Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Since the launch of France’s low-carbon vehicle project in January 2009, La Poste group, which has the country’s largest industrial fleet with some 69,000 vehicles, has equipped itself with a complete range of electric vehicles, including small light commercial vehicles, quads, three-wheelers and electrically assisted bicycles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2014

This powertrain is derived from the Energy dCi 165 Twin Turbo engine, to which the engineers have applied the following enhancements: A 48-Volt (10-12kW) starter motor/alternator-type electric motor mounted on the gearbox: this delivers additional torque, thereby reducing the load on the internal combustion engine.

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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. The European countries with the highest sales of diesel vehicles are Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. In 2012, 45% of all light commercial vehicles in the world were registered in North America.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

While many countries explored the possibility of using fast breeder reactors early on, only one of the breeder reactors built in France , Germany, the United Kingdom, or the United States survived into the 21st century before it, too, was shut down. Weapons-grade plutonium can be separated chemically from the blanket.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

The new solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency record is 16.2%, topping a reported 14% efficiency in 2015 by an international team made up of researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, TU Ilmenau, Fraunhofer ISE and the California Institute of Technology. France, John A. A paper in Nature Energy outlines how NREL’s new record was achieved.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

Valeo will be contributing its high-voltage power electronics business, including 200 employees of which 90 are based in France, and which is part of the Powertrain Systems Business Group (PTS). The company’s structures will be lean and adapted to global market requirements and the international competitive environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

More than 4,500 of Eaton’s hybrid systems are in use today on city buses, school buses, package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, refrigerated delivery trucks, refuse and recycling trucks, utility vehicles and other commercial applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

At the International Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover, Renault is premiering the definitive version of Kangoo Express ZE (Zero Emission), the first all-electric van developed and built by a vehicle manufacturer. Kangoo Express ZE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Ownership of the vehicle will be separate to that of the battery.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. 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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The extensive cooperation set out in the MoU includes several European Countries such as Italy, Romania, France and the Czech Republic and various areas of activities, like in-site fuel stations, R&D collaboration, cooperation with Governments and private stakeholders to develop CNG within the European DAFI, and the European project Connect2LNG.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2014

Throughout 2014, Tesla Motors fortunes will have tongues wagging (and international car buyers salivating) as the brand becomes a global phenomenon. The luxury internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycle market may be growing in both the United States and Europe, as well. PEV makers pursue revenue beyond vehicle sales. million tons.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

where he worked with Continental Airlines in helping to achieve the first US commercial demo flight using an algae-oil blend.). In 2009, an international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Boeing- and JetBlue-backed Zunum Aero has selected Safran Helicopter Engines as the turbine provider for its hybrid electric commercial aircraft, which will be available in the early 2020s. Zunum expects to light up thirty thousand airports around the world with frequent and affordable air service. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds. Now, several aircraft manufacturers and NASA are intent on ushering in a new era of supersonic commercial aviation.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. With these materials finally becoming commercially available, we realized that we didn’t need to make additional physics breakthroughs,” says Mumgaard, who cofounded CFS in 2018 and is now the company’s CEO. “In

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

A team scientists in France have created a bio-inspired catalyst by attaching a nickel bisdiphosphine–based mimic of the active site of hydrogenases (natural enzymes used by some microbes in their energy metabolism to catalyze H 2 /H + interconversion reactions, earlier post ) onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Source: Le Goff et al.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

First, it has declined substantially relative to “hard” currencies, such as the US$, the Euro, British Pound, and the Swiss Franc. Are prices set in US$, Rubles, Yuan, a basket of currencies (US$, Euro, Swiss Franc)? in Russian and Soviet history, Soviet economics, and International economics, and MBA in finance and marketing.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Not so fast: The real-world efficiency of commercial, space-qualified solar cells has progressed much more slowly than records set in highly controlled research experiments, which often use exotic materials or complex designs that cannot currently be mass-produced. A 1974 study that NASA commissioned from the consultancy Arthur D.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Zenith manufactures the first commercial radio set to operate on ac. Thomson CSF of France has also reportedly entered a bid; it recently purchased RCA/GE’s consumer electronics division with the observation that “volume is one of the rules of the cost-competitiveness game.” Each would profit from stronger U.S. distribution and a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Zytek worked closely with transmission specialist Vocis to develop a compact and light-weight transmission (left, air-cooled motor on the right) for its new EV powertrain. The high maximum machine speed of 14,000 rpm has enabled generated torque and hence machine size to be reduced considerably, bringing further reductions in cost and weight.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

To distinguish it from the internal combustion engined-version, it comes with a package of specific features and details that associate it with Renault’s electric vehicle range. meters, which is 13 centimeters longer than its internal combustion-engined cousin in order to accommodate the battery behind the rear seats.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. SZ (1) 6753.T

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

If you want to drown in EV numbers and analyses from around the globe, do subscribe to Jose’s new commercial endeavor EV Volumes (and no, I’m not getting a cut). 7TH PLACE: FRANCE, 57 POINTS (9TH IN 2019) Note the jump in score from the 8th-place country — the countries from here on delivered far more impressive performance.

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