article thumbnail

New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

Green Car Congress

The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. The bottom overall countries in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (21) Italy (22) United Kingdom (23) Hungary (24) Romania (25) Ireland (26) Poland (27) Lithuania (28) Greece (29) Malta (30) Cyprus.

Europe 170
article thumbnail

CLEPA study: EV-only approach would lead to the loss of half a million supplier jobs in the EU

Green Car Congress

501,000 auto supplier jobs in Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) powertrain components production are expected to become obsolete if technology is phased-out by 2035 (84% of current ICE jobs). The study is also the first to evaluate the impact of different policy pathways to reach Green Deal objectives with a focus on automotive suppliers.

Europe 199
article thumbnail

Honda targets new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency with 8,500-mile diesel drive across Europe

Green Car Congress

i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. i-DTEC engine provides 120 PS (118 hp, 88 kW) of power and 300 N·m (221 lb-ft) of torque, 62 mpg US (3.8 i-DTEC engine to out-perform its quoted fuel efficiency in real-world driving conditions consistently. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

Honda 150
article thumbnail

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, IVECO and ENGIE collaborating to promote natural gas in Europe starting from Belgium

Green Car Congress

In line with COP 21, the Walloon strategy envisages that 50% of its public fleet vehicles, in need of replacement, will run on alternative fuels starting from 1 January 2017, and the percentage will rise to 100% starting from 1 January 2030. The Government of Wallonia also set a new regulation to promote the development of CNG infrastructure.

Belgium 150
article thumbnail

DAF Putting LF Hybrid Truck Into Production; Eaton Hybrid System

Green Car Congress

In the LF Hybrid, this engine produces a maximum power of 118 kW/160 hp and is linked to an automatic Eaton six-speed gearbox (Autoshift). Depending on the degree of charge of the lithium-ion batteries, a central computer determines when the diesel engine provides the drive and when and to what extent the electric motor is used.

Eaton 207
article thumbnail

The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

Cars That Think

a nuclear engineer at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance think tank. Instead, they think, a clean-energy transition might be better served with a fleet of smaller, more modular, reactors—like Linglong One. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well.

Future 108
article thumbnail

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania.

BYD 62