Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Precise injection timing and calibration also ensures a smooth combustion process to reduce hard diesel combustion clatter, resulting in lower noise levels that are more like a gasoline engine. liter EcoBoost gasoline engine. liter is manufactured in Ford’s Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

(In 1912 Jack Delmar-Morgan, an early pioneer in electrical engineering and the automotive retail business, created the yacht Mansura , designed to run selectively under gasoline, electric or sail power alone or under any combination of these sources. The “Green Motion” was the winner in the Offshore division.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Alongside the A-Class, the G-Class and the new four-door Mercedes-AMG GT Coupé, Mercedes-Benz will hold the world premiere of the new facelifted C-Class Saloon and Estate models featuring new gasoline and diesel engines, and plug-in hybrid versions. The facelifted 2019 Mercedes-Benz C-Class will go on sale in the US by late 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2011

Judged by a panel of 76 motoring journalists from 36 countries as disparate as the USA, Japan, China, Russia, New Zealand, India, Korea, Germany, France, Romania, South Africa, Mexico and the UK, the Awards highlight and acknowledge engine engineering excellence.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

Today, a typical original equipment automotive catalytic converter in a gasoline engine contains about $100 in precious metal. For example, according to Peoples Health Movement – South Africa, each ounce of platinum requires approximately 18 tons of ore extraction, and each kilogram requires 200GJ power consumption and 400M3 of water.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Shifting from gasoline to diesel vehicles could increase emissions of health-damaging small particulates (PM 10 , PM 2.5 ). In addition, large benefits are expected from increased physical activity, which can prevent some cancers, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related risks.

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Climate Change Transportation Emissions Climate 365

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

Shell and Professor Gordon Murray go back way further; Shell sponsored the first car and engine Professor Gordon Murray ever built, in South Africa, when he was just 19. 25 project incorporated specially formulated, low viscosity engine oil, designed by the Shell Lubricants Technology Team. Why a petrol car?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

The company is also the thermodynamic efficiency of gasoline engines using a suite of technologies that include downsizing, turbocharging, direct injection, variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation. Earlier post.). The 2020 target was raised from 0.70 to reflect this change. MWh per vehicle, less than half the industry average of 2.37

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

In the presentation to investors, Celanese executives said that TCX enables the company to produce ethanol at the equivalent of gasoline produced with $60 per barrel crude oil (around $1.50/gallon).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2009

The United States imports more than 60% of its petroleum, two-thirds of which is used to fuel vehicles in the form of gasoline and diesel. Global deposits of PGMs are quite limited with the largest quantities located in South Africa and Russia. This dependency makes the US vulnerable to supply disruptions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This geographically diverse group comprises Brazil and Mexico in the Americas; South Africa and Nigeria in Africa; Egypt and Turkey in North Africa/Mediterranean; Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East; as well as Thailand and Indonesia in Asia. The OECD represents the developed economies. l/100 km) in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

At the beginning of 2018 South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will follow, and at the beginning of 2019 Argentina and Brazil. Production for the markets in Europe, Australia and South Africa will start at the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, in 2017. The market launch in Europe is scheduled for November 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

HC and Duratorq engines will be exported to markets such as South Africa, Thailand and Taiwan. The facility is the first Ford plant with single flexible production line manufacturing gasoline and diesel engines. Today, the plant produces 12 Duratec gasoline engine variants and five Duratorq diesel engine variants.

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India Ford South Africa Engine 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2011

The plant is the first Ford facility to feature single flexible production line manufacturing gasoline and diesel engines. It is also the first Ford plant to run a flexible crank shaft production line producing crank shafts for gasoline and diesel engines. gasoline engines have been exported to Thailand every month.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

The sequential gas injection system has been calibrated with the EMS system for smart switching between CNG and gasoline fuel systems. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and South Africa. 1,23,133 crores ($27 billion) in 2010-11.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

In 2009, for example, Renault’s plant in Brazil will produce two additional Nissan vehicles while Nissan’s plant in South Africa builds two additional Renault vehicles. One example is the development by Renault of new small, turbo-charged gasoline engines from Nissan’s engine base.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

Nègre has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa. The folks making the Air Car are already working on a hybrid version that would use an on-board, gasoline-powered compressor to refill the air tanks when they run low. And this isn't the last we'll hear of the technology.

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New York City New York Alternative Fuels Plug-in 100

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“I fully anticipate we’re going to keep a lot of pressure on that cobalt production,” Ted Miller, head of energy storage strategy and research at Ford, said at a mining event in South Africa. Today it looks feasible but it’s a scenario we’re going to have to watch.”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

On the gasoline engine side, the A 200 with 115 kW (156 hp) and 250 N·m (184 lb-ft) of torque consumes 5.4 Field tests carried out by Mercedes-Benz in Europe, the US, Japan and South Africa over a total distance of more than 4.5 liters/100 km (55 mpg US) (provisional figure). liters (41 mpg US), and 149 g of CO 2 /km.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. grid to charge a typical 2018 EV would produce between 80 and 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer traveled, compared with about 240 to 320 g/km for a gasoline vehicle. EVs have finally come of age.

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