Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

EPA projects advanced transmissions (6+ speeds and CVTs), gasoline direct injection (GDI) systems, and turbocharged engines will be installed on at least 15% of all MY 2013 vehicles. The majority of the emissions and fuel savings from current vehicles, EPA noted, is due to new gasoline vehicle technologies. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. More efficient gasoline engines. The death of the V-8 has been greatly exaggerated, Akerson said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The standards are projected to result in average fleet-wide consumer fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles per gallon (mpg) by model year 2025, 10 mpg higher than the current fleet average. The Standards Will Achieve Significant CO 2 and Oil Reductions. EPA projects that this GHG compliance level of 51.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Oil’s monopoly as a transport fuel will erode, though it will remain a major part of the automotive landscape, the study says. In this scenario, global oil demand still rises from 98 mbd today to 115 mbd in 2040 (the study also explores a more radical scenario in which oil demand in 2040 is less than it is today).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

FFVs are designed to operate on any gasoline-ethanol mixture of up to 83% ethanol. FFVs currently represent about 8% of the US passenger vehicle fleet. The EPA is proposing environmentally protective fuel quality specifications for EFF that are consistent with those already in place for gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline. The Cool Planet plant will produce approximately 8 million to 10 million gallons of high-octane, renewable gasoline blendstocks (reformate), as well the biochar, all made from sustainable wood residues. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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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. —Sandeep Sayal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

On 27 October 2016, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced that beginning on 1 January 2020, the maximum sulfur content allowed in marine bunker fuel will be reduced from 3.50% mass by mass (m/m) to 0.50% m/m (35,000 ppm to 5,000 ppm)—five years earlier than many expected. Earlier post.) —Kurt Barrow.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The majority of the carbon and oil savings from current vehicles is due to new gasoline vehicle technologies, the report observed. The final MY 2013 adjusted, real world CO 2 emissions rate for all light-duty gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles is 369 g/m—a 7 g/mi decrease relative to MY 2012. Source: EPA. Fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Economy 2012 EPA Economy 284

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2015

Land Rover will offer the option of diesel powertrains in two 2016 model year luxury SUVs: the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. Peak torque arrives at 1,750 rpm in the Td6 while the gasoline V6 produces its 332 lb-ft (450 N·m) at 3,500 rpm. seconds for gasoline V6 models. l/100 km) on the highway. for the Range Rover.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2016

Analysis was performed using GREET2014, and vehicle and fuel pathways are constrained to those deemed scalable to approximately 10% of the LDV fleet. The selected fuel pathways were constrained to those deemed to be scalable to at least approximately 10% of LDV fleet demand in the future. Resources. Elgowainy, J. Lindauer, T.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. The statement of task specifically asks how the on-road LDV fleet could reduce, relative to 2005, petroleum use by 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050, and GHG emissions by 80% by 2050. Source: NRC.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

Global energy demand will increase 25% between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil forecasts in the 2016 edition of its annual The Outlook for Energy. Light-duty vehicle fleet by type - projections. Per capita income in those countries is likely to increase by 135%.

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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. Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs. References. [

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Not only is it more powerful and contains up to 30% better efficiency than traditional gasoline, etc. Essentially, Belzowski and his colleague Paul Green found that drivers of diesel vehicles can save thousands of dollars in total ownership costs compared to similar gasoline vehicles. You move from one pump to the other.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. per gallon cheaper than gasoline and diesel; and. Sundrop Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2012

The first phase, from MYs 2017-2021, includes final standards that are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis, a range from 40.3—41.0 NHTSA projects that those standards could require, on an average industry fleet wide basis, a range from 48.7–49.7 mpg US (5.84 L/100km) in MY 2021. L/100km) in model year 2025.

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MPG 2017 EPA Fuel Economy 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The transmission also is “fill for life” not requiring oil changes during normal driving conditions. That quantity of gasoline is worth approximately $2.5 With the Council’s approval, work in the plant will begin immediately and be completed in the third quarter 2016. billion at the pump, based on current fuel-price forecasts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

For purposes of the new HD National Program, the heavy-duty fleet incorporates all on-road vehicles rated at a gross vehicle weight at or above 8,500 pounds, and the engines that power them, except those covered by the current GHG emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2012-2016 passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

These vehicles make up the transportation segment’s second-largest contributor to oil consumption and GHG emissions. The proposed NHTSA standards represent an average per-vehicle improvement in fuel consumption of 15% for diesel vehicles and 10% for gasoline vehicles, compared to a common baseline. Vocational Trucks. off-cycle”).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016. The 70’s oil crisis came and went; the loss of USA domestic market share occurred and a recent bankruptcy wave that hit the industry. in West Virginia to $6.12

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016. Expanding manufacturing. The American Power Act.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Opel is launching three new engine families and 13 new engines between 2012 and 2016, renewing 80% of its engine portfolio. billion) through 2016—is beginning the renewal of its powertrain portfolio now with the introduction of all-new 1.6-liter SIDI Turbo gasoline engine. Variable displacement oil pump.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Three of the NHTSA scenarios for penetration of technologies for passenger cars for MY 2016. mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. Three of the NHTSA scenarios for penetration of technologies for light trucks for MY 2016. Data: Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The proposed CAFE standards are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis for cars and trucks combined, 40.1 The action builds on the first phase of the Obama Administration’s national program (2012-2016) ( earlier post ), which will raise fuel efficiency equivalent to 35.5 mpg US (5.87 Earlier post.).

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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. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline powered cars.” Fort and Tesla.”

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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. Most of the world’s vehicles run on gasoline, requiring fossil fuels. Research shows that gasoline-powered cars and trucks accounted for over 80% of vehicle sales in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. It is much more than that. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The concept for an all-EV reboot of the classic Type 2 Microbus appeared in 2016 and was confirmed for production in August 2017. 4 compact SUV now built in the company’s plant in Chattanooga, alongside the gasoline Atlas 3-row SUV. The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Overall, the number of hybrid models on sale in the US has declined (from 47 in 2015 to 31 in 2016), but average sales per model has increased (up to 11,194 in 2016). We are the highest fuel economy of any hybrid, of any gasoline car without a plug sold in the US. The idea is to give our customers choice.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Overall, the number of hybrid models on sale in the US has declined (from 47 in 2015 to 31 in 2016), but average sales per model has increased (up to 11,194 in 2016). We are the highest fuel economy of any hybrid, of any gasoline car without a plug sold in the US. The idea is to give our customers choice.

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Plug-in Hyundai Hybrid Plug 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Gains in new vehicle fleet economy by OEM, 2004-2009.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Trump also froze fines for fleet fuel-economy violators , after his administration lost a court battle to roll the fine amounts back—another move that indirectly likely suppressed the EV market. The oil industry was reportedly not as excited about this as the campaign had anticipated. businesses. According to the U.S.

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