Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

Driving long and heavy loads using electricity works very well so far, and we can carry as much cargo as a diesel truck. Volvo today offers the industry’s widest product range with six electric models in series production that meet a broad range of needs for transport in and between cities. truck combinations on most roads.

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Volvo Sweden Electric Electrical 283

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

GVB is going to phase out the last diesel buses and permanently switch to zero emission VDL Citeas in Amsterdam. With these five innovations, VDL Bus & Coach introduced the new generation Citea product range, consisting of four length variants and five types. The range of the new generation of Citeas has been considerably improved.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd and National Oxygen Pte Ltd (NOX), one of the one of the largest industrial gas manufacturers in Singapore, have signed an agreement to install a carbon dioxide recovery and liquefaction plant at Neste Oil’s renewable diesel (NExBTL) refinery in Singapore.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire 100% of Mahoney Environmental (Mahoney), a collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States, and its affiliated entities. Neste has announced a $1.54-billion

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2023

Mercedes-Benz Trucks development and test engineers tested the operational readiness of the eActros LongHaul and eActros 300 as a tractor unit under extreme conditions at temperatures down to minus 25 degrees Celsius in Rovaniemi, in northern Finland. (In In Rovaniemi, the Arctic Circle (66°33′45.9″

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Finland Mercedes Electric Electrical 448

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

Martin Winterkorn, announced that the Volkswagen Group will be going into production with a range of models with plug-in hybrid technology starting in 2013/14. E85 and diesel engines. The engine is slated for use in the Passat and Passat CC, initially in Sweden and Finland, where E85 fuel has been widely available for many years now.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Cijian Island passenger ferry is retrofitted with a Visedo electric propulsion system, replacing the original diesel engine. It heralds Asia’s first hybrid electric ferry and, if successful, the Kaohsiung City Government plans to retrofit the rest of its diesel fleet to help reduce pollution levels around Taiwan’s largest harbor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

Low-emission fuels such as Neste MY Renewable Diesel are among these, but we need to look at other solutions as well, no matter how small. The Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT, then analyzed the data, after which HERE and PTV algorithms were used to scale and study the data further.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. l/100 km) on the European combined cycle, a range of 817 miles on one tank of fuel and CO 2 emissions of 99 g/km. Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

In practical terms, this is enough to power for two years all the 650,000 diesel-powered passenger cars in Finland with NEXBTL renewable diesel manufactured from waste and residues. NEXBTL products (renewable diesel, jet, and naphtha fuels and isoalkane) are produced by hydrotreating vegetable oil or animal fat (HVO).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The oil industry has proposed increasing the biocomponent content of traffic fuels in Finland on a phased basis to 10% by 2015.

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Oil Finland Gasoline Gasoline-Electric 244

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

They then drove up through Russia, all the way to the North Cape in Finland—after which the crews headed back through Norway, Sweden and Denmark to finish in London in time for the opening of the Holland Heineken House in Alexandra Palace ahead of the Olympic Games. The CHAdeMO-compliant (Rev.0.9)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. These basic petrochemicals form the basis for the manufacture of a wide range of plastics and other products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

The high battery capacity and a new, particularly efficient electric drive axle developed in-house enable a range of around 500 kilometers without intermediate charging. Prototypes of the vehicle were put through their paces during winter testing in Finland at the beginning of the year.

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Mercedes Production Installation Volt 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Neste Oil—the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel—has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale. It has been observed that diesel selectivity decreases with increasing reaction temperature while.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Emission measurements conducted by Institute of Transport Economics in Norway, in collaboration with VTT in Finland, show that new Euro 6 cars with diesel engines are struggling with NO x emissions well in excess of regulatory type limits when in real traffic. Figure credit: Institute of Transport Economics. Click to enlarge.

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CO2 Diesel Exhaust Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2014

The study by researchers in Finland and Greece, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , suggests that both the characteristics of these particles and the mechanism by which they form seem to differ significantly from those of soot and nucleation particles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

These were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. This is partly because transport has grown more than expected, and partly because the real-world emissions from diesel vehicles are higher than those estimated when the vehicle emission limit standards were set.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As we know from GM’s Superbowl advertisement, Norway is crushing the USA in electric vehicle (EV) sales, followed closely by Sweden and Finland. At 20 degrees : EVs experienced a 12% decrease in driving range without the heater; a 41% decrease with the heater. ? This concept holds true for gas and diesel-powered vehicles too.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

The agreement allows Wärtsilä to integrate VPS fuel cell stack modules, especially for larger power range products. In addition, Versa Power Systems’ SOFCs operate in the range of 650°C to 800°C, avoiding the materials-challenging regime of 800°C to 1,000°C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Diesel, used by most HGVs, causes more air pollution per kilometer than other fuels such as petrol. Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In some regions the cost is also much higher than others.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The bioenergy content of the fuels ranged from 7 to 78%. C 9 paraffinic component (oxygen-, aromatic-, and sulfur-free; density, 672 g/L; dry vapor pressure equivalent (DVPE), 45 kPa), which is a side product of producing renewable diesel from vegetable oil and animal fat by using Neste Oil’s NExBTL hydroprocessing technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2015

Neste, currently largest producer of renewable drop-in fuels (primarily diesel) with its NEXBTL platform ( earlier post ), has filed a patent ( US20150144087 ) on a gasoline composition (and the method for making it) comprising up to 20 vol% (preferably from about 10-15 vol.%), of paraffinic bio-hydrocarbons originating from the NEXBTL process.

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Gasoline Fuel Renewable Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers from Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have found that the particulate emissions of auxiliary heaters can be up to a thousand times higher than the particulate emissions of idling gasoline vehicles. Their open-access study is published in the journal Atmosphere.

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Gasoline Engine Finland Exhaust 221

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

This is the first application of the advanced dry-clutch PowerShift transmission in Ford’s European product range, and replaces the conventional 4-speed torque-converter automatic which was available with gasoline engines in the previous Focus model. liter model which was available in the previous Focus range. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2012

A team of researchers in Finland reports that by adjusting engine parameters for the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) renewable diesel fuel across a range of loads (50%, 75%, and 100%), particulate matter and NO x emissions can both be reduced by more than 25% relative to the values from using HVO with standard engine conditions.

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Engine Diesel Renewable Emissions 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

In a poster-session paper presented at CIMAC Congress 2016 in Finland, Ricardo described the use of this split-cycle concept in high- and medium-speed engines for power generation to achieve efficiencies of 60% from units of 1–30 MW mechanical output. Illustrative split cycle engine layout in a V configuration (cross section view).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The projects cover a wide range of renewable technologies: 8 bioenergy projects (including 5 advanced biofuels projects with combined maximum funding of €516.8 In Finland, the Ajos BTL project will receive up to €88.5 billion of grants—paid by the polluters—will leverage a further €2 billion [US$2.66 million (US$836.5

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