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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

liter LP propane engine for the 2015 school year. liter engine is an economic, low-speed solution that boasts diesel-like performance, high durability, reduced noise and overall wear with all the benefits of alternative fuels. —Gary Winemaster, chairman and CEO, PSI. bus assembly plant in Tulsa, Okla. 8-11 November.

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Engine Kansas City Tulsa Kansas 230

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

It is focusing its efforts on five areas aimed at reducing fuel consumption and emissions: vehicle energy use (weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance); engines; transmissions; axles and drivelines; and hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel technologies. Hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel vehicles.

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Chrysler Light Hybrid Dodge 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

The National Clean Fleets Partnership, announced by President Obama in April, is a public-private partnership that helps large companies reduce diesel and gasoline use in their fleets by incorporating electric vehicles, alternative fuels, and fuel-saving measures into their daily operations. This project is expected to save 1.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

The Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle – Advanced (FCHV-adv) ( earlier post ) achieved an estimated range of 431 miles on a single full tank of compressed hydrogen gas, and an average fuel economy of 68.3 The results were averaged for an estimated range of 431 miles, with an average fuel economy of 68.3

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Toyota Miles San Diego Hybrid 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

quadrillion Btu in 2035, as a result of fuel economy improvements achieved through stock turnover as older, less efficient vehicles are replaced by newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beyond 2035, LDV energy demand begins to level off as increases in travel demand begin to exceed fuel economy improvements in the vehicle stock.

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Fuel Energy 2013 Sale 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2012

Key to this reduction has been the development and implementation of a plan that has improved the State fleet’s overall use of alternative fuels, the reduction of unneeded fleet vehicles, and reducing unnecessary vehicle miles traveled. 281,619 gallons gasoline equivalent (gge) of CNG and propane (7%). 216,723 gallons E85 ethanol (6%).

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2003 Fleet California Alternative Fuels 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Furthermore, road freight activity is set to more than double from 2015 to 2050. The timing and exact configuration of road freight decarbonization pathways should be adjusted to the different geographies and economies of each region around the world. Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand.

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Emissions CO2 Alternative Fuels Climate Change 255

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The USPS publicly began the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV) acquisition program in January 2015 with a Request for Information (RFI). A Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued in October 2015 which included a statement of objectives in response to feedback received from the supplier community and other stakeholders.

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Plug-in Plug Vehicles Fleet 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

2015 to 0.030 for all vehicle categories by 2030. This responds to the desire for a streamlined set of rules for new cars and light trucks and creates a single national program for manufacturers that addresses both greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards. with combined NMOG plus NO x standards. The combined ROG+NO x.

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Clean Cleaning California Cars 265

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

With this in mind, Mazda is working on the comprehensive improvement of base technologies using SKYACTIV drive and promoting its Building-Block Strategy in order to meet the company’s stated goal for 2015 of raising the average fuel economy of Mazda vehicles sold worldwide by 30% compared with 2008 levels. Click to enlarge.

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Mazda Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride Exhaust 268

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Allison Transmission also announced availability of its latest fuel economy technology for its 1000 Series and 2000 Series. Referred to as xFE, designating extra fuel economy, the fully automatic bus and truck transmissions have demonstrated improvements up to 7% when compared to baseline models.

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2000 2020 Fuel Economy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Achieving those goals will will be difficult—but not impossible to meet—and will necessitate a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels such as biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

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Hydrogen Oil Plug-in Fuel Economy 244

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Chrysler’s new powertrain strategy is relying on the rapid transfer of Fiat Group technology for Multiair; Gasoline Direct Injection; turbocharging and alternative fuels to support rapid downsizing and improvement of fuel economy, along with the simplification of the company’s engine line-up, according to Paolo E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The analysis used by federal agencies to set standards for fuel economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas emissions for new US light-duty vehicles from 2017 to 2025 was thorough and of high caliber overall, according to a new report from the National Research Council. UMTRI Survey: US drivers want better fuel economy, don’t care how.

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Standards Fuel Economy Economy EPA 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

of vehicle sales), far below levels required to meet the Obama administration’s goal of one million PEVs on the road by 2015. It is now clear that the one million vehicle threshold will not be achieved by 2015. Despite extensive government programs and incentives, PEV sales in the US reached only ~53,000 in 2012 (0.3%

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

million ( FTA-2015-006-TRI ) through the latest round of the Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo). The previous round of LoNo funding, announced in February 2015, awarded $55 million in grants to ten organizations nationwide. Earlier post.).

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Emissions Grant 2015 Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2009

The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 However, there will not be an exact one-to-one correspondence between the two standards—GHG and fuel economy—which will be the foundation of the national program.

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2016 Obama Standards MPG 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

View of the CNG tank in the bed of a Silverado 2500HD with bi-fuel option. As with any alternative fuel, be it CNG, LPG, electricity, hydrogen or E85, one of the challenges facing its adoption is both the availability of the fuel as well as the mechanics of refueling. Click to enlarge. The LC8 engine. Click to enlarge.

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Silverado Chevrolet Fuel Gasoline-Electric 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. quadrillion Btu (13.8 quadrillion Btu (13.5

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2020 Energy Transportation Oil Prices 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The report focused on two main alternative scenarios: plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and combined PEVs and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). The scenario outlines the introduction of more PEVs in different models and vehicle sizes in the 2015-2030 timeframe. 40+ mile all-electric range) to minimize liquid fuel use.

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2005 Transportation California Energy 250

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Most recently, Toyota announced that its fuel cell sedan would also be available in the UK, USA, Germany and Denmark during the summer of 2015. Honda next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than pure water vapor.

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Fuel Electric Vehicles Market Hydrogen 281

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

They used GREET 1 fuel-cycle and GREET 2 vehicle-cycle models to determine GHG (CO 2 , CH 4 , and N 2 O) and criteria air contaminant (CAC) (PM 2.5 , VOC, NO x , and SO x ) emissions. CNG HEV energy use and CO 2 emissions are both 30% lower than those of the CNG CV, because of fuel economy differences. —Luk et al.

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Climate Change Energy Gas-Electric Plug-in 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has concluded that regulatory incentives for OEMs for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) intended to encourage a technology transition in the transportation fleet result in increased fleet-wide gasoline consumption and emissions. —Jenn et al. Alan Jenn, Inês M. 5b02842.

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Gasoline Fleet Emissions Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Alternative fuel combustion. In the 5 topics areas of the FOA, the proposed project will focus on cost-effective measures to improve the on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% (compared to the 2016 baseline truck) to reduce transportation’s fuel use and climate change impacts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

GM developed the new engines for the company’s global vehicle portfolio; the engines will power many of the company’s highest-volume small cars and compact crossovers, including the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze specifically tailored for China, which launches in 2014 as a 2015 model. Primary development of the 1.0L turbocharged and 1.5L

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Engine GM Oil-Sands Oil 261

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

A Fuel Switch for Today Continues To Evolve In the past, renewable diesel was considered a niche product that failed to attract mainstream investor interest. Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight.

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Renewable Diesel Oakland Fleet 83

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

billion worldwide—by 2050, this may not be achievable through improvements to the traditional internal combustion engine or alternative fuels: the traditional combustion engine is expected to improve by 30%, so achieving full decarbonisation is not possible through efficiency alone.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 28, 2023

liter in-line 4-cylinder with tunable exhaust Twin scroll turbocharger with overboost Port and direct fuel injection Rear-wheel drive 315 horsepower (hp)/350 foot-pounds of torque (ft.-lb.) liter in-line 4-cylinder with tunable exhaust Twin scroll turbocharger with overboost Port and direct fuel injection Rear-wheel drive 315 hp/350 ft.

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Ford Fuel Economy Convert MPG 91

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Similarly, in response to an invitation by President Obama, ARB worked closely with USEPA and NHTSA on the development of national GHG and fuel economy requirements for 2017-2025. With the proposed changes, to the CFO regulation would: Apply only to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) and ZEV fuels.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This fuel economy is encouraging, but it will take a wide open road with little traffic and lots of patience to equal it. If fuel economy is your primary focus and you can live without high performance, the standard turbocharged 2.3L This car begs to be driven with great elan , so real world driving will use more fuel.

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Ford MPG Fuel Economy Shelby 89

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Out on the freeway, Comfort provided a comfortable ride and was preferred to Eco, where the acceleration response, gearshift points and air conditioning were reduced to get the best fuel economy. These are the fuel economy ratings for each engine, with rear wheel drive (RWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD.) RWD 21/31/24.

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MPG Fuel Economy Clean Cleaning 87

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 1, 2023

Genesis began as a stand-alone company in 2015 and is just now hitting its stride with a line-up of sedans and SUVs that get rave reviews. Turbocharged+Supercharged Under the hood–power and surprising fuel economy The potent power from the turbocharged and electric supercharged 3.5-liter But things are changing for them.

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Fuel Economy MPG Lexus Miles 89

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Acura RDX has been one of the best-selling compact premium SUVs since 2006, and has sold more than 50,000 every year since 2015. The EPA fuel economy numbers of 21 mpg city/26 highway/23 combined are almost exactly what we got covering 301 miles driving through Southern California.

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Acura MPG Fuel Economy SUV 80

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 23, 2021

To maximize fuel economy, selecting the Normal drive mode is key to equaling or besting the EPA rating of 30 mpg city/34 highway/32 combined. Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. Road Test: 2015 Chevrolet Trax.

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Hyundai Fuel Economy MPG Economy 52

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 8, 2023

Clean Fleet Report was not in the Crosstrek long enough to report a fuel economy number, so come back after we have had the Crosstrek for a full week to see what it does in the real world (the 2024 Crosstrek will be in Subaru dealers in the fall of 2023). Story by John Faulkner. Photos by John Faulkner and Subaru. Video by Subaru.

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MPG SUV Clean Cleaning 85

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 18, 2022

The EPA rated the Santa Cruz’ fuel economy at 19 mpg city/27 highway/22 combined. Flash Drive: 2015 GMC Canyon. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels. Photos by John Faulkner and Hyundai. [

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Hyundai MPG Clean Cleaning 85

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Genesis began as a stand-alone company in 2015 and is just now hitting its stride with a line-up of sedans and SUVs that get rave reviews. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels. Rising to the top of the EV pack.

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All-Electric Miles Clean Cleaning 109