Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder. By 2040, that number could reach 14 percent —almost as much carbon as that emitted by air, land, and sea transport combined. grams of carbon per page view. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

Modern piston assemblies are subject to high demands in terms of both loading and lifetime; in addition, there is the environment-friendly demand for low engine emissions. Diamond-Like Carbon for low-friction piston rings. The supplier is now introducing its fifth generation system.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The European Union (EU) … is planning to require that all new cars sold from 2035 have zero carbon emissions—a bold and valuable goal, but one that will demand the rapid development of both vehicle-charging infrastructure and battery production. — Nature Materials editorial. Batteries show the difficulties of being greener.

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JUNE 5, 2012

The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest; the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand; and the Minister of Transport Pierre Moreau unveiled the Canadian province’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change (PACC 2020). This action plan follows the one launched in 2006 which will expire this year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. below their 2006 levels.

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JULY 10, 2017

According to the complaint, from in or about 2006 until in or about November 2015, Pamio led a team of engineers responsible for designing emissions control systems to meet emissions standards, including for nitrogen oxides (NO x ), for diesel vehicles in the US. Beginning in or about 2006, Audi was designing the new 3.0

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JANUARY 2, 2013

2006) and Pope et al. In a paper in press in the journal Environment International , Ben Machol and Sarah Rizk quantify the economic value of health impacts associated with PM 2.5 The economic value of health impacts is approximately an order of magnitude larger than estimates of the social cost of carbon for fossil fuel electricity.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

million the US Department of Energy recently awarded to carbon capture and storage research projects, $5.9 It is clear, that without displacement of a carbon intensive energy source, CO 2 -EOR systems will result in net carbon emissions. Tags: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Lifecycle analysis Oil. Of the $21.6

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

The new tools are designed to be used by policy makers, governments, the scientific community, and the public via a dedicated Forest Carbon Tracking portal , and were introduced at the UNFCCC climate summit in Copenhagen. 1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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APRIL 7, 2018

million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and California Proposition 1B Bond funds to replace fifty 40-foot New Flyer buses purchased between 2004 and 2006. In 2016, Big Blue Bus committed to obtaining a 100% electric, zero carbon fleet by 2030. In 2017, Gillig and Cummins announced a collaboration on electrified powertrains.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

While oil sands emissions have more than doubled from 1990 to 2006, the absolute increase in emissions from oil sands over the same period is less than the absolute increase in Canadian electric or transportation sector emissions, and far less than the increases in these sectors on a North American basis, they note. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 7, 2010

The initiative is sponsored by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which established the disclosure and reporting framework used by 2,500 of the world’s largest companies to report carbon emissions. —Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The proposed revisions were based on scientific evidence about ozone and its effects on people and the environment, and resulted from a reconsideration of the primary and secondary ozone standards set at 0.075 ppm in 2008. Earlier post.) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

MOF manufacturing techniques have been limited as they are costly, slow and require large quantities of solvents, which can be toxic and harmful to the environment. MOF Technologies is also hoping to exploit opportunities in global carbon capture, hazardous gas storage, natural gas processing and hydrocarbon separations. —Prof.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

liters/100km (36 mpg US) and CO 2 emissions of 154g/km—a 20% reduction from the 192 g/km of a series production Passat (MY 2006) fitted with a 2.0L The next technology step is to further develop AVL’s efficient low carbon ELC-hybrid concept by incorporating CPT’s SpeedStart system. common rail TDI engine.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data analysis was carried out at the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial College London and Kings College London, and the Rutgers School of Public Health in New Jersey. That should allow everyone to be able to enjoy the health benefits of physical activity in any urban environment. —Professor Chung. The unborn.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

By 2050, Cummins is targeting net-zero carbon emissions. In 2020, Cummins will launch a strategic community environmental program to align its efforts and affirm its commitment to the environment as one of the company’s three community priority areas. Cummins Inc. —Eric Olson, Senior Vice President at BSR.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

One of the groups I support and learn from is Environment California who have been great advocates of AB 811 and AB 920, the one-two punch for solar we absolutely need to drive solar sales at the rate demanded by today’s CO2 levels. Legislative Director, Environment California. But without execution ambition is empty.

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Sacramento Solar California Environment 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

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Water 2004 Climate Change Clean 231

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MAY 6, 2009

With this gasification process, we can convert the biomass to a clean fuel that is almost completely carbon-neutral. More than 99% of the biomass is gasified to yield both a product gas and steam, which contains the carbon dioxide produced during gasification. Hydrothermal Gasification of Biomass (Elliott presentation, 2006).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. He asked, ‘Do you realize she was the Queen of Carbon?’

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APRIL 1, 2009

From this basic information ,” he added, “ we hope to develop predictive models of MEHR applicability in various environments, as well as novel technologies to enhance hydrocarbon recovery for fuels. ”. Injection of CO 2 is scheduled to begin next October. Terry Hazen. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

bushels per acre, which represents a 12% increase over the data (1998-2000 average) used in the current US LCI database; Each bushel of soybeans harvested reduces greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalents) by 32.6 The United Soybean Board’s study sheds even more light on why biodiesel is good for the environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The effectiveness of solar power generation and other renewable energy sources in helping to realize a low-carbon mobility society. Kumagaya City: Using Kumagaya’s suburban metropolitan environment, study the practicality of applying Honda’s EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles to a park-and-ride system centered around Kagohara Station.

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Plug-in Honda Japan Plug 236

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

A new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) projects that by 2050, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) could be responsible for emissions equivalent to 3.5 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide (Gt CO 2 eq)—comparable to total current annual emissions from transport, estimated at around 6-7 Gt annually. Source: UNEP.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

In the long term, these developments will modernize our work environment at the plants even further. In the future, people in production will be creators of their work environment to an even greater extent than they are today. Plus, they benefit from the declining share of physically strenuous tasks. Smart logistics.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entitled Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 , highlights new research that identifies some events thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons as already happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been thought. per year from 2000-2007.

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Climate Change Climate 2007 Ozone 259

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it. It hardly seems fair.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

We know carbon taxes are coming and we won’t always be floating in a sea of profits we made at your expense. So it seemed only logical that we give a little back to a community we’ve released an awful lot of carbon in. “ Sounds like a dream too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

in 2006) but if they are replaced by EVs, the contribution would rise to 2-4%. Powered by the current electricity mix, EVs could cause a significant increase in SO 2 emissions by 3-6 times relative to ICEVs and 5-10 times relative to HEVs. Gasoline vehicle exhausts contribute very little to total national SO 2 emission (0.2% Wang, David G.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

coli —which could use both 5- and 6-carbon sugars, but produced very little ethanol—with the ethanol-producing capabilities of Zymomonas mobilis. mobilis is a good ethanol producer that is highly alcohol-resistant, but is also very sensitive to its environment, is not very hardy, and can mostly use only glucose. Ingram modified the E.

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Plug In India

MARCH 21, 2022

If your charging infra is from solar & battery recycling is sorted, then it’s the ideal for environment. Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. I am doing my bit for environment reducing my commute cost as well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). grams of carbon dioxide-equivalent per megajoule (gCO 2 e/MJ), compared to ARB’s range of 47.4

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Plug In Partners

JULY 7, 2006

The Road to Independence Sunday, July 2, 2006 PATRICK MAZZA AND RICH FELDMAN Guest Columnist An economic earthquake is poised to shake the globe. In so doing, we can help lead America toward clean energy independence that protects our economy, our environment and our security.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

Mike Ginger, Highways Agency travel plan organiser, said: “The Highways Agency is encouraging businesses to look at how they can contribute to easing congestion and parking problems, reduce costs and improve the environment. A travel survey in 2006 showed that approximately 80% of staff drive on their own to the College.

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