Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, hybrids represented 41% of Toyota’s European total sales, rising +38% year-on-year to 406,000 units. In our latest new model, the Toyota C-HR, HEVs accounted for 78% of sales last year. Since then, HEV sales substantially exceed our diesel sales. In commercial vehicles, where personal & business needs (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bringing forward the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 means that advancing vehicle electrification has never been more crucial. Through our work with D2H, we are delighted to demonstrate the tangible benefits and possibilities of using new ester chemistry in an automotive application.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2016

There appears to have been a dramatic shift in the petrol and diesel sales seesaw. In the 2000s, legislation changes resulted in a diesel boom but after last year’s revelations and the emergence of extremely efficient downsized petrol engines, the tide has now turned. — Steve Huntingford, What Car?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2014

China is poised to replace the US as Volvo Car Group’s (Volvo Cars) largest market in 2014 with sales of at least 80,000 cars, up from 61,146 in 2013, the company said. Sales in the US in 2014 are expected to increase in line with the broader market. The S60L Petrol Plug-in Hybrid will be launched in China early 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Going forward, Toyota Motor Europe expects its hybrid sales in Europe to increase from today's 31% of total sales to a target of 50% hybrid vehicles by 2020. Although TMIP is currently manufacturing only diesel engines, the European market is moving towards an increased share of petrol, hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The UK Government has committed to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. The project, with a total cost of £595,195 (US$804,187) has been awarded £297,597 (US$402,093) by the Office for Zero Emissions Vehicles (OZEV) in partnership with Innovate UK.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

Conservatives and even some progressive MEPs rejected a new interim target in 2027 and a higher 2030 goal which would require manufacturers to ramp up sales of electric cars. This is especially important now that the prices of diesel and petrol continue to rise. —Rapporteur Jan Huitema (Renew, NL).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

The battery-electric Nissan LEAF has topped its own European sales record with a 33% increase in European sales in 2014 over the previous year, taking 26% of the burgeoning electric car market with 14,658 sales out of a total 56,393, according to figures from Nissan. Electric (Battery) Europe Sales' Data: Nissan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

We will phase out cars with only an internal combustion engine, with petrol hybrid versions as a transitional option as we move towards full electrification. Last month, Volvo Cars reinforced its electrification strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales by 2025. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The introduction comes after India’s Supreme Court recently banned the sale of vehicles with diesel engines larger than 2.0 We are all set to create a new segment with the launch of the KUV100 which also marks our foray into ground up petrol engines. The 1.2L, 82 HP and dual VVT gasoline engine and the 1.2L

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

EVs would then represent 6% of all UK cars in 2020 and 18% in 2030, and 15% and 20% of new car sales in 2020 and 2030, respectively. Road transport accounts for 40 per cent of petroleum products consumed in the UK so a switch from conventional cars powered by petrol or diesel to EVs would have a much needed impact on reducing fuel demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

The XC60 today represents around 30% of Volvo’s total global sales. We also have the petrol-powered T5 delivering 254 hp and the T6, which with both turbo and superchargers attached, delivers 320 hp and 400 N·mn of torque. We have a wide range of powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2019

Ford has already incorporated learnings from the trial of prototype vehicles to optimize the Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid production model that will go on sale to customers at the end of 2019. liter EcoBoost petrol engine as a range extender for total range exceeding 500 kilometers (310 miles).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The average is generated form data gathered only from Nissan LEAF vehicles registered with CarWings, approximately 54% of total sales. The customers tell us this is because the car has very low fuel and servicing costs and that along with the smooth, almost silent ride of the Nissan LEAF make it difficult to go back to a diesel or petrol car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2010

Total petrol consumption including gasohol currently averages between 20 million and 22 million litres per day. Energy Minister Wannarat Channukul said the government had set a goal to increase ethanol content in motor fuels to 2 million litres per day in 2010 from an average of 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

Supporting Nissan’s goal of achieving 50% electrified sales in Europe by 2024, the new Nissan Qashqai will not only be available with a 1.3 In Standard, the car produces excellent acceleration and lift-off regeneration is tuned to simulate the engine-braking of a conventional petrol vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2012

Building on 10 years of experience and accumulated knowhow, in addition to producing the full hybrid variant of the Toyota Yaris, the export of the conventional petrol Yaris to North America further endorses TMMF as a true global player within the Toyota organisation. —Toyota Motor Europe President and CEO Didier Leroy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

liter EcoBoost engine is an example of an innovation arriving to market at just the right time, when customers are looking for a very fuel efficient but still-fun-to-drive petrol engine. —Roelant de Waard, vice president, Marketing, Sales and Service, Ford of Europe. liter engine with improved fuel efficiency and lower CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

First introduced to the market a little more than three years ago, the Nissan Juke has posted total sales of 420,000 units. liter DIG-T petrol engine, which replaces the outgoing 117 ps (115 hp) 1.6-liter New Juke will go on sale across Europe in the summer, 2014. The existing 1.5 The Renault-Nissan Alliance-developed 1.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2019

Combined with the benefits of a low CO 2 petrol engine we expect the Hybrid to account for up to 50 percent of sales. —Roelant de Waard, vice president, Marketing, Sales & Service, Ford of Europe. Further significant Mondeo powertrain upgrades include: Ford’s advanced 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

The car goes on sale in Europe early next year. Even just a couple of years ago few people would have thought it possible that a medium-sized petrol car could break the 100 g/km CO 2 barrier. Equipped with a specially calibrated 100 PS (99 hp, 74 kW) version of the 1.0L gasoline direct injection engine, the new Focus 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Consumers looking for an alternative to diesel now often opt for petrol vehicles or hybrid ones, but aren’t yet making the switch to electrically-chargeable cars on a large scale. In other words, the final product alone—no matter how good it is—is not sufficient to create demand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

The majority of new car sales continue to be of conventional combustion engine type. However, our self-charging petrol electric hybrids have no such limitations. —Toyota Corporate Affairs Director, Mark Teevan. They are therefore the means to an urgent democratisation of electrification for the private car. —Mark Teevan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) will reveal the Volvo S60L PPHEV (Petrol Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) Concept Car at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show. The S60L PPHEV Concept Car features the same electrification technology as the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid, the first diesel plug-in hybrid, on sale in Europe. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Demand for petrol is continuing to grow as diesel declines—petrol registrations increased by 16% in February. This was largely caused by falling demand in Germany and the UK, where diesel vehicle registrations decreased by 19.2% respectively.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Our PowerPulse technology is designed to deliver a distinct performance boost to our diesel engine, while the T8 Twin Engine petrol plug-in hybrid will deliver around 410 hp and a pure electric range of around 50 km. We have a very strong offer in the V90. Peter Mertens, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Last year we won with our petrol car the T.25 Many of the vehicles, such as the Land Rover Range_e, BMW Active-e and Volkswagen Golf Blue e-motion will not be on sale for two or more years and had rarely been seen on UK roads. It’s a fantastic showcase for technology and The Royal Automobile Club should be proud of the event.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

liter EcoBoost engines accounted for a growing share of overall sales. Ford of Europe has previously announced plans to triple annual production of vehicles equipped with fuel-efficient EcoBoost petrol engines to approximately 480,000 by 2015, from 141,000 in 2011. L EcoBoost engine to meet growing European demand. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

So the GGCS tracks each unit of green gas from its injection into the distribution grid to its sale. It tracks the contractual rather than physical flows to ensure there is no double-counting from production to end use. The GGCS is run by the Renewable Energy Association’s subsidiary, Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

g/km, almost half that produced by diesel and petrol vehicles. Thanks to their popularity and their shared development costs with traditional cars, many OEMs have been able to increase their sales and increase profit margins. The average emissions of electrified vehicles, was 63.2 —Felipe Munoz.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of total new car sales. The latest generation of diesel vehicles is a very effective lever to achieve climate goals in the near future, because they emit 15-20% less CO 2 than equivalent petrol vehicles. —ACEA President, Dieter Zetsche. —Dieter Zetsche.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

Azure will integrate its Force Drive battery electric drive train into Transit Connect vehicles in Europe to support the sale of the zero-emission battery-electric models in selected markets. Two next-generation petrol hybrid-electric vehicles to be introduced in 2013. A plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle also to be introduced in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

The gasoline engines offered in the MY14 E-Class in the US are the V6 and V8 units in the E350 and E550, which will go on sale in Spring 2013. Also making up the BlueDIRECT petrol engine range are the familiar V6 and V8 engines. New in the MY14 E-Class sedan is the 2.1-liter, liters per 100 km (40.6 Intelligent drive.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

New engines are being introduced—like the innovative MultiAir technology on petrol engines, making them capable of guaranteeing up to 10 percent lower CO 2 emissions, and the new generation of Common Rail MultiJet diesel engines that will make their debut on the Punto Evo and that will be gradually adopted on all of our Group’s cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

Billy Hayes, Nissan’s Vice President in charge of global sales of the LEAF, noted that the ZEOD will use technology that has come from the huge research and development efforts that Nissan put into making its own battery and electric motor. Nissan ZEOD RC. Click to enlarge. There are multiple options we are investigating.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

New vehicle sales in Europe have reached a nearly 20-year low this year and are expected to remain flat or fall further next year. Ford’s goal is to achieve employee reductions in the UK through voluntary means, enhanced employee separation programs and redeployment to other Ford locations.

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