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GM awarded two EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of Year awards

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named General Motors as one of its 2015 ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management. GM also received the ENERGY STAR Climate Communication s award.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. kW solar PV system on our own house in 2015. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. Installing the 5.2

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

Mediterranean migration hit international headlines in 2015 when the Syrian civil war helped drive up numbers to around 1 million people. But the post-2015 rules ballooned its budget. was slowly changing its hodgepodge of barriers to keep out Jacob and hundreds of thousands of other migrants. But that was an unusual year.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

During his campaign, President Obama said he would work to put one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. OK, Oh Brainless One, spouter of endless lies and idiocies, explain how your dream of one million electrics on the road by 2015 has any significance? For more information, please see our Comments FAQ. Follow the money.

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What is COP26?

My Energi

For more than a quarter of a century the United Nations (UN) have been bringing together most of the earth’s countries for global climate summits, also known as Conference of the Parties (COPs). The annual event brings together almost two-hundred world leaders to discuss the world’s commitment to climate change.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude.