Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The Panda Hummel generating station will be fueled with Marcellus Shale gas, which is expected to provide the project with a significant operating cost advantage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 Vogtle Electric Generating Plant—Vogtle units 3 and 4—will supplement the two existing reactor units at the facility. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Advanced air management system (exhaust gas recirculation, turbocharger, supercharging). Hybrid electric powertrains. President Obama and President Xi Jinping announced a renewal and expansion of the CERC in November 2014. Combustion control and optimization technology. Alternative fuel combustion. Engine thermal management.

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Green Car Congress

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. The results so far suggest that: The penetration of spark-ignited engines in passenger cars is projected to drop to 51% in 2025 from 74% in 2016. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Actual and projected greenhouse gas emissions for passenger vehicles by region/country through 2022. Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

This Tesla is one of a number of electric cars coming on the market. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? The number of electric cars bought, according to the study, “may be significantly less if these assumptions do not materialize.&# ‘ Here is the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. Here's my June column. Plug-in cars are inevitable. Such as the $1.1

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

President Barack Obama announced an agreement with 13 major automakers to pursue the next phase in the Administration’s national vehicle program ( earlier post ) , increasing fuel economy to a fleetwide average 54.5 The standards also cut more than 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the life of the program.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

Plug In America watchers know that Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED), celebrated for the entire month of April, is an extension of September’s National Drive Electric Week (NDEW). When Obama took office in 2009, while it may seem inconceivable today, consumers could purchase only one mass-produced EV, a Tesla Roadster.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Three of the NHTSA scenarios for penetration of technologies for passenger cars for MY 2016. On 15 Sep, NHTSA and the US EPA proposed a joint rulemaking on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty vehicles: an average new car 34.1 mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6 L/100km) in model year 2025.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 18, 2009

Photo by Gerry Gaydos, Vancouver EVA Regards, Gerry Gaydos,Funkymoto Electric Vehicles Inc. I continue to read journalists and bloggers asking if there really is a market for EVs now that gas is back to $2/gallon. Electric Vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) were included. "It

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Greenhouse gas and fuel economy levels under the EPA NHTSA joint proposed rulemaking. The proposal builds upon the core principles President Obama announced in May for a harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.( mpg by MY 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The greenhouse gas standard approved today builds on California’s first-in-the-nation standard that was later incorporated in 2010 by the federal government as part of a national program. The new rules strengthen the greenhouse gas standard for 2017 models and beyond. super ultra-low-emission vehicle (SULEV) levels by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The selected projects will focus on developing carbon capture technologies that can achieve at least 90% CO 2 removal and reduce the added costs at power plants with carbon capture systems to no more than a 35% increase in the cost of electricity produced at the plant. DOE share: $1,999,693; recipient share: $500,000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The Advanced Clean Cars program combines the control of soot, smog-causing pollutants (LEV III) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into a single coordinated package of requirements for model years 2017 through 2025. Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards. ARB staff had posted a summary of the rules package in November. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

government earlier this year were so stringent that they were "a de facto battery-electric vehicle mandate.” But it’s hard to have any sympathy for the industry after so many manufacturers have been chanting the mantra of electrification since 2016. But the premise that electric cars default as good is starting to fall flat.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. President Biden has made it clear that he intends to strengthen environmental regulations across the board, and his administration is expected to reinstate the Obama-era emissions standards, and possibly go beyond them.

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