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DECEMBER 4, 2023

according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. For cars running on gasoline or diesel fuel, the fire rate was 0.08

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MARCH 4, 2020

This was in part caused by marked changes in attitude and regulations around the use of diesel fuels which has had the unintended consequence of pushing people to drive higher-CO 2 -emitting gasoline vehicles. The other markets recording large improvements in emissions levels were Sweden and the Netherlands. g/km in 2018 to 111.1

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JUNE 27, 2020

Gasoline cars were the most sold passenger vehicles, constituting 59% of all new registrations (and 63% including hybrid electric vehicles (HEV)). g CO 2 /km) are now very close to those of gasoline cars (127.6 About half of the BEVs were registered in Norway, Germany and the Netherlands. in 2018 to 1.3% g CO 2 /km). g CO 2 /km.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As a result, the gap between official and real-world values is much larger for plug-in hybrid vehicles than for conventional combustion engine vehicles. The lowest UFs were for China at 26% for private vehicles, Germany with 18% for company cars and 43% for private vehicles, and the Netherlands with 24% for company cars.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Especially in markets with governmental incentives like the Netherlands we have performed very well. In the Netherlands, the Ampera has taken more than 77% of the passenger EV market share in May. The average year-to-date market share for the Ampera in the Netherlands was more than 50%. liter, 63 kW/86 hp gasoline engine.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

China made headlines around the world on Sunday when state media reported that the country is developing a timetable to end production and sales of new vehicles with gasoline engines. While Norway, The Netherlands, France, and the U.K.

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JUNE 25, 2019

The main factors contributing to the increase of new passenger cars’ emissions in 2018 include the growing share of gasoline cars in new registrations, in particular in the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. The market share of gasoline vehicles also increased, constituting 3.6% of the new vans fleet (2.4% g CO 2 /km). In 2018, 1.66

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Strong results in Spain, Poland and the Netherlands were offset by falls in the UK, Italy and Sweden. The majority of vehicles registered in 2018 were powered by gasoline engines, with the fuel type making up 57% of all registrations. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. market share.

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MAY 29, 2012

The Euro 19 markets are: Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. liter engine with improved fuel efficiency and lower CO 2. The Focus 1.0-liter Weighing just 97 kg (214 lbs), the 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The first iteration of Esso Renewable Racing Fuel is a blend of primarily advanced biofuels and is specially formulated by ExxonMobil’s in-house team of scientists and engineers. The fuel will be tested in race conditions with Porsche’s high-performance motorsports engines during the 2021 and 2022 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race series.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

At the Geneva Motorshow (7-17 March, 2013) Opel will introduce a new generation diesel engine, the 1.6 Equipped with Opel’s “BlueInjection” SCR (selective catalytic reduction) technology, the engine already meets Euro 6 emissions limits. CDTI ECOTEC diesel engine will replace existing 1.7-liter g/km for Euro 5. liter range.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

liter LPG Turbo ecoFLEX dual fuel engine. liter LPG Turbo ecoFLEX engine. The dual fuel engine can operate in LPG and gasoline mode and is available in two power versions: 103 kW/140 hp with 200 N·m/148 lb-ft of torque in the Astra 5-door and Sports Tourer and with 88 kW/120 hp with 175 N·m/129 lb-ft in the Meriva.

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JULY 7, 2017

The average diesel car in Europe typically emits about 17% less CO 2 than a similar conventional gasoline car within the same vehicle segment. However, across all vehicle segments, average CO 2 emissions of new diesel and gasoline cars are close (119 grams per kilometer [g/km] vs. 123 g/km, respectively).

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Specialty chemical company Evonik has introduced a bio-derived version of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), an oxygenate that improves gasoline combustion, helps prevent engine knocking and decreases carbon monoxide and other emissions from vehicles. Current European gasoline specification allows up to 15 vol. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 3, 2013

The first model with a CNG engine to wear a SEAT badge, and making its debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2013 this coming week, the Mii Ecofuel offers average consumption of 2.9 Given the fuel price in many countries, the running costs are approximately half those of a Mii with a gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

The Trophy, an international award presented by the Club in association with Bosch Engineering GmbH and supported by the RYA and Green-Blue, was inaugurated in 2007 and is presented for the development of new forms of hybrid power. The Green Motion system is a full-electric retractable propulsion and generation system for sailing yachts.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The new entity, which is slated to kick off operations in Germany and the Netherlands in early 2025, says they’ll partner with manufacturers for maximum compatibility among models and types of e-bike. The Japanese conglomerate Yamaha Motor Co., At the end of last year, Yamaha announced it’d formed a subsidiary called Enyring.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Early government investment in charging infrastructure went a long way toward soothing the range anxiety that made car buyers in other places reluctant to make the switch to battery power from gasoline or diesel. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2013

The top six European countries for BEVs on the road in 2020 will be Germany, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden, Pike projects, together representing more than 67% of the total market, with each having a volume in excess of six figures. Pike Research forecasts that by 2020 more than 1.8 million PHEVs and 1.7

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JULY 25, 2017

This fully electric car will go into production in 2019, increasing the choice of MINI powertrains to include gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines, a plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) and a battery electric vehicle. The BMW Group announced that the new battery-electric MINI will be a variant of the brand’s core 3-door model.

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JUNE 14, 2013

Forest BtL Oy, owned by Vapo, A Finnish bioenergy, peat and sawmill company, awarded Technip a contract, worth approximately €5 million, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new biomass-to-liquid (BTL) plant to be built on Ajos island, Finland. Principal off-takers are expected to be diesel and gasoline retailers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

In the Netherlands, the Karma ranked second in volume to the Porsche Panamera in the segment for four-door luxury sedans (of all powertrain types) in the January-April, 2012 period. Fisker has also become the first manufacturer to launch vehicles under the Federal Government’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program.

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MARCH 8, 2018

The combustion engine in the Polestar 1 is a high-performance supercharged and turbocharged gasoline in-line four-cylinder engine. The mechanically driven supercharger adds torque from low-to-medium engine speeds together with the turbocharger up to 3500 rpm.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

liter Duratec Ti-VCT gasoline engine can now be specified with a 6-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission with dual dry-clutch technology. Allows the clutches to disengage when the engine is at idle or during deceleration, thus reducing friction and improving fuel economy and NVH. Dual dry-clutch PowerShift. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand.

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APRIL 2, 2015

—Mitch Nichols, UPS senior vice president of transportation and engineering. This will displace approximately 54 million gallons (204 million liters) of conventional diesel and gasoline annually while reducing total vehicle emissions. Agility providing 445 CNG fuel systems to UPS. billion km) in this fleet by the end of 2017.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Driving the sales increase is a forecast significant reduction in battery prices—the result being that during the 2020s EVs will become a more economic option than gasoline or diesel cars in most countries. BNEF will discuss its EV forecast in detail at its upcoming annual BNEF Summit in New York in April. Although some 1.3 per year.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Joule pioneered a direct CO 2 -to-fuel production platform that applies engineered catalysts for the continuous conversion of CO 2 directly into renewable fuels such as ethanol or hydrocarbons for diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline. Joule is privately held and has raised over $200 million in funding to date, led by Flagship Ventures.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

The PHEV/REV group breaks down to: 50,869 gasoline PHEV. The Netherlands and France have the highest number of electric vehicle registrations in the period 2010-2014, while the Netherlands and Estonia have the largest shares of registered EVs on the passenger car market – between 1% and 2%. This breaks down to: 86,230 BEV.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. The key force behind the changes taking place in this windswept Dutch city is not a global market trend or the maturity of the engineering solutions. One is Robin Berg, who started a company called.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

No other vehicle has taken the same risks and pushed the design and engineering boundaries to the same limit.” The Kia EV9 offers a family-friendly interior, and on top of that, a driving experience that feels close to that of gasoline but with no emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

France will be the first country to participate in the three-year European pilot, with discussions ongoing in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Toyota says it will deploy more than 500 new PHVs in global trials—including in Europe, Japan and the US—by 2010. The first wave of PHVs will reach Strasbourg in late 2009.

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MARCH 16, 2009

A CVAD is a device that helps the engine-driven accessories on a car or truck (alternator, air conditioner, water pump, etc.) These accessories have, in the past, been connected directly to the engine by a serpentine belt, so their speeds are tied to engine speeds. run more efficiently.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. European automakers are striving to comply with EU CO 2 norms (average fleet emissions less than 130 g/km by 2015) to avoid penalties.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Natgasoline LLC to construct a new motor-grade gasoline production facility in Texas that uses natural gas as feedstock (gas-to-gasoline, or GtG). MTG process flow. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Advantages of Electric Vehicles Electric vehicles have several distinct advantages over traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. Furthermore, electric motors outperform internal combustion engines, making EVs significantly more energy-efficient.

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