CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 24, 2022

Amid record high gas prices and record high climate-changed temperatures, there’s a sliver of good news this week.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Wang said China’s NEV makers must embrace the industry’s shift while advancing cleaner tech. BYD’s new Seagull EV (Source: BYD) After launching the Qin Plus Champion Edition (DM-i model) last year, priced below 100,000 yuan ($13,900) for the first time, BYD claimed it was “directly destroying the moat of joint venture vehicles.”

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2023

Electric vehicles are cleaner, quieter, and cheaper to maintain than gas-powered vehicles. But one overlooked benefit is that EVs allow drivers to control the price of their fuel. By going solar, you can set your own rate for electricity and save tens of thousands of dollars in EV charging costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread adoption of electric transportation, including electrification in the off-road sector, could lead to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and could modestly improve air quality, according to a new analysis released by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2023

The refinery complex will reduce and eliminate 95% of greenhouse gas emissions while producing approximately 91.25 million barrels or 3.8325 billion gallons annually of cleaner transportation fuels including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from crudes sourced domestically from the Anadarko, Permian, Denver and Julesburg, and Bakken Basins.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

President Obama’s plan, which sidesteps the need for Congressional involvement by relying on a wide variety of executive actions, has three main components: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020. Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2012

Omnitek Engineering Corporation, a developer of natural gas engines and diesel-to-natural gas conversion systems, has entered into a definitive agreement with investors for a private placement of common stock and warrants to raise approximately $5.0 million in gross proceeds. Merriman Capital, Inc.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Natural gas prices have doubled in the US. Here are some cleaner alternatives. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Governors of five Midwestern states create an EV charging network.

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Plug in America

MARCH 1, 2024

It’s because our car is different because it doesn’t need gas,” Jazmin told her daughter. The burn- off gas that comes out of cars isn’t good for you. Our car is cleaner and healthier for you.” Now, Jazmin’s daughter covers her face when she walks around gas cars so she doesn’t breathe in the exhaust. I figured, why not?”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

With methanol fuel price at Chinese pumps around 3RMB/L (€0.42/L In the face of rising global gas prices, methanol fuel offers a viable cleaner affordable alternative, Geely said. From 0-100km/s takes 8.8 seconds and traveling 100km consumes roughly 9L (WLTP) of clean methanol.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2021

By Eoin Bannon The EU has published proposals to make the shipping sector finally pay for its pollution and fossil fuels — and to start using cleaner maritime fuels. Originally published on Transport & Environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Turbo ecoFLEX natural gas version has been fitted with gas tanks made of composite material including carbon fiber. The new tank system can now hold 25 kg of natural gas, increasing the range in the CNG mode by 25%. The new natural gas Zafira Tourer will offer a range of up to 530 km (329 miles). The new Zafira Tourer 1.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

per kilogram of hydrogen at German natural gas prices—without taking the market value of the solid black carbon byproduct of the process into consideration. However, preliminary calculations show that it could achieve costs of €1.9

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

With prices set to double by 2018, we’ve seen the bottom of the uranium market, and the negative sentiment that has followed this resource around despite strong fundamentals, is starting to change. Morningstar analyst David Wang predicts prices will double within the next two years. by James Stafford of Oilprice.com. Not even close.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

(HT_PRINT) Mahanagar Gas (MGL) on Tuesday announced a price cut for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) by ₹ 2.5 This latest price cut comes after a dip in gas input costs. In the last couple of years, CNG has found a rapidly growing footprint in the transportation sector owing to the sky-high price of petrol and diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

American Honda Motor Company (Honda) has selected national environmental consulting firm Gladstein, Neandross & Associates ( GNA ) to promote the newly redesigned Honda Civic Natural Gas sedan. With high gasoline prices nationwide, the Honda Civic Natural Gas offers consumers a cleaner transportation alternative that is also cost effective.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Nevada-based Advanced Refining Concepts, LLC, (ARC) has developed a process—called ClearRefining—for the upgrading of ultra-low sulfur diesel to a lighter, cleaner burning, higher quality fuel. The ClearRefining process combines ULSD with natural gas in a tank at 295 °F (below the diesel boiling point) and low pressure.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

a leader in natural gas engines, acquired Alternative Fuel Vehicle Sweden AB (AFV) of Gothenburg, Sweden for approximately SEK 51 million (approximately US$7.6 AFV is the sole supplier of natural gas fuel systems to Volvo Car Company (VCC). Westport Innovations Inc., Volvo dealers in Sweden have offered a bi-fuel 231-hp 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

Together, these sectors are responsible for driving approximately 30% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. The current ammonia production process is a material carbon emitter, accounting for almost 1% of total Australian greenhouse gas emissions. Source: CEFC. The CEFC Advancing Hydrogen Fund will draw on existing CEFC finance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost. Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

The conventional way to make gasoline from gas is to convert the gas to a synthesis gas, then into methanol, followed by conversion to straight-chain hydrocarbons and finally via reforming into a high-octane hydrocarbon blend. Given the current low gas prices, this generates both technological and economic benefits.

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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. Doing so could deliver a 7% emissions reduction on natural gas. 40-million (US$55.5-million)

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The state has also said that it’s aiming to get one million zero-emission vehicles on its roads by 2030, along with its plan to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution entirely by 2050. Coloradans want low- and zero-emissions vehicles because they help them get where they’re going while breathing cleaner air and saving money.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9, the COVID19 pandemic, and now the Ukrainian War, economic stimulus packages were meant to put the world on a cleaner and greener path, but this is not at all evident in the CO 2 emissions data. CO 2 emissions from natural gas use have grown a sustained 2.2% for natural gas, and 7.0%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

(WWI) to develop, to market, and to commercialize a heavy-duty, natural gas engine featuring the Westport HPDI 2.0 It allows for small quantities of diesel fuel and large quantities of natural gas to be delivered at high pressure to the combustion chamber. The natural gas is injected at the end of the compression stroke.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But this time, we are seeing exciting progress in making hydrogen cleaner, more affordable and more available for use across different sectors of the economy. Investments and focused policies are needed to close the price gap between low-carbon hydrogen and emissions-intensive hydrogen produced from fossil fuels.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

And anything, like electrically powered heat pumps, that can shift heating away from natural gas furnaces to cleaner sources of energy would also have a big climate impact, because 63 percent of American homes get their heat from natural gas. What are the pros and cons of a heat pump? In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Relocating the air intake manifold and optimizing the gas channel separator electrodes and seals has resulted in a 12% increase in power output over the first-gen stack (128 kW, up from 114 kW). The inlet design and sound-absorbing material in the air cleaner prevent air column resonance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2013

General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. Currently, the only natural gas vehicle from a major manufacturer on sale in the US is the Honda Civic Natural Gas. Click to enlarge.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 25, 2021

But in 2016, alarmed at the rise in greenhouse gas emissions from cars, we became aware of the potential of vehicle electrification as a measure to reduce those emissions. From 1982 to 2016, Green Energy Consumers Alliance focused our attention on building energy fo r homes and businesses.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 14, 2024

That means lower prices per kwh. Another study found that home electricity price hikes in the U.S. Gas prices are due to drop in 2024, as electricity prices might continue to rise somewhat—although it still costs much less to “fuel” an EV. 2023 by Synapse Energy Economics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Thomas Built Buses will further expand its alternative-powered product offerings with the addition of a compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus. liter natural gas engine, currently in development and expected to be available in 2015. The company plans to utilize the Cummins Westport ISB6.7 G, a mid-range 6.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The transportation sector is currently responsible for more than 40% of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions in the region, and soot and smog from cars and trucks are major contributors to lung disease and other health problems region-wide, particularly in low income communities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

PetroCard , a fuels distributor, and Waste Management, a provider of comprehensive waste management services, announced the grand opening of a “Clean N’ Green Fuel” compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in South Seattle— the first public-access CNG facility in the city. Current pricing at the station is in the range of $1.70-$1.80/GGE.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This decision deletes a few features or makes them optional (power liftgate, ambient lighting, and the like) but opens the plug-in hybrid price point to more customers. As with other years, all-wheel drive is available on some gas-powered models.& Two new colors are on the palette: Red Hot and Baltic Gray. Heady stuff, we know.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects continued robust growth in US energy production, emergence of the United States as an energy exporter, and a cleaner S electric power generation mix. Light-duty vehicle energy efficiencies are affected by current federal fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards. Other findings.

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