Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The fuel produced at the plant will deliver a reduction of more than 70% in greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional fossil jet fuel, equivalent to taking almost 27,000 petrol or diesel cars off the road each year. British Airways will be joining LanzaTech, Mitsui and Suncor Energy as investors in LanzaJet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ford Motor Company announced that the all-new Ford Mondeo (which is badged as Fusion in the US) in Europe will offer a new high-power diesel engine in addition to a new 1.0L The high-powered diesel will be available in early 2015. liter diesel engine with anticipated class-leading diesel CO 2 emissions of 94 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

billion) funding to 23 highly renewable energy demonstration projects—including five advanced biofuels projects with maximum combined funding of €516.8 million, US$270 million); 3 ocean energy projects (€58.9 The European Commission awarded more than €1.2 billion (US$1.6 million, or US$687 million) for maximum funding of €629.3

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The United Kingdom (UK) has delayed a ban on diesel and petrol cars by five years, officially pushing the initiative back to its original deadline. That means you’ll still be able to buy new petrol and diesel cars and vans until 2035, in line with countries like Germany and France.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a membrane-based extraction system for the production of biofuels which uses less than 25% of the energy of current processes and produces ten times more biofuel with more than 99.5% The open-access findings are published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2021

Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Eoin Bannon EU lawmakers should set an end date for selling new combustion engine cars in Europe no later than 2035, 27 companies have said in a joint appeal this week.¹ The open call will continue to gather support for a phase-out ahead of the review of EU car and van […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years. An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Researchers at UC Berkeley have devised a new process that integrates chemical catalysis with extractive fermentation selectively to produce gasoline, jet and diesel blend stocks from lignocellulosic and cane sugars at yields near their theoretical maxima. Click to enlarge. —Harvey Blanch.

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My Energi

MARCH 9, 2023

• The average electric car remains cheaper to run than an equivalent petrol car • Fuel prices would need to fall below £1 per litre to make petrol cars cheaper to run • Electric car registrations exceeded expectations in 2022, beating forecasts by 7% Despite the average price of petrol falling below £1.50 With fuel at £1.50

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We therefore examine the feasibility of electric driving taking into account not only drivetrain choices, but also driving patterns, changes in the electricity mix, charging patterns, and energy losses in relevant parts of the WTW chain. All reference car configurations except the diesel use gasoline engines, because the. We therefore.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

coli), there have been a few research results on the production of long-chain alkanes, which consist of 13-17 carbon atoms, suitable for replacing diesel. There have been a few reports on the bio-based production of C 13 –C 17 long-chain hydrocarbons for substituting for diesel. Here we report the development of engineered E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2010

The rules for certification schemes are part of a set of guidelines explaining how the Renewable Energy Directive, coming into effect in December 2010, should be implemented. Günther Oettinger, Commissioner responsible for Energy. Every Member States has to reach individual national targets for the overall share of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. In 2017, gasoline cars became more popular (53% of new registrations) than diesel cars (45%) for the first time since the monitoring started.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

It is far too early to dismiss the conventional diesel and petrol power trains. In the last two years Volvo has brought CO 2 emissions from our diesel and petrol model ranges down by 13 percent. We continuously improve their efficiency. —Stefan Jacoby. Both predictions are unrealistic. —Stefan Jacoby.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to boost economic growth and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, but the global rate of progress is slowing, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Global primary energy demand rose by 2.3% In the United States, primary demand increased for the first time since 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

A common EU methodology by the Commission, by 2023, for assessing the full life cycle of CO 2 emissions of cars and vans placed on the EU market, as well as for the fuels and energy consumed by these vehicles. This is especially important now that the prices of diesel and petrol continue to rise.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2011

million) under the Energy Theme of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The resulting battery device is intended to be low cost, have low environmental impact and have the energy and power density necessary to compete will alternative battery technologies in the hybrid and EV markets. million (US$3.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2011

The UK Universities of Birmingham and Warwick launched a new lab to support investigations into the dynamic aspects of combustion of alternative fuels, as well as gasoline and diesel, with the aim of reducing harmful vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly greenhouse gasses.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. The most common way of powering an offshore oil rig is with a diesel generator.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In the case of very small wire cross-sections and a lightweight wiring harness, the 48-V system enables a considerably higher amount of energy to be saved than the 12-V system, e.g. via recuperation when the vehicle brakes. The 48V Li-ion battery is supplied with energy during a number of operations, including recuperation—i.e.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

This range includes the first four-cylinder engine with cylinder deactivation (ACT)—and the modular diesel engine system (MDB) with the also new EA288 engine series (66 kW / 89 hp to 140 kW / 188 hp). To ensure a uniform mounting position of all engines in the MQB, engineers rotated the cylinder head of the petrol engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Timing and sequencing of energy technology policy. Green cars” can be defined as vehicles that use alternative fuels (other than petrol or diesel) and/or alternative types of propulsion (other than the conventional ICE). Source: OECD. Click to enlarge. Alternative propulsion systems include hybrid and electric engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Through extensive real-world testing of electrified vehicles, Emissions Analytics has found that hybrids, whether in gasoline or diesel form, offer the highest CO 2 reduction per kWh across all electrified powertrains. —Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. Molden outlined two potential paths that are immediately available.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) will formulate the norms and notify them under the Energy Conservation Act while the surface transport ministry will ensure the implementation. The norms will be developed on the basis of mileage that petrol and diesel vehicles give, sources in the road transport and highway ministry told TOI.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2021

Two new studies from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Transport & Environment (T&E) have suggested that advances in technology would enable battery-powered heavy trucks like the Tesla Semi to become cheaper to own and run compared to their petrol and diesel counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Road transport accounts for 40 per cent of petroleum products consumed in the UK so a switch from conventional cars powered by petrol or diesel to EVs would have a much needed impact on reducing fuel demand. —“Electric avenues&Rdquo; The report is based on research commissioned by WWF-UK and prepared by Element Energy Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This propane-generating pathway is able to operate in the presence of oxygen, which opens up avenues for the application of this system in cyanobacteria, a type of bacteria that are powered by solar energy and have minimal nutritional requirements. —Dr.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. Energy recovery. Most powerful passenger-car diesel engine: OM 656.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ricardo has received UK Government funding to optimize in-car thermal and energy management systems to improve electric vehicle range and battery performance. The research will optimize energy consumption and driver/passenger comfort, with the aim of increasing electric vehicle range by 5% while reducing overall cost by 10%.

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Innovation News Network

JUNE 27, 2023

Find out how emissions from biofuels will be as bad as diesel and petrol due to large-scale land clearing. The post Are emissions from biofuels as bad as diesel and petrol? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(OME1 is made from methanol on a commercial scale and has a cetane number of 38; it can be mixed with additives to produce OME1a diesel fuel (CN 48).). The comparative figure for diesel is 113 g/km CO 2.). DME burns in the diesel engine without producing soot and offers the basis for extensive NO x reduction inside the engine.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 22, 2021

If all those cars burn petrol or diesel, the climate consequences will be dire. Electric cars emit fewer air pollutants and if they’re powered by renewable energy, driving one wouldn’t add to the greenhouse gases warming […]. By Professor Sebastien Farnaud There are more than 1.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The prize will be awarded for the development of a prototype battery that can power an electric vehicle with similar performance in terms of range and charging time as a conventional petrol/diesel powered small family vehicle. The EU Battery Alliance was established by Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šef?ovic Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

This year’s energy crisis means people don’t want to be so reliant on global supply chains, accelerating the move away from petrol and diesel. The shift towards EVs has mainly been driven by environmental, social and governance (ESG) related legislative changes, but momentum is also becoming led by demand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

Sample consumer and societal break-even curves for BEVs, with data points for a compact diesel for comparison. An alternate storyline might highlight the elevated upfront opportunity costs of reducing energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions via electric cars as opposed to advanced internal combustion engine vehicles and hybrids.

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