Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2010

UK car and van manufacturing has made significant progress in cutting CO2 emissions, waste and energy use, the latest research from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Tags: Green credentials co2 emissions energy use recycle smmt sustainability.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

Now Audi has introduced its fuel consumption optimised version of the A4 mid-size saloon car, the A4 2.0l It consumes an average of 4.6litres of diesel per 100 kilometres and emits just 120g/km of carbon dioxide (CO2). It is estimated that this reduces CO2 by around 5g/km, although it can also be deactivated at the tough of a button.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2009

A report, prepared by Ricardo, has been published by the UK Department for Transport outlining the potential of various technologies in reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It then summarises which technologies are the most promising in terms of CO2 benefits with all these additional issues factored in.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

Among its accolades, it has held the ISO14001 green standard for environmental management since 1996 thanks to innovations in energy saving, recycling and waste management. The plant sends no waste to landfill and has reduced the amount incinerated by 82 per cent to 730 tonnes from 1999 to 2006.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

Cheshire-based, Go Green Leasing who now advertise on the UK’s busiest contract hire website, offer a complete service to ensure that its own and its customers’ carbon footprint are minimised. The vehicle leasing business also strives to utilise renewable energy sources wherever possible and recycle company waste.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Among the projects to benefit are an effort to develop new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids with 6-20 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries at just one third of the cost; and a project to produce a flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

“Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

The new legislation is designed to cut wasted energy and high electricity bills, and was agreed by EU Member States last December with support of the UK. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2009

With the system’s help, economy is boosted and CO2 is reduced by approximately 5g/km, but if required it can be deactivated at the touch of a button. Despite this transmission’s performance, it can actually improve economy and reduce CO2 output while at the same time quickening acceleration. and CO2 output of just 109g/km.

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Green Cars News

MAY 5, 2009

The majority is sourced from hydropower and the rest from wind power and generation from waste, with sources based in the UK and on the continent. By sourcing renewable electricity, Dunton is replacing power from traditional sources that would have generated an estimated 35,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

litre TDI variants, and employs the very latest efficiency measures to make 61.4mpg and 120g/km CO2 output a reality. Although worthy of many more ‘conventional’ executive cars, this impressive performance data doesn’t preclude an exceptional combined economy figure of 61.4mpg and an impressively low CO2 output of 120g/km in the A4 2.0

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Over the last decade, UK automotive manufacturing facilities have cut CO2 emissions per vehicle by nearly half (40.9 Additionally waste to landfill has been a cut by an average of 70.5 per cent) while water use per vehicle is down by 45.3 per cent – a staggering 40 per cent better than the European average.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 17, 2009

The vehicles have replaced three diesel vehicles making sandwich deliveries across the campus and transporting green waste and tools for the facilities management team, and the university’s research shows savings in excess of nine tonnes of CO2 per year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Use of a higher efficiency paint-curing process, a new waterborne two-component primer material and “dry-booth” paint overspray technology will eliminate water used to capture paint particulates, which is one of the few remaining landfill waste streams in the manufacturing process. from a high of 755 kg/auto in FY11. kg/auto to just 0.8

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Everybody can reduce their emissions and driving costs by taking on board the driving tips on the Act on CO2 website and taking a smarter driving lesson. The event, which is supported by Act on CO2 and the Energy Saving Trust, will take place over two days. There would also be a corresponding reduction in CO2 emissions,” he says.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

He believes it is one challenge that the motoring press can help car manufacturers meet otherwise the real benefit of the millions of euros the industry is investing to reach CO2 targets will be wasted. So how did SEAT achieve the 10g/km reduction in CO2 emissions, from 119g/km to 99g/km? It wasn’t easy, said Bonet.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Even when leaving the autoroute to answer the call of nature this attention to detail extended, at least in my sorry case, to ensuring that I wouldn’t have to reverse either into or out of a parking spot, thus avoiding wasting precious thimblefuls by driving backwards for two or three car lengths! CO2 129g/km. 240Nm @ 1,750rpm.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. The car will simply fall away if GM folds. Commendation, absolutely, but GM needs to make sure their company continues on to make sure that money doesnt just go to waste. South Korea did that and Australia is going to be doing that.

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