Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Delphi Automotive has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership , a collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and transport industry designed to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution. Tags: Brief. The Partnership currently has more than 2,600 partners.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5 trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

The AERIS program is intended better to define how IntelliDrive data and applications might contribute to mitigating some of the negative environmental impacts of surface transportation. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). High-level roadmap for the AERIS program. Source: DOT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

To complement the 2008 data, the European sustainable transportation NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) wrote a short report which includes shipping and aviation figures and aims at clarifying the actual contribution of the transport sector to the EU’s CO2 emissions. and 18% respectively of total transport CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

The Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments ( ERTOC ) project, part funded by the UK government-backed Technology Strategy Board, has been launched by GS1 UK, Ricardo, Unipart Logistics, IRIS Technology and Coventry University to drive business improvement and sustainability throughout the supply chain from factory to point of sale.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Exide Technologies is planning a new collaboration, focused on the transportation aftermarket, with NorthStar Battery Company, LLC. Plans call for Exide to work with NorthStar to provide sales, marketing and distribution expertise for targeted products for the transportation aftermarket beginning in 2011. Tags: Brief.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Price is one of the most significant roadblocks to clean transportation. Here are five budget options for sustainable transportation (with links to further Clean Fleet Report tests and news). That should come as no surprise, either, given the Leaf’s low price tag of $31,600. Affordable Cars that Move the Green Needle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

GE Transportation and DonJon Shipbuilding and Repair are bidding on a $24-million federal grant for their Hybrid Harbor Tug Project. Another $6 million in funding would come from DonJon and/or GE Transportation. Tags: Brief. GoErie.com. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

A VW Transporter van. Start-up Bright Automotive, which in May unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van ( earlier post ), will convert VW Transporter vans with the series hybrid Bright powertrain as a bridge between the concept and the production version of the IDEA. The Bright IDEA and Transporter PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Siemens Intelligent Traffic Solutions is developing intelligent transportation technology for the fast and orderly evacuation of citizens. Siemens is currently developing such a system for testing by the US Department of Transportation. The associated software is supplied by Siemens’ global research unit, Corporate Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

General Motors has established General Motors Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary designed to help the company identify and develop innovative technologies in the automotive/transportation sector. Tags: Brief. Leading the initiative will be Jon J. Girsky, GM vice chairman of Corporate Strategy and New Business Development.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

However: the MI Scenario for road and rail transport depends on the decarbonisation of the electricity supply system. However, if the electrical power sector decarbonisation by 2050 is less than 100 per cent, CO 2 emissions from road and rail transport will be substantially higher than projected for the MI Scenario. Road transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

Among the proposals in the new US highway and transportation funding reauthorization bill, outlined by House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James L. in a press conference last week, is the linkage of transportation planning with greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Oberstar (D-Minn.) Mica (R-Fla.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) is providing £30 million (US$45 million) in new funding to further encourage a shift to low carbon transport. million) to develop a telematics facility at MIRA to test, develop and demonstrate new intelligent transport technologies and become a self-sustaining test center. million (US$5.5

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MARCH 24, 2024

market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. BYD launched its Seagull, a small hatchback EV with a price tag starting at 69,800 yuan (~$9,773), at the Shanghai Auto Show last year. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

The UK’s Department for Transport has published a strategy designed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the transport sector by around 14% (17.7 Transport currently makes up 21% of all UK domestic carbon emissions. Using market-based measures to encourage a shift to lower carbon transport.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

Daimler Trucks North America has developed the first hybrid truck for use in hazardous material transport. Tags: Brief. Together with Eaton Corp., The hybrid Freightliner Business Class M2e. Click to enlarge.

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Transportation Eaton Hybrid North America 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada (MMSCAN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Transport Canada, a part of the Canadian national government that is responsible for transportation policies and programs, for feasibility testing of the zero-emissions i-MiEV electric vehicle. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Prime Time Shuttle, which has offered ride-share transportation to major Southern California airports since 1984, will replace its existing fleet with 200 Roush propane-powered Ford E-350 shuttle vans within the next 24 months. Tags: Brief. Propane-powered ride-share van. Click to enlarge. million gallons of gasoline each year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

Eligible proposals may include projects that use or produce biofuels, alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles, or that deploy fuel-saving technology in the transportation sector. Tags: Brief. Applications must be submitted via the Environmental eGrant system at www.grants.dcnr.state.pa.us. Friday, 27 Aug.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

Balqon Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of heavy-duty electric vehicles for Class 7 and Class 8 applications ( earlier post ), has entered into a Dealer Agreement with Mol Transport Solutions, a leading manufacturer of port and material handling equipment in Europe. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Forty-two capital construction projects and 33 planning projects in 40 states will share nearly $600 million from the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) TIGER II program for major infrastructure projects ranging from highways and bridges to transit, rail and ports. Tags: Brief. TIGER II Capital Awards. TIGER II Planning Awards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore launched a new project to develop new models and tools for the planning, design, and operation of future urban transportation. Advanced transportation science models, optimization and simulations; and. Performance assessment and implementation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Brian Wynne, President of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) will participate in a webchat hosted by GM’s Voltage site, on Thursday at 2 p.m. Webchat with Brian Wynne, President of Electric Drive Transportation Assoc. Tags: Brief.

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Transportation GM Electric Electrical 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

The global transportation industry firms lag behind ‘Global 500 Companies’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and setting reduction targets, according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Transportation is a major contributor to the US economy. Transportation is a major contributor to the US economy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The European research project COCATE, just being signed and starting in January 2010, tackles the problems of rolling out a shared transportation infrastructure capable of connecting geological storage sites with various medium size CO 2 -emitting industrial facilities located within a close geographical proximity. million (US$6.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Researchers from Auburn University are proposing the development of algae farms where carbon dioxide is received from carbon capture and biologically converted, via photosynthesis and anaerobic digestion, to CNG or LNG transportation fuels. Tags: Brief. Ron Putt, Auburn University.

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Transportation Fuel Florida Texas 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Westport Carbon Project (WCP) is in the process of being registered with the Voluntary Carbon Market Standard (VCS) and will be the first VCS transport project and one of the largest voluntary carbon market projects worldwide. Grütter Consulting is a leading advisory firm on carbon finance and transport with activities worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Azure’s LEEP Freeze system is coupled with Kidron’s UltraTemp cold plate to create a robust and reliable transport refrigeration solutions. Tags: Brief. The LEEP is a mild hybrid electric system that provides ancillary power for a variety of applications. Earlier post.).

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Transportation Grid Corporation Plug-in 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2010

Lautenberg (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) this week introduced legislation that would establish a national freight transportation policy. The “Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act of 2010” (S.3629)

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Transportation Climate Change CO2 2010 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The transportation/vehicular sector’s market share, which currently accounts for almost 60% of the supercapacitor market, will fall to around 35% as new applications for supercapacitors emerge, according to the report. Tags: Brief. billion by 2016, according to a new report from NanoMarkets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Transport emissions could double their current relative net contribution to global warming by 2100, according to a new study by researchers at the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate and Environment Research (CICERO) in Norway. For all scenarios and throughout the century, road transport is the dominating contributor to warming.

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Transportation Czech Republic Global Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The AERIS program is intended to better define how IntelliDrive data and applications might contribute to mitigating some of the negative environmental impacts of surface transportation. Tags: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Evaluation Techniques. What decisions did you make as a result of the evaluation results?

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Transportation Environment Available Personal 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The global natural gas vehicle fleet has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, but still represents less than 1% of global transport fuel consumption. The Contribution of Natural Gas Vehicles to Sustainable Transport (IEA working paper). Tags: Climate Change Emissions Heavy-duty Natural Gas. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Transportation CO2 Global 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Major reductions in emissions from the transportation sector will necessitate a change in vehicle fuels. 2009) concludes: The fundamentals of physics and electrochemistry dictate that the energy density of batteries and molecular hydrogen is unlikely ever to be competitive with liquid fuels for transport applications. Kuznetsov and P.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel CO2 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. Tags: Brief. signed a contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE) for a grant of exactly $99.8 million to undertake the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure yet in the US. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Targeting on-road transportation is a win-win-win. Nadine Unger By 2050, electric power generation overtakes road transportation as the biggest promoter of warming, according to the study. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. It’s good for the climate in the short term and long term, and it’s good for our health.”. Menon, D.T.

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