Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

According to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard , travel delays due to traffic congestion caused drivers to waste more than 3 billion gallons of fuel and kept travelers stuck in their cars for nearly 7 billion extra hours—42 hours per rush-hour commuter. The total nationwide price tag: $160 billion, or $960 per commuter.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2010

The Roadmap proposes completely transforming the US light-duty vehicle fleet into one in which grid-enabled mobility (grid-enabled vehicles, GEV) is the new conventional standard. The main findings of the study are: Employment. Tags: Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Policy. By 2030, total employment would increase by 1.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Renault-Nissan Alliance (the Alliance) and the People’s Government of Wuhan (China) signed a definitive agreement to develop electric mobility. Both parties will, based on the agreement, start the market feasibility study of EVs in Wuhan beginning in 2011 with 25 Nissan electric vehicles. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Following the founding of the Renault ParisTech Sustainable Mobility Institute last September, Renault has developed a website to promote sustainable development and educate the public on its various aspects: www.sustainablemobility. The site looks at new concepts such as car-sharing, multi-modality, new behaviors, and “soft” mobility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Ford will draw upon PGE’s partnership with Portland State University to further study urban mobility and the integration of energy and sustainable design. Tags: Brief. Ford will introduce its first pure battery electric vehicle, the Transit Connect Electric small commercial van, this year.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

While most EV drivers agree that their vehicle makes for a smarter decision long-term, as cost savings on fuel balance the higher upfront price tag, drivers overall are less confident in this benefit. This ambitious announcement highlights Volvo’s commitment to take the industry lead and embrace a cleaner mobility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

We are convinced that we will get a fantastic reaction from the people who use such vehicles on a daily basis: Electric mobility will allow them to travel in city areas which are now off-limits to petrol and diesel-powered vehicles and the range-extender technology makes it possible to use an electric van for normal routine business.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance (the Alliance) and the Development & Reform Commission of GuangDong Province China (the DRC of GuangDong Province) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote electric mobility in GuangDong Province. Tags: Brief. Separately, Nissan Motor Co., Separately, Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Lotus Engineering has conducted a detailed study to develop a commercially viable mass reduction strategy for mainstream passenger vehicles. This study, released by the International Council on Clean Transportation ( ICCT ), focused on the use of lightweight materials and efficient design and demonstrated substantial mass savings.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In this study, we propose a parallel wire-driven leg structure, which has one DoF of linear motion and two DoFs of rotation and is controlled by six wires, as a structure that can achieve both continuous jumping and high jumping. This technology paves the way for robots to adapt and function in dynamic, real-world settings. CMU RI ]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The committee will be chaired jointly by the head of the DREAM (Research, Advanced Studies and Materials division) at Renault and the CEA technological research director. The CEA has multidisciplinary expertise in several key areas of sustainable mobility and will draw upon all its resources in the area of technological research.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Tech have partnered for the promotion of electric mobility in Portugal. Under a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed today, the two parties will study how to promote electric mobility using MOBI.E Tags: Brief. The Renault-Nissan Alliance and the Portuguese consortium MOBI.E Tech is actively working towards deploying the MOBI.E

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

An important analytical issue that needs to be addressed, the report notes, is the lack of lifecycle assessment studies focusing on a wider set of environmental impact indicators than greenhouse gas emissions. Tags: Biodiesel Biomass Ethanol Lifecycle analysis Policy. Source: “Assessing Biofuels”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Tags: Climate Change Policy. The analysis results in significantly larger emissions in 2050 than could be expected based on previous projections. Velders et al. Fahey, John S. Daniel, Mack McFarland, and Stephen O. Andersen (2009) The large contribution of projected HFC emissions to future climate forcing. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902817106.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Earlier work by Durrett and colleagues at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center had resulted in approximately a 60 mol% accumulation of ac-TAGs.). As one example, the viscosity of acetyl-TAG falls within or slightly above the specifications of diesel #4 fuel. —Liu et al.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 31, 2023

Just about every modern vehicle outweighs its ancestors by a staggering amount and a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study has claimed that an extra 1,000 pounds increases the chance of crash fatalities between vehicles by 47 percent. While the weight issue may be more pronounced among EVs, it’s hardly limited to them.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an updated version of the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) model—MOVES2010—for use to estimate air pollution from cars, trucks, and other on-road mobile sources. Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to update regularly the way it calculates mobile source emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The EV-N is purely a design study and there are no plans for production. This is still a design study, but Honda is positioning it as an example of how the IMA technology can be placed in a range of different cars for different needs. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids. Click to enlarge. It also gives a lower center of gravity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Drivers habitually charge their vehicles, whether the battery is half full or nearly empty, in much the same way as a laptop or mobile phone, which will influence the next generation of battery technology that is incorporated into these vehicles. Tags: Electric (Battery) Market Background Trials. Electricity providers E.ON

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The Ko-FAS project, which was subsidized by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, comprised the three sub-projects: Ko-TAG - Cooperative Transponders. Ko-TAG explored cooperative sensor technology on the basis of transponder systems (transponder = miniature transmitter/receiver). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The 3R-C study was created by European designers working at Honda’s Research and Design facility in Milan. A design study that evokes the spirit of the diminutive 1967 N360 city car, the EV-N features Honda’s own solar panels in the roof, which could charge the car while it is parked. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

At the Brussels Motor Show, Peugeot signed two Letters of Intent (LOI) agreements with Veolia and Greenwheels concerning the purchase of electric vehicles and the development of mobility services. Tags: Electric (Battery) Europe. to 3% of the passenger vehicle market, including all types and all marques, in Europe by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The ColognE-Mobil large-scale battery electric vehicle (BEV) field trial in Germany will launch on 4 January 2010, bringing together four partners—the Ford-Werke GmbH, RheinEnergie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)—in a project to test electrical mobility in all its aspects under everyday conditions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2010

Enel, Endesa and the Renault-Nissan Alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at developing electric mobility across several geographical areas in Italy, Spain and Latin America. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The supply contract was signed with state-run FGC’s wholly owned subsidiary Mobile GTES, Russia’s leading manufacturer of mobile electric power stations. Tags: Brief. Feasibility of localization within Russia of development and manufacture of lithium-ion battery cells and other components for energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

Nissan formed partnership with Kanagawa Prefecture to conduct a study for various EV projects in May, 2008. The Renault-Nissan Alliance aims to be a global leader in zero-emission mobility. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

and the City of Kita-Kyushu, Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly promote zero-emission mobility. The zero-emission partnership will initiate a joint-study focused on the following areas: To position the city as a “Global Eco Capital” through greater regional development in sustainable way. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

One primary thrust of the partnership is to promote “urban mobility,” which includes studying charging station infrastructure issues, rolling out test vehicle fleets, analyzing consumer response, and policy development. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

Carbon dioxide injection—an important part of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology—is underway as part of a pilot study of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Citronelle Field of Mobile County, Alabama. A recent study by Advanced Resources International of Arlington, Va., Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Future smart grids will incorporate a larger proportion of renewable energy sources and will need to supply a vast e-mobility infrastructure—both of which require a wide range of energy storage solutions. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins Smart Grid. —Bazmi Husain, head of ABB’s smart grids initiative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

With a Focus Electric owner in contact with the connector so many times, Ford conducted an ergonomic study to help determine plug handle design, as well as charge port height and insertion angle. Tags: Brief. Testers also subjected the cord set connector to ambient extreme temperature increases.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

While there has been no official target set for the implementation of electrification within the EU, industry studies indicate that several member states are overestimating the speed at which electrified vehicles are being introduced, Volvo suggested. —Stefan Jacoby.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2010

The goal is to become the market leader in E-mobility by the year 2018. The electric car is already technically capable of short ranges of up to 150 kilometers (93 miles), Volkswagen notes, and so, its various brands will be conducting field studies in key strategic markets of Europe, North America and China in upcoming months.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

million) for a biogas demonstration project, subject to a feasibility study. The project will fund a mobile clean up facility’(to upgrade raw biogas into biomethane of a quality that can be used as a transport fuel or injected into the gas grid) and fund the additional costs of vehicles using biogas. million (US$5.2 million (US$5.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg are studying hydrogen-induced embrittlement to find materials and manufacturing processes that are compatible with hydrogen. Tags: Brief. We are able to detect the points at which the element accumulates in the material, and where it doesn’t.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The first workshop, on 2 March, focused on preliminary elements of the proposed criteria pollutant emission standards and involved a presentation of technical information from several studies that are under evaluation for potential greenhouse gas emission reduction. Mobile Air Conditioning Systems. Volkswagen, 2008. ITS-Davis, 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

At the ceremonial launching of Germany’s “National Electric Mobility Platform” (NEMP) in Berlin, Volkswagen presented the Golf blue-e-motion electric vehicle concept to German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. In coming up with this design, developers applied experience they gained in numerous design studies. kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

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