Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

Early this year, NDEP issued an updated statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory and projections report as required under SB 254 from the 2019 Legislative Session. The report highlighted the transportation sector as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Nevada through 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

The researchers said that, given the strong similarity in combustion system design between Euro 5 and Euro 6 engines, the estimated trends can be considered valid also for Euro 6 vehicles equipped with the same class of engines. HVO based fuels can be used without affecting fuel logistics, engine and exhaust after-treatments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

The City of Santa Monica, California has awarded Clean Energy a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract to fuel its Big Blue Bus (BBB) fleet of vehicles. ARB has defined this certified Near Zero NO x emission level as equivalent to a 100% battery truck using electricity from a modern combined cycle natural gas power plant.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Hydrogen operation with the current WFS HPDI fuel system outperforms natural gas in terms of thermal efficiency, mainly due to lower equivalence ratio for H 2 at given fueling energy level, higher kinetic energy for H 2 jets as well as higher tolerance of H 2 combustion to fuel rich operation. Source: Westport/AVL.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. From a powertrain frame of reference, Mazda is planning a building block strategy—i.e., ” The initial SKYACTIV-G (gasoline) and SKYACTIV-D (diesel) engines that are being applied into new vehicles this year and next show Mazda’s approach to the goal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2019

liter M 139 engine is the world’s most powerful turbocharged four-cylinder engine in series production. With this engine, Mercedes-AMG has even exceeded the previously most powerful M 133 by 30 kW (41 hp). The increasing torque at higher rpm makes the engine more free-revving. 180-degree rotation. Turbocharger.

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We investigated some of the most common questions and concerns about the dangers of owning and driving an EV and how they compare to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) in terms of safety. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). Learn more about gas vs. electric car fires here.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Renault Trucks will present its Euro VI compliant engines at the IAA show in Hanover. To comply with the new regulation, the manufacturer is using different technologies, choosing the most appropriate and efficient in regards to the engine’s size and future application. Engines for the heavy duty range (11 L and 13 L).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Background. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

As part of the Horizon 2020 research project CARES (City Air Remote Emission Sensing), an international research consortium is working on new contactless exhaust measurement methods that will enable municipalities to take emission-reducing measures. The aim is to detect the exhaust class of each individual vehicle using these measurements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

As of July 2018, all BMW gasoline and plug-in hybrid models available in Germany will be fitted as standard with a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) and thus will comply with the exhaust standard Euro 6d-TEMP. In addition, another 39 diesel models will be going on the market with Euro 6d-TEMP rating.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The high-performance, three-way catalytic (TWC) converter is one of the workhorses of emissions reduction for gasoline engines. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. For this experiment, Pd/A 2 O 3 was used as the reference against the CeO 2 /MnFeO y experimental catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, continues to spearhead the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) technology, giving customers the widest choice of vehicles that are cleaner, more sustainable and offer even greater efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

Specific BSFC improvements from the D-EGR engine relative to baseline engine. Overall, the engine offered a 13.1% Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced preliminary test results of its Dedicated-Exhaust Gas Recirculation (D-EGR) demonstration vehicle ( earlier post ) at the SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2014

Damen Shipyards of the Netherlands, German engine manufacturer MTU Friedrichshafen, a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, and Denmark’s SVITZER have teamed up to bring the first Reverse Stern Drive (RSD) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) tug to the market, with a planned introduction in 2016. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. mpg (19.26

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz has introduced the updated 2014 E-Class Sedan and Wagon, featuring an array of new driver assistance systems in addition to new fuel efficient engines. Both the E-Class sedan and wagon offer a range of gasoline and diesel engines, all coming with the ECO start/stop system as standard equipment. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

At the meeting, the chief executives of more than ten global truck and engine manufacturers discussed key issues facing the industry, including fuel efficiency improvements, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, diesel fuel specifications, and issues related to heavy-duty engine and vehicle regulation and certification.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

million passenger vehicles with gasoline engines and 1.3 million with diesel engines were registered in Switzerland. The new regulations for passenger vehicles contain three main changes: The outdated measuring technique will be replaced; Exhaust emissions will have to be determined in addition while driving on the roads; and.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

100 km) three-wheeled vehicle with a target date of 2016, unveiled its engine prototype: a 0.9-liter, As the team began to dive into some of the details and changes to meet the desired Elio targets, it found that the Geo Metro engine would not meet the fuel efficiency targets to enable the vehicle fuel economy goal of 84 mpg highway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

These new standards are to include standards for newly manufactured locomotives (which ARB refers to as “Tier 5”), and a new standard for Tier 4 locomotives upon remanufacture. ARB is also requesting new remanufacturing standards equal to or more stringent than current Tier 4 emission levels for Tier 2 and 3 locomotive engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2013

Among the findings they reported in their paper in the journal Fuel was that under most of the engine operating conditions examined, RME emitted lower soot particle concentration than diesel under both nucleation and accumulation modes. Diesel engines are widely used owing to their high thermal efficiency and low fuel consumption.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a partnership with the Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to address critical fundamental and applied research challenges associated with advanced combustion engine technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

The world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty commercial trucks and engines called for further progress in regulatory harmonisation and closer cooperation among European, North American, and Japanese regulators in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel consumption associated with on-road freight transport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

The system is referred to as MZD Connect in other markets.) This compact and lightweight clean diesel engine is designed for combustion efficiency, just like the larger displacement SKYACTIV-D 2.2. Furthermore, injection and combustion close to TDC make a diesel engine highly efficient. Earlier post.) SKYACTIV-D 1.5.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

In addition to its three four-cylinder gasoline engines (2.0-liter TSI Gen 3 turbocharged EA888 engines) and the a 1.4-liter liter 150-horsepower (112 kW) EA288 TDI Clean Diesel engine offered in the 2015 Jetta already conforms to the upcoming LEV3/Tier 3 emissions standard ( earlier post ) in the USA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The term watered-out refers to a well that has begun producing large amounts of water—often occurring with waterflooding for enhanced oil recovery—thereby making oil production unprofitable. Typically, wells are abandoned after they are no longer producing oil or gas at a rate that is economically viable. Bill Bailey et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Often referred to as scavenger cells, they absorb and engulf microorganisms. Since macrophages also play a key role in lung diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), the new study is important for understanding the health risks of ship exhausts. Their open access paper is published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The ICCT team only examined technical barriers to the consumption of blends of ethanol above 10%: the effect of higher ethanol blends on passenger vehicles and smaller engines and the impact on infrastructure. In this situation, there is not enough fuel evaporation to cool the mixture, and the temperature of the exhaust gas rises.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Engine: 2000 bar injection pressure. liter engine increase the maximum injection pressure by 25% to as much as 2000 bar. There are three versions of the engine with internal designation 4P10 available: 96 kW (130 hp) at 3000-3500 rpm, 300 N·m at 1300-3050 rpm. New injectors for the 3.0-liter Optimized emission control.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

Since 2010, all Sprinters in the US have been powered by BlueTEC diesel engines, marking the first use of BlueTEC technology, with its selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust aftertreatment system, in the commercial van market here. The two overhead camshafts actuate 16 intake and exhaust valves. The optional 3.0L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

Real engine testing. Scientists at the DLR Institute of Combustion Technology now have the opportunity for the first time to investigate biofuels on a special test rig at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, in which a dismounted aero-engine is available especially for research purposes. mixtures of conventional kerosene with biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A study by a team at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) found that higher compression ratios in a spark-ignition engine improved performance of both an E22 blend (78% gasoline, 22% ethanol) as well as neat hydrous ethanol. The paper was published online 15 September in the journal Applied Thermal Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

According to Deret spokesperson Jean-Luc Fournier, initial trips with the hybrid fleet have revealed a 25% reduction in fuel consumption compared with trucks with conventional engines. liter four-cylinder turbodiesel engine rated at 110 kW (150 hp), which is supported by an electric motor with an output of 40 kW (55 hp).

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 9, 2021

Intuitive misconceptions about this harmful gas slows EV adoption By PETER DOUGLAS: MEMBER, ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. The decision to purchase an electric vehicle (EV) over an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle involves several factors. Carbon dioxide seems perfectly benign Carbon dioxide has become a part of our daily lives.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

Conversion systems allow vehicles to run on alternative fuels; most conversions involve switching gasoline or diesel vehicles to operate instead on a gaseous fuel such as natural gas or propane; an alcohol fuel; or electricity. Vehicle/Engine Age. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing 2. Exhaust and Evap testing + OBD attestation.

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