Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

stemming from claims reaching back to Dynegy and the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001) that will mostly be applied to fund the construction of a statewide network of plug-in vehicle charging stations, including at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

This month, we will begin operation of a next-generation solar hydrogen station at our Los Angeles R&D center. Further, Honda is unique in making long-term investments to develop the refueling infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles. This compact system was designed for daily home refueling of a fuel cell electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

Coastal cities from Los Angeles to Shanghai are striving to reduce air pollution levels. For the Houston study, Chen and his colleagues focused on the onset of a nine-day period of unusually hot weather, stagnant winds, and high pollution in the Houston-Galveston area that began on 30 August 2000.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The new Ford Escape, being showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the first Ford vehicle to make Auto Start-Stop standard with either of two EcoBoost engines new to the model—a 1.5-liter liter and 2.0-liter liter twin-scroll. In the United States, SUV sales are expected to exceed 5 million units in 2015 for the first time.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

used data collected at three US sampling sites: (1) in Washington State on the taxi and shuttle loop at the Seattle−Tacoma International Airport; (2) a long-term light-duty site in California located on I-10 between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles; and (3) a long-term light-duty site in Illinois located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The US EPA and its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee considered evidence from multiple peer-reviewed studies, and the estimates of premature death were based on a key nationwide study of exposure to fine particle pollution involving about 500,000 people and 116 US cities, including Los Angeles and Fresno.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. The 92 retrofitted hybrid vehicles will be placed into service in California, primarily in the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco metropolitan areas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

Additional workshops are planned for cities including Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., OnStar employs approximately 2000 application advisors, and responds to roughly 10,000 requests for emergency services each month, including around 2,000 crash events.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. In 2000, the ARB established California’s Diesel Risk Reduction Plan, which aims to reduce diesel emissions to 85% below 2000 levels by 2020.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock. The vehicles are expected to go into service in California, and primarily across San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 30, 2013

I’ve been seeing the b t full page ads for Icelandic Glacial water in the print edition of the Los Angeles Times for months now and every time I do they p**s me off. . Source of an Epic FAIL. I know that’s a true statement because I figured out what to do with the bottle they sent me.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This three-year project incorporates engineering of fleet control, manufacturing and installation of seven 500-kW/6-hour TransFlow 2000 energy storage systems in California, Massachusetts, and New York to lower peak energy demand and reduce the costs of power interruptions. 16,080,554.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Boehm Systems and software engineer IEEE Life Fellow, 87; died 20 August Boehm was chief scientist, principal investigator, and chair of the research council at the Systems Engineering and Research Center at the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Boehm’s honors included the 2000 IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Hyundai announced plans to offer its next-generation Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle for the US market for $499 per month, including unlimited free hydrogen refueling and At Your Service Valet Maintenance at no extra cost. Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell. Click to enlarge. HYUNDAI TUCSON FUEL CELL.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In addition to the vehicle’s introduction in Japan, Toyota launched the Mirai—a four-door, mid-size fuel cell sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines—in Los Angeles on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show. For example: A quick flashback to the year 2000.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today. Why wait until a catastrophe strikes to get truly serious about addressing the problem?” Last year, U.S. According to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), half the cars in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. It’s a huge tragedy in such a small place and it has saddened all Tongans around the world.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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Cars That Think

JUNE 13, 2023

He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles , where he earned a master’s degree in engineering in 1961. After six years as chancellor at the University of Maryland , he became president of Occidental College , in Los Angeles.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 30, 2009

Built and launched the new Environmental Priorities Network website - check it out by clicking on the graphic: Wrote my first speech for California State Senator Jenny Oropeza, who delivered it at the West Los Angeles Democratic Club. From left, Asm.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Then he just about crapped in his pants when the friggin thing kept running out of a charge at the most inoportune time. To get the most mileage, one could not have the radio, the A/C, or the headlights on. Now Im starting to smell a "crock of Shit" from GM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Twenty-three percent describe regional air pollution as a big problem, an 11-point drop since last year (34%) and the smallest percentage since PPIC began asking the question in June 2000. Today, residents in the Central Valley (36%), Los Angeles (30%) and Inland Empire (27%) are more likely to characterize air pollution as a big problem.

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