Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The global natural gas vehicle fleet has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, but still represents less than 1% of global transport fuel consumption. The global fleet of NGVs consists largely of passenger cars/LDVs, although there are some regional differences. Click to enlarge. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. —Future of Mobility Roadmap. Myth Busting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

More than 38 percent of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in California come from burning gasoline and diesel in cars and trucks. Tags: Climate Change Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution. The Investment Plan promotes sustainable development.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In fleets of conventional diesel or gasoline vehicles, telematics is used primarily as a vehicle tracking device. Because EVs have much more sophisticated vehicle management systems, fleet managers can use telematics to monitor additional elements such as battery charge. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

From 1990 to 2008, transportation emissions have risen by 22% due, in large part, to increased demand for travel and the stagnation of fuel efficiency across the US vehicle fleet. Other fuel uses, especially diesel fuel for freight trucks and jet fuel for aircraft, accounted for the remainder. Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

NEMP is a German government initiative to develop Germany into a leading market for electric mobility, with about 1 million electric vehicles on its streets by 2020. Next year, Volkswagen will be testing the drivetrain and energy storage modules of the future Golf blue-e-motion with a fleet of 500 test cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

GHG levels from the MY 2016 fleet-wide average of 250 g/mi, using different technology pathways to achieve the reductions. costs, future regulatory fuel economy/GHG requirements, and government incentives for vehicle purchasers and owners such as the existing tax credits for EVs and PHEVs. Earlier post.). Pathways B and C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Flowers and his colleagues have been researching chemical kinetics of diesel fuels, and have developed mechanisms for complex long-chain species, enabling more representative diesel surrogates. Even with a 6% annual improvement, Cackette said, the fleet would need only a few—less than 10% in the higher scenario.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The HIUCV will be designed to significantly exceed legislative and Government requirements for greener vehicles. This project will deliver two prototype lightweight electric vans, with diesel range extender. The Government also set out the eligibility criteria for its Plug-in Car Grant. Plug-in Car Grant.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 30, 2008

Here's the story from Motor Trend : VW jumping on plug-in hybrid bandwagon with TwinDrive system Nate Martinez June 26 2008 Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn announced today that pre-production testing of the automaker's plug-in hybrid electric system, dubbed TwinDrive, is underway with the full support of the German government.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The people I talked about realized you only get one second chance, were very thankful for the government support and were enthusiastic about the products they had coming out over the next 24 months. mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Transport for London (TfL) added four Mitsubishi i-MiEVs into its fleet as part of Mayor Boris Johnson’s plans to make London the electric vehicle capital of Europe. The majority of the 1,000 electric vehicles for the GLA fleet will be used by the Metropolitan Police Service. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The majority of the vehicles are electric, with a small number being plug-in gasoline-electric hybrids. The government investment will support the investment already made by the consortia themselves. Toyota intends to lease the vehicles to existing Toyota Prius fleet customers including a mix of public bodies and private companies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

That will enable us in just ten years for $100 billion, much of which the federal government will get back, to cut US oil use in half, by seven million barrels a day. We can add carbon filters to diesel trucks to get rid of black carbon—soot, which is another global health and climate problem. He’ll start with the oil catastrophe.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

Ronn Motors will be going to market with the H2GO™ systems, initially targeting diesel powered over-the-road trucking fleets including GM, Cummins, Caterpillar & Detroit Diesel power plants, along with Ford family of 5.4 liter gasoline powered engines. Tags: Ford Ronn Motors h2go.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. Using the average U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2009

The study reviewed the costs, performance and impacts of 13 different fuels: Euro V diesel. Euro V gasoline. may be realized from the HGV (large artic) fleet if biomethane were deployed successfully in 20% of vehicles. Mt CO 2 could be achieved from use biomethane in local bus fleets and the same from large rigid HGV.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Fleet vehicles are perfect for EVs, since the routes are very predictable and tend to be within 100 miles per day. It’s easy to spec out a battery pack with enough kWh for a given size of truck to hit 60-80-100 miles, whatever the given fleet buyer needs. Tags: smith trucks Production News Inside Track zero truck EVI.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. Massive government subsidies are upending commercial considerations. market b y the end of 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. What the Volt has that electric cars lack is the ability to extend its range by means of burning gasoline, the most popular fuel among cars in the US.

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