Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., in this study the environmental impacts of delivering driven vehicle miles are compared for three different vehicle fleets, each powered either directly or indirectly by natural gas. . …

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster is a Fiat design dating to 2014, but it now offers an up-to-date electric powertrain. In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The proposed standards are projected to result in an industry-wide average target for the light-duty fleet of 82 grams/mile (g/mile) of CO 2 in MY 2032, representing a 56% reduction in projected fleet average GHG emissions target levels from the existing MY 2026 standards. Future gasoline fuel property standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

The propane fleet will replace gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles used largely in rural areas in Louisiana and Oklahoma with other states pending. Operations will begin by mid-2014 and be completed early next year. The new propane fleet is expected to travel more than 25 million miles and to displace approximately 3.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

Thus, for the first time, in the newly released 2014 edition of the Trends report, EPA presents a brief analysis of the impact of alternative fuel vehicles on overall new vehicle fuel economy and CCO 2 O2 emissions. —EPA 2014 Trends report. Fuel economy average for the US fleet, per the Trends report, is 24.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

In December, the Patrick Administration awarded grants and announced new investments in three programs to support alternative fuel vehicles and related infrastructure across Massachusetts, including the launch of an electric school bus pilot. million in grants for eight electric school buses with vehicle-to-grid capability.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

and Nissan will begin testing the Nissan e-NV200 battery-electric compact cargo vehicle under real world conditions in Washington, D.C. FedEx Express and Nissan have conducted similar e-NV200 tests with fleets in Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Brazil. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. The growth reflects an expected 90% increase in electricity use, led by developing countries where 1.3 billion people are currently without access to electricity. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

EDI), a producer of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and continuously variable transmission (CVT) solutions ( earlier post ), is partnering with Greenkraft , CALSTART, and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a Class-4 vehicle that combines the benefits of compressed natural gas (CNG) and PHEV technology.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster is a Fiat design dating to 2014, but it now offers an up-to-date electric powertrain. In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Proterra battery-electric buses in service in a 12- vehicle demonstration by Foothill Transit in California offered significant fuel savings compared to similar conventional vehicles, according to a recently published analysis of the results of the demonstration by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). miles per DGE. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

For the second consecutive model year, the automotive industry outperformed the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards by a wide margin, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) second annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Light Duty Vehicles: Manufacturer’s Performance Report. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group , will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. Bionaphtha is used as a blending component in gasoline and also as a feedstock for the petrochemicals industry. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

At the company’s 61 st Automotive Press Briefing in Boxberg, Germany, Bosch senior executives outlined the company’s view on the general future of automotive technology—“ efficient and increasingly electrical ”, and provided a thumbnail of the way they see—and thus are developing products for—sector-specific technology trends.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2017

Diesel has played a major role in the European Union’s efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions from the automotive fleet; the market share of fuel-efficient new diesel cars in the European Union has remained above 50% since 2010. Furthermore, hybrid electric cars today often are cheaper than diesel cars within the same vehicle segment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with GE, will supply electric vehicle charging stations at Ford facilities nationwide, beginning with facilities in and around its headquarters. Ford now offers three plug-in vehicles: the battery electric Focus Electric, and the C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrids. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Chrysler is also seeking to reduce electrical loads through application of higher efficiency fans and fuel pumps. Thermal management technologies not only help reduce fuel consumption, but are an important factor in extending battery range for hybrid electric and all-electric vehicle models. Transmissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have announced a proposed rulemaking for the first national standards to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve fuel efficiency of heavy-duty trucks and buses. Vocational Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

US President Barack Obama announced fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Under the new program, trucks and buses built in 2014 through 2018 will reduce oil consumption by a projected 530 million barrels and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by approximately 270 million metric tons.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

auto manufacturers’ MY 2015 fleets to be zero?emission Renewable hydrogen” is defined as hydrogen produced from: Eligible renewable feedstocks including biomethane or biogas such as biomass, digester gas, landfill gas, sewer gas, or municipal solid waste gas; or other feedstocks demonstrated to achieve the sustainability goals.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0001055 ) for light-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) fueling infrastructure financing strategies within the context of an early market introduction. Installations of public access dispensing have been sited at existing retail gasoline stations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

A brief moment in EV history passed us by about a decade ago, when the little-known VIA Motors introduced their lineup of VTRUX hybrid-electric vehicles. Each vehicle would use the VIA plug-in powertrain which turned the existing gas engine into a range extender. This sort of topic is the very reason Abandoned History exists.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

TMC plans to supply nearly 70 ultra-compact electric vehicles for the 3-year project, including the COMS ultra-compact vehicle produced by Toyota Auto Body ( earlier post ), as well as a new vehicle based on the Toyota i-ROAD concept vehicle. Toyota will provide electric vehicles based on the new i-ROAD concept (left) and COMS (right).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued the final rule for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for MYs 2017-2025 for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). mpg US (5.84 L/100km) in MY 2021.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Department Of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of its Vehicle Technology Office (VTO), a program-wide Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000991) for fiscal year 2014 on or about January 2014. Reducing the cost of electric drive systems from $30/kW to $8/kW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If specifications or settings are found to be inaccurate, EPA may require the manufacturer to retest the affected emission certification vehicles, retest fuel economy data vehicles and recalculate fuel economy label values, recalculate the GHG emissions and CAFE fleet averages, and correct the ABT credit reports.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 3, 2022

Contributing to the acceleration of California’s nation-leading commitment to a zero-emission future–by requiring all new passenger vehicles to be electric by 2035–the City of Porterville took advantage of its strategic location along key transportation routes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030” was written by Thomas Becker, a Ph.D. The high rate of adoption is driven by the low purchase price and operating costs of electric cars with switchable batteries. lower on a per-mile basis than gasoline-powered cars, depending on the future price of oil.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. The Mirage probably has the best turning radius of any car tested by Clean Fleet Report , so getting around in the city is a thing of beauty. Your numbers may differ.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Aspirational targets among seven countries participating in the Electric Vehicle Initiative would see growth from just under 2 million EV and PHEVs to just under 20 million by 2020. Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. Spain has set a goal of 250,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2014. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Automakers are under increasing pressure from both governments and consumers to improve overall fuel efficiency across their fleet and lower polluting emissions. With new fuel choices, and increasing safety demands primarily driven by electric vehicles, automakers need to address increasingly complex powertrain platforms.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R.

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