Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2010
At present, 17 of the 27 EU Member States levy CO 2 -related taxes on passenger cars, and 15 governments provide tax incentives for electrically chargeable vehicles, according to the newly published European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Tax Guide 2010. In 2009, the market share of cars emitting 120 gCO 2 /km had risen to 25%.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2014
While the collective target has been met, it has not yet been confirmed whether each individual manufacturer has met its own target, which is based on the average mass of the cars they sell. The EEA will publish final data on manufacturers’ individual performance in the autumn. grams; for diesel, 127.16 grams; for diesel, 127.16
Green Car Congress
JUNE 20, 2012
The data also show that car manufacturers are mostly on track to meeting European Union (EU) targets. Last year the EEA reported that manufacturers had some distance to go to meet the 2015 target. The preliminary figures will now be verified by car manufacturers before they are confirmed by the European Commission later this year.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2021
Bus manufacturer Solaris has joined the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance , an initiative led by the European Commission. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia. Solaris unveiled its first buses to use hydrogen in 2014.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Nordic Green, a company focused on the introduction of bio-methanol, has signed an Agency Agreement with BioMCN , a producer of bio-methanol, for the representation and sales of bio-methanol in Nordic (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) and Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) countries.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2012
Liquid metals are used in numerous industrial branches, for example, in steel and light metal castings, and are becoming increasingly significant for technologies such as new liquid metal batteries for energy storage, CO 2 -free hydrogen production, or the manufacture of solar cells.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Solaris has signed a contract with Rigas Satiksme, the transport operator in the city of Riga, Latvia for 10 of the Trollino trolley buses. Solaris is a major European manufacturer of city, intercity and special-purpose buses as well as low-floor trams. —Karim Kassam, Ballard’s Vice President – Commercial.
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