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      Volvo targets ultralow carbon footprint for new small EV, the EX30

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 24 May, 2023 - 14:48

    A tiny Volvo EX30 on the dashboard of another Volvo

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    Next month, Volvo will show off its next electric vehicle. It's called the EX30, and it sounds like it will be what many readers have been asking for—a smaller EV. Volvo is keeping quiet about some of the car's details until it launches on June 7, but it is boasting about how much it has managed to reduce this new EV's carbon footprint.

    In fact, Volvo says that at 200,000 km (124,275 miles), the EX30 will only be responsible for 30 tons of CO 2 . And yes, that's a life-cycle amount, which includes the carbon emitted during the production of the car, not just the carbon emitted as a result of recharging it.

    It's a 25 percent reduction on the life-cycle carbon emissions of Volvo's next-smallest EVs, the XC40 and C40 crossovers.

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      Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade

      Financial Times · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 12 May, 2021 - 10:45

    Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade

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    Hydrogen-powered heavy trucks capable of driving long distances are likely to reach a tipping point toward the end of the decade, according to the heads of the world’s two biggest truck makers.

    Martin Daum, chair of industry leader Daimler Truck, told the Financial Times that, while diesel trucks would dominate sales for the next three to four years, hydrogen would take off as fuel between 2027 and 2030 before going “steeply up.”

    Martin Lundstedt, chief executive of Volvo Group, which has just bought into a hydrogen joint venture with Daimler, said that, after fuel-cell production started in 2025, there would be a “much steeper ramp-up” toward the end of the decade.

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      California strikes deal with five automakers to cut CO2 by 2026

      Jonathan M. Gitlin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 19 August, 2020 - 12:50 · 1 minute

    Cars congest Intersate 10 in Los Angeles late October 2006. That year, the state sued several US and Japanese automakers for their alleged contribution to global warming.

    Enlarge / Cars congest Intersate 10 in Los Angeles late October 2006. That year, the state sued several US and Japanese automakers for their alleged contribution to global warming. (credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

    On Tuesday, five automakers signed agreements with California's Air Resources Board to implement cleaner emissions standards over the next few years. BMW , Ford , Honda , Volkswagen Group , and Volvo will reduce vehicle emissions between model years 2021 and 2026.

    Unlike Europe's rules, which fine automakers if they exceed a blanket fleet average for the amount of CO 2 emitted per km, CARB has different targets for cars and light trucks based on their relative footprint. But each of the five OEMs has agreed to cut the amount of CO 2 its vehicles produce per mile by about 17 percent by MY2026. The new agreement is broadly similar to one announced last year , although with a revised timeline that now runs through 2026.

    Specifically, CO 2 emissions from small cars would drop from 157g/mile in 2021 to 130g/mile in 2026, large cars from 215g/mile to 178g/mile, small light trucks from 195g/mile to 162g/mile, and large light trucks from 335g/mile to 278g/mile, with a formula to adjust vehicles that fall in between the small and large footprint areas. For context, the EU's new fleet-wide average, which came into effect in 2020, heavily fines any automaker whose fleet average exceeds 152g/mile (95g/km).

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