Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the market for smaller gensets, we can make a significant difference now bringing down CO 2 emissions and air pollution. At the fuel cell factory in Aalborg, Denmark, Blue World Technologies currently has an annual cell production capacity of 15 MW. So, this is where we start, one generator at a time.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still being emitted above legal limits in 10 European Union (EU) Member States according to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The main reasons for the exceedances are emissions from road transport (NO x ) and agriculture (NH 3 ).

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JULY 4, 2017

Eleven EU Member States breached air pollution ceilings in 2015 mostly due to high emissions from agricultural and transport sources, according to new data and a briefing released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The briefing includes information on countries’ 2015 emissions and national ceilings for different pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The fuel cell factory, which initially has an annual production capacity of 250,000 individual fuel cells, is located in an industrial area at the Port of Aalborg in Denmark. Blue World Technologies has started the series production of its methanol fuel cells, marked with the official inauguration of the 8,500 m 2 Blue Aalborg Factory.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions.

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MARCH 25, 2018

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark have synthesized more than a decade’s worth of combustion studies to create a new overarching model of how nitrogen oxides are produced. —Glarborg et al. NO x production is one of the main concerns for engine companies.

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MAY 2, 2013

The latest edition of “ Monitoring CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars in the EU ” includes provisional data on vehicles sold in 2012. It shows that average CO 2 emissions from the new car fleet in the EU fell by 2.6 % between 2011 and 2012. —Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director. EEA report.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2020

in the air are more likely to develop asthma and persistent wheezing than children who are not exposed, according to an open-access study by researchers in Denmark published in the BMJ. These findings support emerging evidence that exposure to air pollution might influence the development of asthma, say the researchers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

A team of researchers at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility and the Technical University of Denmark have developed an optical setup for quantitative, high-temporal resolution line-of-sight extinction imaging in harsh optical environments. However, this comes at the cost of higher particulate matter emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are very happy to take our partnership with DB Schenker to the next level with these 36 locally emission-free FUSO eCanter trucks. Together, we are taking a further step in electrifying urban logistics, contributing to decreased noise and air pollution in major cities across eleven European countries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The hybrid drives combine a modern diesel engine with an electric motor and batteries to recover braking energy, reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by up to 25%. In addition, the ability to run under battery power only can reduce noise pollution in city areas and stations by 75% (20 dB(A)).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2019

We strongly believe that methanol is the way to go in the transition for green liquid fuels—but we also need to create a technology for our cars that will help us overcome the environmental challenges we are facing with severe air pollution. Denmark-based Blue World Technologies closed its first investment round earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

None of the EEA scenarios considered delivered the targeted reduction in transport GHG emissions. The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Since our initial announcement of this project, we’ve heard from cities around the world interested in converting their taxi fleets as a concrete way to fight CO 2 emissions and urban pollution. Electric taxis are a pragmatic step forward for governments as well as a lucrative segment in the electrification of transport.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

—is establishing a Marine Center of Excellence (Marine CoE) dedicated to fuel cell marine applications at the company’s engineering, manufacturing and service facility in Hobro, Denmark. The Marine CoE will design and manufacture heavy duty fuel cell modules to address zero-emission powertrain requirements for the marine industry.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

Further, it asked the EU to impose a strict regime limiting soot emissions and the use of heavy fuel oil by vessels calling at EU ports prior to voyages through Arctic waters. Denmark, Sweden and Finland are the three EU Member States represented in the AC.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

Catalytic converters in cars, for example, reduce emissions by converting exhaust to less toxic compounds. This work was supported by DOE’s Office of Science, the Swedish National Research Council, the Danish Center for Scientific Computing, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Supportive policies should work to ensure that EV owners are able to capture the full economic value of their decision to fuel switch from electricity to gasoline, including any benefits to the grid operator, and any emission reduction benefits, in addition to realizing the savings from replacing gasoline or diesel fuel with electricity.

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AUGUST 9, 2009

A team of researchers from the US, Denmark and New Zealand have discovered a process through which a prevalent biogenic nonmethane hydrocarbon compound emitted by trees—isoprene—forms atmospheric particulate matter (i.e., Global isoprene emissions from plants are estimated at more than 500 teragrams each year. Paulot et al.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Risø, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), is developing an electrochemical method for purifying exhaust, especially exhaust gases from diesel engines. liter diesel engine at Dinex Emission Technology A/S. Source: Risø. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

The benefits of alternative fuels are initially larger in urban areas where pollutant emissions are of great concern and in freight transport where alternatives have reached a sufficient level of maturity. However, the alternatives available and their cost differ between modes.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2012

It finds that nitrogen oxides air pollution from traffic, households and industry is above internationally agreed limits in: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, [.]. New data from the European Environmental Agency (EEA) suggests that 12 countries in particular still have a long way to go.

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

In the early 2000's there was the “Euro 1” emission standard. The final stage is Zero Emissions. Only electric vehicles offers zero local emissions. 22 Indian cities are among the 30 most polluted cities across the world owing to the rising concentration of 2.5-micron Absolutely not.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” _ Elon Musk “Electric cars aren’t pollution free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.” Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline powered cars.” Fort and Tesla.” ” – Alexandra Paul “In order to have clean air in cities, you have to go electric.”

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Photo by Takeaway on Wikimedia Commons The Hague, Netherlands’ third-largest city, has passed a local ordnance banning fossil fuel advertisements and ads for other highly-polluting services in the city, becoming the first city in the world to do so. Bicycles are heavily used within Dutch cities, and bike infrastructure is ubiquitous.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Denmark / 146 / 160 / 12.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? yay same plug! excluding coal power in china.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

So would these tax hikes linked to the amount we pollute be justified? According to the think-tank, the blitz is essential for the UK to meet its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by around a third in that time. We take a look…. Is a green tax blitz justified?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. The idea of self-sufficient cities is gaining currency in the European Union, which has set itself the ambitious task of cutting carbon dioxide (CO{-2}) emissions to one-fifth below 1990 levels by 2020 ?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2020

All of the EU’s member states but two have failed to show how they will slash air pollution to comply with the emissions limits set out in the EU’s National Emission Ceilings Directive, according to a new report from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). —“National Air Pollution Control Programmes”.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to a greater incidence of high blood pressure, according to the largest study to investigate the effects of both air pollution and traffic noise by following more than 41,000 people in five different countries for five to nine years. less than or equal to 2.5

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. Switzerland leads the world in sustainability, followed by France, Denmark, Malta, and Sweden. average exposure, and PM 2.5 Source: EPI.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. They will not meet my needs.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Death rattle of the internal combustion engine sparks a political battle – A nine-country coalition led by the Netherlands and Denmark called on the European Commission to decide on a phaseout date for the internal combustion engine as part of efforts to curb emissions and put the bloc on track to meet its climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

Researchers from the University of Siena in Italy and Aarhus University in Denmark are suggesting that the high level of pollution in Northern Italy should be considered an additional co-factor of the high level of COVID-19 fatalities recorded in that area. Environmental Pollution , doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114465.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. they only developed it because California forced them with the 0 emission law, and the MOMENT the car and oil lobbyist and lawyers were able to kill the car, GM recalled every EV1 and destroyed them.

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