Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

This rise in average CO 2 emissions correlates with a decrease in demand for diesel cars across Europe—which produce lower CO 2 emissions than gasoline cars—and the rising popularity of SUVs, which emit higher average CO 2 emissions of 133.0 g/km, compared to gasoline cars, which had an average of 123.4

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Gasoline Diesel Emissions SUV 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn.

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MIT Gasoline Engine Fuel 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2017

The results highlight the disparity between test-cycles and real-world emissions as well as the large disparity between gasoline and diesel vehicles. gNO x /km for gasoline; and 0.25 gNO x /km for a diesel vehicle with gross vehicle with GVWR x /km for a 7-seater diesel passenger vehicle. Source: The ICCT.

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Gasoline Diesel India Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

the developer of Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) and diesel DSF cylinder deactivation technology for combustion engines, reported at the International Vienna Motor Symposium that its product Dynamic Motor Drive (DMD) ( earlier post ) mitigates efficiency losses of electric motors while significantly reducing reliance on rare-earth materials.

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JUNE 23, 2014

Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. The approach that Cummins and partners have taken features: Replacing the aluminium V8 gasoline engine and emission control system with smaller diesel (2.8-liter) diesel weighs 362 lbs (164 kg), while the ECS weighs 152 lbs (69 kg). Earlier post.). Source: Cummins.

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Fuel Economy Economy Gasoline Downsizing 357

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APRIL 23, 2020

developer of Dynamic Skip Fire cylinder deactivation technology ( earlier post ), collaborated on a significant technical demonstration of diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) cylinder deactivation. Cummins’ X15 Efficiency Series 6-cylinder diesel engine enhanced with Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF). Cummins Inc.

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Diesel Emissions Exhaust Engine 286

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2018

Volkswagen showcased three new drive systems at the Vienna Motor Symposium: the new 48 V mild hybrid system that will debut on the eighth-generation Golf in 2019 ( earlier post ); new high-tech diesel engines that will also be available as hybrid variants; and an advanced natural gas engine. TDI diesel engine (EA288 Evo).

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Hybrid Gas Diesel Engine 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2019

Continental has been developing cost-effective 48-volt electrification, which can be used with both gasoline and diesel engines for number of years. In the run-up to IAA 2019, Continental Powertrain is now presenting a 48-volt high-power drive system with 30 kW, enabling a full-hybrid vehicle.

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Motor Motors Motoring Hybrid 360

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Based on on-road measurements in their study, a team from the University of California Berkeley has estimated that, as of 2010, light-duty (LD) gasoline vehicles were responsible for 85% of CO; 18% of NO x ; 18% of organic aerosol (OA); and 6% of black carbon (BC) emissions from on-road motor vehicles in the United States.

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Gasoline Emissions Diesel San Francisco 239

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he’s delaying bans the government had previously made for gasoline-powered vehicles. While he noted that second-hand diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles could still be bought and sold after 2035, the plan remains to ban everything but EVs on the new-vehicle market.

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Gasoline United Kingdom Cars Gas-Electric 105

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Peugeot is introducing new Euro 6-compliant versions of its three-cylinder PureTech gasoline and four-cylinder BlueHDI diesel engines. Earlier in 2014, the 110 hp (82 kW) and 130 hp (97 kW) turbo engines were added to the PureTech family of next-generation three-cylinder gasoline engines. That compares with 115.1

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Gasoline Diesel Engine MPG 225

Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2022

Global EV sales are steadily increasing with help from regulators, but that won't matter if existing gasoline and diesel vehicles aren't retired quickly, new research argues. The slow speed of fleet turnover presents a substantial barrier to deep decarbonization," researchers state in a new book on energy transition (via Axios).

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Sale Vehicles Gasoline Fleet 204

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MARCH 17, 2020

The report provides a summary of an analysis of physical properties of 19 samples of gasoline and methanol, as well as co-solvents ethanol, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and tertbutyl alcohol (TBA) in different blending ratios. Gasoline-methanol blends evaporate faster at a lower temperature when methanol and ethanol are added to gasoline.

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Clean Cleaning Fuel Gasoline-Electric 371

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MARCH 20, 2014

Findings from a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley National Laboratory suggest that lubricating oil is the dominant source of primary organic aerosol (POA) from both gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles. Diesel Emissions Engines Fuels Lubricating Oils' —Worton et al.

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Oil Gasoline Diesel Vehicles 207

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Opel revealed more details about its new mid-size gasoline engine family at the Aachen Colloquium in Germany. For mass reduction the midsize gasoline engine features a two-piece crankcase design, supported at the lower end by a die-cast aluminum bedplate. SIDI engine. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The all-new 1.6-liter,

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Gasoline Engine Fuel Power 350

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Audi of America introduced four new TDI clean diesel models for the US market this year—the Audi A8, A7, A6, Q5—along with an updated Q7 TDI, all equipped with a second-generation 3.0L V6 TDI diesel engine. Not only is it more powerful and contains up to 30% better efficiency than traditional gasoline, etc.

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Diesel Audi Sale Fuel Economy 366

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

LiquidPiston announced a $9-million award from the US Army to design, build and demonstrate an advanced, heavy-fueled combustion engine that uses up to 30% less fuel than comparable gasoline-powered engines in the same power class and reduces size and weight by up to 10x over diesel engines with comparable power output.

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Engine Fuel Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 396

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When including Land Use Change (LUC) factors, Brazilian sugar cane ethanol and soybean biodiesel have much larger life-cycle emissions than conventional gasoline and biodiesel for six regulated, non-greenhouse gas (GHG) air pollutants, according to a study led by a team from the University of California, Merced. Credit: ACS, Tsao et al.

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Gasoline Emissions Diesel Brazil 273

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At the 21 st Supercharging Conference in Dresden next week, Torotrak Group will present results from engine testing that verify previous claims for V-Charge, a variable drive mechanical supercharger. V-Charge system with mechanical variable drive outperforms conventional boosting methods on downsized gasoline engine. Click to enlarge.

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Downsizing Engine Eaton Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Dr. Alexander Shkolnik, President and Co-Founder of LiquidPiston, is presenting the engine in a paper at the SAE International/JSAE 2014 Small Engine Technology?Conference The X Mini 70cc rotary gasoline engine. After we get the X Mini into the market, we can go back to higher efficiency diesel engines. " x 6.2"

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Gasoline Engine Power Powered 379

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

However, while Mazda plans to offer hybrid vehicles in the medium-term, its engineers are pushing hard to increase the efficiencies of both the gasoline and diesel platforms, moving toward what they call “the ideal Internal Combustion Engine.” Mazda said it is weighing bringing the diesel to North America as well.

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Mazda Engine Gasoline Diesel 322

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

More and more automakers are slotting diesel engines into pickup trucks, and at this year''s Chicago Auto Show Nissan and Cummins have made one of the most compact yet, the Frontier Diesel Runner. liter Cummins turbodiesel engine into the space you''d normally find a 4-liter gasoline.'

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Chicago Nissan Diesel Auto 136

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

In Europe, the average amount of NO x present in exhaust emissions from modern diesel passenger cars under real-world conditions is more than double the levels from modern trucks and buses, according to a new briefing paper released by the independent research organization International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Diesel Cars Emissions Light 223

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JUNE 5, 2023

Which are the alternative fuels for cars that could replace gasoline in vehicle? A short explanation of each fuel is also presented. Diesel engines can use biodiesel alone or blended with petroleum fuels. #2 Methanol can be used in internal combustion engines either directly or as a blend with gasoline.

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The ICCT team considered battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs, plug-in hybrid EVs, natural gas, biofuels, and e-fuels.The study used the lifetime average carbon intensity of fuel and electricity mixes, and accounted for changes in the carbon intensity over vehicle lifetime given present energy policies. Source: The ICCT.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery 418

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Six German automotive companies—passenger car manufacturers Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen, and the supplier Bosch— launched their first joint campaign for diesels in the US. Under the slogan “Clean Diesel. Diesel vehicles have also shown strong gains among total light vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks).

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Diesel Clean Cleaning Market 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Clean diesel. GM is deploying clean diesel engines where they make business sense, Akerson said, noting the new B20-ready Chevrolet Cruze diesel. More efficient gasoline engines. That would be a tragedy because big rigs burn some 25 billion gallons of diesel annually, which require 2.5 —Dan Akerson.

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Fuel Economy Economy GM Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

BMW presented the extensively updated new editions of its Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) and Sports Activity Coupé (SAC) for the luxury segment. The gasoline engine’s nominal output of 230 kW/313 hp represents an increase of 20 kW/27 hp on the unit it replaces. New V8 gasoline engine with M TwinPower Turbo technology.

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BMW PHEV Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 195

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

NREL’s Fleet Test and Evaluation Team recently completed a year-long technology evaluation of gasoline hybrid electric (gHEV) FedEx Express delivery trucks compared with conventional diesel vehicles. gasoline engine and Azure Dynamics, Inc. mpg) and diesel vehicle (6.1 – 11.7 mpg) and diesel (7.9

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Fuel Economy Economy Gasoline Diesel 186

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JANUARY 7, 2021

The measures used in the present analysis (miles per gallon of fuel, and gallons of fuel per 100 miles) do not allow us to make direct inferences regarding changes over time in total energy consumed (e.g., For example, the 17.0 million cars and light trucks sold in the United States in 2019 accounted for only 6.7% of the entire fleet of.8

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Fuel Economy 2019 Economy Light 435

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

renewable isobutanol-blended gasoline for engine testing. We are pleased so far with our testing of isobutanol as a potential alternative to ethanol as a blend stock in gasoline for marine applications. Isobutanol fuel blends will be certified for use in the Coast Guard gasoline engine fleet. Click to enlarge. Source: Gevo.

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Mariner Gasoline Supplies Mercury 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2016

A new analysis from Argonne National Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), shows the potential of an algae fractionation process to produce renewable diesel fuel with 63%–68% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional diesel.

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Diesel Renewable 2016 Convert 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Other research has shown that carbonyls directly influence physiological response to diesel exhaust particles and can also contribute to secondary organic aerosol formation. In the Tianjin study, they team fueled a four-cylinder light-duty diesel engine fueled with CFT and DF, identifying 13 individual carbonyl compounds in the exhaust.

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Coal Diesel Emissions Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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California Engine Diesel 2017 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2010

Fuel economy was similar between the gHEVs and diesel vehicles, except for the highest kinetic intensity drive cycle where the hybrid exhibited ~20% higher fuel economy. FedEx has deployed 20 gasoline hybrid electric vehicles (gHEVs) on parcel delivery routes in the Sacramento and Los Angeles areas. Vehicle information gHEV Diesel.

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Fuel Economy Economy Gasoline Diesel 199

Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2015

In last week's seminars and presentations on the new 2016 Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan, GM discussed its 1.4-liter liter turbocharged gasoline engine and gave a few scant details on a future 1.6-liter liter diesel model as well. Sometimes a few words can make all the difference.

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Gasoline Diesel Hybrid Chevrolet 60

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2017

We spent a few days with a gasoline-powered 2018 Chevy Equinox back in May, but now we've driven a much rarer version. The 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel will start to arrive at U.S. On Wednesday, as part of a comprehensive presentation on the five diesel engines GM uses globally, we got some "seat.

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