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Average emissions from new passenger cars in Europe increased for the third consecutive year in 2019, reaching 122.3?grams million new cars were registered in 2019 in the EU, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom, and about 38% of these were SUVs. In 2019, average CO 2 emissions from all new cars reached 122.3 g CO 2 /km.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Toyota is offering a new electric all-wheel drive system (AWD-e) on the facelifted 2019 Prius. The Prius AWD-e uses an independent electric, magnet-less rear motor (a Toyota first) to power the rear wheels from 0 to 6 mph, then when needed, up to 43 mph. FWD models will feature a Li-ion battery.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Following a year of rapid growth in 2018, in which sales nearly doubled from the previous year, sales of plug-in electric vehicles in the US declined in 2019, due to lower sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Source: Argonne National Laboratory, Light Duty Electric Drive Vehicles Monthly Sales Updates, December 2019.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the last quarter of 2019, EU demand for diesel cars further decreased , dropping to 29.5% Gasoline cars accounted for 57.3% of the EU market, while electrically?chargeable Overall in 2019, almost 60% of all new cars registered in the European Union ran on gasoline (58.9%, compared to 56.6% Electrically?chargeable

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

Hochrad purchased his first hybrid car more than 15 years ago, and over the years has driven dedicated electric vehicles as well. His new NEXO will deliver about five times the driving range of his first all-electric car. The NEXO Blue model has an estimated range of 380 miles, 115 more than the Tucson Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The estimated annual fuel costs for model year (MY) 2019 all-electric light-duty vehicles are the lowest of all the different vehicle technologies, ranging from a low of $500 to a high of $900 per year, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). regular gasoline; $3.00 premium gasoline; $2.85 regular gasoline; $3.00

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JULY 8, 2021

million b/d from 2019. million b/d—surpassing 2019 levels. million b/d (12%) from 2019 consumption. million b/d (12%) from 2019 consumption. million b/d in 2022, which would surpass the 2019 level. US regular gasoline retail prices averaged $2.78 In June, monthly retail gasoline prices averaged $3.06/gal,

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With a 1% increase in sales and increasing battery pack size, all-electric vehicles (EVs) captured a record amount of total plug-in vehicle battery capacity sold in 2019, 17.4 PHEV sales decreased 32% from 2018 to 2019, about the same as the decrease in PHEV battery capacity.

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JULY 28, 2020

In a recent report assessing multiple properties of plug-ion electric vehicles (PEVs) solid in the US, a team from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) estimates that the energy savings in the United States due to light-duty PEVs in 2019 was 44.8 Gasoline conversion to Btu using gross heating value 125,000 Btu/gallon. More than 1.4

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in 2019, according to latest official data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). from 2018 to 2019. When these removals are included, the overall reduction from 1990 to 2019 amounts to 25.9%. However, CO 2 emissions from the transport sector continued their increasing trend in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Toyota has introduced the fifth-generation 2019 Toyota RAV4. Gasoline models arrive next month, and RAV4 Hybrid models follow in late March 2019. 2019 RAV4 Hybrid. The 2019 RAV4 105.9-inch Power and efficiency both make a leap in the 2019 RAV4 with the new Dynamic Force 2.5-liter comes standard. inches (181.5

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JUNE 27, 2020

2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. g CO 2 /km in 2019, reaching 122.4

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JULY 7, 2021

quadrillion British thermal units (Btu), down 9% from 2019 and the lowest level since 1991, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. Petroleum products, including motor gasoline, distillate fuel oil (diesel), and hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), accounted for 44% of US fossil fuel consumption in 2020.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Toyota Motor Europe reported 2019 sales of 1,089,422 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, an increase of +5.2% With more than 550,000 hybrid electric vehicles sold, representing 52% of the total mix, Toyota and Lexus offers a total of 20 hybrid models, the widest range of full hybrid electric vehicles in the industry. growth on 2018.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Ford will enhance the fuel-efficient Mondeo Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicle range—including the introduction of the first Mondeo Hybrid wagon variant—from 2019. The Ford Mondeo Hybrid powertrain uses an electric motor to support the specially-developed 2.0-liter

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In the second quarter of 2020, the market share of electrically-chargeable vehicles increased to 7.2% The overall decline in passenger car registrations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the diesel and gasoline segments in particular, although together those still account for more than 80% of car sales. in 2019 to 7.2%

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executives outlined plans to provide a range of power technologies spanning diesel and natural gas engines to fully electric and hybrid powertrains. Cummins will begin electrified powertrain delivery in 2019, including full battery-electric and plug-in hybrid systems. During a teleconference yesterday, Cummins Inc.

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JUNE 22, 2020

A team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Idaho National Laboratory has produced a detailed assessment of the current levelized cost of light-duty electric-vehicle charging (LCOC) in the United States, considering when, where, and how EVs are charged. The analysis is published in the journal Joule. Borlaugh et al.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will stage the global premiere of the new 2019 model year Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV at the upcoming Geneva show. MMC launched the Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid electric Twin Motor SUV in 2013. The 2019 model year Outlander PHEV features a next-generation system with both EV and SUV breakthroughs.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volvo Cars has published a lifecycle analysis report on its second fully electric car, the C40 Recharge, which shows the potential CO 2 reductions if a car is built and charged using clean energy sources. However, a significantly lower carbon footprint is achieved when charging the car with renewable electricity, such as wind power.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Road-tripping along in the 2019 Audi e-tron, your passenger might not even know (or care) that you’re in an all-electric utility vehicle—rather than just an extraordinarily quiet gasoline one. And as the driver, you might even forget.

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MARCH 26, 2018

The all-new, production version of the 2019 Insight ( earlier post ) will make its global production debut at the 2018 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS). liter Atkinson cycle engine, electric propulsion motor, and lithium-ion battery pack. Like Civic, the Insight also features variable-ratio dual-pinion electric power steering.

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JUNE 22, 2020

For many households, public charging infrastructure is necessary for electric cars to replace gasoline vehicles, while for companies or utilities, electric cars are necessary to support such an infrastructure. Which comes first?

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APRIL 12, 2019

Developed from a fully electric vehicle, the Outlander PHEV has an architecture consisting of a front electric motor, a rear electric motor and no gearbox. The latest 2019 Outlander PHEV model delivers lowered CO 2 emissions levels, with 40 g/km (NEDC Correlated)/46 g/km (WLTP) and excellent fuel economy, with 1.8

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MAY 30, 2018

Hyundai’s model-year 2019 IONIQ lineup—hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric— adds new and broader applications of active safety features, enhanced voice-recognition features and standard remote charge management for Plug-in and Electric models. 2019 Ioniq Plug-in Hybrid. 2019 Ioniq Plug-in Hybrid.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) K Sedan platform, the 2019 Avalon is powered by two new TNGA powertrains: a punchy 3.5-liter liter Dynamic Force four-cylinder Toyota Hybrid System II (THS II) with 650-volt electric motor (A25A-FXS) and Continuously-Variable Transmission (CVT). 2019 Avalon Hybrid.

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JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. The effective upgrading of alcohols to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

More than 2 million employees in the sector worked with conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles in 2018, up 1.4% About 110,000 employees worked with hybrid electric vehicles, up 10% from 2017. Electric vehicle employees grew 21% and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle employees grew 31% from 2017 to 2018.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

of passenger cars sold in the EU were electrically-chargeable vehicles, compared to 3.0% in July-September 2019 to 75.4% Gasoline car sales posted an even stronger drop (-24.3%), going from more than 1.7 This represents a market share of 47.5%, with gasoline going below the mark of 50% for the first time since 2016.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Small amounts of biofuels, electricity, and coal were also imported. Exports of primary energy from the United States were led by petroleum products (48%), followed by crude oil, natural gas, and coal, with small amounts of biofuels and electricity. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, December 2019, Tables 1.4a

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). million users in London in 2019 and with 2.7 This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6 million users in France in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

BMW will introduce a new X5 plug-in hybrid, the BMW X5 xDrive45e iPerformance, in Europe in 2019, to be followed by a US model in 2020. The new x5 plug-in hybrid combines a model-specific in-line 6-cylinder gasoline engine featuring BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology with the latest BMW eDrive technology. Earlier post.) It comprises a 3.0-liter

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Increased economic activity and a changing fuel mix in the electric power sector in 2021 will lead to a significant increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Gasoline prices averaged $3.14

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MAY 13, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020, the electrically-chargeable vehicle segment in Europe significantly increased its market share, rising to 6.8% (from 2.5% in Q1 2019) against the backdrop of the overall decline in passenger car registrations due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Gasoline and diesel cars. for the first quarter of 2019).

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APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. —Cohn and Bromberg (2019). —Daniel Cohn.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Natural gas and diesel hybrid drivetrains have replaced the greatest share of diesel buses followed by biodiesel and “other” buses, which include hydrogen, electric, and propane. Transit bus share by fuel type (CNG, LNG & Blends; Diesel; Diesel Hybrid; Gasoline; Biodiesel; and Other) from 1996 to 2018.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ), available in the Serena minivan ( earlier post ), has been named Technology of the Year for 2019 by the Automotive Researchers’ and Journalists’ Conference of Japan (RJC). Serena e-POWER. liter engine. km/L (62 mpg US, 3.8 l/100 km), Nº 1 in its class.

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