Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. A profound shift in the transportation sector sees global demand for oil peaking in about 2035.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

INFRA Technology group has developed and patented a proprietary Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology (INFRA.xtl), based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, for the production of light synthetic oil—which is close to a product, characterized by Shultz-Flory alpha of 0.77—and

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Like the issue of oil drilling in Hermosa Beach. The classic slogan that Stop Hermosa Beach Oil movement has created, Keep Hermosa Hermosa” couldn’t be more right-on, because over the years Hermosa has been kept Hermosa.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 20, 2009

”China’s coal sector has made remarkable progress over the last decade, fuelling rapid economic growth and bringing a better quality of life for China’s citizens”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Beijing at the launch of the new publication, Cleaner Coal in China.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative builds on the first-ever US-China Electric Vehicle Forum in September 2009. The two leaders emphasized their countries’ strong shared interest in accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles in order to reduce oil dependence, cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote economic growth.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Co-sponsored by NRG and COSIA (Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance), the 4-½ year competition will include two tracks, with the new technologies tested at either a coal power plant or a natural gas facility. While cleaner energy sources are on the rise, overall energy demand is expected to grow 37% by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. That’s right—eight years. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

2) We build a technical database containing parameters related to different travel tools, such as initial cost, operation and maintenance cost, life cycle, fuel price, energy efficiency level, annual mileage, and passenger load rate for vehicles that distinguish between fuel types and energy efficiency levels for each travel mode and vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The fortunes of alternative energy have historically waxed and waned with the price levels of oil, gas, and other energy sources, rising when prices are high only to fall once they retreat. Base case economics for EVs in North America are very challenging, absent significant disruption in oil price or battery cost. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. primarily produce bio-propane.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It helps reduce dependence on fossil fuels, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and build a resilient energy infrastructure capable of meeting the world’s growing energy needs. For example, solar and wind power do not deplete finite resources like coal, oil, and natural gas, contributing to more sustainable resource management.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Alternative and renewable forms of energy help push the power industry toward a cleaner, more sustainable future. Upcoming Build Back Better incentives may push this even further, which means that customers will be increasingly likely to want both services.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. Doing so would still take decades to complete.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. So youll have a cleaner, cheaper, quieter car for your local travel, and the gas tank is always there should you need to drive longer distances. What Are Plug-In Hybrids? You dont have to plug it in.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Shifting some of the nation's vehicles from gasoline to electricity, these people say, would curb pollution and reduce reliance on imported oil -- and would make utilities more profitable and efficient. A few months back, a reporter from the WSJ came to our offices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. 94% percent of transport relies on oil products, of which 90% is imported. It has also been estimated that every additional 1% increase in energy savings cuts gas imports by 2.6%. 75% of EU housing stock is energy inefficient.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

As part of the agreement SGI will be building a new greenhouse and test facilities, as well as hiring a substantial number of new employees. Such bio-oils from photosynthetic algae could be used to manufacture a full range of fuels including gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel that meet the same specifications as today’s products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

For example, at peak oil price in 2008, Indonesia was spending 40% of its budget on transport fuel—more than health, education and infrastructure development combined. Governments and organizations need to cooperate, share information and build coalitions. There is no a single way forward for subsidy reform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!” Water delivery provides a useful analogy for electricity and the way it works.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition. In addition, I am finalizing the manuscript for Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Chrysler isnt the first to realize that building an EV off of a Lotus platform makes for an incredibly fast and fun experience (see also: Tesla Roadster ) We escaped from the dark confines of Cobo Hall onto a decently sunny day and cruised along the river and past the Ren Cen, gunning the Circuit whenever possible.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy! ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

City of San Francisco San Francisco recently became the first city in the country to mandate plug-in charging stations for all new buildings. There is no catalytic converter that can fully scrub the toxics that result from burning oil. Yet simultaneously, China has overtaken the United States in the number of automobiles sold annually.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hyundai, which announced this May that it would build its first-ever dedicated EV plant in the state of Georgia and, to capitalize on the North American final assembly requirement in the newly-passed IRA, just revealed it was mulling moving the groundbreaking on the facility from the original target of 2023 to before the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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