Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

In 2013, GM reduced the energy-intensity per vehicle manufactured 3.5% Energy intensity per vehicle. GM also increased renewable energy use in 2013 from 62.3 One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. Energy efficiency. Renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

A trans-European collaboration aims to develop a novel energy efficient climate control system to help reduce the energy used for passenger comfort in electric vehicles by at least 50%. The main objective is the reduction of at least 50% of energy used for passenger comfort (. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Zaragoza Assembly (Spain). Zaragoza Stamping (Spain). GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

In addition to the VOC guidelines, Blue5 sets targets for conserving energy and water, as well as reducing waste and CO 2 emissions. In addition to the VOC guidelines, Blue5 sets targets for conserving energy and water, as well as reducing waste and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

The EU project FCH2RAIL (Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Pack for Rail Applications) consortium—with partners from Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal—is developing and testing a new zero-emission train prototype. Where energy is available from overhead lines, the train takes the energy from them.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

Pruning olive trees during harvests creates 7 million tons of waste annually, so Ford engineers in Cologne, Germany, launched a research project called COMPOlive to explore how olive branches and twigs could be repurposed to manufacture auto parts. They sourced the olive tree waste from Andalusia, Spain, and combined it with recycled plastic.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Spanish domestic waste collection and processing company Urbaser has taken delivery of the first 26 t hybrid truck fitted with a refuse collection body in Spain. This gives us a triple advantage: the service we provide is more pleasant and quieter, it is an initiative contributing to sustainable development and saves energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This is a great recognition for Neste and its innovations as a front runner and key contributor to the European energy transition. BECCS@STHLM will create a full-scale Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage facility at its existing heat and power biomass plant in Stockholm. —Peter Vanacker, President and CEO at Neste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

The EAGLE (Efficient Additivated Gasoline Lean Engine) European research project is led by the French research organization IFP Energies nouvelles, with the participation of eight partners from Germany, France, Italy and Spain. —Jean-Marc Zaccardi, researcher at IFP Energies nouvelles and coordinator of the project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Funded by Ford, the trial will initially run for 12 months, in cooperation with municipal fleets serving the public sector, complementing testing in London, UK and Valencia, Spain with larger fleets and small-to-medium fleets respectively. Ford recognizes Cologne as a city of strategic importance regarding future mobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

environmental program remains on track to meet its 2018 goals of reducing energy and water consumption as well as the share in waste, CO 2 and solvent emissions at all Volkswagen plants throughout the world by 25% compared with 2010 levels by 2018. The Volkswagen brand’s “Think Blue.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It is published yearly by the EEA to take stock of the EU’s and Member States’ progress in meeting their climate and energy targets, which includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 40% by 2030. The largest absolute growth in emissions occurred in Spain. in 2017 from 2016.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

A team from Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) reports in the journal ChemSusChem on a process that uses platform molecules derived from hexoses (5-methylfurfural) and from pentoses (2-methylfuran, or Sylvan) from lignocellulosic biomass to produce a high quality diesel. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Renault–Nissan Alliance and the city of Barcelona, Spain signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the development of electric mobility in the Catalan capital. Barcelona has made environmental sustainability a key policy initiative through the use of renewable sources of energy and the reduction of CO 2 emissions.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the depths of the 1970s oil crisis, French prime minister Pierre Messmer saw an opportunity to transform his country’s energy supply. Spain plans to start phasing out in 2027. Switzerland is doing the same , albeit with a hazy timetable. Italy hasn’t hosted nuclear power at all since 1990. The obvious answer might be solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

Researchers in Spain have obtained high-quality transportation fuels (gasoline with RON >80 and diesel with cetane number >70) from oil obtained by the thermal cracking of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) using a bifunctional catalyst comprising Ni (7 wt %) deposited on a hierarchical Beta zeolite (Ni/h-Beta). —Escola et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

SOMABAT is targeting a battery with an energy density up to 220 Wh/kg and a final cost less than 150 €/kWh (US$208/kWh). The project team is led by Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía in Valencia, Spain. With these materials the energy density will be improved in about 30% respect to carbon based conventional anodes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The new solar park is an integral part of Volkswagen’s worldwide sustainability strategy, which includes generating more power within the Group from renewable energy sources, said Volkswagen Group Officer for the Environment, Energy and New Business Areas, Wolfram Thomas. We are increasing the share of green energy in a modular way.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

It’s long been known that renewable diesel can be created from biomass waste – but creating a simple, energy efficient process to achieve this conversion has been the problem.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

A new, broad measure of “energy transition investment”, compiled by BloombergNEF (BNEF), shows that the world committed a record $501.3 billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. Renewable energy investment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2010

The BioTfuel project partners—Total, IFP, the French Atomic Energy Board, and Sofiproteol—selected the PRENFLO process on the basis of its flexibility in processing a wide variety of biomasses and other resources. It allows high energy efficiency and enables very pure synthesis gas to be produced.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. In 2012, a team from the US, Spain and Sweden (Matthews et al. The resulting technology can also be applied to harvesting wasted heat energy in power plants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2019

Ford has revealed the new Transit Smart Energy Concept—a one-of-a-kind 10-seater minibus that is helping the company explore solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency and driving range of electrified vehicles. —Kilian Vas, project leader, Vehicle Architecture, Ford of Europe.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Energy-saving tips One action is to use less electricity, Rahman said, noting that dimming lights by 20 percent in homes, office buildings, hotels, and schools could save 10 percent of electricity. Another is switching to LEDs, which use at least 75 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

dCi (type K9K) diesel is the brand’s best-selling engine with almost 900,000 units manufactured in 2009, in Valladolid (Spain) and Bursa (Turkey). When a lubricant is cold, it is more viscous, which increases the energy required to pump it around the engine. New-generation 1.5 dCi engines. The current 1.5 Fuel consumption suffers, too.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Use of eco-design principles and advanced materials helped reduce EV weight, saving materials, energy, and reducing carbon emissions while enhancing overall vehicle efficiency. The project consortium involves a diverse group of 9 partners from 4 different EU countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

A team of international researchers are investigating a new metal-organic framework (MOF) material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing volatile radionuclides such as xenon and krypton that evolve into reprocessing facility off-gas in parts per million concentrations. Waste avoidance.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. We’re behind Spain! I have an energy urgency. And the problem right now in America is everyone hasn’t unlocked this enormous free energy that’s flowing around us. right now -. They’re awful.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

For instance, in Spain, SEAT’s recommended list price for its Mii electric is just €17.900 and the Nissan Leaf, one of the most popular EV models on the market, is available for €25.900. As EVs are powered by energy, driving them is more environmentally friendly than using gas cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The Mercedes AMG PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Berhad) Formula One Team unveiled the F1 W05, its 2014 challenger, at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain. The fundamental challenge is to convert as much of the chemical energy in the fuel, into mechanical energy, as efficiently as possible at the prescribed flow rate.

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