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As well as showing new production - ready low emissions vehicles at Geneva, Kia will display a standalone exhibit of a new hybrid technology,...

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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.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

Subaru has admitted inspectors at its manufacturing plants in Japan «inappropriately altered» the emissions and fuel efficiency data of some 900 vehicles so that the average data...

Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

These zones could involve charges for the most polluting vehicles as well as incentives to switch to ultra low emission vehicles, including priority at bus lanes and traffic lights.

With the Trump administration taking a look at and re-thinking Obama - era vehicle emission standards, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he, along with counterparts in 14 other states, will go to court if the standards are diluted.

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.

«I think states recognize transportation emissions are a leading source of emissions that need to be tackled,» said Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«Our cells may provide a substantial opportunity for the development of zero - emission vehicles with a driving range similar to that of gasoline vehicles,» says Elton Cairns, of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) at Berkeley Lab.

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.

(By contrast, a typical zero - emission electric vehicle charges in three hours at 240 volts and goes 84 miles on a single charge.)

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal - burning power plants and vehicle emissions.

«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.»

The state renewable energy standard requires electric companies to meet emissions targets by investing ratepayer money into programs that green the grid and electrify vehicles and buildings, or else pay into a state fund at the end of the year.

Steffen Møller - Holst at SINTEF Energy Research believes that battery - powered vehicles will play a very important role in the emission - free transport of the future, but that this will happen in combination with hybrids, rechargeable hybrids and hydrogen - powered vehicles.

«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.»

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

Although GM refuses to set a specific target date, some industry watchers are predicting a 1996 introduction for the Impact — long enough to give GM a chance to do the necessary fine - tuning, but soon enough to give the company a running start at meeting tougher vehicle emission laws slated to take effect in 1998.

After all, standards set in California — the eighth - largest economy in the world on its own — are often adopted at the federal level, ranging from emission standards for vehicles to efficiency settings for appliances.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

At the top of the list are two landmark climate regulations developed under former president Barack Obama: one, now on hold pending a lawsuit, would reduce emissions from power plants; the other, already in place, sets aggressive fuel - efficiency requirements for vehicles up to 2025.

Highly turbocharged alcohol - fueled direct - injection spark - ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

The chief executive of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, and the chief executive of FCA, Sergio Marchionne, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of research projects and technological applications aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from road transport vehicles.

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector.

Vehicle efficiency improvements via effective standards and policies could reduce annual CO2 e emissions from the US, China, and the EU by 1.3 Gt at a savings of about $ 135 billion per year by 2030.

In addition to savings at the pump, hybrid vehicles can help reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and dependency on oil.

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.

Volkswagen Group's so - called «defeat - device» emissions software has allowed hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles from the 2009 - 16 model years to emit nitrogen oxide at illegal levels while thwarting emissions tests.

At a time when the take rate of diesel engines has been dwindling, what with increasingly stringent NOx and particulate emission regulations, and sales of hybrids and increasingly frugal gasoline - powered vehicles are mushrooming, the future for diesels is uncertain.

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.

The dual power sources offer all of the incentives of driving an electric vehicle — charging at home, cheap energy, and the potential for reduced emissions — while eliminating the inconvenience of limited range and slow charging times that afflict pure electric vehicles.

Your vehicle, which is old in terms of engine controls and technology, will tend to try and advance spark at idle and run a little lean for emissions purposes.

If that's the case the future might take some getting used to, at least aesthetically, but it's the technology presented within that represents the British luxury brand's true look at the future, with a fully autonomous, zero - emissions luxury vehicle.

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.

«The goal was to revolutionize the architecture of the vehicle to provoke new emotions, provide new value and make visible for consumers how Zero Emissions can help redefine our conception of vehicle basics,» said Francois Bancon, division manager of product strategy and product planning at Nissan.

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.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

MOBIL6 is used to produce motor vehicle emission factors for use in transportation analysis and can be used at any geographic level within the U.S.

This tool calculates emissions based on fuel consumption and / or vehicle miles traveled and thus allows for greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions estimation at a more local level.

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.

DOT is also working to ensure that electric vehicle drivers have access to charging stations at home, at work, and on the road by supporting the development of charging infrastructure and establishing zero emission and alternative fuel corridors (see July 2016 Fact Sheet).

At its introduction in 2014 it effectively created the ultra-low emission vehicle segment, notching up 10,000 sales in the UK within the first ten months and amassing a total sales figure of 26,600 by the end of 2016.

The Hyundai i - Blue is a hydrogen - powered, zero - emission fuel - cell electric vehicle (FCEV) that the company debuted this year at the Chicago Auto Show.The concept serves several functions.

Today at the Tokyo Motor Show 2015, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. unveiled a concept vehicle that embodies Nissan's vision of the future of autonomous driving and zero emission EVs: the Nissan IDS Concept.

Ford's targeting the new vehicle to achieve AT - PZEV (Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) status in the U.S., though it's hushed right now on the exact powertrain plans (except to say it will use in - house developed lithium - ion batteries and a high - efficiency Atkinson - cycle gasoline evehicle to achieve AT - PZEV (Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) status in the U.S., though it's hushed right now on the exact powertrain plans (except to say it will use in - house developed lithium - ion batteries and a high - efficiency Atkinson - cycle gasoline eVehicle) status in the U.S., though it's hushed right now on the exact powertrain plans (except to say it will use in - house developed lithium - ion batteries and a high - efficiency Atkinson - cycle gasoline engine).

A tax credit is available for the purchase of a new qualified plug - in electric drive motor vehicle that draws propulsion using a traction battery that has at least five kilowatt - hours (kWh) of capacity, uses an external source of energy to recharge the battery, has a gross vehicle weight rating of up to 14,000 pounds, and meets specified emission standards.