Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2023

Clean fuels replaced more than 50% of the diesel used in the state in the first quarter of 2023, according to the California Air Resources Board (CARB). This figure provides perspective on the performance of actual quantities of fuel consumed in California. Since compliance began, the program has helped to replace more than 8.6

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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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2020

Pollution from tire wear can be 1,000 times worse than a car’s exhaust emissions, Emissions Analytics has found. Emissions Analytics is an independent global testing and data specialist for the scientific measurement of real-world emissions and fuel efficiency for passenger and commercial vehicles and non-road mobile machinery.

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Exhaust Emissions Pollution Standards 537

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

and Controlled Thermal Resources Ltd. CTR will produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate along with geothermal energy in Imperial County, California, with a resource production capacity in excess of 300,000 metric tons per year. Stellantis N.V.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

PACCAR and Toyota Motor North America announced an expansion of their joint efforts to develop and to produce zero-emissions, hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks powered by Toyota’s next-generation hydrogen fuel cell modules. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funds will support the deployment of thousands of zero-emission trucks, school buses and transit buses to deliver clean air benefits to communities hit hardest by the impacts of pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Last month, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a complementary plan for $2.6

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Transportation California Emissions Energy 370

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

A preliminary analysis of global data has found that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources reached a maximum daily decline of 17% in April as a result of drastic decline in energy demand that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Percentage change in global daily fossil CO 2 emissions, Jan-May 2020.

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Emissions CO2 Climate Change Fuel 355

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. EH&E) and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. —Scully et al.

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric 493

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

Through the alliance framework, Komatsu’s GHG partners will work directly with Komatsu to collaborate on product planning, development, testing and deployment of the next generation of zero-emission mining equipment and infrastructure. Komatsu’s power-agnostic development truck undergoes testing at a Komatsu facility in the United States.

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Las Vegas Emissions Power Powered 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

Southwest Research Institute engineers have developed the next generation of clean diesel engine technology to reduce hazardous nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide emissions while minimizing fuel consumption. g/hp-hr NO x emissions). SwRI developed the technology for the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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Engine Emissions Diesel 2020 545

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) released a new foundational document for heavy-duty class 8 fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs), “ Fuel Cell Electric Trucks: A Vision for Freight Movement in California and Beyond ,” that envisions 70,000 trucks supported by 200 heavy-duty truck stations by 2035.

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California Hydrogen Fuel Kia 476

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AUGUST 23, 2021

For hydrogen, the platinum group metals used in PEM electrolysers and fuel cells are critical. There is no immediate concern for copper resources, but the average ore grade is declining as higher grade deposits become exhausted. The NWIS comprises mostly gas-fired generation and has a GHG emission factor of 620 g CO 2 -e kWh -1.

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Solar Hydrogen Emissions Production 459

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The amount of air that flows into the combustion chamber declines because of the space taken up by the gaseous hydrogen fuel, leading to lower fuel efficiency and poorer engine performance due to the backfire of the hydrogen fuel and air. 2022.04.274

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Carbon 345

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon Motors , a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen and fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has certified Hyzon’s Class 8, 7, and 6 Repowers as exempt from emission requirements, enabling the company to sell fuel cell electric trucks in California.

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Emissions Fuel Motor Motors 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Hylane GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of DEVK Versicherung, one of Germany’s largest motor insurers, has purchased 18 fuel-cell-electric trucks from Hyzon Motors, with deliveries expected to begin in late 2022. Hyzon also plans a Class 6 fuel-cell-electric truck for the European market. —Craig Knight, Hyzon CEO and co-founder.

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Fuel Buy North America Fleet 367

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

Blending ammonia with a small amount of dimethyl ether (DME) gives a liquid fuel with low-temperature combustion properties very similar to gasoline, researchers at KAUST have shown. The development of such fuels could provide an option—in addition to electric cars—for “clean” power for the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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Grid Hydrogen 2020 Fuel 290

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is collaborating with Toyota Tsusho America and Ricardo in a project to develop fuel-cell-powered terminal tractors. As part of the project, a Kalmar customer in the US will trial two Kalmar Ottawa Terminal Tractors powered by fuel cell technology at their container terminal on the west coast.

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America Toyota Fuel Hydrogen 284

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Fuels & Products Shot , a new initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products significantly. Biomass and waste conversion technologies designed to use green electricity and hydrogen to maximize carbon retention in products.

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Clean Cleaning Fuel Production 210

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AUGUST 2, 2022

FCA US designed a specific marketing campaign to market these vehicles to US customers as “clean EcoDiesel” vehicles with best-in-class fuel efficiency. FCA US referred to the manner in which it manipulated one method of emissions control as “cycle detection” and “cycle beating.”

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Emissions Diesel Jeep United States 344

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles and its partners rolled out five new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and introduced two hydrogen fueling stations. The Port’s technology development partners are Toyota Motor North America, which designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power supply system; Kenworth Truck Co.,

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Los Angeles Hydrogen Toyota Fuel 397

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) released its latest Guidance Report , Making Sense of Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractors. Almost every day there is a new announcement about hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks. Fill times are moving targets for both fuel cell and battery electric vehicles.

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Hydrogen Fuel Fleet Davis 482

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

The Orange County Transportation Authority board has approved a draft plan outlining how the agency will convert the OC Bus fleet to 100% zero-emission technology by 2040. OCTA’s zero-emission bus rollout plan will now be submitted to the California Air Resources Board. OCTA hydrogen fuel-cell bus. million investment.

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Fleet Emissions Fuel Conversion 269

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MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Emissions Carbon Manufacturer Sale 259

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The California Air Resources Board last week approved the final proposed 2022 Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), a roadmap to reduce demand for petroleum by 94%, cut air pollution by 71%, reduce greenhouse gas emissions 85%, and reach carbon neutrality by 2045.

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Pollution Emissions Gas Gas-Electric 304

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Toyota’s next generation fuel cell electric technology is now powering a new set of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. Designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of a wide variety of OEM truck makers, the new fuel cell electric system in the latest prototypes has been adapted to a Kenworth T680 chassis. Port fleet rollout.

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Los Angeles Kenworth Long Beach Toyota 546

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

announced that 17 local governments and transit agencies will receive more than $236 million in grants from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to aid the transition to zero-emission buses. billion in new Low-No Program emission funding and $5.1 billion in new Low-No Program emission funding and $5.1 Low-No Program.

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California Emissions Los Angeles Fresno 284

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. The principle of continuous improvement will remain at the heart of the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions and increase resource efficiency. CO 2 emissions will then be less than 10% of what they were in 2006.

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BMW Fully Electric Emissions Climate Change 259

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The primary goal for Toyota and Kenworth’s participation in the project was to match nearly the performance of diesel-powered drayage trucks while eliminating emissions to provide a sustainable solution in heavy-duty transportation. Toyota plans to produce fuel-cell powertrain modules at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky from 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Europe and the US. This new study is based on a thorough review of a decade of research on aviation emissions. The formation and emission of sulfate aerosol yields a negative (cooling) term.

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Climate Emissions CO2 Climate Change 448

Electric Cars Report

APRIL 27, 2023

Heavy-duty Class 8 commercial truck original equipment manufacturers and operators now have another tool to help them comply with increasingly strict emissions regulations in the State of California.

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Kits Toyota Emissions Fuel 104

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

These stations will provide refuelling for zero emissions heavy FCEVs (hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles) such as trucks and buses. This is an exciting development that can kick start the use of hydrogen as a low-emissions transport fuel for New Zealand’s energy future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

A team from Karabuk University in Turkey reports in a paper in the journal Biofuels that using Fe-Ni-TiO 2 /activated carbon (AC) nanoparticles as an additive in a diesel–biodiesel fuel blend can improve engine performance and decrease emissions.

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Emissions Turkey Diesel Alternative Fuels 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

Globally, diesel and jet fuel account for more than one-third of the liquid fossil fuel used. The heavy transportation sector—comprising aviation, shipping, and long-distance trucking—relies on these fuels with demand expected to continue to grow for decades, creating major decarbonization challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Emissions Analytics, a leading independent specialist for the scientific measurement of real-world emissions, suggests that mass adoption of hybrid vehicles, rather than low-volume take-up of full BEVs, is the most effective solution to cutting CO 2 now and also in meeting 2030 emission targets. Beyond the 37.5%

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Gasoline-Electric 294

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2019

Researchers in Europe have found that while diesel particulate filters (DPFs) have to a large extent masked the role of diesel fuel properties on particulate emissions, there is still room for optimization, especially in particle number (PN) emissions of vehicles with frequent regenerations. —Kontses et al.

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Diesel Emissions Fuel 2009 230

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JULY 8, 2023

Applications are now available for $150 million allocated in the state budget to support California public school districts in their efforts to transition toward zero-emission bus technology and help pay for related infrastructure needs. Last year, the project helped 81 school districts purchase more than 300 zero-emission buses.

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