Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Volvo Trucks will begin field testing in Sweden and the UK in 2010 of heavy-duty diesel trucks fuelled by a combination of methane gas and diesel. Following further analysis, the company is now focusing on two renewable fuels: DME and methane gas + diesel (biomethane plus biodiesel). Earlier post.) The optimum—i.e.

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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. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

This steep reduction was in large part caused by the last-minute purchases made in December, due to the impending introduction of the new CO 2 emissions regulation. They made up 77% of total car registrations in Norway, 38% in Sweden and 28% in Finland. from January 2019, according to JATO Dynamics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

For the second successive year, the share of diesel vehicle sales declined and in 2016 fell below 50% of new sales—the lowest share of new sales since 2009 according to the official statistics. However, diesel cars still remain the most sold vehicle type in the EU representing 49.4%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

Clean Air Power’s Dual-Fuel application enables diesel engines to operate primarily on up to 85-90% natural gas with diesel pilot ignition. The Dual-Fuel engine uses a small injection of diesel fuel, around 10% of the total energy of the fuel, to ignite the main charge of gas and air. Earlier post.). In February, Navistar, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

The researchers found that focusing on the behavioral aspects of consumers in vehicle purchase decisions is key to encouraging the rapid uptake of plug-in hybrid vehicles, battery-electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Share of EDVs in 2050. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Five years ago, the Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK became the world’s first automotive plant to meet all its electricity needs from two giant on-site turbines. Since March last year, electric power on the 270-acre site, home to a team of around 3,000 engineers, has been purchased from 100% renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

The first of these new medium-duty engines will be launched in 2010, according to Volvo CEO Leif Johansson in his presentation at Volvo’s Capital Market Day in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The MD engine project is a result of the Nissan Diesel acquisition ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. There are also significant reserves in Jordan, Morocco, Sweden, Syria and Turkey. Different that shale oil—i.e., of global and 17% of European reserves.

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Push EVs

MAY 9, 2023

This is why, for example, we are seeing petrol-only models taking a steeper dive, relative to the diesels (and HEVs) which typically have slightly lower per-kilometre emissions ratings. As for newcomer BEV models, just as we saw in neighbouring Sweden, the Toyota’s group sibling, the Lexus RZ450e made its debut in Norway in April.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2009

The Group is developing a platform for medium-heavy diesel engines as well as making significant investments in research and technology. Johansson believes that there is a strong need to develop additional services and accessories that support products through their entire lifecycle.

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Push EVs

JANUARY 8, 2023

Recall though that Norway and Sweden have already largely moved on from the PHEV phase of the transition, with no major regrets. The combined share of combustion-only powertrains dipped below one third of the market for the first time ever, with diesel-only powertrains falling to 10.8% (from 15.7% This is decent volume growth of 32.2%

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There are other companies that do just the software—you’ve got Mobility House, ViriCiti, Electriphi, which was just purchased by Ford.”. They work with our hardware primarily, and they have software as well that addresses the needs of the vehicles, and also of the building—energy management behind the meter, on the customer side.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The company recently executed a purchase and sales agreement on an engineering facility in Tunica , according to Yahoo! Northvolt’s Northvolt Ett plant in Skellefteå, Sweden will start battery cell production for Volkswagen in 2023, with a target of up to 40 GWh annually. – March 12, via Commercial Appeal.

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