Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The European Parliament and the Council have reached provisional agreement on a regulation setting, for the first time in the EU, strict CO 2 emission standards for trucks. Under the agreement, emissions from new trucks will have to be 15% lower by 2025 and 30% lower in 2030 compared to 2019 emissions. —Erik Jonnaert.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two French environmental NGOs—France Nature Environment (FNE) and Réseau Action Climat ( RAC )—along with European umbrella NGO Transport & Environment (T&E), have released initial test results from the Royal Commission’s inquiry into diesel engine NO x emissions in France.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Cars sold in Europe in 2013 were collectively 4% more efficient than the year before, according to provisional data from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The average CO 2 emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 g CO 2 /km; the target for 2015 was 130 g/km. grams; for diesel, 127.16

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The EEA quantified the damage costs arising from CO 2 emissions based on estimated marginal abatement cost. Finally, a different approach was used to quantify the damage costs arising from CO 2 emissions, based on estimated marginal abatement cost. —Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows that Volkswagen is currently selling the least polluting (Euro 6) diesel vehicles. also found that no brand in Europe complies with the latest Euro 6 air pollution limits for diesel cars and vans in real-world driving. However, the report “ Dieselgate: Who? million), the UK (4.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Despite a decline in emissions of the main air pollutants in Europe in the period 2002–2011, around 90% of city dwellers in the European Union (EU) are exposed to PM 2.5 Source: Air Quality in Europe 2013 Report. The emission reductions resulted in a notable reduction of ambient concentrations of SO 2 , CO, and Pb.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

However, weather also has an influence on NO 2 concentrations, according to a study by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), which evaluated the influence of weather conditions on nitrogen dioxide concentrations in Saxony 2015 to 2018 on behalf of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove published a new Clean Air Strategy to cut air pollution backed up through new primary legislation. To take concerted action to tackle ammonia from farming, responsible for 88% of ammonia emissions, by requiring farmers to invest in the infrastructure and equipment that will reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The system consists of environment recognition, driving planning and decision-making, as well as the control of the actuator systems in the vehicle (such as steering and brakes) and human-machine interaction. Knorr-Bremse will offer the complete system to commercial vehicle manufacturers in Europe, North America and Asia.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 27, 2023

million), which is able to progress to the environment treasury and non-governmental organizations, the courtroom in Munich stated on Tuesday. Audi’s father or mother VW Staff and Audi admitted in 2015 to having worn unlawful tool to cheat on emissions assessments. Stadler used to be fined 1.1 million euros ($1.2

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2014

Average CO2 emissions for new cars sold in Europe during 2013 were 4% more efficient than those sold in 2012. Data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that collectively, Europe''s car fleet emitted an average of 127g/km of CO2, three grams ahead of 2015''s legal limit. Stronger sales [.].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

A new report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies for estimating air emissions from shipping; describes technological solutions; and analyses policy options for reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in this sector.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

Vision Zero is a globally focused United Nations initiative designed to totally eliminate all traffic accidents by implementing comprehensive changes to the legal framework of traffic laws, the expansion of public transportation, and physically changing roadways to accommodate those modifications. But this is but a singular component.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2016

Further, member states should identify and, where possible, remove legal barriers to the testing and deployment of connected and automated vehicles, based on a learning-by-experience approach. Car manufacturers involved are Volvo, Daimler, BMW, Renault, PSA, JLR, Vedecom, TNO/Davi, Tesla and Audi. Vehicle technology is developing rapidly.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2011

While the EU-27 and its member states are on track to meet legally binding limits for four air pollutants, it appears they could miss the targets set by the National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive for nitrogen oxides. An annual report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) suggests that Europe as a whole will miss its [.].

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MARCH 16, 2012

More than 70,000 people are already using the service in Continental Europe, USA and Canada. The car2go vehicles will not be parked at fixed stations but can be located at any legal public parking space. —Councillor Timothy Huxtable, Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment and Regeneration.

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MARCH 2, 2015

In his remarks before this year’s Geneva Show, Winterkorn called on industry in Europe to “ show even more courage and even greater innovative strength. Because they make driving safer and more comfortable, because they conserve resources and protect the environment, and because they bring together the mobile and the digital worlds.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific will continue to drive PEV sales, as the technology will have only limited availability in the emerging markets of Latin America and Africa. California’s zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulations require volume automakers to sell a minimum number of PEVs each year in the state.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Truck Platooning involves trucks driving a short distance apart using automated driving technology; platooning offers benefits in terms of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, safety and the flow of traffic. Highway Pilot Connect uses this for a constant exchange of information with other trucks and the environment. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to the group, an integrated climate change and clean energy policy framework should include: Clear short-, medium- and long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction objectives and targets, and comprehensive, enforceable legal mechanisms and timelines for delivering on these objectives and targets.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

The aim is to intensify dialogue with all stakeholders in the aluminum supply chain to achieve continually measurable improvements in the areas of social affairs, the environment and responsible business management—from aluminum production and usage to recycling.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Carmakers reduced carbon emissions by wildly varying degrees last year with the best performers achieving four to five times larger cuts than the worst. New figures published by European NGO, Transport & Environment (T&E) show BMW and Mazda led the field with 10 per cent and 8.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

Müller reaffirmed the goal of playing a key role in e-mobility, with the Volkswagen Group planning to launch over 20 additional models by 2020—a target originally voiced by former Group head Martin Winterkorn at the Frankfurt auto show last fall, before the breaking of the diesel emissions scandal. billion in this environment.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Claims from the car industry that higher legally binding fuel efficiency targets would make cars more expensive, have been undermined today, by a new report from Transport & Environment (T&E).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By 2050, it is expected that 74% of Europe’s cars on the road will be battery-powered. Standardization: Being Nice To the Environment. Although electrification in road transportation is promoted as a way to reduce emissions, disposing of all these used batteries presents new environmental issues.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2018

The all-new Focus goes on sale in Europe and China this year and North America in 2019. Ford has sold almost seven million Focus cars in Europe and more than 16 million around the world since the first generation Focus was introduced in 1998. Particulate emissions are reduced using standard gas particulate filter technology.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

The problem in the case of hybrid cars however, is that their emissions vary widely. At the same time, a 100 per cent discount for vehicles emitting up to 120g/km of CO2 was removed leaving many of the businesses and consumers who had bought low emission cars expecting them to be charge-exempt, feeling cheated. Its own S40 1.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2014

The sensor and camera technology is active throughout the speed range from standstill to the legally permitted maximum truck speed of 80 km/h. Transmission is via WLAN technology, using the standard, Europe-wide G5 frequency of 5.9 Here too the safety distance is always maintained—the Future Truck 2025 adapts to its environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The proposal for a Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles complements efforts to introduce more robust emissions testing (Real Driving Emissions testing). While the EU sets the legal framework, national authorities are fully responsible for checking car manufacturers’ compliance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Installation of CCS charging stations has already begun in Europe and the United States. CO 2 emissions are less than 100 grams per km (160.9 The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. The engines also fulfill the EU’s most stringent emissions requirements. kilograms (1.3

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. These reductions in power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) were achieved at a significantly lower cost than originally assumed. greenhouse gas emissions. Participating U.S.

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