Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2024

The companies, Brooklyn-based Amogy and Osaka-based Yanmar , say they plan to combine their respective areas of expertise to develop power plants for ships that use Amogy’s advanced technology for cracking ammonia to produce hydrogen fuel for Yanmar’s hydrogen internal combustion engines. We have a long way to go,” Prousalidis says. “I

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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.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many school districts use diesel buses for fuel efficiency, but even diesel exhaust was classified as a known carcinogen to humans in 2012. NIEHS goes on to say that air pollution is also linked to cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other disorders.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

Approximately 32% of the heavy-duty transit vehicles operating in California are diesel-fueled. For agencies that are operating diesel buses, diesel hybrids represent about 50% of bus purchases, even though there is no purchase requirement. Urban bus fleets had to select either a diesel path or an alternative-fuel path.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Thirteen companies have signed up to launch the GIA, under the auspices of the GloMEEP Project, a Global Environment Facility (GEF)-United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-International Maritime Organization (IMO) project aimed at supporting developing countries in the implementation of energy efficiency measures for shipping.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Hilarides Dairy is converting cow manure to produce bio-methane to fuel trucks and generators while minimizing pollution and diversifying energy sources. Dairy farm owner, Rob Hilarides, converted two heavy-duty diesel trucks to run on bio-methane produced from his cows’ manure.

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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

JUNE 19, 2013

The IMO (International Maritime Organization) has chosen DNV to gather knowledge about the potential of LNG powered international shipping in the North American Emission Control Area (ECA) and identify the necessary conditions for the successful implementation of LNG as a fuel source in the region.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

At the time, Americans were slurping leaded fuel through massive V8 sedans. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. There’s encouraging progress in alternate fuels like CNG and ethanol too. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

Through the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, established by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), the Energy Commission provides up to $100 million per year toward the development and deployment of low?carbon duty vehicles from diesel to natural gas. The 2014-2015 plan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The components can be combined to model a large variety of new or existing fuel blends. Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development formed in 1960 when 18 European countries plus the US and Canada joined forces to create an organization dedicated to global development. Alternative fuels include biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen and electricity from the grid. Source: OECD. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

CLEPA (the European umbrella membership organization representing the interests of the global automotive supply industry) and EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D from the major European passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturers) jointly prepared the document.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $17,223,593 for eight projects including alternative fuel production, plug-in truck demonstrations, EV charging station deployment, and infrastructure planning. The fuel produced will be enough to replace 56,000 gallons of conventional diesel. Blue Line Transfer, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Farmers are exempt from the carbon pollution compliance obligations in the bill. Emissions from the transportation sector will remain under the carbon pollution cap. The bill only requires the largest sources of pollution to comply with reduction targets: those who produce more than 25,000 tons of carbon pollution annually.

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Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 Among the questions to be considered: How much investment is needed to bring the alternative fuel vehicle market to maturity, and when can that be expected?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

A 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin found that despite technical advances, cruising remains a major source of air, water and land pollution affecting fragile habitats and human health. Despite emitting around 25 percent less carbon dioxide than conventional marine fuels, they say, L.N.G.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Detroit News ).

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