Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists have predicted, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal Science. Credit: Cappa et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. This study highlighted the environmental impacts of corn ethanol in comparison with gasoline.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

The new Bolt acceded all our expectations, including range as our expert one-pedal driving and Southern California beach weather got us 270-300 miles of range with each full charge. Now we were an all EV family charging our cars on the free solar energy falling like money from the sky.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Tags: Canada Climate Change Fuels Lifecycle analysis Oil Oil sands. times the average for fuel consumed in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Meeting the California Pavley regulations will require about a 5.8% By comparison, meeting Japan’s standards for 2004-2015 requires a 1.9% Ford recognizes the need for a comprehensive approach to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change concerns. annual increase. Sue Cischke.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

Last week, Volkswagen provided a close-up look at one of the projects in which it is investing: the Garcia River Conservation-Based Forest Management Project, located in Mendocino County, California. TCF acquired the 23,780-acre tract in 2004 for $18 million ($10 million California Coastal Conservancy, $3.5

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

The comparison did not include potential emissions if fossil fuels were burned to create the power for recharging of car batteries. A calculation of the resources for each relative to their weight shows internal combustion engines burn material 300 times greater than that lost once an electric car battery is scrapped.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

IAM methods jointly model climatic effects and the global economy, accounting for all GHG sources and sinks, their relationships, and the effects of technology and behavioral changes for mitigating or adapting to climate change. It has not been used to specify fuel regulations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

They calculated emissions for ten cities (or metropolitan regions), which vary in population from 432,000 to 9,519,000; comparisons are in per capita terms. Diane Pataki, University of California, Irvine. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Lifecycle analysis. Barrie Gasson, University of Cape Town. Megacity Urban Metabolism.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The staff of the California Energy Commission has prepared a draft 2011-2012 Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, its third year of program funding. California Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), created the Alternative and. Click to enlarge. Anticipated.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. Comparison of Emission Standards (g/mi). . smog and particulates.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries. In comparison to a pure battery electric vehicle, FCEVs are more complex and heavier. Hydrogen ions are highly acidic and thus highly corrosive. Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Droughts, which are a major threat to plants worldwide, are expected to become both more frequent and more severe with climate change, said senior author Lawren Sack, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. The UCLA-XTBG team refined the method so that it can be applied in 10 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

The study, by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Georgia, Aerodyne Research, California Air Resources Board (ARB), Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. May, Greg T. Drozd, Allen H. Goldstein, Lynn M. 6b06509.

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Electra Vehicles

JULY 21, 2021

Climate Policy Alignment. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to implement stricter emissions regulations in an effort to curb Climate Change. Here are the top three reasons why commercial fleets, rather than personal vehicles, are electrifying fastest. transportation emissions in 2019.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. Consider: Electricity consumption in the state of California remained essentially flat from 1980 even as the economic output of the state skyrocketed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

Evolutionary biologist Todd Oakley of the University of California, Santa Barbara will lead the effort to use high-throughput sequencing technologies to quantify every expressed gene in the various algal combinations. Savage will work with researchers at Argonne National Laboratory on the comparison. —Nina Lin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car proponents at The California Cars Initiative believe the task force was unduly influenced by “plug-in skeptics” at the Boston Consulting Group , which is under government contract to provide input on the prospects for G.M. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? and Chrysler. .’s

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Earlier this month, Volkswagen and Eaton executives met with a small group of journalists at the VW Electronics Research Laboratory in Belmont, California, to discuss VW’s partnership with Eaton on AC and DC charging, followed by a broader conversation about VW’s plans for vehicle electrification over the next several years. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Additionally, I had a close frind out in California that just about creamed in his pants when he was able to lease one. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models.

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