Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Volvo Group has chosen Pennsylvania State University to be the first North American member of Volvo’s Academic Partner Program, which was launched globally in 2009 for research cooperation with selected universities. Jan-Eric Sundgren, head of public affairs and environmental issues for the Volvo Group.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. We could be better at transport logistics in Sweden. Replacement of cement clinker as a binder in concrete. If you were to optimize the transportation of materials, excavation masses and waste, for example, large gains could be made.

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JULY 13, 2019

The vehicle is currently being developed by NEVS in Trollhättan, Sweden, inspired by the “InMotion” concept that was shown at the CES Asia, in 2017. We are proud to start deploying our technology together with a global OEM that really takes the mobility revolution seriously. Robotaxi vehicle concept. —Stefan Tilk, CEO of NEVS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Switzerland leads the world in sustainability, followed by France, Denmark, Malta, and Sweden. EPI and Global Sustainability Data. 2018 EPI Trends.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB has provided electrification, connected control and operations management systems, high-visualization and mobile operator workplaces as part of a global mining partnership to visualize a once-in-a-generation technology shift and reduce climate impact. —Jan Nyqvist, Global Product Manager for Underground Mining Automation at ABB.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature. —de Rubens et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

However, a new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) finds that middle- and high-income earners are generally affected the most by gasoline taxes, especially in poor countries, rather than poor people. —Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute , EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It degrees F).”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. An open-access paper on the method is published in ACS ES&T Engineering.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. In a paper describing the kraft recovery process, Honghi Tran from the University of Toronto and Esa K. Globally over 1.3 Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

General Motors, which has a long history of crash test dummy design, is leading current research on the potential for global auto industry use of a test dummy that would help automakers and safety experts better understand how crash victims are hurt in rear impacts. BioRid Final Report , Chalmers University, 1999.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Burgeoning demands for mobility and private vehicle ownership undermine global efforts to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we develop state-of-the-art representations of consumer preferences in multiple global energy-economy models, specifically focusing on the non-financial preferences of individuals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

After two successful years with electric buses on route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the partners in the ElectriCity venture have decided to expand electric bus operations in the city. With this project Sweden can lead these developments and at the same time take a major step forward for a fossil free Swedish transport sector.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2019, BTG-BTL received its first orders for almost identical copies of the Empyro plant for delivery to companies in Sweden and Finland, where sawmill waste such as sawdust will be used for producing pyrolysis oil. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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MAY 24, 2024

Since 1991, Europe has been warming at twice the global average, and 23 of the 30 most severe heat waves in Europe since 1950 have occurred since 2000, with five in the last three years, according to the World Meteorological Organization. “The For visitors planning to visit Athens this summer, Ms.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

If global warming continues unabated, and if the world veers toward catastrophe, it would be better to have tools ready to avoid the most dire outcomes, he says. The first SCoPEx test was originally planned for early 2021 in northern Sweden, but backlash from environmental and indigenous groups prompted the team to. cancel the launch.

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JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth. Left: control. Right: SUSIBA2.Click Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Although there is widespread interest in autonomous vehicles (AVs), the US—one of the largest auto markets in the world—expresses higher levels of resistance than most nations, according to a new study by Ipsos, a leading global market research firm. Fewer think AVs will be faster. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ±3.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2012

To date, this aspect has not been accounted for in regional and global climate models. Now the goal is to integrate these underlying reactions in models of regional and global atmospheric chemistry and so reduce the discrepancy between the expected and the actually observed concentrations of organic aerosol particles. Donahue et al.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them. Cellular standards are developed and overseen by a global cellular industry consortium, the. While many U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Different technologies are being globally developed for pre-processing the raw material. The production of ethanol by fermentation consists of four stages: the pre-processing of the raw material; the conversion of carbohydrates from polymers into sugar; the fermentation of sugar into ethanol using microbes; and the distillation of ethanol.

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JULY 9, 2012

of all fatal accidents in 2007 occurred in intersections, and in 16 EU countries (excluding Sweden) the corresponding figure was 20.6% To obtain the necessary data for the development of these systems, cars are driven hundreds of thousands of kilometers in various traffic environments globally. In the US 21.5%

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JULY 8, 2013

Although the models are primarily designed for simulation, but there are also other usages of models, such as optimization, noted Peter Fritzson, Professor at Linköping University, Sweden Vice Chairman of Modelica Association and Director of OSMC in a 2012 overview of Modelica and OpenModelica.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In the study, global CO 2 emissions were constrained to achieve stabilization at 400-550 ppm by 2100 at the lowest total system cost (equivalent to perfect CO 2 cap-and-trade regime). Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher in 2008 than in 1990. Although deteriorating permafrost has been observed in Russia, Sweden, and Tibet, the precise source of the increase has not yet been identified. project business as usual emissions. Click to enlarge. Surface temperatures.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Cervero believes Stockholm, Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil are two good examples of the TOD principle. Stockholm is one of the few cities globally where VMT has declined.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom all have 2030 deadlines. If we set clear direction around EVs, because of our market size the global car manufacturers will have little trouble meeting demand. There are at least 31 countries and U.S. Japan has a 2035 deadline.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", USA Today ) 1/13/08 By 2010, we will accelerate our global plug-in hybrid R&D program. I think that our No.

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