Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

The key to a long-term recovery is executing an excellent portfolio of products, and we find that increasing fuel economy standards will lead to a portfolio of products that is more likely to raise the profits of the Detroit 3 automakers than to lower them. points of market share since 2004 (GM down 8.8 points and Ford down 5.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

GHG emissions from foreign crop production (modeling and data used). Winrock International determined the extent of land use change using MODIS imagery from 2001 and 2004 and estimating emission factors for each type of land use conversion for a number of key agriculturally producing countries around the world.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2009

The Monaco Declaration is a clear statement from this expert group of marine scientists that ocean acidification is happening fast and highlights the critical importance of documenting associated changes to marine life. Professor Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

California’s vehicle GHG standards—authorized by AB 1493 (Pavley) in 2002, first approved in 2004, and extended in 2012—are delivering fuel consumption and CO 2 reductions. Since its launch in 2011, the regulation has generated a multitude of unique approaches for cleaner fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Key developments documented since the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report include: Earth Systems. The developing and least-developed economies, 80% of the world’s population, accounted for 73% of the global growth of emissions in 2004. Global emissions were growing by 1.1% each year from 1990-1999 and this accelerated to 3.5%

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Lisa had a document-centric rather than application-centric model, for example. Users tore off a sheet from the pad to create a new document. The idea of centering the user’s world around documents rather than applications would reemerge in the 1990s, with technologies such as Apple’s OpenDoc and Microsoft’s OLE.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. Toyota has had a battery recycling program since 1998 and even offers dealers a $200 bounty to ensure batteries arent just thrown away (described at end of linked document). At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

Automakers and the administration convinced air board members that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles were a more viable technology than battery-operated cars, despite the fact that fuel-cell vehicles currently cost about $1 million each and are believed to be at least fifteen to thirty years away from mass production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The team also documented that Lake Tanganyika experienced its biggest temperature change in the 20 th century, which has affected its unique ecosystem that relies upon the natural conveyance of nutrients from the depths to jumpstart the food chain upon which the fish survive. The data showed the lake’s surface temperature, 26 °C (78.8°F),

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

The percentage of Americans choosing the environment slipped below 50% in 2003 and 2004, but was still higher than the percentage choosing the economy. Environment vs. Energy production. Environment vs. Energy production. Environment vs. Energy production, by party ID. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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