Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2014

On 30 December, the city government of Shenzhen, China announced that it will only issue 100,000 license plates per year via lotteries and auctions, with immediate effect, to fight congestion and pollution. For comparison, New York City in 2013 had a population of 8.4 By the end of 2013, it had 10.63 million permanent residents.

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Pollution New York City BYD 2013 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

The system uses absorption spectroscopy to monitor and record emissions from a vehicle’s exhaust as it passes by a road-side sensor. It then matches these data to vehicle characteristics such as engine type and age. Ricardo launched its vehicle emission measurement service in April 2017.

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Emissions Pollution Insight Exhaust 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds.

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Emissions Pollution 2003 Climate 223

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Comparison of brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption at rated power (ICOMIA Mode 5), hydrogen vs. gasoline engines. Such an engine could provide a cost-effective solution for small recreational vehicle- and motorcycle applications. Oh and Plante. Click to enlarge. —Oh and Plante. g/kWh with a 3.3%

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Engine Emissions Fleet Market 329

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

A joint study by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) into 48V diesel mild hybrid technology verified a 9% reduction of NO x in raw engine-out emissions, while retaining the fuel economy and CO 2 benefits of diesel engine technology.

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Fuel Economy Diesel Economy Engine 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Comparison of the potential reduction in emissions with the application of lower sulfur 0.5% While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon.

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Pollution Emissions Mariner Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

billion) in its strategic engine initiative. The optimization of advanced high-tech engines plays a key role in our road map towards sustainable mobility. The new engines] also need to be designed with a view to all current and future requirements. The result is a dynamic engine response with no turbo lag. —Prof.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2023

Marion, OH Most people have heard of exhaust emissions, but there is another form of emissions released by vehicles known as non-exhaust emissions (NEEs). Leachate was considered the main driver of toxicity in both organisms, with the particles themselves enhancing the toxicity in comparison to the leachate alone.

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Exhaust Pollution Environment Emissions 79

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Rosenbauer Deutschland, a company of the Rosenbauer Group, and the Berlin Fire Department plan jointly to develop a hybrid electric fire engine in the next two years. Consequently, the hybrid project vehicle is designed to help contribute towards reaching Berlin’s climate protection goals.

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Hybrid Climate Protection Concept Climate 259

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

With respect to the emissions updates, the OEMs must also provide proof that the changes do not negatively impact any other parameters relevant for type approval—such as pollutant and CO 2 emissions, fuel consumption, noise and engine power. Excessively high pollution affects air quality in many German cities.

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Diesel Emissions Pollution Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2011

Comparison of optimized start of injection of advanced diesel combustion for brake thermal efficiency, NO x , PM, THC, and CO of diesel (open bar); HTFT (gray bar); and LTFT (black bar) fuels. Credit: ACS, Lilik and Boehman. Click to enlarge. Cetane number was shown to be the fuel property having the largest effect on emissions.

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Diesel Pollution Fuel Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Further, they reported data for engine-out emissions and tailpipe emissions; operating temperatures (engine-out and catalyst); and ethanol concentrations used in the engine control strategy. These changes can have positive or negative effects that can depend on engine design, hardware, and control strategy.

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Emissions Ford Exhaust Engine 294

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The UK’s air pollution is thought to contribute to 40,000 premature deaths each year, and NO x (particularly NO 2 ) plays a large part in this. Air pollution in general contributes to strokes, asthma, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and lung infections. times the COPERT model estimate, rising to 2.8

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Diesel Emissions Pollution London 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Additionally, suggested one of the speakers, advanced SIDI (spark-ignited, direct-injection) engines can take light-duty market share back from diesels in Europe based on the same trends. However, prior to the remarks on climate change and the regulatory response, he spent a few minutes discussing the efforts on urban pollution—e.g.,

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Gasoline Diesel Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

The result is a compendium of experimental data regarding the regulated gaseous pollutants and fuel consumption on 21 vehicles. The average NEDC inertia mass was 1,522 kg, the average engine capacity 1847 cc, and the average engine maximum power 106.5 kW (143 hp). (As

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Emissions Vehicles Diesel Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

The 125' R/V Robert Gordon Sproul is powered by two Detroit Diesel 12V-149 (12 cylinders, V-shape), 675 hp main engines, with a White-Gill trainable hydraulically operated 155 hp bow thruster and two 75 kW generators. The drop-in HDRD used to power R/V Robert Gordon Sproul did not require any engine adjustments adjustments.

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Renewable Diesel Emissions Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

The anticipated results of the Phase I project are the performance data for the process and the engineering and economic feasibility study. Emissions Reduction for Two-Stroke Engines”, $70,000. These engines account for roughly 25% of the PM2.5 The profitability of the overall process will be estimated. Aerodyne Research Inc.,

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

L engines at idle. L) diesel engines at idle and load, using a biodiesel blend (B20) and conventional ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel. L) diesel engines at idle and load, using a biodiesel blend (B20) and conventional ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel. L/2004 calibration engines. Emission rates for the 1.7

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Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine 231

Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 29, 2023

converting existing internal combustion engine (ICE) cars into electric vehicles using conversion kits. Here are a few major reasons Environmental Awareness Since electric vehicles produce no exhaust, they help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Only once the RTO authorises can you make the adjustments.

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Kits Conversion Convert Electric Cars 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has achieved diesel-like efficiency in a single-cylinder spark-ignition (SI) research engine while maintaining compatibility with stoichiometric 3-way catalyst (TWC) systems. A paper on their work is published in the International Journal of Engine Research. Splitter et al.

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Diesel Engine Gasoline Emissions 468

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

used global composition-climate modelling to examine the integrated impacts of adopting stringent European on-road vehicle-emission standards for non-CO 2 pollutants in 2015 in many developing countries. In comparison, the Northern Hemisphere has warmed by about 0.3°C Shindell et al. trillion avoided health damage and $US1.1-4.3

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Climate Standards Emissions Climate Change 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines.

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Fleet Engine Global Fuel Economy 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Now, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as part of a separate project—the xME-Diesel project—have tested how OMEs behave in engines and have developed an optimized combustion process. First, the researchers did computer simulations and experiments on a single-cylinder engine testbed.

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Engine Fuel Diesel Exhaust 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

The program will demonstrate that a suite of commercially available, EPA-rail-certified engines present a near-term, low-risk solution to create an affordable RNG hybrid line-haul locomotive with near zero emissions while simultaneously improving fuel cost by 50%. OptiFuel’s OFS12 engine is EPA-rail-certified with emissions of 0.00

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Grant Hybrid Ozone EPA 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

The first results of a comprehensive study of the health effects of exposure to new technology diesel engines has found no evidence of gene-damaging effects in the animals studied, and only a few mild effects on the lungs, according to a report issued today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). —Dan Greenbaum, President of HEI.

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Exhaust Diesel Engine 2007 207

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2016

A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has characterized the intermediate volatility organic compound (IVOC) emissions from on-road gasoline vehicles (LDGVs) and small off-road gasoline engines (SOREs). The researchers said their results clearly demonstrate that IVOCs from gasoline engines are an important class of SOA precursors.

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Gasoline Emissions Engine Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

This newly developed ENSs could improve low-temperature automobile exhaust treatment. Meanwhile, hydrocarbons, such as propylene (C 3 H 6 ) and propane (C 3 H 8 ) are typical automobile exhaust gas pollutants and must be converted to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water (H 2 O) before they are released as exhaust.

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Commercial Diesel Exhaust Automobile 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2016

Researchers from Penn State and the University of Michigan have characterized the nanostructure and oxidative reactivity of soot generated by a light-duty turbodiesel engine operating under a dilute, low-temperature combustion process referred to as high-efficiency clean combustion (HECC). THC and CO as well as NO x and PM. Earlier post.)

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Diesel Exhaust Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The primary CO 2 and associated technology cost data used in the development of the cost curves in the study are from simulation modeling and bottom-up cost estimation work performed for the ICCT by the engineering consultancy FEV. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

The researchers first quantified carbonaceous PM from Euro 5 gasoline and DPF-equipped diesel cars, then constrained the measurements using source apportionment investigations to provide a comprehensive assessment of the current state and future trends in gasoline and diesel vehicular pollution.

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Gasoline Diesel Cars Emissions 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Globally, the automotive industry is being driven to provide more fuel efficient, less polluting and more electrified vehicles primarily by regulatory pressures, although consumer demand is playing its part as well. Programming in hard “maps” to adjust engine and emission parameters has been industry practice for quite some time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

liter Duramax B20-capable diesel engine with twice the torque of either the gasoline or the bi-fuel models. Silverado 2500HD engine options. The only reason we used gasoline was for comparison; it wasn’t necessary. The LC8 engine. The engine. V8 engine, engine code LC8. Vortec 6.0L. gasoline only).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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