Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

Despite the drop, Stellantis notes that it saw sales of BEVs increase by 8 percent year over year, while light electric vehicle (LEV) deliveries jumped by 13 percent from 2023. “We are reducing inventories to reinforce our strong relative pricing ahead of our new or mid-cycle product launches this year in key regions.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2018

As part of its contribution to a recently completed major European research initiative to achieve more efficient and cost-effective hybrid powertrains for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles, Ricardo developed a new 48V e-motor offering up to a 50% increase in power density compared with current production machines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. Proposal for a Regulation to define the modalities for reaching the 2020 target for reducing CO 2 emissions from new light commercial vehicles (provisional version).

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2020 Light CO2 Cars 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2012

million this year to demonstrate and to deploy fuel-cell-electric baggage tow tractors (BTT) at major US commercial airports. The target market is commercial airports and air freight distribution centers used by passenger airlines and air freight industries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $2.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

For the past four years, the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) National Laboratory consortium has focused research efforts primarily on turbocharged (boosted) spark-ignition (SI) engines for light-duty vehicles. Of the fuel properties investigated, these six were found to have the most impact on engine efficiency and emissions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 13, 2022

The most recent video here seems to have landed squarely on the Light Side, which is good, but I’m kinda confused about the suggestion that the baddies come from Mars (?) and most humans are killed (??) and the answer is some sort of “Super AI” (???). It’s not yet clear how Unitree is handling this.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

As a comparison, GM sold 155,679 light-duty vehicles in the US in September 2009; for the first nine months, US sales totalled 1,536,903 units—down 36.3% SAIC-GM-Wuling, GM’s mini-commercial vehicle joint venture, registered domestic sales of 100,635 vehicles in September, surpassing the 100,000 sales mark for the second time.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

The systems developed shall be validated as cost effective via a business case analysis and will be reviewed for commercialization potential in later project phases as part of the phase gate review process. This engine must be capable of meeting 2010 emission standards, and be commercially viable. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

Iveco offers a complete range of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles as well as buses powered by natural gas. Natural gas PM emissions are 95% lower in comparison to diesel, and 35% lower in NO x. Lastly, Iveco proposes a quieter vehicle with an average decrease of 5 decibels in comparison to diesel models.

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Gas Diesel Convert Exhaust 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

In 2012, one of every two new diesel vehicles in the world (passenger cars and commercial vehicles) was registered in Europe. According to Bosch, a realistic estimate is that diesel will be able to capture a 10% share of the light vehicle market by 2018. Diesel is much more strongly represented in the commercial vehicle segment.

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. None of the “import” brands currently offer light commercial EVs in the US.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. None of the “import” brands currently offer light commercial EVs in the US.

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Charging Ford Gasoline-Electric Electric 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Even for consumer light-duty vehicles, particularly larger size passenger vehicles, limited access to charging infrastructure and/or the substantial recharge time may drive continued demand for alternatives. Source-to-Tank cost comparison of carbon-neutral transportation fuels. —Zhao et al. Zhao et al.

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Delaware Transportation Fuel Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Historical comparisons are complicated following changes in the EPAs methodology for 2008 which suggests an increase in CO 2 , versus previous years, although this was nothing to do with manufacturer or consumer action, JATO said. David Mitchell, President JATO Dyanmics Americas. However, the overall 1.8% output fell by 3.9%.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 19, 2024

It introduces three distinct Clean Vehicle Credits (CVC) tailored for new, used, and clean commercial vehicles. Notably, the updated legislation categorizes leased EVs as commercial vehicles, qualifying them for the full $7,500 Commercial Clean Vehicle Tax Credit, without the stringent criteria of the Clean Vehicle Credit for individuals.

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Tax Credit Tax North America Clean 94

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Based on the number of players in the United States that are quite far advanced in their development, like TerraPower, my rough guess is that in 10 years we will see the first commercial civilian vessel with [next-generation] nuclear power,” says Lien.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 143

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $20 million to 10 projects to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and to enable early adoption of fuel cell applications such as light-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) (DE-FOA-0001224, earlier post ). billion in sales in 2014. billion in sales in 2014.

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Fuel Market Hydrogen 2014 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Costs continued to decline, especially for light duty vehicle applications; the cost per kilowatt (kW) for high volume production of transportation fuel cells moved closer to DOE’s target of $30 per kW. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan joined forces to develop a common fuel cell system and launch commercial FCEVs as early as 2017.

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Hydrogen Market Fuel 2012 284

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2011

after the separation of crude oil into its fractions, such as gasoline, kerosene, and light and heavy gas oils). Comparison of the yield of oil fractions produced by the distillation process after the HDT process (present study) and conventional methods (HDT process of each fraction separately after the distillation process).

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Oil Hydrogen Light Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

HIVOCOMP (Advanced materials enabling High-Volume road transport applications of lightweight structural COMPosite parts) runs until September 2014 and intends to significantly speed up the composites production process, a key factor for the establishment of plastics in the commercial vehicles market. Total project cost is €7.39

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Polymer Switzerland Universal Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The ZEV Regulation previously defined an IVM as any manufacturer with California sales between 4,501 and 60,000 new light- and medium-duty vehicles. The PZEV provisions were intended to ease the burden on IVMs in comparison to LVMs since PZEVs are much easier to market, as compared to the ZEVs required under the ACC provisions for LVMs.

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California Manufacturer 2018 Land Rover 246

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

Light-duty vehicle sales, 2010 vs. 2020. million light vehicles (passenger cars and light-commercial vehicles) were sold in India in 2010, up from just 700,000 light vehicles sold in 2000. billion—is expected to reach 11 million light-vehicle sales by 2020. Source: J.D. Click to enlarge. More than 2.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2012

The cost share must be at least 20% of the total allowable costs for R&D projects and 50% of the total allowable costs for demonstration and commercial application projects. Integration of the wireless charging technology into the GCEDV and a commercial viability analysis shall be completed within 12 months of Phase II initiation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The result of the comparison is less favorable for electric cars when looking at the current impacts of their production on ecosystems and the toxicity of the materials involved. By contrast, average CO 2 emissions from new light commercial vehicles continued to fall in 2017, showing the largest annual decrease (7.7

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Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of improved cookstoves (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the black carbon particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

A natural leaf combines light harvesting, photo-induced charge separation and catalysis modules to capture solar energy and split water into oxygen and hydrogen. AILs also are more than three times as active as commercial photo-catalysts. Next, the scientists embedded nanoparticles of platinum into the leaf surface.

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Design Hydrogen San Francisco Production 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Compared to the commercial carbon-supported Pt electrocatalysts, the Pt/RGO showed an unprecedented CO poisoning tolerance, high electrochemical active surface area, and high catalytic mass activity for methanol oxidation reaction, demonstrated by increases of 110, 134, and 60%, respectively.

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Fuel Universal Carbon Commercial 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

Start-up Bright Automotive, which in May unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van ( earlier post ), will convert VW Transporter vans with the series hybrid Bright powertrain as a bridge between the concept and the production version of the IDEA. A VW Transporter van. Click to enlarge. Specification.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficIf about 13% of the existing light-duty vehicle stock (about 2.1 A comparison between Level 1 and Level 2 charging revealed very little differences. For this limiting case, a total number of about 560,000 vehicles (4% of light-duty vehicle stock) would be necessary with a Level 2 (3.3

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Wind Grid PHEV Power Grid 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. approximately 45% peak thermal efficiency for light duty and greater-than 50% peak thermal efficiency for heavy duty).

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Li-ion Carbon Fiber Vehicles Low Cost 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

For the study, the team used a Monte Carlo analysis combined with a full lifecycle analysis framework to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) implications of a transition to light-duty natural gas-powered vehicles. Further, these pathways are the closest to commercial deployment. Earlier post.). —Tong et al. 5b01063.

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Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric Gasoline Gas 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2011

Comparison of O 3. A) mesoporous two-line ferrihydrite (M2LFh), B) MSIO, C) CIO, D) g-Fe 2 O 3 , E) 5 wt % Fe/ZSM-5, and F) commercial MnO 2. In comparison to other iron oxide materials, it has a particularly high proportion of unsaturated and thus reactive iron centers on its surface. Mathew et al. Click to enlarge.

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Ozone Toyota Pollution Suzuki 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

The objective of this AOI is to develop and demonstrate the capability of multi-material joining techniques for aluminum to advanced steel for light-duty vehicle body-in-white (BIW) joints. Magnesium (AZ or AM series commercial alloy). In this AOI, solutions should be capable of being commercially manufactured.

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Li-ion Fuel Vehicles Lithium Ion 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

The study estimated national fuel and emissions impacts from increasing reliance on electrified light-duty transportation, and the resulting implications for advanced biofuels. For comparison, they team estimated the RFS goal for cellulosic fuels to be equivalent to 1289 PJ. —Meier et al. billion gallon) and 4540 PJ (56.4

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Carbon EPRI Climate Gasoline-Electric 150

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

b) Comparison of cycling performance at C/2 with and without the PVP modification. Commercial applications of lithium sulfur batteries have not been very successful despite several decades of research. Electrochemical performance of the modified hollow carbon nanofiber cathode. (a) Credit: ACS, Zheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Polymer 334

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office has made significant investment in hydrogen and fuel cell research and development (R&D) over the last decade, helping to cut fuel cell cost in half and enabling the commercialization of fuel cells for several early market applications. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Standards Hydrogen Fuel Market 368

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An essential element of the transportation mix of modern industrialized society, they are inherently less amenable to the type of electrification and hybridization strategies that are already contributing to reduced carbon emissions and potential long-term sustainability for the light vehicle sector.

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Engine Fuel Vehicles Waste 249