Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2016

We will work with state partners toward creating a consistent national policy on these innovations, provide options now and into the future for manufacturers seeking to deploy autonomous vehicles, and keep our safety mission paramount at every stage. —NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

On another front, DOE will partner with industry, the National Laboratories, and other stakeholders to develop a study that will examine the vehicle, battery, infrastructure, and economic implications of direct current (DC) fast charging of up to 350 kW, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016.

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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 —President Obama. Units 3 and 4 are expected to begin commercial operation in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The project is scheduled to be the first US nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

The US auto industry, via the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, is lining up to support a new national, harmonized program to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption that President Obama will announce on Tuesday, 19 May. This approach allows for a range of sizes of vehicles to meet consumer needs for passenger and cargo room.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

The new Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 mpg by 2016). From fiscal years 2010-2016, he estimates that action will cost the HTF about $9 billion. It also assumes the mpg requirement will be phased in at 5% per year from 2017 through 2025 as proposed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Volkswagen of America will invest $10 million by 2016 to support the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US, said Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy. We have done our part to bring very competitive and viable vehicles to market but we have to have a market that encourages their sale.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

In a speech at Andrews Air Force Base today, President Obama said that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Deport of Transportation (DOT) will sign the joint final rule establishing greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy standards for light-duty vehicles for model years 2012-2016 tomorrow.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In 2016, TCSA was amended by the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (signed into law by President Obama).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2016

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 22, 2016. And, why did Tesla Motors sue a German supplier that worked on the development of its Model X? Friday, we noted that the future of.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The 400 MW, 65-year old plant was shuttered in 2014 in response to low natural gas prices and the onset of strict environmental regulations promulgated by the Obama Administration. The 829 megawatt “Liberty” power plant, located in Towanda, Pennsylvania, is expected to enter commercial operations in the first quarter of 2016.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

US President Barack Obama has confirmed a new national policy that intends to slash fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions on all new cars and trucks sold in the USA. Tags: Green cars Latest news Barack Obama Department of Transportation Environmental Protection Agency national fuel policy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Preliminary indications from the Defense Production Act Title III Advanced Drop-in Biofuels Production Project are that drop-in biofuels will be available for less than $4 per gallon by 2016, making them competitive with traditional sources of fuel. USDA and Navy also are collaborating on an Industry Day, 30 Jan.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Reports

MAY 12, 2011

Corporate average fuel economy requirements have already been set through 2016, an action facilitated by the Obama Administration soon after taking office. In 2016, across the entire vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

California fulfilled its commitment to support and establish the first US-wide greenhouse gas standard for passenger vehicles by adopting a regulation to allow vehicle complying with federal greenhouse gas standards for MY 2012-2016 to fully comply with California’s own GHG standards for those model years. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

This effort also advances President Obama's National Strategic Computing Initiative, unveiled in July 2015, which calls for public-private partnerships to increase industrial adoption of high-performance computing. Applications are due by 21 April 2016. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. launching a new track on the interaction of energy and water (the energy/water ‘nexus’). million cubic meters of freshwater per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In the 5 topics areas of the FOA, the proposed project will focus on cost-effective measures to improve the on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% (compared to the 2016 baseline truck) to reduce transportation’s fuel use and climate change impacts. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who replaced then-Governor Janet Napolitano when she moved to become Secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration, may rescind Arizona’s Clean Cars rule that adopts the California standards before they come into effect. Azstarnet.com. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program. president Barack Obama, the leadership program is for those from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe who are working to improve public, private, and civic development through grassroots action. Established by former U.S. Established by former U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

It also aims to fulfill the vision of the Materials Genome Initiative, established by President Barack Obama in 2011 to help accelerate the discovery, development, and deployment of new materials. Muratahan Aykol, Soo Kim, Vinay I. Hegde, David Snydacker, Zhi Lu, Shiqiang Hao, Scott Kirklin, Dane Morgan & C.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

Fiat also has an option to purchase 40% of the VEBA’s interest in Chrysler issued to the VEBA as of 10 June 10 2009, which option may be exercised from 1 July 2012 until 30 June 30, 2016, semi annually, in tranches not exceeding, for each exercise, 20% of the Covered Interest. billion advanced by the Obama administration.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

President Obama has directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop and to issue the next phase of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 2016. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

At Lincoln Lab, in order to solve problems, we had to bring physics and chemistry together with engineering,” he said during an interview in 2016. National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received the 2011 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under President Obama’s national fuel policy ( earlier post ), the EPA and the Department of Transportation’s NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are jointly developing a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

mpg in 2016. annual increase in average fuel economy through 2016. Ford is pleased that the Obama administration has recognized the substantial investment required to develop the technologies that will increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. annual increase in average fuel economy, according to ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The Obama Administration has made a goal of developing cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with an objective of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. Will we get our money’s worth?

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

The news comes on the back of President Barack Obama’s decision to announce a national policy of two harmonised standards - one for increasing fuel economy and the second for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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