Racing Toward Zero : The Untold Story of Driving Green.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- CHAPTER 1 Please Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves (and Our Book) -- Kelly's View -- The Future Is Eclectic -- Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media -- Hug Your Engine -- Don't Believe the Hype -- The ICEmen Cometh -- Felix's Turn: The British Perspective -- The Problem with "Could" -- Early Years -- Transatlantic Engine Hugging -- The Road to Zero -- The Drive Ahead -- A Brief Translation Guide -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 2 History of the Automobile (or How We Learned to Get Off Our High Horse) -- The Very Beginning -- Raising Steam -- Electric Shock -- The Heat of Combustion -- Competing Technologies -- A Century of ICE -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 3 Vehicle Emissions: From (Tail)Pipe Dream to Exhaust Nightmare -- Overview of Emissions -- Types of Emissions and Where They Come From -- Pollution Is Not a Helpful Word -- Ideal Combustion -- Combustion in Air -- Real Combustion Is Hot and Happens Quickly -- Hotness -- Speed -- Unburned Hydrocarbons (C x H y). -- Carbon (PM). -- Carbon Monoxide (CO). -- Other Emissions. -- The Final Tally -- Non-Exhaust Emissions -- Tires -- Brakes -- Roads -- How Emissions Affect the Environment and Our Health -- Greenhouse Gases -- Pollutant Emissions -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 4 Law and Order: Special Emissions Unit -- Emissions Legislation -- How to Measure Emissions -- Global Emissions Legislation -- Greenhouse Gases -- Pollutant Emissions -- Countries with Their Own Standards. -- Other Areas of the World. -- How Do Modern ICE Vehicles Meet These Rules? -- Greenhouse Gases -- Pollutant Emissions -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 5 Diesel's Drama: From Warm Embrace to Scandalous Affair -- The Early Years -- Europe Embraces Diesel -- The Dieselgate Scandal -- Fallout from Dieselgate -- Europe Moves to Gasoline -- The Results of RDE.

The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 6 Resistance Is Futile: The Rise of the Battery Electric Vehicle -- Electric Vehicles 101 -- Electric versus Electrified -- Degrees of Electrification -- Anatomy of an Electric Vehicle -- Anatomy of an Electrified (Hybrid) Vehicle -- History of the Battery Electric Vehicle -- The Early Days: The First Rise and Fall -- A Brief Return -- Who Killed the EV1?: The Second Rise and Fall -- Prius -- Tesla: The Third Rise (with No Fall in Sight) -- What's Different This Time? -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 7 Your Mileage May Vary: The Positives and Negatives of Going Electric -- The Electric Advantage -- No Exhaust Emissions -- Reduced Noise -- Renewable Energy -- Efficiency -- Fuel Cost -- Less Maintenance -- Acceleration -- Fill Up at Home -- The Electric Disadvantage -- Vehicle Cost -- Range Anxiety -- Charge Times -- Infrastructure -- Mining -- Weather -- Weight -- Health -- Today's Plug-In Vehicle Market -- Future Market Projections -- Software to Improve BEVs and Beyond -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 8 Hydrogen: A New Hope or New Hype? -- Why Hydrogen? -- Safety -- Making Hydrogen-A Kaleidoscope of ­Colors! -- Coal Gasification -- Steam Methane Reformation -- Carbon Capture and Storage -- Electrolysis -- Storing Hydrogen -- Unintended Consequences -- Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles -- Hydrogen ICE -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 9 The ICE Is Dead, Long Live the ICE -- ICE Orientation -- Engine Evolution -- Fuel Delivery -- Air Delivery -- Ignition -- The Diesel Difference -- Today's Automotive Engine and Low CO 2 Pathways -- Cylinder Deactivation -- Variable Compression Ratio -- Stop/Start (μHEV) -- Electrification (Hybridization) -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 10 The New ICE Age: Combustion's Comeback Tour -- Combustion Strategies -- Conventional Combustion Strategies -- Advanced Combustion Strategies -- Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition.

Gasoline Compression Ignition -- Premixed Charge Compression Ignition -- Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition -- Further Technologies for Efficiency Improvement and Emissions Reduction -- Water Injection -- Lean Operation -- Dedicated EGR -- Octane-on-Demand -- Opposed-Piston Engines -- Summary -- Carbon-Neutral Fuels -- Biofuels -- Biogasoline -- Biodiesel -- The Biofuel Forecast -- E-Fuels/Synthetic Fuels -- Carbon-Free Fuels -- Why Haven't Biofuels and E-Fuels Already Decarbonized Transportation? -- Tools to Improve ICEVs -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 11 Fifty Shades of Green: Propulsion Hangs in the Balance -- How Do We Compare Propulsion Technologies Today? -- Efficiency -- Comparing Environmental Effects -- Life-Cycle Analysis -- Goal and Scope -- Life-Cycle Inventory Phase -- Life-Cycle Impact Assessment Phase -- Interpretation Phase -- How Does This Apply to Propulsion Technologies? -- Non-GHG Aspects of LCA -- What Are the User Requirements? One Size Doesn't Fit All! -- The Case for Hybrids -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 12 Tipping the Scale: Governments Bet It All on BEVs -- Fleet-Averaged Emissions -- Zero Emissions Vehicle Mandates -- Incentives -- China -- United States -- Europe -- Norway -- What about ICE Incentives? -- Government Bans -- The Last Mile -- CHAPTER 13 It's Not Easy Being Green, but We Have Some Suggestions -- Back to Where We Started -- Using Scenario Analysis for Planning -- What Do We Suggest? -- A Mixture of Technologies -- BEVs -- Hybrids -- New ICE -- Hydrogen -- How to Decarbonize Transportation Quickly -- Global Perspective -- Do Not Ignore Consumers -- Consumers and Vehicles -- Consumers and Driving -- What's Wrong with Our Approach? -- Cost of Investing in Lots of Tech -- Ability to Fully Decarbonize -- Do We Need ICEVs in Cities? -- How to Reach Our Recommendations -- Investments That Apply to All Technologies.

Friction Reduction -- Energy Recovery -- Mass (Weight) Reduction -- Reducing Thermal Losses -- Summary -- What Can Policymakers Do to Help? -- What Can You Do to Help? -- The Last Mile -- The Last Last Mile -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Appendix.

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