Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

This just goes to show the sheer scale of the importance of the automobile industry to Europe. It is clearly paramount to the overall health of the EU economy, and government budgets in particular, that we can successfully re-launch our industry in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. —Eric-Mark Huitema, ACEA Director General.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

—Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe. The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report. Half of the total damage cost (between €51–85 billion) was caused by just 191 facilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

The heads of BMW, Volkswagen, and Renault have spoken out against European Union’s emission targets in recent days, arguing that the phase-out rules put too much pressure on the industry and that consumers aren’t buying EVs fast enough. By then the pressure then will be significant for the European automotive industry.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Information on the other two greenhouse gases, methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O), is only available until 2012, as international statistics on agricultural activities—the main source of these emissions—are not updated as frequently as on energy and industry-related activities. Europe’s downward trend stalling.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The European research project COCATE, just being signed and starting in January 2010, tackles the problems of rolling out a shared transportation infrastructure capable of connecting geological storage sites with various medium size CO 2 -emitting industrial facilities located within a close geographical proximity. million (US$6.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

In fact, if you remove Equinor from the equation, Big Oil’s renewable investments will actually decline over the next three years before even factoring in the industry-wide deep capex cuts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Equinor has announced plans to invest $10B into clean energy by 2025, mostly through its offshore wind portfolio.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Iveco Group has chosen BASF, the world’s biggest chemical supplier for the automotive industry, as its first partner to provide a recycling solution for the lithium-ion batteries of the Group’s electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2018

The industry is approaching a deadline in September when WLTP testing will apply to all new car production. Due to increased test numbers, JATO has a larger and more robust sample of vehicles from which to calculate the volume-weighted impact on NEDC-correlated CO2 values under WLTP testing.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

More flexible, autonomous miniBuses will be able to operate 24/7 in complete safety and will be a zero-emission alternative or an efficient complement to existing solutions (train, tram, bus) in terms of costs and CO2/km.passenger. The additional costs of robotisation and automation could be offset by the absence of on-board operators.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Saarland, a German state located on the border with France, will reportedly be the home of the upcoming fabrication location. Further, it would also be able to meet upcoming demand from Renault and Stellantis just over the border in France. The plan has yet to be finalized by the European Parliament.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Solera Inc, a leading global provider of vehicle lifecycle management software-as-a-service (SaaS), data, and services, conducted a survey involving 10,000 drivers from the UK, France, Australia, Germany, and Spain, revealing that 75% of respondents would consider switching to insurers offering greener policies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

These vessels will become the largest container ships powered by liquefied natural gas and represent a significant step on the path to the energy transition of the shipping industry. The type approval was awarded following a series of extensive full-load tests in diesel and gas operation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Similar figures apply to USA, Japan, France, Germany, and most other industrialized nations. The global financial crisis severely affected western economies, leading to large reductions in CO 2 emissions. For example, UK emissions were 8.6% lower in 2009 than in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2016

Now in service at Airbus’ Saint-Nazaire plant in France, the new paint booth recovers heat from the paint shop using a rotary heat exchanger called an enthalpy wheel. With a return on investment of four years, this project is really leading the way for future energy reductions and achieving zero CO2 emissions from our industrial processes.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 11, 2022

By 2020, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and other European countries have launched automotive industry demand stimulation measures to provide subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles, which has given a strong impetus to the growth of electric vehicles sales.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Researchers at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, are studying a solar thermochemical process for the recycling and upgrading of CO 2 emissions for the production of synthetic fuels. In a paper published online in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , they describe results from a series of proof-of-concept experiments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

The study was led by Dr Maria Sand, a senior scientist at CICERO, and her colleagues with collaborators from the UK, France, and the US, and was funded by the Research Council of Norway with contributions from five hydrogen industry partners. Sand et al. The climate effects of hydrogen have been an under-researched topic. Skeie, R.B.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

6,028 people were questioned across six European countries; Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Such systems could deliver road safety and efficiency improvements from existing traffic infrastructures, potentially improving traffic flow and reducing CO2 emissions. The survey was carried out between July and August 2012.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route. “You can legislate to protect the consumer – but that can bankrupt the supplier,” said one senior industry source.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

UK-based ultracapacitor company Skeleton Technologies and France-based Adgero SARL are introducing an ultracapacitor-based Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) for truck trailers. Road haulage accounts for over a fifth of the EU’s total CO2 emissions, so fuel efficient solutions are crucial. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. Transportation is responsible for 22% of CO 2 emissions in the world (and even 30% in Europe); 95% of the energy consumed by this sector comes from oil.

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Green Cars News

MAY 15, 2009

Leading European car rental company, Europcar is now providing information about the CO2 emitted by its vehicles on its rental invoices, making it easier for customers to monitor their environmental impact. Even before booking, customers can go online to assess the average Europcar fleet CO2 emissions for each rental car.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. At Siemens Energy, we are working with a consortium of 32 partners from industry and academia on a wind-and-hydrogen project called H2Mare.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

There will come a time—within the next two decades—when the number of people in China acquiring cars, larger homes, and other accouterments of industrialized societies will peak—a phenomenon known as saturation. Additionally, other energy-intensive industries will see demand for their products flatten.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. ACEA says that the industry spends €20 billion (US$28.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

At the upcoming 79 th International Motor Show in Geneva, France-based MCE-5 Development will showcase its first vehicle application (a Peugeot 407) of a prototype 1.5-liter VCRi engine with two-stage turbocharger. Click to enlarge. liter MCE-5 VCRi (variable compression ratio) gasoline engine. The four-cylinder 1.5L

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2007

An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German company developing Lithium batteries that would be suitable for electric cars. Li-tec is said to be working in cooperation with Bosch and Volkswagen, which has heightened interest.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

million Swiss francs (US$6.9 The carbon dioxide comes from various sources, such as from biomass, directly from ambient air, or from industrial manufacturing processes such as cement production. The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) is funding the SynFuels program with 6.2

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Green Cars News

JULY 27, 2009

Financing up to €300million has been earmarked by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to Valeo for its current research projects aimed at cutting fuel consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The key highlights of the ALMA Project are: – 22% weight reduction in BEV BiW – 24% reduction in CO2 emissions for BiW over vehicle service life – 9% emissions reduction for entire car over vehicle service life ALMA’s BEV BiW achieved a remarkable 22% weight reduction, while reducing carbon emissions by 24% in the BiW.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 16, 2024

Donkervoort& and a handful of other low-volume manufacturers are hoping to get around European regulations that would force them to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 and go fully electric by 2035. We know this because more than 99 [percent] of the cars we’ve ever built are still drivable, and we know this because we still service them.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Additionally, novel enzymes in these fungal genomes may have industrial applications in the biomass pretreatment processes. Enhancing Bacterial Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Synthesis of Building Blocks for the Carboxysome, A Metabolic Module for CO2 Fixation. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France.

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Green Cars News

MAY 27, 2009

Electric vehicles will be rolled out in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and will be subsequently extended to other countries, as part of the alliance. The Renault-Nissan Alliance will introduce zero-emission vehicles in the United States and Japan starting from 2010.

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Driivz

AUGUST 21, 2022

Rapid growth in EV adoption, bolstered by government initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions, has created an immediate need to build EV charging infrastructure to support the growin g demand for EV charging. million public EV charge points are needed to meet the EU’s proposed 55% CO2 reducti on targets for passenger cars by 2035. .

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