Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Lotus Emeya hyper-GT completed the final stage of a rigorous global test and development programme in one of the world’s harshest environments. Over the winter, the all-electric grand tourer was in Ivalo, Finland, as Lotus engineers conclude their validation work.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

Silent, electric operation also means a better working environment for the driver. One example is Finland, where it is permitted to drive with 76 tonnes of total weight and 34.5m The truck runs 12 hours a day, with a stop for charging when the driver takes a break. We charge with green electricity and thus get no CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Based on the VDL vision, a bus concept has been developed that is entirely based on an electric drive train and features batteries in the floor, a one-piece composite side wall, clever energy management, a sophisticated climate control system and an ergonomic driver’s environment. GVB provides public transport in and around Amsterdam.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have developed a thin-layer artificial biofilm technology for sustainable and long-term ethylene photoproduction. Currently, ethylene is produced via steam cracking of fossil hydrocarbon feedstocks leading to a huge emission of CO 2 into the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Chemicals (3 projects): In Finland, a project will chemically recycle plastics to be used as a feedstock for refineries. Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In an increasingly market-short environment both for battery cells and raw materials, a core strategic focus for the company is to secure its supply chain. Both agreements demonstrate FREYR’s progress in delivering the supply of localized, low-carbon raw materials for Gigafactory battery-cell production in Norway and Finland.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

Another goal for Finavia is that all airports in Finland will be carbon-neutral by 2020. —Mikko Viinikainen, Vice President, Sustainability & Environment at Finavia. It is available to all companies operating at the airport, and we hope that its use will expand at Helsinki Airport.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

We investigated the strengths of both potential operating environments, and also revisited our outlooks for raw materials and demand. Of this total, over one million is produced in Singapore, the same amount in Rotterdam and the rest in Porvoo, Finland. Based on this overall assessment, we settled on Singapore. million tons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2017

They are liquid-cooled and designed to work as traction motors in harsh operating environments. The new design is also optimized for high volume manufacture using Visedo’s facilities in both Finland and Taiwan. Visedo’s drivetrains are based on synchronous reluctance assisted permanent magnet technology (SRPM). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Rolls-Royce and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd have formed a strategic partnership to design, to test and to validate the first generation of remote and autonomous ships. VTT has the first 5G test network in Finland. Earlier post.). VTT will also use field research to incorporate human factors into safe ship design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Registrations increased in all EU Member States except Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. A total of 15.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has developed a new protocol to deliver sustained hydrogen photoproduction in green algae under a train of strong white light pulses interrupted by longer dark phases. Energy Environ. doi: 10.1039/C8EE00054A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The accompanying report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms an initial assessment published earlier this year, showing 12 EU Member States exceeded limits under the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive in 2010. State of the environment report No 6/2012. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

Neste Renewable Isoalkane is one of the outputs of the company’s proprietary NEXBTL technology at its refineries in Singapore, The Netherlands and Finland. They are sustainable and biodegradable, and also have a low sulfur and aromatic content, which is a specific concern to sensitive environments such as forestry and agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The European Environment Agency’s (EEA’s) “ Air quality in Europe — 2019 report ” shows that almost all Europeans living in cities are still exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the health-based air quality guidelines (AQGs) set by the World Health Organization (WHO). The long-term WHO AQG for PM 2.5 17 % of the EU?28

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

The European market is still showing signs of strength despite a tough environment. They made up 77% of total car registrations in Norway, 38% in Sweden and 28% in Finland. However, despite the decrease from December, January registration levels were the 4 th highest for the month for any year in the last decade. EVs were the lifeline.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The oil industry has proposed increasing the biocomponent content of traffic fuels in Finland on a phased basis to 10% by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4 grams of CO 2 per kilometer. For the first time, the average CO 2 emissions from new vans also increased.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Finland-based Chempolis Oy , a developer of biorefining technologies, recently expanded its biorefinery and R&D centre in Oulu, Finland to include the production of bioethanol. This is a definite plus in terms of both operating costs and the environment. Concept of formico biorefinery. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

Technology validated in relevant environment. Technology demonstrated in relevant environment. System prototype demonstration in operational environment. Actual system proven in operational environment. Neste Oil Corporation, Finland. Technology validated in lab. System complete and qualified.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

In terms of market share, electrified vehicles represented 75% of all passenger cars registrations in Norway; 33% in Sweden; 31% in Finland; 22% in Netherlands; and 17% in Hungary. As EVs have increasingly become a viable alternative to gasoline and diesel cars, SUVs are now struggling in the competitive environment. from last year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Twelve European Union Member States exceeded one or more of the emission limits set by the EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, according to recent official data for 2010 reported to the European Environment Agency (EEA). Finland exceeded its ammonia ceiling. In some instances the limits were exceeded by significant amounts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, recently began an official procedure for an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a second-generation biofuels plant in Lappeenranta, Finland. The main end products of the plant would be renewable diesel, and bio- gasoline, kerosene and naphtha.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still being emitted above legal limits in 10 European Union (EU) Member States according to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The main reasons for the exceedances are emissions from road transport (NO x ) and agriculture (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Preliminary estimates published in the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) annual trends and projections assessments show a 0.6% The largest declines compared with 2016 occurred in Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom. emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. The largest absolute growth in emissions occurred in Spain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2014

The study by researchers in Finland and Greece, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , suggests that both the characteristics of these particles and the mechanism by which they form seem to differ significantly from those of soot and nucleation particles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The researchers evaluated 10 months worth of data (September 2009 to June 2010) of atmospheric aerosol particle number size distribution at three atmospheric observation stations along the Baltic Sea coast: Vavihill (upwind, Sweden); Utö (upwind, Finland); and Preila (downwind, Lithuania).

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2023

Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. The system combines advanced mobility and an open modular structure to serve the education, research, and entertainment markets, said the Hangzhou, China–based company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Visedo’s head office is located in Lappeenranta, Finland, and the company has a subsidiary in the Netherlands. They are liquid-cooled and designed to work as traction motors in harsh operating environments. Its powertrains are suitable for hybrid and electric systems within the power range of 30 kW to 2,000 kW.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

Verizon will contribute technical expertise to the testing platforms, such as staff engineering assistance in the design and deployment of the testing platforms, and in fixed and mobile systems, indoor and outdoor environments, and residential and commercial buildings.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2015

No reliance on on-site or off-site power to shut down the reactor and to reject the decay heat to the environment (hence, Inherently Safe). The containment is a steel structure that will serve to dissipate heat to the environment using passive cooling for a design basis event. Passively cooled for design basis shut down.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. Testing vehicle emissions.

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