CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Electric vehicle sales have been growing exponentially due to falling costs, improving technology, and government support. Globally, 10% of passenger vehicles sold in 2022 were all-electric, according to analysis of data from the International Energy Agency. That’s 10 times more than it was just five years earlier.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thirty-seven globally prominent scientists representing the International Journal of Engine Research have published an open-access editorial addressing the future of the Internal Combustion Engine, and stressing the importance for continued development of more efficient and even lower-emitting technologies. —Reitz et al.

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Electric vehicles have historically received a bad reputation for concerns around safety. Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The results show there is no realistic pathway to full decarbonization of internal combustion engine vehicles, and that only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2023

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated high-performance metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells (MS-SOFC) with an integrated high entropy alloy (HEA) internal reforming catalyst (IRC) for transportation applications using ethanol and methanol as fuels. —Hu et al.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lloyds-owned Tusker recently analyzed data from its over 30,000 electric vehicle (EV) fleet. It busted two EV myths after analyzing data from its electric vehicle fleet. We had two or three fires because somebody was smoking carelessly in a vehicle. Tusker is a leasing company based in the United Kingdom.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2024

Stellantis isn’t ignoring EVs, but it isn’t ready to move on from internal combustion if that’s what its customers want. She also pointed out that 18 of Stellantis’ 25 upcoming vehicle launches will land first as EVs. Stellantis only offers a few plug-in vehicles in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2023

Effenco’s Hybrid Electric solution eliminates the need to run engines when trucks are stationary. Effenco’s Hybrid Electric system. The SuperBattery technology also enables vehicle design optimization and ensures no thermal runaways occur. It can be adapted to new heavy-duty vocational trucks as well as existing fleets.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2024

Toyota has made its latest statements doubling down on plans to develop new vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE), along with continued focus on part-hydrogen-powered options. Both the batteries for electric vehicles and international combustion engines are important,” Nakajima said.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Canadian government plans to approve the new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, phasing the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars by 2035. The new legislation considers zero-emission cars to include battery-electric, hydrogen, and plug-in electric vehicles.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Tesla will appear at the first China International Supply Chain Expo later this month, set to be held in Beijing. The event was organized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and it will run from November 28 to December 2. . “We hope U.S. ties,” Zhang said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C2G emissions are a sum of WTW emissions and emissions associated with vehicle manufacturing. The vehicle manufacturing cycle includes impacts of raw material extraction, vehicle parts production, assembly, as well as its disposal and related materials recycling processes. Source: DOE program record Nº 21003.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Nissan and British Gas have launched the UK’s largest electric commercial vehicle pilot. British Gas is testing 28 Nissan e-NV200 vans ( earlier post ) throughout the winter to determine the future viability of battery-electric vehicle technology as part of its 13,000 home service vans fleet.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Westport’s HPDI fuel system technology ( earlier post ) enables heavy-duty trucks to operate on bio-methane (renewable natural gas) and natural gas with the same power, torque, efficiency, and performance as diesel engines—with even better results running on hydrogen—all while meeting global emissions regulations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

Argonne National Laboratory has published a new cradle-to-grave (C2G) lifecycle analysis (LCA) of US LDV vehicle-fuel pathways. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways; the levelized cost of driving (LCD); and the cost of avoided GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2021

The final phase will complete commercial tests of the fuel, thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and hybrid cars. The EU recently increased its target for the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

At the 2 nd International Conference Automotive 48 V Power Supply Systems , held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a major sponsor of the event, together with leading car makers and Tier 1 suppliers, argued the need for an internationally agreed 48V electrical standard. This reduces to 2.5%

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

The gas-powered Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman models are being discontinued in Europe as an all-electric version approaches its debut. Porsche retires gas-powered 718 Boxster, Cayman cars After announcing plans to retire its best-selling SUV in Europe, the Macan, Porsche will do the same with its 718 Boxster and Cayman models.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 24, 2021

Only full battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have the potential to be very low-GHG pathways.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the summer of this year the American Lung Association released a report titled, “Driving to Clean Air: Health Benefits of Zero-Emission Cars and Electricity.”

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Now, the battery-swapping electric scooter leader is adding another pin to the map: Nepal. Along with rolling out battery-swapping stations, Gogoro is bringing its new Crossover GX250 electric scooter to the country. However, Nebula plans to begin offering Gogoro’s electric scooters at consumer retail locations by the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

of passenger cars sold in the EU were electrically-chargeable vehicles, compared to 3.0% The support measures introduced by various countries to stimulate car demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic disadvantaged conventionally-powered vehicles. In the third quarter of 2020, 9.9% in July-September 2019 to 75.4% to 766,146 units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Vitesco Technologies, a leading international supplier of advanced powertrain technologies and electrification solutions, is now making electrical catalyst heating available in high-voltage hybrid vehicles as well. It is already in use in vehicles with a pure combustion engine or in mild hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

ComEd’s new fleet electrification plan calls for replacing all of its light duty vehicles with electrified vehicles (EVs and PHEVs) by 2030. By 2025, all of the company’s light duty vehicles (LDVs) approaching the end of their life cycle will be replaced with electric vehicles, and all LDVs will be electrified by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Audi of America is among the first in the automotive industry to implement an internal carbon price program as a key initiative in the brand’s pursuit of lower CO 2 emissions. Fuel consumed by Audi of America fleet vehicles. Logistics: Vehicle and parts transport. Employee commuting. Building heat & energy. Waste generation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The bill, HB 1204 / SB 5256 , requires all model year 2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in Washington State to be electric. Electric vehicles are defined as “vehicles that use energy stored in rechargeable battery packs or in hydrogen that rely solely on electric motors for propulsion.”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

In a recent open-access paper published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from the University of York report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid account for a larger fraction of real-world vehicle emissions than previous estimates have suggested. Cliff et al. —Cliff et al. Resources Samuel J.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. This extra vehicle travel increases estimated congestion, crash risk, and noise externalities by 2–3% (2–3¢ per trip).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2013

The consortium has been formed in parallel to a draft European Directive to promote the development of alternative fuels such as electricity and hydrogen, which is currently being considered by the European Parliament and the European Council. The results will be published in late 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

Westport Fuel Systems announced the successful startup and initial trials of a heavy-duty internal combustion engine running on hydrogen fuel, using its patented and proprietary High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) 2.0 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service said in February that at least 10% of the new mail trucks would be electric.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company is partnering with Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC), Air Liquide Korea and Hydrogen Energy Network (HyNet) to establish a hydrogen refueling station for fuel cell electric buses at Incheon Airport’s Terminal 2 by March 2021. Hyundai fuel cell bus. In September 2019, Hyundai and Cummins Inc.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 31, 2022

The simple act of driving with an ICE (internal combustion engine) is getting more expensive. Gas prices are at nearly their highest point in history, and some owners of larger vehicles are ready to trade them in for vehicles with better gas mileage. Electric Vehicles by the Numbers. Absolutely!

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 29, 2022

ACS Publications: Abstract "The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to purchase 165,000 next-generation delivery vehicles (NGDVs) between 2023 and 2032. To correct several significant deficiencies in the EIS, we conduct a cradle-to-grave life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment of these two scenarios. ".

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report it commissioned from Sonoma Technology, Inc. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon results reflect net-zero carbon goals for electricity generation. Benefits of state-level adoption of California medium- and heavy-duty vehicle regulations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

According to a new lifecycle analysis by a team at Carnegie Mellon University, a battery electric vehicle (BEV) powered with natural gas-based electricity achieves around an average 40% lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction when compared to a conventional gasoline vehicle. Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Library of Congress tells a heartwarming story of the rise of the gas-powered car with an internal combustion engine. continued] The post Goldman Sachs Insists Our Future Transportation Is All Electric appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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