Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Halewood will deliver to the vehicles’ assembly lines at Ford Otosan plants in Romania and Turkey, making up a significant share of Ford UK’s annual export value from the Merseyside plant, as well as Dagenham—currently worth £2.1 billion (US$2.6 billion) annually.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2017

Incentive programs for the purchase of a low-emission vehicle have been adopted across the world. The amounts granted and the mechanisms vary according to the individual program, but the goal is the same: reduce emissions. In recent years, governments have increasingly worked to encourage the sales of plug-in electric vehicles.

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Cash For Clunkers Romania Electric Cars Grant 123

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

MPI 90 Bioethanol benefits from tax incentives available in France—a 40% reduction when calculating its CO 2 emissions, which equates to eco-neutral status with regard to the country’s eco-bonus/surcharge system. The well-to-wheel CO 2 emissions of Dacia Sandero 1.6 Dacia Sandero 1.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2023

The Indian government is also striving to replace polluting energy systems such as diesel generators with sustainable energy solutions in order to reduce CO 2 emissions significantly. The company is headquartered in Brunnthal/Munich, Germany, operates production facilities in the Netherlands, Romania, Canada and India.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

There, d elegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania finalized an ambitious plan: to generate up to 6 gigawatts of clean energy in the Caucasus region, run the electricity through a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea, and deliver it to Europe. meet its increasingly strict emissions targets. It could help the E.U.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

L/100 km (47 mpg US), and CO 2 emissions performance of 114 g/km. A 100 PS (99 hp, 74 kW) version of the same engine will deliver best-in-class gasoline CO 2 emissions of 109 g/km. liter engine and with significantly improved fuel efficiency and lower CO 2 emissions. litre EcoBoost engine in early 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

All diesel models in the Fluence range have a CO 2 emissions rating of 119g/km and qualify for the Renault eco² signature. Renault Fluence, which goes on sale in Turkey from November, will have three main markets: Turkey, Russia and Romania. In 2007, it was the fourth-most popular car in Romania, with sales of more than 10,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

OMV’s plan foresees emission reduction targets of 30% in operations (Scope 1 & 2) and a 20% reduction target in the product portfolio (Scope 3) for 2030. The three European refineries in Austria, Germany, and Romania will continue to be run as one integrated system, optimizing plant utilization, and maximizing margins.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The novel system will be piloted in six European cities: Brno (Czech Republic), Bucharest (Romania), Florence (Italy), Munich (Germany), Oslo (Norway) and Vienna. —Bernhard Engleder of the City of Vienna.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

The actions will reduce CO 2 emissions by an estimated 15-25% at those facilities. This results in significant reductions of CO 2 emissions, as well as reductions in VOC compared to current medium-solids and solvent-borne paints. The only current location with 3-Wet capability in Europe is Craiova Assembly Plant, Craiova, Romania.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

liter EcoBoost—the fifth member of the EcoBoost family—will commence initially at Ford’s facility in Craiova, Romania, later this month. EcoBoost technologies enable improvements to both fuel efficiency of 20% and emissions of up to 15%. liter EcoBoost, while delivering improved fuel economy and lower CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The EEA quantified the damage costs arising from CO 2 emissions based on estimated marginal abatement cost. Finally, a different approach was used to quantify the damage costs arising from CO 2 emissions, based on estimated marginal abatement cost. Aggregated damage costs by pollutant. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A new European project, AMITRAN , is developing a methodology to assess the impact of ICT (information and communication technologies) and ITS (intelligent transport systems) on CO 2 emissions from the transport sector. Since present transport emissions are 27% above 1990 levels, this will be particularly difficult to achieve.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Costs are also high in Luxemburg, Germany, Romania, Italy and Austria, at around €0.08/km Diesel, used by most HGVs, causes more air pollution per kilometer than other fuels such as petrol. km (US$0.10).

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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). —by 2020 and 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

liter EcoBoost that will be the first non-hybrid gasoline-powered family car in Europe to offer 99 g/km CO2 emissions. liter EcoBoost is also built in Ford’s Craiova, Romania, engine plant. Ford in Europe recently announced a new version of the Focus 1.0-liter Earlier post.) It will be available early next year.

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Green Car Congress

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The report stresses that better alignment of social and environment policies and improved local action are needed to successfully tackle environmental justice issues. KEY FINDINGS. Air and noise pollution. A ban on certain domestic heating fuels, such as coal, also leads to improved air quality in low-income zones.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

Ford is rolling out its 3-Wet paint technology in its paint shops in India, Romania, Mexico and China. There also is a Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) emissions savings of 5% related to processing. Earlier post.). Ford is also readying its launch of the process at Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). in their emissions control system, and make tampering with an emissions control system a legal offense. billion (US$4.7-billion)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Excess death rates were particularly high in eastern European countries, such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine, with more than 200 each year per 100,000 of the population. When they looked at individual countries, the researchers found that air pollution caused an excess death rate of 154 per 100,000 in Germany (a reduction of 2.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The LF Electric and CF Electric are intended for medium-and heavy-duty city distribution; the CF Hybrid targets mid-range distribution with zero emissions in urban areas and the best overall efficiency. The DAF LF Electric is a 19 tonne fully electric truck for zero emissions city distribution. DAF LF Electric Innovation Truck.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Public says it wants the cleanest cars possible as EU Commission weighs up proposals for new rules on vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

Romania was the first and so far only Eastern European Member State to introduce CO 2 -related taxation last year as part of a more comprehensive overhaul of vehicle taxation in the country. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Fuel Efficiency Policy. ACEA provides an overview of the CO 2 -based vehicle taxes here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Additionally, in China, the desire to reduce air pollution for the Winter Olympics, as well as to reduce carbon dioxide emissions—5% of which are coming from the aluminum industry—is limiting the growth of aluminum production for 2022. Production mainly dropped because energy prices have risen sharply in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

The WDG also can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 95 percent in comparison to modern internal combustion vehicle engines. 2005) Wave Rotors Technology and Applications (The 11 th International Conference on Vibration Engineering Timisoara, Romania, September 27 - 30, 2005). Norbert Müller. The Wave Disc Engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

illustrated by the case of Romania, where biodiesel. GHG emissions from all transport fuels defined at EU level, in line with the principle that. GHG emissions of fossil fuels and biofuels, and the same. However, EBB claims,circumvention practices started emerging soon after the imposition of the EU. covered by the EU duties.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In July, SpaceX started conducting Starlink tests in Romania to demonstrate that operating beyond the ITU’s limit will not interfere with classic, geostationary satellites. Elon Musk has spoken out against the ITU’s limit on low-orbit satellites and called out the FCC for following “ antiquated ” rules.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2017

Today, uncertainty over EPA emission testing, GM's electric-car goal, concern over the fate of more capable start-stop systems, and a 5-minute battery recharge? Romania has doubled its electric-car purchase incentives; they're now more than $10,000 for a new car. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

liter PACCAR FR diesel, which complies with the ultra-low EEV emission requirements as standard, without a soot filter. DAF is the market leader in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. DAF LF hybrid system. Click to enlarge. The truck is fitted with the 4.5-liter for the first half of 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2019

Conversely, registrations were up by a huge 36% in Romania, due to the Government’s scrappage scheme in Q4-18, which led to an increase in vehicle deliveries in Q1-19. Denmark also recorded a strong result in February, with volume up by 8% due to an increase in its EV and PHEV registrations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The study therefore provides a much-needed European-wide assessment and further identifies the risks and opportunities in seven major production countries for automotive components (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Czechia, Poland, and Romania).

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Renewable Romania Europe Climate 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

liter ( earlier post ) I-4 engines combine turbocharging and direct-injection technology to deliver fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions reduced by up to 20% versus conventional, larger-displacement gasoline engines with similar power output. The all-new EcoBoost 1.6-liter liter and 2.0-liter With the 2.0-liter

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

An undersea cable would move the electricity across the Black Sea and deliver it to Constanta, Romania, where it could be distributed further into Europe. In September, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary created a joint venture , based in Romania, to shepherd the project. is realistic.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum, a country such as Romania—roughly six times bigger than the Netherlands—only has 114 charging points. The auto industry is eager to move as fast as it can towards zero-emission vehicles. There is no doubt that this is the future.

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