Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2015

One of the advantages of electric cars is that they get cleaner as the emissions associated with generating the electricity to power them decrease. And the good news for electric-car drivers is that the grids that supply their electricity have been getting cleaner--and will likely continue to do so this year and into the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

In the UK, a low-carbon hydrogen economy could deliver emissions savings equivalent to the carbon captured by 700 million trees by 2032 and is a key pillar of capitalizing on cleaner energy sources as the UK moves away from fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

By Max Baumhefner & Dylan Sullivan Nevada is considering legislation that would help the state drive on cleaner, cheaper electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

This alliance is mobilized to connect countless sensors, applications, autonomous cars, and remote services across every industry sector to create an assured, attested and secured foundation for tomorrow’s transportation and electrification infrastructure. Smart infrastructure will also be safer.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Utility companies are prioritizing their shareholders over the public’s need for cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable energy. For instance, four proposed high-voltage lines totaling 600 kilometers along the seam of regional networks in the upper Midwest could connect at least 28 gigawatts of wind and solar.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The new wave set off by electric vehicles has not only not receded amidst skepticism, but more and more new technologies and new thinking based on pure electric cars are driving the pace of innovation. As freezing winds blow across his construction site in northern China every morning, Liu Jianhong gathers his workers for hot tea.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 25, 2019

Buying a new car is always a significant investment, often involving plenty of research and testing beforehand, and buyers will likely give new, upcoming electric models a similar treatment. Switching to an electric car can save you more than just fuel costs. Guest Post by Sofia Lockhart. Enjoy the Financial Incentives.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

As the number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads explodes, electric utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar are coming online.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But gradually we would be driving battery-powered electric cars and powering more and more of our homes and factories with wind, solar, nuclear and second-generation biofuels. Tags: climate change electric cars environment green jobs plug-in cars renewable energy solar power New York Times Thomas Friedman.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

As more plug-in electric cars hit the road, the infrastructure used to generate electricity will need to be increasingly scrutinized. The most straightforward way to get cleaner electricity is to switch to a less-polluting source like natural gas--or better yet, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

The new 2012 Honda Civic will feature a cleaner, more powerful and fuel efficient diesel engine to deliver lower running costs for owners. Extensive wind tunnel testing was carried out to improve the car’s aerodynamics—a 12.6% To achieve a good CO 2 figure, you need to optimize every aspect of the car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Air Products is the leading global supplier of hydrogen to refineries to assist in producing cleaner burning transportation fuels and has experience in the hydrogen fueling industry. Cars, trucks, vans, buses, scooters, forklifts, locomotives, planes, cell towers, material handling equipment, and even submarines have been fueled.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

EV Mythbusting: EV Batteries Aren’t Actually Green Digging into the Heart of the Electric Car We’ve all heard the calls reporting the imminent danger we face from a changing climate. The electric vehicle revolution is very exciting for many consumers looking for a cleaner alternative.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 28, 2011

How many times have you seen an electric car pictured with a wind-turbine or solar power array in the background? The common imagination is that electric vehicles are clean, and what's cleaner than solar or wind.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The German government is co-funding the three-year project that will test the first cars to run on dimethyl ether (DME) ( earlier post ), commonly used as a non-toxic propellant in aerosol spray gas, and monooxymethylene ether (OME1). DME is safe, burns cleaner than conventional diesel, and most importantly is versatile. million (US$3.9-million)

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2017

While modern electric cars have only been available in large numbers for a few years, electric trains have been commonplace for some time. As with electric cars, the source of the electricity used to power these trains impacts their overall carbon footprint. The cleaner an energy source, the cleaner the vehicles it powers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

India is adopting a cleaner and greener economic growth pathway today, with the Government running one of the largest renewable capacity expansion programmes in the world. This is the equivalent emissions savings as taking 850,000 cars off the road in India each year.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The collective count of electric vehicles, encompassing cars, buses, vans, and large trucks, is anticipated to reach a remarkable 145 million by 2030. As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.”

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Of course, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear power are also useful energy supplements. Full electrification of transportation, including cars, planes, and ships. I believe that the world will transition to a sustainable future through a combination of solar and wind energy plus battery storage and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2010

Air Products’ compression, storage and dispensing technology will fuel hydrogen powered fuel cell buses for public transit initially, and a small fleet of cars targeted to increase to as many as 100 public use vehicles. World Cup Park is a combination of several small parks adjacent to World Cup Stadium, site of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2023

The shift to wind and solar is making EVs cleaner, fast. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ford might be considering a new charging connector. And Polestar switches to rear-wheel drive. Polestar is seeking a 300-mile range for its Polestar 2, as part of a switch of its single-motor model to rear-wheel drive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Eight in ten (80%) Canadians “agree” (33% strongly/48% somewhat) that “ electric cars are the way of the future ”, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Hyundai. One in three (33%) “disagrees” (8% strongly/25% somewhat) that electric-powered cars are too much hassle.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The overall carbon emissions associated with electric cars decrease as the electricity used to recharge them gets cleaner. And the latest statistics from the International Energy Agency (IEA) will be good news indeed for electric-car drivers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. Using these times for car battery charging, a typical household electrical infrastructure could support 3 or more PHEVLERs. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid. 23 ] , [ 24 ].

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

A side benefit could be plugging in appliances to the car while camping rough. Just as there is an Apple ecosystem, so with home and EV battery systems you could wind up with a Ford setup, a Tesla setup, or a VW setup. Even so, world events are putting wind in the sails for backup power. Not so independent.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Engineers removed about 60 counts of wind drag from the 2013 Malibu’s design, compared to its predecessor. For example, the shutters open when the car is traveling up a hill, pulling a trailer, or in hot city driving; the shutters close at highway speeds when less engine cooling is required. Aerodynamic improvements. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

New policies unlock plentiful natural gas resources—making it the largest global energy source by the 2030s—and accelerate carbon capture and storage technology, supporting a cleaner energy system. By the end of the century, cars and trucks powered by electricity and hydrogen could dominate the road.

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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 fleet of cars and trucks we use in the federal government is one of the largest in the country.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

But we need to keep in mind that when we're talking about cars, even coal-generated electricity results in lower greenhouse gas emissions compared with petroleum. The EPRI-NRDC Plug-in Hybrid Study makes clear that under every scenario studied, every region will yield reductions in greenhouse gases as we increase the number of plug-in cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The global car fleet doubles from 0.9 billion cars in 2015 to 1.8 The possibility that the most important source of growth in oil demand in the 2030s won’t be to power cars or trucks or planes, but rather used as an input into other products, such as plastics and fabrics, is quite a change from the past. billion cars to 1.2

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When you ask people about cleaner energy, they think of electricity,” says Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy. The electrical grid also supports the efficient distribution of power and makes use of energy generated through renewable means like wind and solar. But we also have to cut emissions from heating.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Weather observations such as wind speed and direction (with other evidence) allowed researchers to identify plumes of polluted air from the Beijing urban area and population centers to the south, as opposed to relatively clean air arriving from the north.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hywind floating offshore wind turbine by U.S. Two US environmental agencies say they will start using AI to better monitor the impact of offshore wind farms on marine animals, particularly endangered North American right whales, of which there are only about 360 left in the world. Department of Energy is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

We focus on current distributional aspects of health impacts from fossil power plant emissions attributable to urban EVs (pure plug-in battery e-cars). From 2010 to 2014, the percentage of total electricity generated by non-fossil sources increased from 17% to 20% for wind and hydro power and from 1.8% This paper targets that gap.

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