Sentences with phrase «emission cars at»

Some produce no zero emission cars at all.

Some produce no zero emission cars at all.

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In collaboration with CARB, the ICCT contracted with a group of engineers at West Virginia University to compare the NOx emissions of three U.S. diesel cars in and out of the lab.

After the car companies met with the government at the start of this month, the CEOs of Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW conceded responsibility for the diesel scandal and promised to pay for software upgrades to reduce emissions from affected vehicles.

Tesla's chief technical officer, JB Straubel was addressing a crowd of students at the University of Nevada when he said, «We are going to build a zero - emissions facility, just like that car.

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Its conclusion — that drive - thrus create fewer emissions than parking lots — is based on a finding that when parkers turn off their cars, the catalytic converter cools and is less efficient at reducing emissions.

Things just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.

While that study is in progress, the early data suggests that by getting «more butts in seats» — a phrase that has become a mantra at Uber's San Francisco headquarters — car - pooled services may already be reducing traffic, gas use and automobile emissions.

Considering this, coupled with my observation that the number of personal cars has significantly increased since my last visit to Beijing in 2007, I am wary of the efficacy of emission control at the consumer level.

She added: «We have to move away from nose to tail car traffic at peak times, endless engine idling, stop start travel and rising pollution and carbon emissions.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The decision has no direct impact on key U.S. regulations on power plants and car rules aimed at reducing carbon emissions, although those are under review by Trump.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new report.

«Many of the trains at Paddington do not have a simple diesel particulate filter — much like you might have on your car — and these would reduce the emissions significantly.»

Transportation: Saab Combustion Control (SCC) Engine - «A car that digests its own pollutants» Eric Olofsson, Combustion and Gas Exchange Manager at Saab Automobile AB in Södertälje, Sweden was honored for the SCC innovation which reduces carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon emissions by 10 percent and other emissions by 75 percent.

In a conservative scenario — only 20 % of drivers drive a plug - in — the cars would reduce emission by at least 163 million metric tons per year.

So to find out if plug - ins really do reduce overall emissions of CO2, researchers at NRDC and EPRI used a computer model to project the overall emissions from the cars and the power plants.

Off the record, one of the government's own advisers on air pollution will tell you he has estimated that the deaths of 3000 people a year in England and Wales can be laid at the door of emissions from diesel lorries, cars and buses.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

VW has been cheating in emissions tests to make its diesel cars appear less polluting than they really are — we look at the options the company now faces

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

«The idea of automated car - sharing vehicle or a ride - sharing service, when you increase the occupancy of a vehicle, the emissions and fuel use overall are going to be split over those individuals, hence they are going to be lower,» said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - sharing.

«We have 100 students this year, designing and building full - sized track cars that are zero emission,» he explains, «and we're building a car that will be racing at Silverstone this year against vehicles powered by combustion engines.»

«Tailpipe emissions are the main source of greenhouse gases from cars that use fossil fuels,» explained Anthony Shaw, a transport program specialist at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a nonprofit research organization.

«When Google announced the launch of their self - driving car project, there was a great deal of excitement,» said Jeffrey Greenblatt, one of the co-authors of the study, «but nobody seemed to be looking at how these cars could impact greenhouse gas emissions.»

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

«If there are no further interventions by these governments, expect to see strong increases in urban car travel and urban energy and carbon dioxide emissions in China and India and elsewhere around the world,» said Lew Fulton, a co-author and co-director of the NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Modern cars (at least in Europe) often automatically cut the engine after a few seconds when the car is stopped and the transmission is in neutral, to save fuel and exhaust emission pollution.

At $ 40,000, or twice the price of a regular Focus, this is obviously a «compliance car» — something automakers are throwing out there to comply with California's zero - emissions - vehicle mandate.

VW must also remove all so - called «defeat devices» — the software at issue that evades emissions tests — from any remedied car.

Drive the car on the freeway for at least 20 minutes before taking it in to get the emissions tested.

The first year's cost is emissions based - with relatively clean vehicles like the Renault Twingo GT attracting a # 160 charge while dirtier cars like the Ford Mustang are right up there at # 1,200.

Volkswagen will likely use the concept car's debut at CES to reveal its future plans for electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles as it seeks to distance itself from the specter of its diesel emissions scandal.

Look at the fuel consumption / CO2 emissions of any car that has several models, some of which have reasonable rim and tire sizes, and some of which have those absurd huge rims and practically no space left for tire at all.

Despite all of the craziness going on at Volkswagen surrounding its ugly diesel emissions scandal, the company is still selling cars.

At a time when the world's economy is in shambles and fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are on everyone's minds, there remains only one car that ticks all the enthusiast boxes without setting off a single wretched - excess alarm.

Two full I / M - 240 and OBD - II (onboard diagnostics) emissions tests of a 2L 1996 car at an Illinois EPA I / M emissions test station confirm the National Research Council's recent conclusion that OBD - II alone should not be used to evaluate vehicle emissions.

Besides the standard telematic features like emergency crash notification, hands - free calling, and roadside assistance made popular by services like GM's OnStar and Ford's SYNC, the Hughes technology equipped on the Jeep show car at the Consumer Electronics Show included recall notification, red light camera alerts, remote emissions reporting, vehicle tracking, and real - time traffic.

The 56th garage is reserved for innovative entries utilising alternative energy sources, and was home to the striking Nissan Deltawing in 2012 and will house the zero emissions GreenGT hybrid fuel cell car at Le Mans 2013.

The car still, of course, uses an internal - combustion engine that burns gasoline at a prodigious rate, although Ferrari says that emissions rival the California's for the company's lowest ever.

Although the new hybrid Panamera has up to 410bhp and 425 lb ft of torque at its disposal (and a 0 - 62mph time of just 5.5 sec), this two - tonne car is subject to minimal taxation thanks to its 71g / km emissions rating — a figure that also exempts it from the London Congestion Charge.

While it's somewhat ironic that the company credited with inventing the very object now blamed for an impending climate crisis is now pioneering technologies for a zero - emissions future, one thing is for sure: The German car company makes a compelling case for EVs with a luxury vehicle that retains many Mercedes hallmarks and does so at a competitive starting price of $ 42,375.

Both are rated at 158g / km for CO2 emissions, so company - car drivers will face a Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) figure of 30 %.

Further information on official fuel consumption figures and the official specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars can be found in the «Guide on the fuel economy, CO2 emissions and power consumption of new passenger car models», which is available free of charge at all sales dealerships and from DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth - Hirth - Str.

Official economy stands at 25mpg and CO2 emissions of 258g / km equate to road tax the top 37 % Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) band for company - car drivers, making the RC F more expensive to run than both the M4 and RS5.

At the bottom, the pair of twin round exhausts make way for the emissions and complete the look of the car.