Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2010

No other state, and no other nation has such an extensive set of rules to slash pollution from diesel engines. Expand credits for fleet downsizing, adding cleaner vehicles ahead of any regulatory requirements, and for installation of early retrofits. forklifts). Ease annual requirements to clean up engines (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

With direct control of the air through the intake engine valves without using the throttle, MultiAir helps reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. up to 25% fuel savings on Turbo downsized versions. Compared to a traditional gasoline engine with the same displacement, MultiAir engines offer : up to 10% more power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

The changes to the regulation implement legislation signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in February to provide temporary relief to firms that have reduced used of their vehicles due to downsizing or work stoppage. The changes will not repeal or delay general implementation of the rule. ARB Chairwoman Mary D.

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Diesel Emissions 2007 Fleet 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

define complementary measures controlling vehicle pollutant emissions in use, based on a thorough analysis, with the aim of delivering a timely reduction of real-world pollutant emissions, hence, contributing to improved air quality. implement the 2020 CO 2 targets for cars and vans.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

However, prior to the remarks on climate change and the regulatory response, he spent a few minutes discussing the efforts on urban pollution—e.g., What more is need to end urban pollution, something we’ve been spending over 30 years working on? Differentiated Analysis of Downsizing Concepts”). smog and particulates.

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Gasoline Diesel Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The new Twin-Air engine is an example of downsizing: combining a small displacement engine with a next-generation turbocharger to provide performance comparable to—or better than—that of a larger engine but with less fuel consumption and lower emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

Pollutant emissions are likewise reduced through combustion control. Applied to a turbocharged, downsized engine, MultiAir can contribute to up to a 25% reduction in fuel consumption over conventional naturally aspirated engines with the same performance, according to Fiat.

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Downsizing Gasoline Fuel Economy Engine 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This has resulted in higher catalyst loading per volume of substrate and led to downsizing of systems from those available in 2010. New substrates are designed with thinner walls or higher porosity, which allows the coating of better catalysts without sacrificing durability.

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Emissions Diesel Engine 2010 291

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Renault’s ongoing downsizing strategy is aimed at reducing the cubic capacity of its engines in order to bring down fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, without detracting from performance. The downsizing process involved shortening the piston stroke by reducing the size of the crank pin and conrod assembly. Select Engines.

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Environment Engine 2010 Parts 230

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Mineta specifically points to the success of the significant reductions in pollutant emissions from passenger cars during the past three decades in response to ever-stricter limits set by state and federal regulators. Impact of different sales mix on new car average fuel economy.

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Standards Transportation Fuel Economy MPG 247

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Specific to diesel, it also has the potential to significantly reduce pollutant emissions, like mononitrogen oxide (NO x ), and help meet more stringent regulations including the Real-Driving Emissions test in Europe. Regional highlights include: In North America, more engine downsizing is expected. liter six-cylinder.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

Groundbreaking research in the last 10 years has identified combustion engine strategies that—especially if optimized to run on new fuels—would offer significantly higher efficiency and produce fewer engine-out pollutants than current engines. Fuel research will focus on low-GHG advanced biofuel/petroleum blends.

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Engine Fuel Emissions Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. Earlier post.) Fabien Redon.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

Based on test work already carried out, Ricardo estimates that a fuel economy improvement of up to 30% is possible with no loss of power or performance, using a downsized EBDI engine in place of currently available gasoline powertrain technology. liter EBDI engine—resulting in up to a 16.8% fuel economy improvement.

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Engine Energy Fuel Economy Gasoline 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone. The EU goal is to introduce the WLTP by 2017 if possible and no later than 2020 to coincide with the 95 g/km requirement. The WLTP is significantly more dynamic with faster acceleration rates.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

To achieve these results, PureTech development called for a number of changes, chief among which were: Downsizing. The specifications also stipulated a specific power of 50 kW per liter. To deliver at least the same performance as the previous generation, engine efficiency had to be improved to offset the reduction in the number of cylinders.

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Engine Gasoline Fuel MPG 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. A significant fraction of the GDI PM 2.5

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Climate Engine Carbon Fuel Economy 150

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

With President Obama and the rest of the leaders of the world’s biggest polluting nations kicking the ball down the field on climate change and effectively pulling the rug out from under all of us who have been targeting the Copenhagen climate talks as the moment we must seize, our response must recognize the obvious.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. The Optima initiative includes two major research thrusts: Thrust I – Improvement of near-term conventional SI engine efficiency. Fuel research will focus on low-GHG advanced biofuel/petroleum blends.

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Green Cars News

MAY 24, 2009

President Barack Obama’s national fuel efficiency standards in the USA have come in for criticism in The Wall Street Journal where a columnist points out that there could be severe costs in terms of urban air pollution and human life.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. It is a safe fuel. The toxicity (mortality) is comparable to or better than gasoline.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

the elimination of after-treatment systems.

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Diesel Fuel Emissions 2009 225

Green Cars News

JUNE 16, 2009

It directly controls the air thanks to intake engine valves without using the throttle, and therefore helps reduce both fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. MultiAir involves an electro-hydraulic valve timing system that provides dynamic and direct control of both air and combustion, cylinder by cylinder and stroke by stroke.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

This has not raised any issues for criteria pollutants, as upstream emissions associated with production and distribution of the fuel are addressed by comprehensive regulatory programs focused on the upstream sources of those emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Thrust 1 builds on the significant amount of work carried out over the past several decades, focused on building advanced boosted, downsized, and downspeeded spark ignition engines. Criteria pollutants are dominated by equivalence ratio stratification and fuel chemistry. High dilution may also lead to controllability challenges.

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Engine Fuel Vehicles Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Although real-world fuel economy improvements from GDI technology alone are close to 1.5%, they can reach 8% by downsizing and turbocharging the engine, which can be achieved on GDI engines without loss of power compared to PFI engines. Organic gas emissions were the most sensitive to cold-start compared to the other pollutants tested.

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Fleet Engine Global Fuel Economy 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

All fuels were analyzed in four load points, three of which are within the NEDC range for an inertia weight class of 1590 kg, the fourth being of interest for future downsizing concepts. Optimized fuel properties with regard to different emissions Janssen et al. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. They’re telling the truth and they’re speaking that truth to power without fear.

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Al Gore Solar Climate Change Gore 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It is important that the European Commission not only set new car CO2 targets for 2025 and 2030 but also limit the gap between laboratory and real-world levels by defining an on-road conformity factor for CO2, as it has already done for air pollutants.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

The plug-in series hybrids would have used dramatically downsized engines—a turbo-2 for the EQS—while halving the EV battery pack. electricity demand has remained flat, or declined, in recent years, that’s not the case around EV battery plants—and new EV factories may be causing additional pollution , according to a recent report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. features in developing the standards. NHTSA and CAFE.

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy MPG 338

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Freescale Semiconductor announced the first of several powerful multicore automotive MCUs that help automotive designers improve engine efficiency and reduce exhaust pollution. Click to enlarge. Block diagram of the chip. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

It’s a none-too-subtle form of propaganda on behalf of the most polluting, planet-warming product anyone sells and uses in our world. It looks to me to be a combination of being emasculated by eight years of Bush/Cheney as well as the paper’s own decade of internal decline, downsizing and dumbing down.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. Automakers are finding it difficult to challenge those boldface numbers with internal combustion alone, especially as engines are relentlessly downsized to meet regulations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. PHEV - These vehicles combine the advantages of both HEV and EV vehicles. Whats all the fuss about "plugging in", what difference does it make?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

By the end of the next decade, because of the standards and other regulations, new vehicles will be more fuel-efficient, lighter, less polluting, safer, and more expensive to purchase compared with current vehicles. Recommendations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized. In addition, the second car will likely be a conventional car burning more fuel and creating more CO 2 per distance traveled than a long range PHEV because of the greatly downsized and more efficient engine in the PHEV.

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