Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Their estimations were also based on The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s 2015 study.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Currently battery costs for an electric vehicle are about $325 per kWh.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2019
The battery leasing credit facility, the first of its kind in the North American public transit industry, is expected to lower the upfront costs of zero-emission buses and put Proterra electric buses at roughly the same price as a diesel bus.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. The startup also won a $15,000 Samsung Research innovation prize in 2015.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2015
According to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard , travel delays due to traffic congestion caused drivers to waste more than 3 billion gallons of fuel and kept travelers stuck in their cars for nearly 7 billion extra hours—42 hours per rush-hour commuter. nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Roland Berger’s projections of xEV sales through 2015. Wendt, Partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants’ Chicago office. The Roland Berger study starts with a bottom-up calculation of cell and material costs right along the value chain. Source: Roland Berger. Click to enlarge. Roland Berger: the Li-ion bubble bursts.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
The largest US cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—score best in economic factors but are hindered by poor transportation infrastructure, lack of green spaces and diminishing affordable housing, according to the inaugural Sustainable Cities Index by ARCADIS, a leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm.
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