Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The provision for deep gas royalty relief under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) will sunset on May 3, 2013, and, therefore, will not be offered. BOEM’s proposed economic terms include the same range of incentives to encourage diligent development and ensure a fair return to taxpayers as used in previous sales, with one exception.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Any leases awarded as a result of these bids will be subject to the terms of the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement, which was approved by Congress in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 and recently signed by the President. That was a 17% increase over FY 2012 disbursements of $12.15 billion.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Secretary Foxx unveiled policy guidance that updates the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) 2013 preliminary policy statement on autonomous vehicles. The new guidance reflects the reality that the widespread deployment of fully autonomous vehicles is now feasible.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

The company introduced its first generation of batteries in May 2013, and is currently sampling and selling 650 Wh/L batteries. From January 2009 until April 2013, he served as the US Secretary of Energy. Amprius’ technology was initially developed at Professor Yi Cui’s laboratory at Stanford University; Prof.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The Obama Administration’s proposed FY 2013 budget of $8.344 billion for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $105 million below the EPA’s enacted level for FY 2012. FY 2013 budget highlights include: $1.2 2 billion for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving funds (SRFs).

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

BOEM also recently announced that the next Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale, proposed Lease Sale 227, will take place on 20 March 2013, making 38 million acres available. The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area—encompassing 3,873 blocks and covering roughly 20.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest. This program was signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and then awarded under the Obama administration in the years that followed. Flush with its recent $1.02

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JULY 21, 2016

Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal. Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

That study demonstrated that if EPA reduced biofuel use under the RFS, as the agency proposed in November 2013, the United States would experience an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and forego an achievable decrease in emissions. The United States is now projected to use 2 billion gallons more gasoline and 0.5

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MARCH 21, 2014

The latest lease sales build on the first three sales held under the Obama Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program) that offered more than 60 million acres for development and garnered $1.4 billion in bid revenues.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Bush in 2008 and which was expanded by President Barack Obama in 2009. Treasury intends to begin its disposition of its remaining shares as soon as January 2013, consistent with a pre-arranged written trading plan.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2010, AT&T and other large US fleet operators joined in the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities’ National Clean Fleets Partnership as part of a national challenge launched by President Obama to cut America’s petroleum imports by one-third by 2025.

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JULY 14, 2016

The consumer organization, which has owned and tested three Teslas (2013 Model S 85, 2014 Model S P85D, and 2016 Model X 90D), said that Tesla should also change the name of the Autopilot feature because it promotes a potentially dangerous assumption that the Model S is capable of driving on its own.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high. The Aluminum Association, whose member companies invested more than $2.6

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

billion gallons; the final 2013 overall volumes and standards require 16.55 million gallons specified for 2013. million gallons specified for 2013. EPA is proposing to maintain the biomass-based diesel standard for 2014 and 2015 at the 2013 level of 1.28 March 2013. billion gallons. Earlier post.) billion gallons.

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JULY 31, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration projects increases in US coal utilization in 2013, and other countries have been increasing their imports of coal.

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MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels. Metlon et al.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In January at the Detroit Auto Show, Chrysler upped the ante on its electric car bet by pledging to have 500,000 battery-powered vehicles on the road by 2013, including sports cars and trucks. More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler. Fiat is considering bringing a battery-powered commercial van to the U.S.

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JUNE 23, 2009

The Obama Administration is awarding $8 billion in three conditional loan commitments for the development of innovative, advanced vehicle technologies: $5.9 Production of the Model S will begin in 2011 and ramp up to 20,000 vehicles per year by the end of 2013. billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 billion to Nissan North America, Inc.;

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Although sales of plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrid-electric and battery-electric vehicles, collectively PEVs) in the US climbed more than 80% in 2013 to more than 96,000 units (Tesla has not yet released its final figures) from 52,835 units in 2012 EDTA ), the 2013 results still reflect a meagre new light-duty vehicle market share of ~0.6%

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JULY 29, 2016

The Obama Administration has released the Federal Alternative Jet Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategy (FAJFS), which maps out a unified federal plan to advance R&D as well as science and technology solutions to support deployment of alternative jet fuels (AJFs) in both civil and military aviation.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Modeling of this complex chemistry is important to help states comply with federal standards for ozone, which now stand at 75 parts per billion (ppb) and may be tightened by the Obama administration. A recent Rice study showed a positive correlation between high ozone levels and cardiac arrest. Earlier post.). —Daniel Cohan.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. and model 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015. Fisker Karma EREV.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program. 2014 TIGER NOFA.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The research is part of the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2011. 2013) “Comprehensive Search for New Phases and Compounds in Binary Alloy Systems Based on Platinum-Group Metals, Using a Computational First-Principles Approach,” Phys. —Hart et al. N00014-13-1-0635, No. N00014-11-1 0136, and No.

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AUGUST 9, 2009

To meet the demand for higher fuel efficiency, Ford will leverage and expand EcoBoost engine technology that will be available on 90% of the company’s nameplates by 2013. By comparison, meeting Japan’s standards for 2004-2015 requires a 1.9% annual increase; meeting the EU targets for 2008-2015 requires a 2.5% annual increase.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Our challenge, well, President Obama in one policy statement after another has advocated for an all of the above strategy when it comes to sustainable mobility. share and volume are expected to more than double from 2013 to 2018. You move from one pump to the other. marketshare in 2012 to 1.25 million units and 7.4%

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative , a US $100 million research effort announced by President Barack Obama in 2013. He first raised the issue through his involvement with the.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing. Smithsonian Associates to focus on materials.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. “ Bretton Woods plus Yalta, multiplied by Reykjavik. United States.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

In the US, President Obama declared an American goal of putting one million EVs on the road by 2015. The number of registered EVs surpassed 100,000 in May 2013, leaving much ground to be covered before the target is met. Denmark has a goal of 200,000 EVs by 2020, recently reduced from 400,000.

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MARCH 2, 2013

The Governor of Nebraska approved the new route through Nebraska in January 2013. A previous application from TransCanada for a Keystone XL project (2008 application) was for a pipeline that would have been more than 1.5 times the length of the current proposal (1,384 miles), with nearly identical routes in Montana and South Dakota.

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JULY 2, 2012

Plug-in vehicle (PEV) sales—comprising battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)—in the US by 2015 will fall far short of the 1-million unit target set by the Obama Administration, according to a new report from Pike Research. largest market for PEVs. —“Plug-in Electric Vehicles”.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

In a June speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama said that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would only be built if the project “ does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” ( Earlier post.). million barrels per day (mbd) in 2013 to 4.3 —IHS Cera Insight on Keystone XL.

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MAY 25, 2011

Starting with model year 2013, the improved fuel economy labels will be required to be affixed to all new passenger cars and trucks—both conventional gasoline powered and “next generation” cars, such as plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

President Obama made electric vehicle charging part of an economic recovery plan after the Great Recession, giving San Francisco-based Ecotality $100 million in 2009 to deploy residential, commercial and public charging stations in five metropolitan areas across the country, and analyze subsequent usage. In the years since, the U.S.

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