Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

For purposes of the proposed rulemaking, the heavy-duty fleet incorporates all on-road vehicles rated at a gross vehicle weight at or above 8,500 pounds, and the engines that power them, except those covered by the current GHG emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model years 2012-2016. Proposed metrics.

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EPA Standards Fuel Gas 218

Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

UCS advocates relentlessly for cleaner gasoline vehicles and dismisses plug-ins of all sorts, the Sierra Club strikes deals with Ford to promote a few thousand gasoline-dependent hybrids in exchange for advertising dollars, and the NRDC jumped on the biofuels bandwagon just as the cost of corn ethanol became impossible to ignore.

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Plug-in EPRI Plug Sierra 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. As a gasoline technology, HCCI provides the fuel economy benefits of lean burn without requiring additional NO x after treatment. No increase in the role of diesels. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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GM Buick Fuel Economy Economy 262

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. It will be highly regulated, exchange traded and transparent. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Participation in the secondary market will be open to all participants, but it will only exist on a cash-cleared basis.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The majority of the vehicles are electric, with a small number being plug-in gasoline-electric hybrids. Today’s announcement signals our intent to reduce our dependence on petrol- and diesel-based engines, and determine the best practical alternatives. The performance of the vehicles will be tested to UN-ECE regulation 101.

Carbon 150

Carbon Electric Vehicles Vehicles London 150

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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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Let the Interstate trucks and farm equipment stay on oil until the residential is done and slowly begin to move them as their fleets age out.

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

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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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41