Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Alternative-fuel and electric-vehicle programs the Lung Association oversees include: Clean Air Choice: The Lung Association’s overarching program promotes the use of cleaner-burning fuels and cleaner engine technology that reduce motor vehicle emissions, including the use of biofuels (E85 and biodiesel), and electric and hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

project development with a new cooperative agreement between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and DOE for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois. This groundbreaking project will help pave the way for other cleaner and more sustainable advanced coal-burning power plants. We believe FutureGen 2.0

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Solar is quickly becoming the dominant source of electricity on the grid, allowing communities to breathe cleaner air and lead healthier lives.” For example, Illinois, which had only 2,500 solar installations in 2017, now boasts over 87,000. Meanwhile, other states are experiencing rapid growth.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Fleets can stack the State of Illinois’ Alternative Fuel Vehicle and EV Charging Station Rebates on top of the City’s incentive. The City is also considering additional incentives such as preferential loading zones and decreased registration costs to complement the voucher program.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

The spokes and other founder members are the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of three partners supporting the BP Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a 10 year, $500-million program supporting BP’s Biofuels business.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In addition to the Trailblazer project, Taylorville Energy Center will convert Illinois coal into cleaner-burning substitute natural gas and use it to generate electricity while capturing more than 50% of the plant’s carbon dioxide emissions. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Biodiesel, derived from renewable sources like vegetable oils and animal fats, serves as a cleaner-burning alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel. Ethanol blending is feasible in various ratios, including E10 (10% ethanol, 90% gasoline), E15 (15% ethanol, 85% gasoline), and E85 (flex fuel), depending on the approved vehicle model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. The amount of electricity used to produce each vehicle in Ford’s manufacturing facilities has been reduced by about 800 kilowatt-hours—from 3,576 kWh in 2006 to 2,778 kWh in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Fred Meyer is the first company in the State of Oregon to take advantage of the Oregon Clean Fuel Program, which calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the use of cleaner fuels such as natural gas and renewable natural gas.

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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 example, future DC lines will connect generators in Kansas to a neighboring network in Illinois, stretch from Wyoming to California , and move wind and solar energy across the Southwest.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. Context And Guiding Principles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Helping America’s Rural Counties Transition to Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. West Virginia University Research Corporation. VoICE-MR: Vocation Integrated Cost Estimation for Maintenance and Repair of Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV). AOI 16: Transportation and Energy Analysis. 350,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

From the owner’s perspective there will be concerns in bidirectional use about battery drain and wear and tear, says Philip Krein, of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Cleaner power—and energy sourcing—is a more pressing concern.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Iowa State University, Deere and Company, Green Electronics Council. The new technologies developed will help paper recycling industry to produce much cleaner pulp and higher quality fibers so more recycled fibers can be used in place of virgin fibers in high grade paper.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The MDOT contract was sourced through Midwest Transit Equipment, in Kankakee, Illinois utilizing StarTrans bodies. liter Triton gasoline engine and the 5-speed automatic TorqShift transmission to produce a cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicle at an affordable cost. 1 Balance bus to Bay Area Rural Transit in Ashland, Wisconsin.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Recharging a battery is a much cleaner operation here than in Illinois.” There also is not, she added, a battery which is usable for some of the long-range heavy duty applications of hauling goods around in trucks and other kinds of vehicles. At the same time, she added, there are issues with hydrogen and fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

Research projects will also develop new processes and computational design methods to develop these materials, improve efficiency and reduce the costs of cleaner power generation systems. The Energy Department’s $2.7 million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1 million in total projects.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. So, what happens if by 2030, the numbers are well below target, not only in Massachusetts, but other states like California, New York, or Illinois that also have aggressive GHG emission reduction targets?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2019

The nation’s air on the whole has become cleaner in the past 70 years, but those benefits are seen primarily in whiter, higher-income areas, said Kerry Ard, an associate professor of environmental sociology at The Ohio State University (OSU), who presented the research.

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Cars That Think

MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Some days she plays well, and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys. Over the years, she noticed a pattern: How well she plays depends on her mood.

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EV Connect

MARCH 18, 2021

The Policy Tailwind In the past few years, we have seen a groundswell of policy initiatives from governments around the world, all supporting electric vehicles and moving us toward cleaner transportation alternatives. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois. Already, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

For example, in Illinois, Power Mart Express Corp., The purpose of the program is to significantly increase the sales and use of higher blends of ethanol and biodiesel. The awards being announced will support 9 projects in 7 states. DBA PME, is receiving a $2.9-million million grant to increase ethanol sales by 17.5 million gallons per year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). It can be used to help industry make adjustments to adopt cleaner production processes or to support private efforts to invent new technologies that involve lower emissions. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions. Another three U.S.

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