting reading, with the Ford Fiesta Van coming out top of the results with CO2 emissions of only 110g/km for their 1.4

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

The UK has been at the forefront of efforts to cut down energy-inefficient products which cost people more money to run and are bad for the environment as they have higher carbon emissions. Environment Minister Dan Norris said:“We can no longer rely on light bulbs which waste 95 per cent of their energy as heat.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Citroen’s restyled C3 will arrive in the UK this summer, with emissions as low as 87g/km CO2. The updated version of the supermini will show a new, more assertive look with a restyled front end and new tail lights. There will be the option of two new PureTech 3 cylinder petrol engines that deliver 15 [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It compared emissions – CO2, PM2.5, NOx and HC – from conventional vehicles and electric vehicles, including electric cars, light scooters and bicycles. A new study from the University of Minnesota, University of Tennessee and Tsinghua University investigates.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Details are sketchy at best so far however the manufacturer hopes to deliver a light commercial vehicle with equally light fuel consumption and low CO2 emissions that is still tough enough to absorb the everyday abuse that comes with the [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 20, 2012

A new Renault Twingo is to arrive in the UK next month, with emissions starting from just 119g/km CO2. Priced from £10,350 on-the-road, the first models of the new city car are already available to order now. The new Twingo boasts improve styling, revised bumper, tailgate and new rear lights.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

US President Barack Obama has confirmed a new national policy that intends to slash fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions on all new cars and trucks sold in the USA. However, there will not be an exact one-to-one correspondence between the two standards - greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2009

Europe’s top selling small hatchback, the Peugeot 207, is now even “greener” with the introduction of the new 207 Economique and Economique + which emit only 99g/km of CO2. In 2008, one in every six new cars sold that emit less than 120 g/km of CO2 was a Peugeot. The New 207 Economique in Detail. litre HDi diesel engine.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Notably among them is the new concept from Volkswagen - the L1 – a diesel-electric hybrid vehicle constructed from aluminium and carbon fibre weighing just 380 kg and capable of returning a staggering 189 mpg on the combined cycle while emitting just 39 g/km of CO2. The result is a remarkable co-efficient of drag figure of just 0.195.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

Nissan and the city of Seattle have joined forces with the belief that electric cars will offer one of the best solutions in the battle against carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. According to Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, the goal is to combine clean, green electricity with the city’s transportation system.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

The US Department of Energy has also announced new efficiency standards for fluorescent and recessed lighting fixtures which will take effect in 2012. The tighter standards could save around 594million tons of CO2 emissions from 2012-2042 - the equivalent of removing 166million cars from the road for a year.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

And EV straggler Honda shed a bit more light on its upcoming EVs built on GM’s Ultium battery and powertrain platform. According to the company, the pickup will be open for pre-orders in the second quarter of 2021, with deliveries starting “as early as 2023.” – March 10, via Green Car Reports. Automakers and Models.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

To ensure only as much power is used as needed, energy saving lighting has been installed and patrols are carried out to monitor usage. Between 2003 and 2007, CO2 emissions have also been slashed by 36 per cent. Tags: Green cars Latest news Toyota eco-factory how green is Toyota Toyota Prius.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The average fuel economy of new light duty vehicles bought in the USA leapt from October 2007 to April 2009 from 20.2mpg to 21.3mpg. In a companion study for the same period, it was also found that the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per driver from these new vehicles were lower in each month compared to October 2007.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Audi claims this makes it the first automatics in the premium sector to benefit from the latest engine start-stop technology, which has already helped to cut emissions in manual transmission TDI versions to a sector-leading 109g/km. CO2 is consequently also down at 124g/km, versus the manual version’s 132g/km. TFSI petrol and 1.6

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Question: Can you tell explain Ford’s strategy for introducing greener cars? Answer: Ford’s broad general direction is less and less CO2 emissions, with the ultimate goal of zero emission vehicles. This stage is where alternative technology is introduced such as biofuels, LPG, and hybrid technology.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Cars made by BMW and Mini, Fiat, Kia, and Volkswagen, among others use the Bosch system to boost the fuel efficiency of their cars. On the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), start-stop systems reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 5 per cent, whilst the saving is as much as 8 per cent on the NEDC urban cycle.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Axon Automotive uses revolutionary manufacturing techniques to make carbon fibre technology, which has been associated with racing cars, affordable for eco cars. “By By designing light cars and giving them good aerodynamics you can radically lower vehicle emissions,” says Axon’s Managing Director, Dr Steve Cousins. “As

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

Further work is ongoing to look at the timeline for reduced power station CO2 emissions which is the key enabler for electric and plug-in hybrids to reach true ultra low carbon status. This will initially be tested on a large premium sport utility platform, delivering 120 to 130 g/km and with significant zero emissions potential.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance intends to mass market zero-emission vehicles. This commitment is founded on the underlying principle that electric vehicles – unlike all other technologies (internal combustion engines, hybrids) – are zero-emission vehicles during their use on the road. Like the Z.E. Kangoo be bop Z.E.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 18, 2009

With manual transmission, iQ3 returns an official 58.9mpg in combined cycle driving, and 113g/km of CO2 – Band B for road tax (£35 annual charge). Equipped with Toyota’s new Multidrive CVT system, fuel economy is just as good, while emissions rise slightly to 120g/km, but remain within Band B. iQ3 is on sale now.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Vans, or light commercial vehicles (LCV) were not to be outdone and proved what could be achieved if driven more thoughtfully. The Government last year also changed the company car tax regime to reward vehicles with a sub -120 CO2 grams per kilometre rating. against the manufacturer’s combined figure of 44.10

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We should be concentrating on eliminating the hoggiest of the hogs by hybridizing them or reducing their acceleration which BY ITSELF reduces consumption since it leads drivers to unlearn stop and go driving, instead timing arrival at lights to when they are green. We are facing a big problem with global warming.

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