Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The thirteen countries involved in the agreement are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Tags: Brief. The project will focus on driver behaviour and the operational side of running a fleet of zero-emission battery-powered cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

As part of its international environmental program Planet Me, which aims to cut CO 2 emissions, global postal and express delivery company TNT is currently working with Renault to explore using Renault’s electric vehicles to meet the needs of its activity and operations in the Netherlands. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The City of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) has signed a Definitive Agreement with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to encourage the uptake of electric vehicles. Tags: Brief. Among the specific targets agreed by both parties is a determination to register at least 1,000 EV sales by the end of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

which will be headquartered in the Netherlands. Tags: Brief. Royal DSM N.V., The positive results from this cooperation have led to the establishment of the joint venture. DSM and Roquette will each have a 50% stake in the new entity, Reverdia V.o.f.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Customer deliveries are taking place across Europe in selected key EV markets such as The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, France, Austria, Switzerland and now Finland. Tags: Brief.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Tags: Green credentials cost Dutch green tax Netherlands pay-per-mile polluter road tax. The cost per kilometre will depend on the size of the vehicle, initially cars will pay 3 cents, while trucks and vans will pay slightly more. Each year the base tariff will rise until 2018.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Dutch utility Essent anticipates having one million electric vehicles on the roads in the Netherlands by 2020. (A Tags: Brief. Three types of vehicles will be purchased based on agreed specifications; a small and a large commercial van and a passenger car. A hat-tip to Stefan and MindsinMotion.net !).

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in the Netherlands, and up to 7.1% In Norway, VW has made more critical cuts to the ID3’s price tag, to stay competitive in a market that has achieved 82% percent of sales being EVs – 20% of those sales being a Tesla in 2023. VW reports BEV sales of 70,628 units last year, a 12% increase, compared to Tesla’s 63,685, a 9% drop.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

This according to calculations in the report “No growth in total global CO 2 emissions in 2009”, published by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). tonnes per person and in China this was 6 tonnes, compared with 10 tonnes per person in the Netherlands and 17 tonnes in the United States. Tags: Brief. Source: PBL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The tests are limited to Sweden and Denmark while we await final word on how road and traffic authorities in the Netherlands and Germany view our interpretation and application of the EU directive. Tags: Brief. —Anders Gustavsson, Managing Director of the Scania Transport Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

With this plant in the Netherlands, Neste Oil will become the leading renewable diesel producer supplying Europe from the Netherlands. Tags: Brief. Upon completion, the plant will be the largest renewable diesel plant in Europe with an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tonnes (about 245 million gallons, or 5.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

MMC plans to sell the i-MiEV in Europe in 14 countries—Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom—then from fiscal year 2011 sequentially expand the countries in which it will be sold. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

Carbon dioxide emissions from road transport in the Netherlands could be reduced by 30% if motorway speed limits in the Netherlands were set at 80 km/h (50 mph). Tags: Fuel Efficiency Policy. Short- and long-term CO 2 emission reductions as a share of total motorway CO 2 emissions by cars in various scenarios. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Countries across Europe, including Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, are offering significant incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, and leading car companies are placing multibillion-dollar bets on hybrid and electric vehicle technologies that are expected to launch starting this year. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The OCAP project (organic CO 2 for assimilation by plants) in the Netherlands is an example. Tags: Brief. This method utilizes algae, CO 2 , salt water and sunlight to directly produce 3G bioethanol and other 3G biofuels or biochemicals in photobioreactors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

The first part of this work, including the pilot phase, will be performed in The Netherlands, while the demonstration plant is envisioned to be constructed in Brazil. Tags: Biomass Biorefinery Brazil Fuels. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In addition to this pipeline in the Alberta Industrial Heartland, Air Products also has a hydrogen pipeline in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, and operates the largest hydrogen pipeline network in the United States’ Gulf Coast, as well as pipeline systems in California in the US and in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Tags: Cellulosic ethanol Enzymes Europe. NEMO-derived technology improvements are also applicable for the efficient and economic production of other biofuels and bulk chemicals. NEMO (CORDIS). Vantaggi e problematiche dell’approccio enzimatico per la produzione di bioetanolo da biomassa lignocellulosica.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The study was led by scientists at Utrecht University, working with colleagues at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of Southampton. Tags: Brief. Science 330, 819 - 8215 doi: 10.1126/science.1193654. Pearson (2010) Increased Atmospheric CO 2 During the Middle Eocene. Science 330 (6005), 763.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

The global consultancy is undertaking the project with CABI, a not-for-profit science-based development and information organization based in the Netherlands that provides information and applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2010

Such high demand has meant the Nissan LEAF will launch slightly later than planned in the Netherlands. Tags: Brief. Since March, nearly 12,000 customers in Europe have signed up for regular updates on Nissan LEAF’s introduction, and in the US and Japan pre-orders have exceeded 23,000 units since online reservations began in April.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

Netherlands-based company LeasePlan has a global presence with offices in 30 countries and manages 1.4 Tags: Brief. The MOU also intends to define the terms and conditions for the supply by the Alliance of electric vehicles to LeasePlan and its clients. million vehicles. emissions from their car fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

The agreement with Greenwheels—a car-sharing company—in connection with the commitment to the EVA project, capitalizes on the historical relationship between Greenwheels and Peugeot, which in the past has already supplied more than 1,000 vehicles to this company in the Netherlands. Tags: Electric (Battery) Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Sales of the THINK City have started in selected key EV markets such as Austria, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, with first fleet deliveries due to start before Christmas. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

Meanwhile, both spring and early summer brought a severe shortage of rain to Belgium, the Czech Republic, northern Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, eastern Poland and the UK. Very high temperatures were recorded in Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in June and July coupled with low rainfall.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Air Products recently announced a long-term hydrogen supply contract with ExxonMobil’s (Esso) Rotterdam refinery in The Netherlands and will build a new world-scale hydrogen production plant to serve that refinery and additional customers in the region, including Shell. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

SG Biofuels made the announcement at JatrophaWorld 2010, an annual gathering of Jatropha producers and developers in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Tags: Brief. It can be effectively grown on marginal lands that are considered undesirable for food crops. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, introduced two bio-based performance materials for the automotive industry. Tags: Brief. Royal DSM N.V.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Dyadic (Netherlands). Netherlands). Wageningen Universiteit (Netherlands). Tags: Cellulosic ethanol Enzymes Europe. Participants include: GR Wright and Sons Ltd (UK). Sekab E-Technology (Sweden). Biogold Ou (Estonia). Cooperatie Cehave Landbouwbeland U.A. Helsingin Yliopisto (Finland. The €4-million (US$5.5-million)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Three Member States (France, Germany and the Netherlands) each anticipate missing two of their four emission ceilings. Similar to last year’s situation, some Member States including the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany expect to emit only slightly more NOx than their ceilings. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

DAF is starting to supply the LF Hybrid in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium; countries in which market research has shown that the interest in hybrid vehicles is highest. DAF is the market leader in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. for the first half of 2010.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Collaborating on the paper were scientists from Utrecht University, the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol University (UK) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA). Tags: Brief. Science 326, 984. doi: 10.1126/science.1178176.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

Test results from a road surface containing titanium dioxide show that the material reduces the concentration of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) by 25 to 45%, according to Professor Jos Brouwers of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands. Tags: Brief. The nitrate is then rinsed away by rain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

The Shell-Shenhua MoU was signed alongside government meetings between China and the Netherlands on sustainable energy cooperation. Tags: Coal Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Gasification. The qualification contracts were signed alongside the government meetings on sustainable energy cooperation. Advances in the Shell Coal Gasification Process.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Led by IFP (France), the project brings together eight other research and industrial partners: the Le Havre Region Development Agency (France), Geogreen (France), Accoat (Denmark), SINTEF Energy Research (Norway), DNV (Norway), TNO (Netherlands), Port of Rotterdam NV (Netherlands) and SANERI (South Africa). Tags: Brief.

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