Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

The study will consist of research and data modeling to assess feasibility for dynamic wireless charging in the UK and the potential for the first real-world demonstrator in the UK. The project is funded through the Ofgem Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) mechanism.

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EV Obssesion

JULY 29, 2021

EV car searches up to THIRTY times more likely to result in a sale compared with petrol/diesel cars, says BuyaCar SEARCHES for electric vehicles (EVs) are up to 30 times more likely to result in a purchase than searches for conventional petrol and diesel-engined cars, according to a new study.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

The electric F-150 weighs 700 kg more than its petrol-powered predecessor. Smaller electric cars are heavier than their petrol equivalents, too. If US residents who switched to SUVs over the past 20 years had stuck with smaller cars, more than 1,000 pedestrian deaths might have been averted, according to one study.

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MAY 6, 2021

Two new studies from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Transport & Environment (T&E) have suggested that advances in technology would enable battery-powered heavy trucks like the Tesla Semi to become cheaper to own and run compared to their petrol and diesel counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Multiple recent studies have shown that in the real world, plug-in hybrids pollute much more than their labels would indicate – though still less than pure-fossil vehicles – both because they overstate their capabilities in electric-only mode and because people simply don’t plug them in. The problem is… that doesn’t happen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

A new study carried out by University College Dublin (UCD) academics has found that under typical Irish commuting conditions, the Toyota Prius IV (fourth-generation) hybrid ( earlier post ) drives in zero emissions mode (ZEV) for significantly more than half (62%) of the time and more than 40% (40.4%) of the distance covered.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2017

NGVA Europe, the European Natural & bio Gas Vehicle Association, has published its own study about the impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the use of natural gas as transportation fuel. For heavy-duty applications, benefits compared to diesel are of 16% for CNG and up to 15% for LNG.

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Innovation News Network

DECEMBER 22, 2023

An end-of-year study has found that one in three Europeans won't pay a high electric vehicle premium over a petrol vehicle. Read more here. The post 1 in 3 Europeans won’t pay high electric vehicle premium, report finds appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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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. Petrol taxes are effective and actually don’t affect poor people disproportionally.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The most prevalent use of bioethanol is not as a fuel in its pure form but rather as an additive to petrol. Conventional processes, however, fully purify bioethanol prior to blending it in petrol. In their study, they found that blending 8.75 Click to enlarge.

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InsideEVs

MAY 21, 2022

NFU Mutual study shows charging and range concerns top the reasons for sticking with petrol and diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2019

liter EcoBoost petrol engine as a range extender for total range exceeding 500 kilometers (310 miles). These two models are the first vehicles in their classes to offer plug-in hybrid technology, and offer a standard eight-year battery warranty. The new vehicles target a zero-emission driving range of 50 kilometers (31 miles), and use a 1.0-liter

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EV Central

APRIL 2, 2024

While he hasn’t ruled out bringing the Ora Sport down under in future, for now “it remains in the official under study basket”. While GWM as a brand is among the fastest growing on the Australia market, that growth has predominantly come from petrol and hybrid models, including the H6 mid-sized SUV, Cannon ute and Tank off-roaders.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Air pollution from cars running on petrol and diesel contributes to early mortality, cancer, bronchitis and asthma. According to a Harvard University study, there is a striking association between long-term exposure to harmful fine particulate matter and COVID-19 mortality in the United States. fine particulate matter pollution).

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Amid all the various new technologies and alternative fuels that have been thrust on the motoring world in recent years as alternatives to regular petrol (gasoline) powered vehicles, it appears that hybrid cars are still the most cost effective solution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

D2H built a 32-cell battery test rig for the physical testing aspects that could evaluate the performance of cutting edge immersive versus contemporary cold-plate cooling methods before generation of a Computational Fluid Design (CFD) model to accelerate comparative studies that examined the cooling characteristics of various fluids.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The study examines three different scenarios—Business as usual (BAU); Extended; and Stretch—based on low, medium and high levels of EV uptake. The study also says that other priorities for innovation and investment are reducing the cost and improving the performance of EV batteries, and decarbonizing the grid.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 2, 2013

From vegetable oil to corn, there have been a host of biofuels discussed as alternatives to petrol: however, now a new study has suggested that bamboo may be the ultimate option. According to research at Imperial College London, bioethanol production from bamboo in China is economically and technic[.].

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

billion litres of ethanol annually to reach close to 70,000 petrol stations by 2025, a study by Niti Aayog has estimated. While India has made decent progress to make the e20 blend currently available at close to 9,300 fuel stations as of date as per government data, the government needs about 10.16

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They have been designed and developed as a greener transport alternative, but a new study claims electric cars are a bigger environmental burden than conventional petrol and diesel cars. There’s no question once it’s on the road, a Nissan LEAF is greener than say, a VW Golf, but the criticism surrounds how the vehicle itself [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

A study conducted by VTT Technical Research Center of Finland indicates that there is practically no difference between commercial gasoline grades 95E10 and 98E5 sold in Finland as regards fuel consumption in normal driving. The point of this study was to highlight how fuel consumption should actually be measured to give comparable results.

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EV Central

MARCH 17, 2024

According to Auto Express , the new cheap EV could carry the MG 2 nameplate, signalling its positioning beneath both the new hybrid MG 3 (design studies pictured above) and larger all-electric MG 4. READ MORE: Park that Toyota Yaris!

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

So the reality is yes, we have publicly announced, effectively, that we are studying a vehicle in that space,” said Mitsubishi Australia CEO, Shaun Westcott. “Let me say multiple powertrains are under study,” Mr Westcott said. “But that is a continuum.

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Discover EV

APRIL 29, 2020

With other EVs in the study also shown to be used at least as much as petrol and diesel cars it's now becoming clear that not only are electric car owners not afraid to use their cars 'normally', they are stretching their legs, too.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

A 2003 study on victims of the coronavirus SARS found that patients in regions with moderate air pollution levels were 84% more likely to die than those in regions with low air pollution. Those living in polluted cities are more at risk from COVID-19, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) warned today.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen study Golf Variant twïnDRIVE. Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) These vehicles must be operated sustainably—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

A detailed analysis of policy pathways leading to such a decarbonised electricity supply in the UK is outside the scope of this study. In particular, the fiscal measures alone may render petrol/diesel powered vehicles prohibitively expensive compared with say, PEVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Another study also reported production of even or odd numbered long-chain alkanes in E. In these studies, hydrocarbons were produced by decarbonylation of fatty aldehydes, which are directly generated from fatty acyl-ACPs. Thus, it is of great interest to produce SCHCs directly that have the potential to be used directly as petrol.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 15, 2023

litre petrol engine with dual electric motors, with the brand targeting an EV driving range of 100kms, and an overall driving range (petrol and electric combined) of closer to 1000kms. The new, and as-yet unnamed, ute is expected to feature BYD’s DM-i (dual mode) hybrid technology, which will pair a turbocharged 1.5-litre

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Green Cars News

MAY 30, 2013

Batteries used for electric cars could become greener and this should be a priority to help improve the environmental argument for EVs, according to a new study. While modern lithium ion batteries show overall promise for reducing greenhouse gas emissions compared to petrol-fuelled cars and nick[.]. Latest News'

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

Overview GENESIS has introduced its updated GV80 and new GV80 Coupe range to the Australian market this month, the refreshed large segment luxury SUV range now rationalised to offer all-wheel drive V6 petrol power only, the four-cylinder petrol and six-cylinder diesel now axed from the Aussie line-up. litre petrol and 3.0-litre

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EV Obssesion

MAY 23, 2021

Two Kia e-Niro adapted for use as electric emergency response vehicles The cars will be used as part of an initial pilot study Each car is equipped with life-saving equipment, medication and supplies for first responder paramedics Estimated 25 per cent reduction in maintenance costs over a petrol or diesel equivalent Two Kia e-Niro […].

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Green Cars News

MAY 17, 2012

It has long been one of the biggest concerns about ethanol blends replacing petrol – could it harm your engine? Now a new two-year study from the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) suggests it could. The CRC looked at the effects of E15 and E20 ethanol blends and found that two popular petrol engines used from [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The problem of harmful local emissions has more aspects than the discussion about fuel consumption, and petrol versus diesel. The study was funded by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, as part of the “EMIROAD” program. —TØI Report 1407/2015.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2012

Let’s be honest, our interest in green cars has not only been prompted by our willingness to do more for the environment, but also for our need for affordable driving as petrol prices spiral out of control. However, now a new study by Harvard Kennedy School suggests that may be about to change. It points [.].

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