Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Early government investment in charging infrastructure went a long way toward soothing the range anxiety that made car buyers in other places reluctant to make the switch to battery power from gasoline or diesel. For more on what other countries’ plans are, check out the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Policy Explorer page.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

NRCan has filed international patent applications in Canada, US, Germany, India and Sweden, for a robust methane oxidation catalyst that reduces unburned methane contained in exhaust streams (methane slip) from lean burn natural gas vehicles/engines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sweden-based international mining and minerals group LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area in the far north of Swedish Lapland (some 200 km north of the Arctic Circle). As of 2035, sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles will be prohibited.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2012

An international team led by University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science professor Michael Tsapatsis reports in the journal Science on a prototype of a new catalyst made of orthogonally connected microporous zeolite nanosheets ( earlier post ). Korea and Sweden. Credit: U of Minn. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

In his announcement, Winterkorn said that over the mid-term, the plug-in hybrid offers great potential because it combines the best of two worlds in one vehicle: unlimited internal combustion engine performance combined with attractive electric mobility ranges in everyday driving. E85 and diesel engines. —Martin Winterkorn.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

More than 90% of such vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines burning oil-derived fuels. Making conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles more expensive to run—through increased fuel or carbon taxes—is not enough to incentivize the majority of consumers to change. McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

liter Duratec Ti-VCT gasoline engine can now be specified with a 6-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission with dual dry-clutch technology. Electronically controlled, twin internal clutches shift gears quickly and smoothly, providing a seamless flow of torque to the wheels. Dual dry-clutch PowerShift. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2020

The International Energy Agency’s Monthly Oil Statistics shows that there are differences in refinery output throughout the world. In the Americas, gasoline accounted for just above 40% of the products refined from petroleum in 2019, while in Europe and Asia Oceania, gasoline was less than 20%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Gross indicated efficiency (%) of Scania heavy-duty diesel running on gasoline using PPC. PPC is a mix of the classic diesel combustion process and HCCI using a fully pre-mixed charge. The Lund team worked with a Saab variable compression ratio engine, a GM L850 world engine, and the Scania heavy-duty diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Two systems integrated in the MQB strategy which play a key role here are the modular gasoline engine system (MOB) with the new EA211 engine series (40 kW / 54 hp to 110 kW / 148 hp). EA211 series gasoline engines. A BlueMotion Technology pack (Stop/Start system and battery regeneration) is tailored to the EA211 gasoline engines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. USA Today ) 10/25/06 DaimlerChrysler is downright reluctant, even though it has built four test models, commercial-size vans that run on gasoline and electricity. No announced plans. Bloomberg ).

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

First, it should be noted that while internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles produce 17.2% of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same. Gasoline always emits 20 lbs of toxic air pollutants per gallon, and can only be burned once.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

First, it should be noted that while internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles produce 17.2% of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same. Gasoline always emits 20 lbs of toxic air pollutants per gallon, and can only be burned once.

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