Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Improving coordination and support for research efforts on climate change preparedness.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving. Our tests show that even in optimal conditions, with a full battery, the cars pollute more than advertised. Unless you drive them softly, carbon emissions can go off the charts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars). 101 to 120. 121 to 140.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. of the overall new car market in 2017. of the UK’s 2.5

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Motor Industry Association ( MIA ) reported 10,940 new passenger car and SUV registrations in New Zealand in August 2022, up 138.6% Last year, New Zealand’s new passenger cars and SUVs registrations only reached 4,585 units. Fossil fuel vehicles still dominated New Zealand’s new car registrations in August. year-over-year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We found ourselves thinking about how Smart Energy Management for EV charging is connected to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference; Countries from around the world continue to focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a key strategy for reducing the rate of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Trucks will even surpass passenger cars as the major oil consumers. However, achieving climate change targets will also require the widespread adoption of solutions that are not yet fully developed, whether in logistics or technology. Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 5, 2018

Ten years ago, energy security may have been as much a driving force behind electric cars for U.S. policymakers as climate change. Scientists agree that the effects of manmade climate change, on the other hand.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 1, 2009

But now that I’ve found out they’re still lying and covering up their role in climate change and the size of their own carbon footprint, I’m going to have to get tougher with them. I initially gave Exxon/Mobil till 2020 to get out of Torrance and clean up their toxic mess here in my town.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2013

Total emissions of the six main greenhouse gases in 2011 were equivalent to 6,702 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. Climate Change Emissions Policy' GHG emissions in 2011 showed a 6.9%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Other technologies—such as efficiency improvements in gasoline engines as well as the rollout of hybrid electric power trains—offer more compelling and cost-effective pathways to reducing CO 2 emissions from European passenger cars, the ICCT says. For instance, hybrid electric vehicles and diesel cars in the small (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

Total emissions of the six main greenhouse gases in 2010 were equivalent to 6,822 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. The number of vehicle miles traveled by light-duty motor vehicles (passenger cars and.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Climate change… Want to know more about carbon […]. Each ad is only a few minutes. Regarding the first one, how does the Australian government support electric vehicles? It doesn’t! Renewable energy?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Nissan’s measures to reduce emissions include the following: Nissan UK has installed 19,000 solar panels to join 10 wind turbines at its Sunderland plant, generating enough power to build more than 31,000 cars every year. The power derived from the solar panels and wind turbines accounts for 7% of the plant’s total usage.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO 2 emissions by as much as 25% over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions per million BTU, respectively.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. None of this is happening by accident.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

Under the MI Scenario, road and rail are projected to become carbon neutral (rail via 100% electrification). With the first three categories, the report recommends specific policy actions designed to reduce demand or change high-consumption behavior, that in turn, can influence the technology end-points. Road transport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. The proposals will cut average emissions from new cars to 95 grams of CO 2 per km (g CO 2 /km) in 2020 from 135.7 Europe and the US. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The findings, published in the 21 September issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , are generally consistent with official Chinese government statistics and could bolster their credibility as international negotiations proceed on commitments of China and other nations to combat climate change. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

At present, 17 of the 27 EU Member States levy CO 2 -related taxes on passenger cars, and 15 governments provide tax incentives for electrically chargeable vehicles, according to the newly published European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Tax Guide 2010. In 2009, the market share of cars emitting 120 gCO 2 /km had risen to 25%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

The number of EU countries with CO2-related car taxation rose to 15 in 2008. ACEA says that the European car industry welcomes the clear trend towards CO 2 -related car taxation as fiscal measures are an important tool in shaping consumer demand towards fuel-efficient cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMT CO 2 Eq.), and CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion up 2.6% Speeding up this shift will be vital to meeting climate targets. or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq. after accounting for sequestration from the land sector.

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2010

The National Research Council has suggested the US needs a measurable domestic greenhouse gas emissions budget target in the range of 170-220gigatons of CO2 for the period 2012-2050.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The world is fast moving towards sustainable development driven by the need to reduce carbon footprint and also to meet the challenges of the environment and climate change. metric tonnes of CO2 emissions. Ather is helping in doing the same. In FY2019-2020, Ather Energy says its vehicles reduced 7.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) outlined the industry’s proposal for a pathway to future CO 2 reductions: a 20% CO 2 reduction for passenger cars by 2030, compared to 2021. The European Commission will reveal its proposal on CO 2 targets for cars post-2021 later this year.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Representatives of Electric Vehicle Drivers’ Associations from a range of European countries are heading to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference to support the call for much faster transport decarbonization globally fuelled by renewable energy. “A Promote the voice of EV driver associations globally working with GEVA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

A new working paper published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) concludes that natural gas can play a significant role in cutting on-road vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, but that over the long term there will need to be a commitment to transition to very low CO 2. Click to enlarge. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

A team from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, reports on an improved material for capturing carbon dioxide from the air—silica?organic It is now widely accepted that anthropogenic CO 2 , due to its role as a greenhouse gas, is the major contributor to climate change.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As global leaders meet in Poland to hammer out details about how to meet Paris Climate Accord targets, a new study shows that European automakers aren't introducing electric cars nearly fast enough to meet European standards—and the delay could cost them.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder. By 2040, that number could reach 14 percent —almost as much carbon as that emitted by air, land, and sea transport combined.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Polestar, the Swedish luxury electric car company spun out from Volvo Car Group, declared a “moonshot aim” of building the first carbon-neutral vehicle by 2030. But before digging deep into Polestar and their crazy goal, let us discuss Carbon neutrality. Carbon Neutrality. Now the tough part….

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

The study judged that the potential CO 2 emissions reductions from low-carbon technologies within the next five years is “ quite low ” (around a 6% improvement), although in the longer term, i.e. between now and 2020, the potential CO 2 emissions reduction is much larger (up to 30% on a well-to-wheels basis).

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