Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production. In the coal centers of Ukraine’s industrial east—Luhansk and Donetsk—fighting has forced the full closure of an estimated 50 percent of coal mines, while overall coal production has fallen 22 percent over the same period last year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2017

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that through its local importer and distributor MMC Ukraine, MMC will supply the National Police of Ukraine with 635 units of the Outlander PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

The Ukraine is considering using part of its crop of fodder potatoes—i.e., The Ukraine is one of the top potato producers in the world, ranking fourth in volume in 2008 (behind China, India and Russia), but only sixth in terms of the value of the commodity, according to the FAO. Interfax. potatoes used for animal feed—for the production of biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

signed a new version of its cooperation agreement with Ukraine covering Shell’s involvement in shale gas extraction and diversification of energy resources mining in Ukraine. stipulates the future cooperation in the area of exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons in Dnipro-Donetsk basin, Central Ukraine. Around 80% of hydrocarbon extraction in Ukraine is conducted in Dnipro-Donetsk trench. Royal Dutch Shell plc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The Ukraine state oil and gas company Naftogaz signed a US$3.656-billion credit agreement with the state-owned China Development Bank to finance the program of substituting natural gas with locally produced coal. The program is aimed at improving Ukraine’s energy security and alleviating dependence on foreign natural gas. Previously, Ukraine expressed its interest in the Chinese technology of coal gasification and coal-water fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Both Next-Battery and Lvchi will proceed with key visits in Ukraine and China during Q1 2019 with a view to formalizing a commercial collaboration venture in China designed to fast track the commercial roll-out and development of Next-Battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2017

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) delivered 635 Outlander PHEV vehicles to the National Police of Ukraine on 25 May through its local importer and distributor MMC Ukraine. The vehicle order stems from an emissions trading agreement signed by a number of Japanese companies with the Government of Ukraine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

Škoda operates at three locations in the Czech Republic, produces in China, Russia, Slovakia and India mainly through Group partnerships, as well as in Ukraine and Kazakhstan through local partners.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

Geely’s current major overseas markets include Ukraine, Russia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Geely has established CKD facilities in partnership with local partners in Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and a new CKD plant came online in Egypt in mid-2012. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group set a new export sales record in December with 11,000 cars being exported during the month, which also helped the company increase its export sales over the course of 2012 by 164%.

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Hybrid SUV Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Ukraine. sales of hybrid SUVs and other fuel efficient vehicles will prove interesting to watch this year, especially if fuel prices remain relatively low. Expert predictions about where oil and gas prices are headed vary widely.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The research team, which also included scientists from Belgium, Germany and Ukraine, reported its results in Nature Communications. Other research collaborators came from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and Kiev Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A 2-liter, 144 DIN hp/107 kW, 188 N·m CVT-only model will be available for certain markets (Ukraine and Caucasus). Toyota introduced the C-HR—or Coupe High-Rider—crossover at the Paris Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

First quarter Lexus sales reached a record high of 3,700 units in Eastern Europe consisting of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Caucasus. Toyota Motor Europe (TME) posted 2013 first quarter sales of 197,309 Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Europe. During that period, Toyota and Lexus full hybrid sales reached 38,673, up 82.3% from the same period last year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

The Oranje Trophy—which supports Dutch athletes competing in this summer’s series of European sporting events—journey started on 14 June in Amsterdam and took the travelling motorcade of 30 vehicles (comprising cars, vans, trucks and motorbikes) through Poland and the Ukraine, where they stopped to support the Netherlands’ footballers playing in Euro 2012.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2009

Italy has the largest natural gas fleet, accounting for half of the European total (523,100, 50.3%), followed by Ukraine (120,000, 11.6%), Russia (103,000, 9.9%) and Armenia (101,352 9.75%). (A The organization NGVA Europe estimates that natural gas vehicles in Europe annually consume about 4.7 billion Nm 3 of gas—about 0.9% of total natural gas sales within Europe in 2008 (517 billion Nm 3 , according to figures provided by Eurogas).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

The UNECE Working Party on Pollution and Energy has approved a proposal to align the requirements on emissions from heavy-duty vehicle engines to the Euro VI legislation (EC Regulations 595/2009 and 582/2011), which enter into force in the European Union (EU) in January 2013.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Sales in the rest of TME’s Europe region (including Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Caucasus, Turkey and Israel) were stable at -0.8% Toyota Motor Europe (TME) reported a 38% increase in its Q1 2016 hybrid sales (Toyota and Lexus brands) versus the same period last year, representing 30% of total sales, compared to 24% for the full calendar year 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%). The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. The report provides updated results on the continuous monitoring of the three main greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

Italy and Ukraine, the largest markets, are slowest growing (3% and 4% CAGR, respectively) due to their relative maturity. Cumulative natural gas vehicles in use by segment, world markets: 2013-2020. Source: Navigant Research. Click to enlarge. In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that the number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on roads worldwide will reach 34.9 million by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

In some countries, for example in the Ukraine, Russia and Germany, that figure is over 40%. If air pollution emissions continue to rise at the current rate, some 6.6 million people could prematurely die annually by 2050, double the current rate of 3.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A decision by Russia to retaliate against sanctions imposed by the European Union and the US over Ukraine by imposing strong Russian sanctions—i.e., an embargo—on car imports from Europe and the US could undermine a faltering Russian economy even more, according to a new analysis by Germany-based Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Economic downturn and political uncertainty have kept revenues in the Russian automotive market on a downward trend for months now.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2011

The South Stream project is designed to create a new transport path for Russian gas to Europe across the Black Sea, bypassing Ukraine. BASF subsidiary Wintershall will acquire a 15% percent stake in the company South Stream A, which will develop, construct and operate the offshore section of the South Stream Pipeline which will run through the Black Sea. BASF intends to channel some €2 billion (US$2.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

The Audi SQ5 has been designed specifically for the following markets: United States, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and the Ukraine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2012

Ukraine and Italy. The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% between 2012 and 2019, reaching 3.2 million vehicles sold in 2019, according to a new forecast by Pike Research. This level of sales results in a cumulative total of 25.4 million LD NGVs on the road by 2019. LD NGVs make up about 97% of the total NGV market (2.08

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

A decline in sales in Eastern Europe (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Caucasus region) in line with the very strong market decline (-36%). Despite the lowest gasoline prices in Europe in 5 years, Toyota Motor Europe’s (TME) sales of hybrid vehicles continued their 5-year increase to reach 209,000 units for the full year 2015, up 17% year-on-year. Sales of Toyota and Lexus-branded hybrid vehicles now represent 24% of the group’s sales on the continent, up from 20% a year ago.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

and European Union’s decisions to impose—and maintain—sanctions on Russia after its invasion and annexation of Crimea and invasion and informal annexation eastern Ukraine will pile more pressure on the Russian energy industry. Following the Russian invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, The European Union is now even more determined to reduce its dependence on Russia for natural gas and to force Gazprom submit to EU competition rules. by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

However, US sanctions against Russia over Ukraine gave American companies until 26 September 26 to cease all operations with blacklisted Russian companies—including Rosneft.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

Tomas Balnys, director of UAB Hydro2, said that the company was also looking at expanding its distribution facility to enable it to supply the devices to another potential licensee whose territories include the Ukraine and Kazakhstan. University of Kent (UK) spin-off Oil Drum Ltd , has signed a licensing deal with UAB Hydro2 that will enable its on-board hydrogen generator technology to be manufactured, sold and installed in the Baltic States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

A new microscopy technique devised by an international research team involving University of Heidelberg (Germany) mathematician Dr. Francesco Ciucci and scientists from the United States and Ukraine can monitor ion transfer on the nanoscale. Visualization of platinum coating in fuel cells. The red areas show high ion transfer activity, the turquoise-green elevations represent the nanoparticles. The picture shows that ion transfer is not uniform all over the coating.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Canada’s pledges are 25% lower and those of Russia and the Ukraine are even over 35% lower than required. Estimated 2020 emissions in Russia and the Ukraine are lower than the regions’ pledges for the upcoming Copenhagen meeting. If Russia and the Ukraine would not trade their hot air, the overall reductions by developed countries would increase from between 10 and 15, to between 14 and 19%, below 1990 levels, by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Ricardo’s Rising-15 automotive markets include: Argentina; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Peru; the Philippines; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; and Vietnam. Positioning the Rising 15. Source: Ricardo Consulting. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The reasons for the cozier relationship between the two giant powers are, of course, rooted in the Ukraine crisis and subsequent Western sanctions against Russia, combined with China’s need to secure long-term energy supplies. by Andrew Topf of Oilprice.com. Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power in global energy markets shift to the East.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2009

Researchers from Australia, Ukraine and Spain have found that phosphorus-rich microporous carbons (P-carbons) used in supercapacitors exhibit enhanced supercapacitive performance, are capable of stable operation at voltages larger than 1.3

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APRIL 6, 2011

These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. Map of 48 major shale gas basins in 32 countries. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. Initial assessments of 48 shale gas basins containing almost 70 shale gas formations in 32 countries suggest that shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to US natural gas production, are also available in other world regions. A new EIA-sponsored study by Advanced Resources International, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine. Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e.,

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Test plots are also underway in Malaysia, South Korea, Ukraine and Latvia Japan Airlines (JAL) became the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using a biofuel primarily refined from the energy crop camelina. Earlier post.) It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable biofuel feedstocks—camelina (84%), jatropha (less than 16%), and algae (less than 1%)—as well as the first one using Pratt & Whitney engines. “We

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

and EU Ukraine-related economic and financial sanctions. by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com. Two men enter, one man leaves, two men enter, one man leaves, two men enter. — Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

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JULY 27, 2009

The notion that hydrocarbons generated in the mantle migrate into the Earth’s crust and contribute to oil-and-gas reservoirs was promoted in Russia and Ukraine many years ago.

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