Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Clariant has conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA, Croatia’s leading oil and gas company. In the fall of last year, Clariant broke ground on its greenfield first-of-its-kind full-scale commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, the southwestern region of Romania.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ford said it would be made in Craiova, Romania, starting later this year. Ford’s new Puma (Source: Ford) The Ford Puma Gen-E is expected to start around $44,000 (£35,000), about $12,600 (£10,000) more than the current gas version. It will be built alongside the new Ford E-Transit Courier , introduced last April.

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All-Electric Ford F-150 Romania 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The three European refineries in Austria, Germany, and Romania will continue to be run as one integrated system, optimizing plant utilization, and maximizing margins.

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Oil Gas Production Austria 465

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

CCE and BIOTEHGEN are implementing various camelina placement trials at different locations in Romania, with the purpose of assessing sustainability of different production models and soil types, including contaminated soil and uncultivated land, in order to identify the best techniques and genetic material.

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Romania Fuel Oil Commercial 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Enel has installed around 5,000 charging stations in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global, power, gas and renewables markets. Enel is planning to use JuiceNet platform’s functions in all of its EV charging stations globally.

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Grid Market North America Colombia 170

Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

But if you were to sit in, you would hear a paper by a research team in Japan and Romania that offers a fascinating new avenue for increasing engine efficiency and reducing gas consumption: Ditch the spark plugs, and use lasers to ignite.

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Romania Baltimore Plug Japan 108

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

Due to the eliminated stand-alone primer application and dedicated oven—both reducing the paint booth size—Ford saves electricity from the blowers that circulate massive volumes of air through paint booths, and reduces its use of natural gas needed to heat the air and ovens.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The novel system will be piloted in six European cities: Brno (Czech Republic), Bucharest (Romania), Florence (Italy), Munich (Germany), Oslo (Norway) and Vienna. IN-TIME will give users the unique possibility to optimize their travel routes in cities and to change their travel habits in a more environmentally friendly way without any effort.

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Czech Republic Romania Austria Italy 246

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

liter EcoBoost—the fifth member of the EcoBoost family—will commence initially at Ford’s facility in Craiova, Romania, later this month. Ford EcoBoost technology has changed the way people look at gas engines and has enjoyed huge success with customers. Production of the four-cylinder 1.5-liter

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Fusion Water Ford Engine 246

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

So, incidentally, will natural gas, which the current German government actually favored.) This reality has come to the forefront as gas prices spiked over Europe’s past winter. France continued to export its nuclear power as supplies of politically sensitive Russian natural gas ran thinner.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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Transportation Czech Republic 2006 Romania 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

Modern interest substituting biomass for coal or natural gas as a gasification or reforming (respectively) feedstock to provide syngas for catalytic conversion to methanol reaches back several decades. note that: The composition of syngas derived from biomass is different from that derived from natural gas and coal.

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Sweden Commercial Coal 2005 247

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Seven organisations are cooperating as part of AMITRAN’s consortium: TNO (coordinator, the Netherlands); PTV – Planung Transport Verkehr (Germany); ERTICO – ITS Europe (Belgium); TECNALIA (Spain); DLR – Germany National Research Center for Aeronautics and Space (Germany); ECORYS (the Netherlands); and TEAMNET (Romania).

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Transportation CO2 Netherlands Climate Change 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. Piechna et al. Hîrceagã, M.,

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Michigan Engine Universal 2004 316

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Transport, including international aviation and maritime transport, accounts for around a quarter of total EU greenhouse gas emissions.

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Czech Republic Clean Cleaning 2007 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Variable valve timing on both intake and exhaust camshafts helps 4-cylinder Ford EcoBoost engines optimize gas flow through the combustion chamber at all engine speeds, improving efficiency and performance, particularly at part load. liter unit will be produced at the Valencia Engine Plant in Spain, while the 1.6-liter

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Engine Ford Downsizing United Kingdom 186

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For natural gas, it is the world’s second largest producer , behind the United States and ahead of Iran, and its largest exporter. percent stake in the enormous Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development. Peter Kovalev/TASS/Getty Images So how did Europe become addicted to Russian fossil fuels, particularly natural gas?

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Ukraine Russia Fuel Saudi Arabia 122

Cars That Think

MARCH 30, 2022

The combustion of natural gas or a liquid fuel heats the mixture to about 1,050 °C, and the molten glass is then poured from a ceramic spout onto a 6-centimeter-thick layer of molten tin, at a temperature of 230 °C. Most plants have a single line, with the largest float glass factories in China operating 10 or more lines at one site.

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Carbon Czech Republic Romania Luxembourg 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Energy use by households (the burning of wood, gas, coal etc) is the most important source of PM 2.5 Heavy duty vehicles are the single most important source of NO x , while passenger cars are among the top 6 polluting sources for CO, NO x , PM 2.5 The residential sector is an important source of several pollutants.

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Pollution Emissions Czech Republic United Kingdom 236

Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Tight coal and gas reserves continued to bite throughout the winter. “We Ukraine can now import up to 2 gigawatts of European power over links from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, enabling it to conserve domestic reserves of coal and hydropower. We now have a single energy circulatory system from Lisbon to Mariupol.”

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Ukraine Russia Lithuania Energy 102

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Canada, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Romania, Turkey, and parts of the United States would experience frequent sonic booms; the most heavily impacted regions could be exposed to between 150 and 200 incidents per day, or up to one boom every five minutes over a 16 hour flight day.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The decline has been underway for some time in villages and small towns, where the sequence is much the same everywhere: First they lose their school, then the post office, gas station, and grocery store. Finally, a settlement is administratively amalgamated with its similarly fated neighbors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. Europe, with its high gas prices, is the most promising export market for BYDs electric cars.

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