Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In a joint project, the city of Wolfsburg, Volkswagen and Siemens are currently setting up a test section on a main road in Wolfsburg in which ten traffic signal systems will transmit the traffic light phases in the vicinity via the V2X technology WLANp (ITS-G5). Earlier post.). —Manfred Fuhg. —Gunnar Koether.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2022

In both instances, the distances to be compared are person miles. The derivation of person miles traveled by air is straightforward from the available monthly data: In 2021, the airline revenue passenger miles for domestic operations totaled 572 billion miles. persons ), we end up with 4,800 billion person miles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 24, 2024

Over the years, a car has evolved from being just a mode of transport to being an extension of the consumer’s personality. Cars meant functionality at that time, so there was lesser preference for blues, greens and yellows, for example.” The choice of colour (for cars) is a reflection of their personality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. The California Green Innovation Index has tracked key economic and environmental indicators at the regional, state, national and international level since 2008. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2013

Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute together suggest that the US now has—per person, per driver, and per household—fewer light-duty vehicles and that they are driven less than a decade ago. In the newer study, “ Has Motorization In The U.S. —“Has Motorization In The U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

billion person-hours annually by 2021—equivalent to each city driver saving nearly an entire working day per year. Juniper’s study, Worldwide Smart Cities: Energy, Transport & Lighting 2016-2021 found that traffic easing measures are at the forefront of many smart cities’ efforts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

At the same time, total miles traveled per year by cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and light trucks will increase about 60%, reaching about 14 trillion in 2040. As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this analysis, I compare the age composition of buyers of new light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) in 2007 and 2017. The main findings are as follows: Middle-aged persons purchased proportionally fewer vehicles in 2017 than in 2007 (down from 29% to 14% for those 35 to 44, and from 24% to 20% for those 45 to 54).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

Over the past year, the Volvo LIGHTS team worked with Southern California Edison (the local utility) and San Bernardino County (Authority Having Jurisdiction, or AHJ) to install the high-power infrastructure. The Volvo LIGHTS project has provided valuable insight into how to build realistic project timelines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Furthermore, the focus here is not on total distances but on distances per person, because the U.S. The calculated average passenger-distances traveled per person are shown in the table below, along with the average occupancy rates from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. population increased by 57% during the period studied.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Honda has unveiled the U3-X, a compact Li-ion-powered experimental personal mobility device that fits between the rider’s legs and provides free movement in all directions just as in human walking: forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. Tags: Personal Transit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

Volvo customers will now be able to choose between different equipment levels and select the options that best suit their personal needs. The new offer structure reflects Volvo Cars’ ambitions to increase price transparency, as well as reduce complexity in its model offering by focusing on attractive pre-selected variants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2019

Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004. The focus is on vehicles per person, as opposed to the absolute number (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. Numbers of light-duty vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) were obtained from the Federal Highway Administration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The focus here is on distance driven per person and per household, as opposed to the absolute distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. Distances driven by all light-duty vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) were obtained from the Federal Highway Administration. population).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The eight pioneering V2V and V2I safety applications on the 2021 GL8 Avenir family are Emergency Braking Warning; Control Loss Warning; Abnormal Vehicle Warning; Intersection Collision Warning; Speed Limit Warning; Signal Violation Warning; Hazard Location Warning; and Green Light Optimization Speed Advisory. 2021 GL8 ES. connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

An in-car personal agent named “Yui” connects the driver and passengers with the vehicle. With the use of audio and visual lighting cues that move around the cabin, it responds to requests or commands from front or rear passengers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

Some of the special design statements are upper light elements made of exclusive crystal glass and the illuminated contour of the kidney grille. In addition to the BMW Curved Display, a new type of light and function strip on the instrument panel and the doors provides a visual and haptic quality.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

These light-duty EVs fill the gap between full-sized trucks and small utility carts for low-speed logistics and cargo services in campus and urban environments. The Karma Innovation and Customization Center (KICC) revealed the first Club Car Current vehicles being produced under a contract manufacturing agreement with AYRO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the 5 winners of the 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, including biotechnology companies Amyris and Solazyme, Inc. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards have been issued by the Environmental Protection Agency each year since 1996. Professor Shannon S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country. Chang & Jessika E.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We continue to expect electric mobility applications, primarily light-duty passenger vehicles, to be the principal long-term driver of energy storage annual revenue and demand, with a total market share of 74% by annual revenue and 91% by annual deployed GWh by the year 2035. billion revenue increase.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

The vehicle proposes an application of the emissions-free light-duty truck to make essential garbage collection services more efficient and environmentally conscious. These commands include following the operator, halting, avoiding obstacles, and stopping immediately if a person or object comes in close proximity to the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2023

Customers can store their personal items in the smart central tunnel—which comes with a customized cover pad and flexible cupholders—seat pockets and strategic front storage spaces. Fiat has introduced two new EVs: the Fiat 600e , marking a return to the B-segment; and the low-speed electric Topolino. New Fiat 600e.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2019

According to the Federal Highway Administration, the average fuel economy for all light vehicles on the road today is 22.3 Based on average mpg and miles driven, a person owning a gasoline vehicle pays between $141 and $398 in fuel taxes each year, depending upon the state in which the fuel is purchased. cents in Alaska to 58.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The “Kangaroo” program is a fund established under the aegis of the Green Investment Scheme, which provides numerous Polish cities and towns with funding to purchase electric school buses. Orange beacon lights, which turn on automatically when the bus doors open, are mounted on the roof, on the rear section.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

Energy intensities of flying (blue) and driving (green), 1970-2010. Currently, the energy intensity (BTU per person mile) of driving is 57% greater than that of flying, according to a new analysis by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Vehicle distance traveled per person in Great Britain is currently about one-half of the distance in the United States. I documented recent changes in distance traveled per person for cars and light trucks in the United States in a study published last month.). by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. Because British and U.S.

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Electrek

JULY 26, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Vattenfall gets the green light to run a Dutch pilot combining solar panels and strip farming. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Fisker confirmed that it will produce its second vehicle, the Fisker PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution) ( earlier post ), at the factory Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. recently acquired in Ohio from Lordstown Motors ( earlier post ). The Fisker PEAR will enter production in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2022

The Smart Glass Roof features Suspended Particle Device (SPD) technology that allows for four zones of variable lighting, enabling passengers to fine-tune their cabin experience for completely personalized comfort and visibility.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2011

We've learned from an inside source at General Motors, a person close to the project, that the electric Cadillac Converj luxury coupe is now back in the GM product plan. Sometimes, like Lazarus, dead cars rise again. The Converj was recently approved for production by GM product executives.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 9, 2021

But there’s so much more to sustainability than what we can do in our personal lives. Upward of 38 new battery gigafactories are to be built in Europe in the next decade, and that’s just to deal with the projected demand for passenger cars and light trucks! Chart showing construction industry contribution to carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

The authors designed a material flow analysis paired with socioeconomic pathway modeling to determine possible scenarios for the decarbonization of personal transportation in the US. 2°C of warming.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

myenergi’s Green Friday. That quaint winter sunshine, festive lights sparkling overhead, glowing and inviting boutiques, seeing something totally unique, the essence, the tastes, the smiles; a street full of life and light. Go Green and Support your Local Florist this Black Friday. “We Support local business. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

We are taking the time to create a safe, light-weight commercial eVTOL that provides our future passengers with the security and comfort they find in their own cars. The team of engineers and designers utilized the automotive industry’s reductive design approach to create the light-weight interior cabin, which is made of forged carbon fiber.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

black boxes”)in all light passenger vehicles beginning 1 September 2014. NHTSA estimates that approximately 96% of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles are already equipped with EDR capability. EDRs do not collect any personal identifying information or record conversations and do not run continuously.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And it will also gain substantially in importance as far as personal mobility is concerned. The stack housing is manufactured in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut using a sand casting technique. The two companies have been collaborating on fuel cell drive systems since 2013.

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