Electrek

MARCH 7, 2023

Ford is celebrating one year of its all-electric E-Transit vehicles hitting roads with a slew of encouraging stats surrounding the EV. more… The post Ford E-Transit year one: 745,000 gallons of gas saved across 12M miles, 57% reduced CO2 output appeared first on Electrek. Lots more to unfold here from Ford, learn more below.

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CO2 Ford Miles Gas 129

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. The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven. Every bit of CO?

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Gasoline Renewable CO2 Gasoline-Electric 393

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

CO 2 emissions of the B-Class Electric Drive compared with the B 180 gasoline-engine variant [t/car]. The Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive ( earlier post ) delivers up to 64% lower CO 2 emissions than the equivalent B 180 gasoline model (when charged with hydroelectricity), according to Mercedes-Benz and TÜV Süd.

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Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Mercedes Emissions 316

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. The effective upgrading of alcohols to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

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 version used in the fleet test has a 50-liter methanol tank as well as a 10-liter gasoline tank. It features a 1.8-liter,

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel Price 357

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The growth of electric vehicles is fun and exciting to those of us who are interested in the new tech, but the truly important target is to cut gasoline use in order to stop catastrophic climate change (not to mention deadly air pollution). So, more than any stat about EV sales, what’s important is seeing […].

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Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Electric Vehicles USA 141

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Other technologies—such as efficiency improvements in gasoline engines as well as the rollout of hybrid electric power trains—offer more compelling and cost-effective pathways to reducing CO 2 emissions from European passenger cars, the ICCT says. For instance, hybrid electric vehicles and diesel cars in the small (e.g.,

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Diesel CO2 Standards Emissions 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The analysis covered 23 markets in Europe and found a direct correlation between diesel car registrations and average CO2 emissions. The total value of CO2 emissions was on a steady decline from 2007, but started to slowdown in 2016 as the fall reduced from -4.1 g/km to 120.5 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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Diesel CO2 Gasoline Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Through extensive real-world testing of electrified vehicles, Emissions Analytics has found that hybrids, whether in gasoline or diesel form, offer the highest CO 2 reduction per kWh across all electrified powertrains. The most extreme form of the technology—fully-electric vehicles—is often hailed as the solution.

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Gasoline-Electric 294

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2017

decline in energy-related CO2, according to the latest report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The natural gas share of electricity generation has grown as the coal share declined, partially offsetting the decline in energy-related CO 2 emissions from coal. Transportation increase led by gasoline consumption.

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2016 CO2 Emissions Transportation 150

The Driven EV News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

New study finds that battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) contribute at most half the CO2 emissions of diesel or gasoline cars across their lifespan, regardless of country of operation. The post EVs are “simply better” for environment, even in fossil fuel dominated grids appeared first on The Driven.

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Environment Grid Fuel CO2 114

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. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology.

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Solar Light St. Louis Power 319

Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2023

And the BMW i5 looks much like a gasoline 5-Series. The 2024 BMW i5 revealed Wednesday is essentially a fully electric BMW 5-Series. Volvo’s upcoming EX30 is going for the brand’s smallest-ever carbon footprint. Stellantis sees lithium-sulfur battery tech in its future. Is that a good thing?

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Lithium Sulfur BMW Volvo CO2 114

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

The market penetration of electric cars remained slow in 2019. Several factors affected this emission increase, including an increase in the average mass and only a limited increase of the share of electric vans (BEV sand PHEV) from 0.8% g CO 2 /km) are now very close to those of gasoline cars (127.6 g CO 2 /km—0.5

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2019 Iceland Emissions Bulgaria 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

The main factors contributing to the increase of new passenger cars’ emissions in 2018 include the growing share of gasoline cars in new registrations, in particular in the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018.

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2018 Emissions Czech Republic Iceland 259

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. Not only do they eliminate tailpipe emissions, but they also boast greater energy efficiency compared to their gasoline counterparts. There’s no better time than now to join the electric vehicle revolution.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new analysis of the real-world usage of more than 100,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles shows a large deviation between on-road CO 2 emissions and fuel efficiency and the official vehicle type-approval values. The real-world share of electric driving for PHEVs, on average, is about half the share considered in the type-approval values.

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PHEV Emissions Re-Charge Plug-in 334

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. Given hybrid vehicles outsell battery electric vehicles by a factor of 2.5

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2017 Auto Industry Diesel CO2 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Specific circumstances, such as the very warm fourth quarter of 2015 and relatively low natural gas prices, put downward pressure on emissions as natural gas was substituted for coal in electricity generation. According to the EIA, the 2015 increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector was led by gasoline.

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2015 Transportation CO2 Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

Average new LDV fuel economy (liters gasoline equivalent per 100 km (L ge /100 km) by country or region (2005-17) and new registrations (2017). Higher improvement rates were also seen in markets with higher shares of electrified vehicles (hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric). Source: GFEI. Source: GFEI.

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Global Fuel Economy SUV Diesel 308

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

This was in part caused by marked changes in attitude and regulations around the use of diesel fuels which has had the unintended consequence of pushing people to drive higher-CO 2 -emitting gasoline vehicles. Pure electric cars have a 2% market share in France, this being the highest share among all five major markets. g/km last year.

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SUV Emissions Diesel Europe 221

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 g/km, compared to gasoline cars, which had an average of 123.4 g/km CO 2 emitted.

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Gasoline Diesel Emissions SUV 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

For the first year since monitoring started, gasoline cars became the most sold vehicles in the EU, constituting almost 53% of sales. The difference between average fuel efficiency of gasoline cars (121.6 Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase—last year by 42%.

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2017 Emissions CO2 Europe 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Even if all cars were to drive electrically one day, aircraft, ships, and even trucks will still run mainly on fuel. Moreover, even though electric cars will become significantly less expensive in the years ahead, the development of these fuels may be worthwhile. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH.

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Emissions Fuel CO2 Gasoline-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

tonnes more CO 2 than an equivalent gasoline car over its lifetime due to a more energy-intensive refining of the diesel fuel; more materials required in the production of heavier and more complex engines; higher emissions from biodiesel blended in the diesel fuel; and longer mileage because fuel is cheaper. l/100 km (37.3 mpg US) and 7.1

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Gasoline Diesel CO2 Cars 220

Electrek

JANUARY 12, 2022

Efforts by automakers and legislators overseas appear to be paying off, as a new study found that consumers’ transition to all-electric vehicles in the EU and UK is “inevitable.”

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Gasoline Sale CO2 Vehicles 134

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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Coal Gasoline-Electric Gasoline China 291

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2018

liter gasoline, downsized 2.0-liter liter gasoline with GDi, and 2.0-liter An electric pump controls the flow of oil between the engine sump and the remote cell. Emissions improvements have been recorded across several popular engine types, including conventional 2.0-liter liter diesel.

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Oil Engine CO2 Downsizing 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

Other key findings of the report: For the first year since 2009, gasoline cars constituted the majority of new registrations in 2017 (almost 53%). The proportion of electric vehicles (plug-in hybrid and battery electric cars) increased from 1.0% g CO 2 /km less than the average gasoline car. in 2016 to 1.5% g CO 2 /km).

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2017 Emissions CO2 2016 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The model also includes representation of fleet turnover, and opportunities for fuel use and emissions abatement, including representation of electric vehicles. The European Union (EU) recently adopted CO 2 emissions mandates for new passenger cars, requiring steady reductions to 95 gCO 2 /km in 2021.

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Standards Emissions Europe CO2 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity is used as a renewable energy source in the Soletair system to produce electricity especially for the hydrogen production unit—the most energy intensive part in the system. The liquid product can be fractioned by distillation to renewable gasoline and middle-distillate hydrocarbons.

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Renewable Fuel CO2 Hydrogen 244

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. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. gasoline with Global Bioenergies.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel 400

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Economy 2012 EPA Economy 284

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

In the United States, emissions associated with the consumption of petroleum fuels—motor gasoline, distillate, jet fuel, and more—have consistently made up the largest portion of CO 2 emissions. Natural gas surpassed coal to become the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity in the United States in 2016.

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Gas Emissions Energy Coal 220

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Ethanol, commonly made from biomass, has already established its place as a biofuel additive for gasoline. What we know is that this unique structure provides a beneficial chemical environment for CO2 conversion to multicarbon products,” he said. percent for two-to-three carbon products, respectively. —Dohyung Kim.

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Conversion CO2 Fuel Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

liter TFSI engine developing 81 kW (110 hp) can be operated using either natural gas, e-gas generated by Audi ( earlier post ) or gasoline. The process for generating Audi e-gas using green electricity binds as much CO 2 as is released when the Audi A3 g-tron is driven in gas mode. Audi A3 g-tron. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Audi Germany Gas CO2 275