Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The study by a team of researchers based at MIT has identified a suite of policy and investment strategies that could accelerate innovation in the United States, helping to meet growing energy needs affordably and reliably, reducing carbon emissions and alleviating insecurity over energy supplies. Innovation should become that focus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Specifically, the EPA is proposing state-specific rate-based goals for carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector, as well as emission guidelines for states to use in developing plans to attain the state-specific goals. Vermont and Washington, DC are not included in this rule because they do not have fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. University of Washington, Seattle.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

At EVmatch , we envision a distributed, equitable, and carbon-free clean energy economy that connects and elevates all people. EVmatch and Arcadia have teamed up to provide a special clean energy offer to anyone with an electricity bill in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, New York, or Washington D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

In addition, carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events, because significant volumes of fluids are injected underground over long periods of time. Δσ refers only to the radial stress in the exterior region. ΔV * and Δσ ? 0; if the medium is much stiffer, then ΔV ?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

However, he stressed that “ new forms of mobility cannot be separated from the question of where the energy is coming from ”—a reference to the need to widely deploy low-carbon sources of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

afforestation, avoided deforestation, carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency measures, renewable energy generation) would be established. As heads of state convened, an abbreviated document was hurriedly produced to minimize sticking points and shopped around among leaders of developed countries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

The Dangl team seeks to apply the genetic and genomic information toward applications in bioenergy and carbon cycling research. —Dangl team proposal. Additionally, the microbes in this environment may offer insight into bioremediation applications for cold ecosystems. Community Sequencing Program Sequencing Plans for 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

Siluria was one of the highlighted companies at last week’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, DC. Ethylene, with a $160-billion market, is a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can be oligomerized into transportation fuels. Belcher is a founder of Siluria, and is on the Board of Directors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

At the Washington Auto Show in February, for example, GM suggested a partial draft checklist of stakeholders and enablers to help guide cities in making their regions plug-in friendly. One million plug-ins don’t happen without significant partnering, coordination and effort.” Tony Posawatz. Earlier post.). The charging pyramid. Source: EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

The new program-wide funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000991 ) ( earlier post ), was announced by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the Washington Auto Show. AOI 2: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles. ($6M) Carbon Fiber Composite Targets.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Other proposals include sprinkling reflective silicate beads over polar ice sheets and injecting materials with reflective properties, such as sulfates or calcium carbonate, into the stratosphere. None of the approaches in this young field are well understood, and they all carry potentially large unknown risks. Solar climate intervention is.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

What are we really doing and how big of a carbon footprint are we going to leave with this?" Some of our engineers think we must go beyond lithium-ion," said Katsuaki Watanabe, president of the Toyota Motor Corporation, referring to what is now the leading battery technology for electric vehicles. ( We need to know, is it viable?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. —Andrew Wheeler.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Along with other industry executives, IBMs Schurr spoke Wednesday morning about smart-grid technologies in Washington, D.C., Smart grid refers to a number of technologies aimed at gathering more data on the flow of electricity through the transmission grid. at the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) Another six U.S.

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