Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Honda will introduce the new 5-passenger, hydrogen-powered Clarity Fuel Cell sedan by the end of 2016, beginning with retail leasing to customers through its expanded network of 12 approved fuel cell vehicle dealerships located in select California markets.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Camry Hybrid 2025 Toytoa Camry Hybrid The current Camry offers the option of either a four- or six cylinder gasoline engine or a gasoline-electric hybrid. liter gasoline engine and twin electric motors. The LED tail lights wrap from the fender to the rear.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Honeywell’s Transportation Systems Forecast projects that turbocharged vehicles will acount for 48% of annual global sales by 2021, up 9 percentage points from 2016. In addition, Honeywell’s forecast calls for electric boosting products to help support compliance with more stringent national environmental standards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

For light duty freight vehicles (LDVs), the corresponding milestones would be reached in 2026 and 2040, respectively, according to the same optimistic policy scenario. The business-as-usual scenario posits new automobile sales changing only slowly from the market shares observed in 2016. Fridstrøm (2017). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota’s view of hydrogen. From the perspective of mobility zones based on travel distance, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles can match the everyday usability of a current gasoline car, and become mainstream environmentally friendly vehicles. However, the hydrogen infrastructure needs to be developed. —Yoshikazu Tanaka.

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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. Vehicles operating on electricity. Vehicles operating on hydrogen. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. Vehicles operating on biofuels. The committee also considered crosscutting technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

For example, the report finds that of the more than 1,300 conventional vehicle model configurations available in 2016, 23 truck configurations, 23 sport utility vehicle (SUV) configurations, and 26 passenger car configurations meet 2020 or later GHG standards with a conventional gasoline powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

In a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , they compared the water consumed per unit energy and per km traveled in light-duty vehicles. Petroleum-based gasoline and diesel consume slightly more water than CNG because of the water consumption associated with enhanced recovery technologies.

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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.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Broadly, compliance is achieved through biofuel blending (with both gasoline and diesel) and through the deployment of advanced vehicle technologies that use natural gas, electricity, and hydrogen. In Scenario 1 and Scenario 2, credits are banked through 2017 and 2016, respectively. light rail in transit) or forklifts.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2016

There will be world premieres for new advanced technologies, such as the Integrated Starter-Alternator (ISG); the 48 V electrical system; and the electric auxiliary compressor (eZV). The new six-cylinder in-line gasoline engine M 256 features a 48 V electrical system. Systematic electrification: new M 256.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to focus on significantly increasing the amount of cost-competitive electric power from renewable resources across the nation by further accelerating the development and commercialization of these technologies. Reduce the cost of plug-in vehicle battery technology to $300/kWh by 2015 and $125/kWh by 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

Dividing that forecast in to application segments—micro-, mild-, full-, and plug-in hybrids; mini-electric (e.g., the Prius) will represent the top Li-ion business opportunity from a dollar value perspective, followed by moderate hybrids and light electric vehicles (bikes and scooters), particularly in Asia. Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. Energy Secretary Chu’s decision to defund hydrogen fuel cell vehicle programs was an unexpected and welcome decision. Here's my June column.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

If there was ever a car on the road fitting the bill as future, it is the 2024 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). This is impressive as there are only 55 operating hydrogen fuel stations in the state and the availability of hydrogen is sometimes spotty. No plugging in to an electrical outlet.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is rare when we post a review of a car that is only available in one of the 50 United States, but such is the case with the 2022 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which is only sold in California. It is all about the hydrogen fueling station network, which is slowly being built out.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. As a gasoline technology, HCCI provides the fuel economy benefits of lean burn without requiring additional NO x after treatment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The ZEV regulation—along with new LEV III criteria pollutant and GHG standards—can be the catalyst to the process of transforming the California light-duty fleet, ARB staff suggests. The standard targets would reduce car CO 2 emissions by about 36% and truck CO 2 emissions by about 32% from model year 2016 through 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the final report from its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for a technology validation project that collected data from more than 180 fuel cell electric vehicles over six years (early 2005 through September 2011). These vehicles made more than 500,000 trips and traveled 3.6

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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. Gasoline internal-combustion engines rated second-most preferred at $2.50/gallon,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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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.) Clean Fuel Outlets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will issue , on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), a FY 2016 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement, with an estimated $56 million of total program funding, in the January 2016 timeframe.

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