Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

In a statement released this morning, President Barack Obama said he has requested that US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson withdraw the agency’s draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) rulemaking. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Air Resources Board re-adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ), which requires a 10% reduction by 2020 in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. The program requires that transportation fuels used in California meet a baseline target for carbon intensity which is reduced each year. Diesel and Diesel Substitutes. 95.61 [ 1 ].

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AUGUST 28, 2009

The government of New Zealand will not proceed with developing and implementing fuel economy standards as proposed by the previous government. Transport Minister Steven Joyce says the potential benefits of the scheme would have been outweighed by the cost to motorists. g/km in early 2006 to 203.8 Earlier post.) Steven Joyce.

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MAY 28, 2013

The results of the project, released this week in a project report available via the DiUS website , showed that drivers could save around $250 each year—about 50% of their charging costs—just by using grid-friendly smart charging technology. Responsibility for Consumer HAN operation should be formalized.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Making this battery technology more sustainable demands a consideration of the environmental and economic costs of extraction and transport of raw materials, manufacture, and increasingly of materials recycling and reuse at the end of a battery’s life. — Nature Materials editorial. Batteries show the difficulties of being greener.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Hydrogen is much more compact as a cryogenic liquid (blue dot) but with higher energetic cost (solid lines indicate the theoretical minimum work, also known as thermomechanical exergy) to compress and/or liquefy hydrogen. Aceves et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). US DOE and CCH2. Resources. Petitpas, P. Benard, L.

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JULY 30, 2015

Canada has aligned new vehicle and fuel standards with the United States to cut air pollution from on-road vehicles. Canada’s Tier 3 regulations will introduce more stringent air pollutant emission standards for new passenger cars, light-duty trucks and certain heavy-duty vehicles (such as delivery vans) starting with the 2017 model year.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 5, 2023

Gostin uses a model-based systems engineering approach to develop the open architecture and the associated standard. By providing a standard to define the interfaces between components of the system, modifications and innovations can be quickly and easily incorporated. Yu Yuan Yuan is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Canada has committed to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from 2006 levels by 2020. These regulatory standards will be equivalent to applicable US national fuel economy standards. Whether or not the California standards yield higher improved environmental outcomes depends, frankly, on the mix of trucks and cars.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Aemetis plant was built in 2008 to produce biodiesel and refined glycerin using large volumes of lower-cost, non-food by-products from the edible oil industry as feedstock to supply the biofuel, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets. Aemetis was founded in 2006. — Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

At its meeting on Thursday, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation that will implement Governor Schwarzenegger’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( earlier post ) calling for at least a 10% reduction from 2006 levels in the carbon intensity (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) of California’s transportation fuels by 2020.

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JUNE 18, 2016

The proposed regulations will criteria air contaminants (CACs), from locomotives operated by railway companies under federal jurisdiction through increasingly stringent emission standards and reduced idling. The emission standards set out in these proposed regulations will also align with those of the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Continual sources of renewable energy, such as hydrogen, become an important focus in the shift towards cleaner, cost-effective energy. This hydrogen project has been in place for more than a decade, originally installed in 2006 as a mobile hydrogen production, compression, storage, and dispensing unit, and was upgraded in 2010.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The high quality syngas produced by the InEnTec advanced gasifier feeds LanzaTech’s patented microbe and reactor system to generate high yields of low cost cellulosic ethanol. Founded in 2006, Aemetis owns and operates a 60 million gallon per year ethanol production facility in California’s Central Valley, near Modesto.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2023

Unlike the other versions of the Leone sold in North America, every BRAT had four-wheel-drive as standard equipment. It was one of the more clever methods of Chicken Tax avoidance , but lawsuits resulting from injured back-seat passengers in these "cars" ended up costing Subaru plenty. This made them cars in the eyes of federal law.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Suzuki Motor Corporation has been developing fuel cell vehicles with Intelligent Energy since 2006, and this successful relationship has led to the formation of SMILE FC System Corporation. I believe that we can accelerate the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles through this joint venture with Intelligent Energy. —Osamu Honda.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

The T Charge applies mainly to diesel and gasoline vehicles registered before 2006. The T-Charge (officially known as the Emissions Surcharge) operates on top of (and during the same operating times as) the Congestion Charge (Monday to Friday 7am-6pm), so it will cost £21.50 to drive in the zone if a vehicle is affected.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

The US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Cumulative change in GHG emissions by biofuels qualifying for the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). In other words, RFS2 increases GHG emissions instead of reducing them when individual fuel GHG reduction targets are met.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. This is good news. Earlier post.).

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JULY 19, 2018

The international Automotive Lean Production Award has been presented by the specialist journal “Automobil Produktion” and Agamus Consult GmbH every year since 2006. In addition, the plant will be adding a further Group model in the successful SUV segment, the Seat Tarraco, to its production portfolio from the end of 2018.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

ATDynamics pioneered and successfully commercialized TrailerTail technology in 2006. Now it is an industry standard seen on all modern aircraft. High durability, low-cost aerodynamic components combined with vehicle intelligence will dramatically accelerate industry-wide adoption of high efficiency semi-trailers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for CO 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. based standard of 1,000 pounds of CO 2 per megawatt?hour year average of CO 2 emissions to meet the proposed standard, rather than meeting the annual standard each year.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Tfl first trialed hybrid technology in 2006. The buses also deliver better than twice the fuel economy of a standard diesel bus. The buses will then be allocated to the bus operators, reducing contract costs as the operator will simply quote for staffing, fuel and maintenance costs.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

ASTM International has issued a new International standard, ASTM D7566, “Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuels Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons” that approves the use of blends of up to 50% synthetic hydrocarbons in aviation fuel. The new standard was developed by Subcommittee D02.J0.06

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Large-scale cultivation of brown macroalgae is already being practiced in several countries, yielding over 70 million metric tons per year in 2006. cerevisiae “ is a more amenable hos for commercial-scale fuel ethanol production and is the standard microbe in the bioethanol industry.”. While the engineering of the E. Resources.

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MAY 12, 2017

ArcelorMittal’s Usibor is compatible with standard press hardening technologies and processes. Combining Usibor with Ductibor into laser-welded blanks offers several significant advantages including weight savings, improved crash behavior and cost savings through material and manufacturing optimization, the steelmaker says.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

EDI was co-founded by Professor Andy Frank from UC Davis—a key figure in the development of the PHEV concept and technology—in 2006. The effort combines EDI’s intelligent multi-mode PHEV powertrain (EDI-Drive) with Greenkraft’s CNG-powered 14,500-pound, Class-4 medium-duty truck, which is equipped with a 6.0L

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Fifteen years ago today, on August 2nd, 2006, Co-Founder and CEO of what was then called “Tesla Motors” Elon Musk put out his top-secret Master Plan. “Almost any new technology initially has high unit cost before it can be optimized, and this is no less true for electric cars,” Musk wrote in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It significantly reduces freshwater requirements and also offers lower total capital and operating costs. The team at GE has supported our Advanced, Relocatable, Modularized, Standardized (ARMS) design. Grizzly Oil Sands was formed in early 2006 to explore for and bring bitumen into production using thermal technologies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The new plan reflects this significant progress, and updates and expands upon previous editions of the Hydrogen Posture Plan, issued in 2006 and 2004. Improve the performance and reduce the cost of hydrogen storage systems. Well-to-wheels greenhouse gas emissions.

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JULY 6, 2010

The proposed Transport Rule sets in place a new approach that can and will be applied again as further pollution reductions are needed to help areas meet air quality health standards, EPA says. The rule proposes a procedure for determining each upwind state’s control responsibility that EPA can apply to any revised air quality standard.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

new appliance standards and CAFE) and changes in the way energy is used in the US economy. Further, the fossil fuel share of primary energy consumption falls from 82% in 2011 to 78% in 2040 as consumption of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls, largely because of the incorporation of new fuel efficiency standards for light-duty vehicles.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

resulting in a 15% improvement in total cost per mile while maintaining similar reliability and operational performance as compared to conventional vehicles, according to an assessment by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Source: Lammert 2009. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Assembly Bill 32, signed in 2006, set California’s initial goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and directed CARB to develop a climate change scoping plan—to be updated every five years—detailing specific measures needed to reach the target. Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Compared to the 2010 “Business as Usual” scenario—which includes all adopted emission control measures for the South Coast—NO x levels must be reduced by 65% and by 75% to meet the 2023 and 2032 ozone standards, respectively. California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 30, 2011

The notification and demonstration requirements for intermediate age vehicles and engines include testing and submission of data to show that the converted vehicle or engine continues to meet applicable standards. MY 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and < useful life mileage. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Building on the clean air gains achieved since the ports adopted the CAAP in 2006, the 2017 CAAP is a comprehensive plan for pursuing the ultimate goal of eliminating all harmful air emissions from port-related sources: ships, trucks, cargo handling equipment, locomotives and harbor craft.

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