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New Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy

Green Car Congress

The report was developed with input from 19 companies and organizations: Air Liquide; American Honda Motor Co., Inc; Audi; Chevron; Cummins Inc.; Fourteen percent of US final energy demand in 2050 is estimated to be the equivalent of more the 2,468 TWh or 8.4 billion MMBTU per year. Toyota; and Xcel Energy.

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Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky ‘Autopia’ ride, and quick

Baua Electric

But the ride was sponsored by Chevron from 1998-2012, and that company is pretty dedicated to poisoning small children anyway, so it was apt. Thankfully, in 2012, Disney attracted a new sponsor, Honda, and in 2016, Honda upgraded the engines to small four-stroke engines, reducing noise and pollution significantly.

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UAI and EFC call EPA MOVES2014 emissions model treatment of ethanol “seriously flawed”; call for peer review

Green Car Congress

The new elements in MOVES2014 pertaining to ethanol reflect the findings of a study conducted for EPA by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), a non-profit organization supported by the American Petroleum Institute and a group of auto manufacturers (Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen).

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

At exactly at 11:15 on the nose, a Honda Odyssey minivan pulled to a stop in front of me – the side door opened and a young voice belonging to someone inside said “Put this on, and get inside.” “Do you think we ever hear the truth about what Chevron and Exxon are doing to kill the climate? Artist sketch of Rue.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

Green Car Congress

The goal was to enable the design of cleaner-burning, more-efficient engines and fuels by accelerating the development of software tools and databases to streamline and bolster these advances.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

The National Hydrogen Association (members include Chevron, GM, Shell, Toyota, Honda, CARB and UC Davis), the California Hydrogen Business Council, and the US Fuel Cell Council are not happy with Chu’s cuts. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk.

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California ARB staff hosting first meeting of Low Carbon Fuel Standard advisory panel

Green Car Congress

Robert Bienenfield, American Honda Motor Co. James Uihlein, Chevron Corporation. Panel Members. Dan Adler, California Clean Energy Fund. William Barrett, American Lung Association. Stephanie Batchelor, Biotechnology Industry Organization. Eric Bowen, Renewable Energy Group. Stephen Brink, California Forestry Association.