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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

Green Car Congress

Agreements already have been reached between the Alliance and Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama City in Japan; the State of Tennessee; the State of Oregon; Sonoma County and San Diego in California; Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona; Seattle, Wash.; Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C.

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3 Reasons Why Tesla Stock Will Surge This Decade

CleanTechnica EVs

The main reason seems to be a feeling that the California carmaker isn’t going to be alone in the EV […]. Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris Tesla stock’s rocket-fueled rise has stalled of late — at this writing, it’s in the high $600 range, far below the all-time high of $880 that it saw in January.

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Solar EV Charging – An Emerging Charging Method

Push EVs

On June 9, the EU assembly voted in Strasbourg, France to require automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100 percent by the middle of the next decade. 450 gallons of gas results in 8,820 lbs of CO2 emissions; 3,780 kWh of California grid power makes 1,531 lbs of CO2; 3,780 kWh of home solar energy makes 368 lbs of CO2.

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Four Factors That Will Impact EV Charging Infrastructure Requirements by 2030

Driivz

Rapid growth in EV adoption, bolstered by government initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions, has created an immediate need to build EV charging infrastructure to support the growin g demand for EV charging. million public EV charge points are needed to meet the EU’s proposed 55% CO2 reducti on targets for passenger cars by 2035. .

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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A team led by Joseph Spatafora at Oregon State University and Jason Stajich at University of California at Riverside is planning to fill in gaps in the Fungal Tree of Life by sequencing 1,000 fungal genomes over the next five years, providing at least two reference genomes for each of the 577 recognized families classified under Fungi.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero.

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German Battery, German Electric Car?

Plugs and Cars

An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German company developing Lithium batteries that would be suitable for electric cars. German Greens have bought into hydrogen hype as much as California regulators. An electric VW, say a Plug-in UP!