Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

That will include both light-duty and heavy-duty fuel cell applications, stationary fuel cell power generation, and port vehicle applications. The LA R&D center played a large part in launching the light-duty fuel cell vehicle Mirai in 2015. But hydrogen light-duty vehicles, nope. It hosts Toyota’s largest dynamometer (1.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) rule. The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

As the state adds more variable renewable energy to the grid, these resources—electric vehicles, distributed energy resources and community choice aggregators—represent a challenge to the traditional energy management system but also provide opportunities for us to manage a more efficient and cleaner grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. Air pollution mitigation efforts focusing on reducing combustion pollution are likely to have major benefits for climate and human health.

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JULY 1, 2014

The finding could help combustion chemists make more-efficient, less-polluting fuels and help materials scientists fine-tune their carbon nanotubes and graphene sheets for faster, smaller electronics. Specifically, the fundamental chemistry discovery could be used to find or to design fuels that burn cleaner and don’t produce as much soot.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India. Singh, Tanveer Ahmed, Nithya Ramanathan, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (2012) Real-Time Assessment of Black Carbon Pollution in Indian Households Due to Traditional and Improved Biomass Cookstoves.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced that Ford Motor Company has agreed to fines totaling $2,960,000 for violations of air quality laws related to the sale of vehicles with non-compliant On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) systems in California. Officials estimate the money will support loans for about 90 clean-diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario). Maintaining existing GHG standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles; put 4.2

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has published a discussion draft of a. ARB staff developed this strategy using a multi-pollutant scenario planning tool ( Vision 2.0 ) that quantifies changes in ozone and PM 2.5 Projected statewide light duty vehicle technology mix. Click to enlarge. Passenger vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In addition, New York will replace or re-power older, high-polluting diesel-powered trucks, school buses, and equipment with cleaner vehicles and equipment. The funds were secured through the Attorney General’s settlement with Volkswagen in close collaboration with DEC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Inventorying criteria air pollutants showed that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 Of the non-road modes (rail and air), light aircraft showed the worst performance per PKT. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced that California Climate Investments in zero-emission vehicles have reached $599 million since 2013, putting hundreds of thousands of ultra-clean cars, and entire fleets of zero-emission trucks and buses on California roads and highways. School buses: 29 electric school buses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM 10 and PM 2.5 Although EVs have a greater GHG reduction benefit than CNGVs, they may increase life-cycle emissions of criteria pollutants, simply because coal is heavily involved. While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5 —Huo et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

In light of the rapid changes taking place in the automotive industry, the new vision takes a longer-term perspective and sets out how Mazda will use driving pleasure—the fundamental appeal of the automobile—to help solve issues facing people, the earth and society. Earlier post.). Yamasaki, Y., Umahashi, S., Uesugi, Y.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Car makers would therefore have to produce, in addition to older, heavier or polluting models, enough cleaner ones to achieve a balance of 95g en 2020, on pain of penalties. Makers producing fewer than 1,000 cars a year should be exempt from the legislation, said the MEPs. MEPs are expected to vote on the proposal in July 2013.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Time sequence of images in a Sandia National Laboratories project that shows the extinction of light caused by a soot cloud formed during the injection of a diesel spray. The liquid fuel spray is seen at the bottom of the images and appears dark because the light passing through the combustion vessel is scattered by the liquid droplets.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Art of Dismantling and Depollution: Next, we delve into dismantling and de-pollution, where hazardous materials are carefully purged. Material’s Transformational Dance: The recycling process dances through material separation and recovery, transforming aged cars into valuable resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

million tons of coal equivalent (tce), which resulted in serious air pollution. Chinese government has implemented several transport policies to deal with this challenge and to encourage residents to change their travel behaviors to mitigate severe air pollution. In China in 2013, The transport sector consumed 348.19 —He and Qiu.

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EV Life

APRIL 14, 2023

It’s no secret that motor vehicle emissions are one of the main sources of pollution in the state of California and one of the leading causes of climate change in the country. Californians collectively drive over a billion miles every day, releasing tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) and pollutants into the air. air pollution in the state.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

US District Court Judge Charles Breyer signed the agreements between the automaker, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the US Department of Justice (US DOJ). It must collectively sell at least 35,000 of these various ZEV models between 2019 and 2025.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2023

While we shed light on these industry accomplishments and celebrated breakthroughs, it’s crucial to support and foster the growth of a wider industry: one that thrives on resilience, problem-solving, and visionary entrepreneurship. Discover deep tech at Tech Central Deep tech is just one facet of what’s happening at Tech Central.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The California Air Resources Board released the draft proposed first update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan, which guides development and implementation of California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction programs. The Air Resources Board is required to update the Scoping Plan every five years. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

2014, there will be roughly $22 million dedicated to accelerating the transition from higher polluting vehicles to cleaner-burning natural gas vehicles. Deployment incentives for light?duty electric vehicles, are provided by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) through its Air Quality Improvement Program.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Rochester), with Blue Lake Associates (Rochester) are working on a device that could reduce pollution from a diesel engine by generating an ionic field to oxidize particulate matter in the exhaust, breaking down complex pollutants and making engines more environmentally friendly. Environmental Energy Technologies Inc.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Resources. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science. How LCLS views surface chemistry (Credit: Hirohito Ogasawara / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Click to enlarge. Located in Menlo Park, California, SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the US Department of Energy Office of Science. Dell’Angela, T. Anniyev, M.

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JULY 13, 2011

The material can also be used for air-cleaner devices or as a filter in ventilation or air-conditioning ducts in offices and houses. Ozone (O 3 ) is a dangerous air pollutant that is highly reactive and causes both short- and long-term adverse health effect and also disrupts plant growth. removal; it showed about 95 % O 3.

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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. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power. And we have to do it quickly.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

To meet federal deadlines for attainment of ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) standards, these regions must expeditiously phase in heavy-duty vehicles that emit at, or below, the equivalent of “zero-emission” battery-electric vehicles when accounting for pollution from base load electricity generation.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 12, 2009

Overall the benefits that come from electric drives are huge, there is simply no pollution in the direct way, it's quiet and efficient. The electric pedicabs would actually make the urban transport better and cleaner. The BLACK CABS in London and ther eis 150,000 of them pollute London in the massive way.

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JULY 25, 2007

E PRI and the National Resource Defense Council have recently released a new study which shows the environmental as well as the economic benefits of plug-ins. Achieving the maximum air quality improvements would require a significant cut in the pollution produced by electric utilities. That would be equal to removing 82.5

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

“E-Mobility is an irreversible megatrend and an imperative to address pollution and generate job opportunities in India,” the chairman of the group had said back then. Tesla was rapidly expanding its reach and portfolio, and the Volkswagen Group — hurt from the ‘diesel gate’ scandal — had committed huge resources to pivot to electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( AFOSR ) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers a two-year, $3-million grant to develop nanoscale graphene additives for novel fuels to help supersonic jets fly faster and diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. Light-duty vehicles together contributed to 82% of all distance traveled (passenger cars, 64%; taxis, 18 %), buses and trucks contributed to 11% and 8% of total distance traveled respectively.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 25, 2019

As the price of oil and petrol continues to rise, electric vehicles are emerging as an answer to the problem of dwindling resources. As long as you remembered to plug your car in each night, you would never again need to race that flashing fuel light to the nearest petrol station. Enjoy the Quiet.

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