Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. He has a Ph.D. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. —Pavlenko et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

In California, the transportation sector is responsible for nearly 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and is also by far the largest source of smog-causing pollution and fine particle pollution. We have a very tall hill to climb and we want to introduce clean technologies as quickly as possible. We need a great leap forward.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to find under section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial aircraft engines endanger the health and welfare of Americans by contributing to climate change. The ICAO standards are expected to be adopted in early 2016. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

FP GreenFleet, the clean transportation manufacturing, sales and service division of First Priority Global, will serve as a vehicle builder for EDI customers requiring volume builds, beginning with initial production orders in the latter part of 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. The presence of ammonia was first discovered in the upper troposphere in 2016 using the analysis of averaged MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) infrared limb-emission spectra.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the regulatory authority for international shipping, decided to implement a global sulfur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) (5,000 ppm) on fuel oil starting 1 January 2020 during its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), meeting for its 70 th session in London.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

For the most part, they look, sound and act like a traditional car, but there’s one major difference: their engines run on batteries and not on internal combustion powered by fossil fuels. The pros of going gasless include reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel expense and—most importantly—less pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

China Yuchai International Limited, a leading manufacturer and distributor of engines for on- and off-road applications in China through its main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited (GYMCL), launched 14 new engines compliant with China’s more stringent National VI emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Selective catalytic reduction is a technically feasible, cost-effective way to achieve the limits on nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions from ships mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for 2016, according to a study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

UK-based Emissions Analytics, a specialist in real-world, on-road vehicle emissions measurement and analysis, plans to launch a new initiative in 2016 to help consumers, policy makers and vehicle manufacturers better understand the real-world emissions of NO x from new cars. Dr. Adam Boeis – Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas. Electric vehicle share of new 2016 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

l/100 km) in 2016, the The ICCT team assessed increased consumer label fuel economy (as opposed to the regulatory test fuel economy) to 35 mpg (6.71 The resulting trajectory would reduce CO 2 emissions by half and increase fuel economy by more than 60% from 2016 through 2030. Starting from a baseline 26 mpg (9.04

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

As the next steps in a strategy to cut harmful emissions from ocean-going vessels, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new engine emissions and fuel standards for large marine diesel engines on US-flagged ships that would harmonize with international standards. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

According to the report, apart from being inaccessible to many of the world’s most vulnerable, the transport sector today is plagued by high fossil fuel use, rising greenhouse gas emissions, air and noise pollution, an alarming number of road fatalities, and a reluctance to embrace digitalization. Non-Annex I countries averaged 4.8%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

EPA has issued a notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. The software produced by Volkswagen is a “defeat device,” as defined by the Clean Air Act. collectively referred to here as Volkswagen). —EPA NOV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Pasha’s terminal is adjacent to Wilmington, a community recognized by the state as disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The US and Canada have submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the designation of an Emission Control area (ECA) around their coastlines in which stringent international emission controls would apply to ocean-going ships. Chart of the proposed North American Emission Control Area. Source: EPA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. In fact, the Air Force is aiming to get half of its domestic jet fuel from alternative sources by 2016. We have to find ways to boost our efficiency so that we use less oil. And we have to do it quickly.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The regulation harmonizes with international standards (the amendments to Annex VI to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, MARPOL) and will lead to significant air quality improvements throughout the country. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) million in 2020, increasing to $47.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With 140,000 units produced worldwide, the Fuso Canter is an international hit in the light-duty-truck sector and easily the best-selling truck model at Daimler Trucks. There are three versions of the engine with internal designation 4P10 available: 96 kW (130 hp) at 3000-3500 rpm, 300 N·m at 1300-3050 rpm.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This new staff discussion draft focuses energy tax policy on stimulating domestic, clean production of electricity and transportation fuels, which account for 68% of energy consumed in the US. These proposals are intended to promote domestic energy production and reduce pollution. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2018

In 2016, the IMO confirmed that global refiners and shippers would have to comply with these new environmental regulations five years earlier than many anticipated, which sent tidal waves through two industries that typically take many years to adapt to such significant change.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a summary of its proposed Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) regulation package ( earlier post ), which establishes stringent new emissions standards for light duty vehicles from 2015 through 2025. Further documents will be released on 7 December. Earlier post.) Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Because quickly rising natural gas production outpaces domestic consumption, the United States will become a net exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2016 and a net exporter of total natural gas (including via pipelines) in 2020. The United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas earlier than estimated a year ago.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. Boom Supersonic.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. Theoretically, cars operating on higher ethanol blends than the design point could emit greater concentrations of pollutants in exhaust gas. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

.” – Carlos Ghosn “We will not stop until every car on the road is electric” – Elon Musk “As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven’t gone bankrupt is a grand total of two. ” – Alexandra Paul “In order to have clean air in cities, you have to go electric.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. NANOSLIDE is even used to reduce the internal friction in the latest Mercedes Formula One engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In 2016, Germany launched a 3-year study of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean diesel fuels with €800,000 (US$894,000). Scientists from TUM’s Chair of Internal Combustion Engines are involved in the project, along with DENSO Automotive Germany, IAV and Ford Research and Innovation Center. Earlier post.)

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. “It’s a conundrum because ultimately there aren’t too many clean energy sources.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

In 2016, nearly 200 countries ratified the Paris Agreement, an international treaty to reduce emissions and slow global warming. In addition to automobiles, the White House seeks to decarbonize energy , end deforestation, improve carbon management and address potent pollutants. first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2016

Researchers from Penn State and the University of Michigan have characterized the nanostructure and oxidative reactivity of soot generated by a light-duty turbodiesel engine operating under a dilute, low-temperature combustion process referred to as high-efficiency clean combustion (HECC). THC and CO as well as NO x and PM. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. But that might be mitigated, in theory, if space solar displaced fossil fuels and helped the world transition to clean electricity.

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