Green Cars News

MARCH 13, 2011

The former Olympic city of Beijing will impose stricter emission standards for its five million vehicles from 2012 onwards. According to Zhang Lijun, the vice minister of environmental protection, the city will apply the V standard, which is based on Euro 5.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 5, 2011

It’s not just CO2 vehicle emissions that should be targeted in the effort to mitigate long term climate change – its also non-CO2 pollutants. A new analysis conducted by a team of scientists, led by Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, used global composition climate modelling to examine the impact of adopting [.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

It is working to define a criterion that clearly outlines standards and processes to promote sustainably produced biofuels. Biofuels are generally accepted to improve net carbon output, even when local air pollution from the production of biodiesel is taken into account. So do biofuels have a role to play?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. Thus, PHEVLERs and other electric vehicles may be allowed to continue driving when governments ban fossil fuel vehicles from driving in city centers due to air pollution crises or other reasons. [

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Green Cars News

JUNE 10, 2014

Ministers should consider a new scrappage scheme in the UK designed to take the oldest and most polluting diesel cars off the road, the RAC Foundation has said. While the latest generation diesel engines meet the new stringent Euro 6 emission standards, older diesels emit much higher levels of par[.].

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. Car Insurance Discounts. Good driver. Good student.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

Lower pollutant and noise emissions also have the biggest social, including health benefits in urban areas. Standardization. Hence this initiative builds on the European green cars initiative which was launched as a part of the European Economic Recovery Plan in November 2008. —“A Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 21, 2010

This could even make it difficult for the US to meet Clean Air Act standards for ozone pollution. Tags: Global warming Green credentials Latest news Asian ozone levels Green cars green credentials greenhouse gas emissions Nature ozone level studies ozone levels US ozone levels. Published [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 24, 2009

President Barack Obama’s national fuel efficiency standards in the USA have come in for criticism in The Wall Street Journal where a columnist points out that there could be severe costs in terms of urban air pollution and human life. However, could there be a downside too? To read the article in full, click here.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

we like to feature the best of the green car news from around the world. Even pollutants such as nitrogen oxides are significantly lower. . Tags: Green cars Latest news Mercedes Athens Mercedes Benz Econic natural gas vehicles natural gas refuse trucks natural gas vehicles. Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

There’s a storm brewing in the USA– and its all over the national air quality standards for air pollution released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 23, 2014

A new study reaffirming the connection between long-term exposure to air pollution and heart attack risk should lead the EU to implement tougher standards for air quality, scientists say. Green credentials' Conducted by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the study looked at over 100,000 people from five European cou[.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 13, 2009

That was the question that Green Star Products attempted to address with its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) testing protocols, which it has now completed. Global Green Cars, a strategic alliance partner with Green Star Products, completed its full testing sequence over the last month.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The car must also have fuel consumption figures equal to or better than 47mpg; CO2 emissions equal to or less than 120g/km; meet Euro 4 pollution standards; and satisfy passenger safety standards for both front and side impact as specified in UNECE Reg. 94 and Reg.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock. The aim of the conversion programme is not only to reduce pollution but also to extend the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 9, 2009

Considered by many to be the ultimate eco-car, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation finally unveiled the production version of the i-MiEV as part of World Environment Day in Tokyo. For normal charging, i-MiEVs can be connected to either a standard 100V or 200V domestic outlet.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

With the full release of its Advanced Clean Cars program expected next month, the California Air Resources Board has offered a summary of its key regulations in regard to greenhouse gases and exhaust criteria pollutants for the model years 2015-2025.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

London Mayor, Boris Johnson has unveiled a plan to ban taxis over the age of ten years from the capital’s streets in a bid to cut air pollution. The strategy likely to anger cabbies, outlines the key sources of London’s harmful airborne pollutants and proposes an action plan to reduce emissions.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And will the Biden administration loosen its own pollution standards? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ford knocked thousands off the price of its Mach-E electric crossover. Genesis may be going hybrid—and against its own EV current. Ford on Tuesday cut Mustang Mach-E EV prices by up to $8,100.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2012

It finds that nitrogen oxides air pollution from traffic, households and industry is above internationally agreed limits in: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, [.]. Just how far off is Europe from meeting tough nitrogen oxide regulations?

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

Ghosn said Nissan decided to accelerate development of battery-powered vehicles because of high gasoline prices and environmental concerns, not just because of the need to meet stricter fuel-economy standards. A s this story from Business Week states, the rivalry in low carbon cars is heating up.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

Its emission particulates and other regulated pollutants are significantly below the emissions from the combustion of CARB ultra-low sulphur diesel. This low carbon footprint will help the transportation sector meet the targets outlined by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

A company supplying retro-fit hydrogen systems for cars has come under fire this week after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that an advertisement for its product was misleading.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Cold starts mean more pollution. The catalytic converter that keeps the ICE from being a gross polluter in conventional cars and hybrids however, isn't kept warm by the continual embrace of an ever-churning engine in a hybrid with all-electric range. They could make PHEVs and EVs today, but they don't want to.

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Green Cars News

JULY 10, 2012

Motor industry insiders are lobbying the European Parliament to back draft changes to future vehicle noise emission standards. Plans to water down proposals to control traffic noise could mean that millions of Europeans continue to have their lives blighted by excessive road noise, according to Transport & Environment (T&E).

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Green Cars News

JULY 16, 2009

The new eco-towns will include the tough new standards for sustainability, with smart meters to track energy use, community heat sources and charging points for electric cars, the Department of Communities and Local Government promises. Car journeys will make up less than half of all journeys from the eco-towns.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 19, 2024. In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 23, 2009

Discounts on company car taxation for hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles will be scrapped under new tax terms revealed as part of yesterday’s Budget. The changes will affect the most polluting hybrids such as the Lexus RX 400H and biofuel ready cars such as the Saab 9-5 Biopower.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

These figures show the unceasing dedication Fiat lavishes on seeking innovative solutions to control polluting emissions and the level of CO2. New technologies, like Start&Stop, introduced on the Fiat 500, is now standard on all Punto Evo Euro 5 engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

by Mike Millikin, editor, Green Car Congress. The car has become the most computationally complex high-tech device with which the vast majority of consumers will ever come into contact—let alone own. Another outgrowth of this movement to the software-intensive car is the need for over-the-air (OTA) software updating.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on the lookout for proposals for projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions both in terms of the tons of pollution produced and diesel emissions exposure. The EPA has set a deadline of December 8, 2009, for receipt of proposals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. As shown in Figure 1, for electricity, the PHEV can plug into a standard existing electrical outlet, and for supplementary power it can fill its tank from a standard, ubiquitous and familiar fuel station.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the company, the pickup will be open for pre-orders in the second quarter of 2021, with deliveries starting “as early as 2023.” – March 10, via Green Car Reports. – March 15, Green Car Reports. Kia EV6 | Source: Kia. Batteries and Charging. – March 10, Politico.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

– March 8, via Green Car Reports. VW Confirms Next Generation EV Coming in 2026 – VW confirmed more details of its Project Trinity flagship electric car, including a launch date of 2026. – March 8, via Green Car Reports. – March 8, via Green Car Reports. Batteries and Charging.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history.

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