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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many countries, cities, companies, and individuals have made pledges to reduce emissions, and it is stark reminder that despite all this rhetoric, global fossil CO 2 emissions are more than 5% higher than in 2015, the year of the Paris Agreement. growth) for coal, but decline by 2.3% for oil, 1.1% for natural gas, and 7.0% for cement.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

Iceland

Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable

Proof-of-principle of cost-effective methane cracking technology for H2 production without CO2; 50% cleaner than SMR, comparable to electrolysis

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This idea was put to the test during a series of experimental campaigns that ran from late 2012 to the spring of 2015 in KIT’s KALLA (KArlsruhe Liquid Metal LAboratory). Carbon separates on the surface of the bubbles and is deposited as a powder at the top end of the reactor when they disintegrate. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

Cleaner

Cleaner Production Kits CO2

Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave

Supercharged EV

JANUARY 6, 2021

Found an article on Forbes from 2015 already stating at that time that as long as people are buying and driving cars, Teslas are excellent choices regarding carbon emissions. 2-before anyone says "But electricity is generated from coal!", they took that into account too --> it's included in the 53% overall reduction.

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Cleaner Lithium Ion Cars CO2

Euro Parliament Environment Committee approves 147 g CO2/km target for light commercial vehicles by 2020; caps van speed

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

In April, the committee had approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95 g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 g CO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015—a reduction of 27% from the 2015 target. Earlier post.). Super credits assign a favorable weighting to vans that emit less than 50 g/km of CO 2.

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2020 Environment Light Commercial

MEPs strike 95g/km deal with Irish Presidency for car CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2013

The agreement confirms the 95g/km by 2020 target for new cars sold in the EU, down from 130g in 2015. The agreement also provides for “super-credit” weightings for each manufacturer’s cleaner cars (50g threshold) from 2020 to 2023.

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Emissions CO2 2020 Cars

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs running on electricity and biofuel are cleaner than conventional vehicles running on fossil fuels. [ 2 ] 2016 Chevrolet Volt Review – First Drive - HybridCars 05 Oct 2015. [ DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, September 2015. [ Greentech Media 12 May 2015. [ MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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Clean Cleaning Future Green

Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

The CO 2 removal technology was retrofitted to the SMRs, which produce hydrogen to assist in the making of cleaner burning transportation fuels by refinery customers on Air Products’ Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network.

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Oil Hydrogen CO2 Production

European cars on track for 130g/km CO2 by 2015

Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2012

Europe’s car are getting cleaner, the latest data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows, suggesting that carmakers are on the way to achieving EU targets. km CO2-a 4.6g/km Last year, 12.8 million new cars were registered in the EU, with an average emission level of 135.7g/km km improvement on 2010. That’s a reduction of 3.3

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CO2 2015 Cleaner Cars

Euro Parliament committee approves new 95 g/km CO2 target for cars; super credits and a switch to WLTP

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The environment committee of the European Parliament approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 gCO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015. The draft also sets indicative targets for post-2020 CO 2 emissions in the range of 68-78 g/km (109-126 g/mile) from 2025.

Climate Change

Climate Change CO2 Cars 2020

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

We will be systematically aligning production and other stages in the value chain to CO2 neutrality in the coming years. Volkswagen is seeking to provide individual mobility for millions of people for years to come—individual mobility that is safer, cleaner and fully connected. billion) by 2023. Earlier post.).

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CO2 Electric Electrical All-Electric

Study finds 3D printing of metal parts could reduce an airplane’s weight by 4-7%; fuel, CO2 and metal savings

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Funded by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, the case study is described in a paper published in the May issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production. Runze Huang, a graduate student in Masanet’s lab, is first author of the paper. Other authors include Matthew Riddle and Diane Graziano from Argonne National Laboratory.

Parts

Parts Fuel CO2 Cleaner

Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

On longer timeframes, the refrigerant in your air conditioner will leak into the atmosphere where it, too, will absorb sunlight, possibly even more than CO2 2 , and heat the planet long after the blades of your air conditioner’s fan have stopped spinning. This year, the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

Future

Future Climate Phoenix Gas-Electric

CARB releases summary of results of first CO2 cap-and trade auction; CPUC proposes how to use the revenues

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Of 39,450,000 allowances for the Advance Auction (2015 Vintage), 5,576,000 were sold with a settlement price of $10 (same reserve price). That means new jobs, cleaner water and air—and a working model for other states, and the nation, to use as we gear up to fight climate change and make our economy more competitive and resilient.

CO2

CO2 Climate Change 2013 Gas-Electric

Electrification gaining momentum in fleet vehicle industry – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To reduce CO2 emissions, many countries signed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, pledging to cut their emissions by certain targets. In recent years, vehicle emission standards have also seen significant advancements, with a marked decrease in CO2 emissions and an increase in fuel economy.

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Fleet Industrial Industry Charging

ICCT/TNO study: Real-world vehicle fuel consumption discrepancy widens to 42% in Europe

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

for selected brands in 2001 and 2015. Further actions are therefore required, in particular on-road testing of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions under real driving conditions as well as independent surveillance testing of actual vehicles on the road. United Kingdom), km77.com com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland).

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Europe United Kingdom Fuel 2001

Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

for example, the company uses a new “three-wet” paint application that reduces electricity use along with CO2 and Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions. cubic meters per vehicle in 2011 within a corporate goal of reducing the amount of water used per vehicle by 30% between 2009 and 2015. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

2016

2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MIT Water Energy CO2

Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Country/Average CO2 2008(g/km)/AverageCO2 2007/Rank 2007. Car makers – Ranking by average CO2 in 2008.

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Green Czech Republic Latvia CO2

Jaguar Land Rover investing $1.6M in two new Centers of Excellence for Engine Combustion Research at Oxford and University College London; gasoline and diesel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

These study programmes have the potential to feed directly into the future development of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Ingenium family of compact, lightweight, high-efficiency diesel and gasoline turbocharged engines, which will begin production at the new Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton early in 2015. Earlier post.).

Land Rover

Land Rover Universal London Diesel

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. The share of fossil fuels in global primary energy consumption falls from around 81% today to 75% in 2035. World Energy Outlook.

Oil

Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet

EV Driven

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Proof-of-principle of cost-effective methane cracking technology for H2 production without CO2; 50% cleaner than SMR, comparable to electrolysis

Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave

Euro Parliament Environment Committee approves 147 g CO2/km target for light commercial vehicles by 2020; caps van speed

MEPs strike 95g/km deal with Irish Presidency for car CO2 emissions

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

European cars on track for 130g/km CO2 by 2015

Euro Parliament committee approves new 95 g/km CO2 target for cars; super credits and a switch to WLTP

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

Study finds 3D printing of metal parts could reduce an airplane’s weight by 4-7%; fuel, CO2 and metal savings

Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

CARB releases summary of results of first CO2 cap-and trade auction; CPUC proposes how to use the revenues

Electrification gaining momentum in fleet vehicle industry – Charged EVs

ICCT/TNO study: Real-world vehicle fuel consumption discrepancy widens to 42% in Europe

Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Jaguar Land Rover investing $1.6M in two new Centers of Excellence for Engine Combustion Research at Oxford and University College London; gasoline and diesel

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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