Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 21, 2013
In a study published in the journal Energy Economics , MIT researchers have found that a fuel economy standard is at least six to fourteen times less cost effective than a fuel tax when targeting an identical reduction in cumulative gasoline use (20% by 2050). —Karplus et al.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2019
ExxonMobil said extended its support of the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) low-carbon energy research and education mission by renewing its status as a founding member for another five years. ExxonMobil first signed on as a member of the initiative in 2014.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. areas of inquiry: The potential impact of climate change policies on global fleet composition, fuel consumption, fuel prices, and economic output. —MITEI Director Robert C.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2009
Normalized well-to-wake GHG emissions for low-, baseline- and high-emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios. The focus of the work was on alternative jet fuels that could be available commercially in the next decade using primarily North American resources. From Hileman et al.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 29, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $7 million to projects at eight universities to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines. ignition delay) of alternative fuels. ignition delay) of alternative fuels.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 3, 2010
A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. Vehicle fuel consumption depends on the combination of powertrain and fuel used, as well as how the vehicle is driven.
Clean Fleet Report
JULY 9, 2022
A study conducted by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) compared the lifetime costs of owning a gas-powered vehicle versus that of owning an eco-friendly vehicle. MIT’s charts reveal that the most expensive all-electric vehicle to own costs its owners no more than $600 a month on average.
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