Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Aurobay will become part of the new global company specializing in hybrid and low- emission powertrains being formed by Renault and Geely. In the push towards net zero, Aurobay is currently working on several different technology projects—including a zero-emission engine, with zero impact across the entire lifecycle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. g/m 3 ) of black carbon from traffic exhaust, the risk of stroke increased by 4%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

million) into the production of electric wheel loaders from its plant in Arvika, Sweden. The Arvika factory specializes in the production of medium and large wheel loaders and has already been successful in driving down its carbon emissions. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) will invest SEK 65 million ($6.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

The extended and exhaustive testing over several months is also intended to test safety, load response, transient response, and emergency situations of the system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. emissions coming from exhaust gases produced during lime production and store them permanently in offshore geological formations in France. A third project will capture the CO? Background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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MARCH 22, 2023

In mining environments, the electric trucks can deliver several big advantages—including no exhaust emissions, a safer workplace, and quieter working conditions. Just like in many other mines, exhaust gases from diesel vehicles are responsible for the majority of the carbon dioxide emissions from Boliden’s mines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Emissions are usually higher in the production phase of electric cars, but these are more than offset by lower emissions in the use phase over time. However, as the carbon intensity of the EU energy mix is projected to decrease, the life-cycle emissions of a typical electric vehicle could be cut by at least 73% by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Scania will focus on developing an engine that can operate on both alcohol- and gaseous methane-based fuels that will combine the higher efficiency of diesel (compression ignition) technology with the exhaust aftertreatment systems of Otto (spark ignition) technology. —Jonas Hofstedt, Senior Vice President, Powertrain Development.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Volvo Buses’ new plug-in hybrid buses will begin field tests in Gothenburg, Sweden this month. The conventional hybrid offers up to 37% fuel savings compared to a diesel version and 40-50% lower exhaust emissions. 7900 Volvo Plugin Hybrid Charging at Redbergsplatsen in Gothenburg. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a 8.3 The emission reduction is calculated by comparing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of the renewable fuels that Neste produces in a year to the life cycle emissions of conventional European diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

High oil prices, impending emissions regulations and technical advancements are propelling the market faster than we expected. A key factor is International Maritime Organization Tier III emissions standards, which are slated to take effect in 2015-2016. The regulations require operators to reduce sulfur and nitrogen oxide emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sweden-based White Smoke Shipping, together with Delta Marine and Omega Marine of Turkey as well as Frederiet AB and Crew Chart Ship Management of Sweden, has developed the WS3 project—a vessel designed for the growing LNG bunkering market of the North European ECA (Emission Control Areas) with special focus on the Baltic sea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. Evolution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU-28 from 1990 to 2016. In 2016, average emissions decreased by 1.5 In 2016, average emissions decreased by a further 4.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

The unit is more efficient than a small ICE (internal combustion engine) generator in combination with an environmental friendly exhaust. PowerCell will now test and demonstrate its PowerPac prototype to the global industry and media from its headquarters and research center in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Most of these orders came from countries in the northern part of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Sweden. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production, giving it the industry’s most extensive portfolio of zero exhaust emission trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The hybrid bus will reduce fuel consumption by up to 35% and carbon emissions by an equal amount. The 12-meter Volvo 7700 Hybrid bus is now being built in the company’s plant in Wroclaw, Poland and the chassis for the double-decker Volvo B5L Hybrid will be built in Borås, Sweden. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Volvo CE team from Sweden and South Korea has worked closely with Finnish company Norrhydro in the research project, leveraging an idea initially born out of academic collaborations. The novel Common Pressure Rail Hybrid system by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) applied to excavators, which results in?significant

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

The direct injection two-stroke engine could be a very promising and interesting option for hydrogen combustion to achieve zero NO x because of its advantages of high-power density and inherent much lower NO x emissions. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x. If hydrogen combustion is sufficiently lean—i.e.,

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society (Germany) have identified the inherent reaction behavior of different catalysts for ignition in the CO oxidation reaction in catalytic converters.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

This technology has applications to the automotive industry and other sectors covered by regulations that control methane emissions. This catalyzes the oxidation of methane to carbon dioxide and water using excess oxygen in the exhaust stream. Methane in the exhaust at such dilute concentrations does not combust on its own.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

The PowerShift transmission helps deliver reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, while also providing a more responsive and refined driving experience. with PowerShift has cut CO 2 emissions by 19% to 149g/km, and now achieves an average fuel consumption of 6.4 Compared to the 100PS (99 hp, 74 kW) 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

The EU is investing more than €3 million in innovative aero-engine technologies in the three-year ULTIMATE project, short for Ultra Low emission Technology Innovations for Mid-century Aircraft Turbine Engines. The combinations are integrated into optimized engine concepts promising to deliver ultra-low emission engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The combination of high efficiency, low fuel consumption, and the reduced level of exhaust emissions from operating on clean burning LNG, is expected to create low operating costs and a minimal environmental footprint. This will be the first marine application for the dual-fuel version. There is an option for a second vessel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

Catalytic converters in cars, for example, reduce emissions by converting exhaust to less toxic compounds. Catalysts, which can speed up chemical reactions and make them more efficient and effective, are essential to most industrial processes and to the production of many chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including academic work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2009

Scania’s bus sales in Sweden began 2009 very strongly, and some 100 such vehicles have been registered so far this year. The third-generation ethanol engine is an adaptation of Scania’s 9-liter diesel engine with charge-cooling and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). Scania’s third-generation CI ethanol engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010. Overview of project area. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. The Amoco scientists found that DME was a good diesel replacement, and at the 1995 SAE conference in Detroit, reported that preliminary engine test data for DME showed emission levels better than the California 1998 ULEV standards. Biomethane DME Emissions Engines Heavy-duty'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

After two successful years with electric buses on route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the partners in the ElectriCity venture have decided to expand electric bus operations in the city. At the same time, plans are under way to expand the demo arena with heavy vehicles for quiet and emission-free urban traffic.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Carbon dioxide emissions will average out at 49 g/km, with fuel consumption of 1.9 Based on the NEDC cycle, CO 2 emissions from Volvo’s V70 plug-in diesel hybrid will average out at 49 grams per kilometer, with fuel consumption of 1.9 In some markets, they withdraw from earlier promises; some markets increase, like Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The problem with this configuration is that neither the combustion process nor the values for efficiency and emissions can be optimized. A direct injection stratified natural gas engine could reduce CO 2 emissions by 35% compared to a contemporary port injection gasoline engine, the team said. By 2025, this limit could be even lower.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

GKN’s substantial re-engineering of the standard road car transformed the gasoline-powered SUV with hang-on AWD torque-on-demand functionality to a gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid with a zero-emissions pure-electric drive mode, and axle-split eAWD functionality that is independent of the combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Volvo Trucks is participating in the project by contributing 14 Volvo FH trucks that will be tested by selected customers at four locations in different parts of Sweden between 2010 and 2012. The combustion process produces very low emissions of particulates and nitrogen oxides. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway. The group’s member states are “working together to enable 100 percent zero-emission new truck and bus sales by 2040 with an interim goal of 30 percent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2030.” degrees C (2.7

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

In the early 2000's there was the “Euro 1” emission standard. The final stage is Zero Emissions. Only electric vehicles offers zero local emissions. micron particulate matter emitted from vehicle exhausts. Only electric vehicles offers zero local emissions.

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