Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Such paints are considered to be a potential technology for keeping cities cooler and reducing electricity use; buildings with a coating of this would need to rely far less on energy-hungry air conditioning. The idea was to create paint that would reflect sunlight away from a building. Credit: Purdue University/Joseph Peoples.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” In the past two years, the U.S. C in this century.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The critical need for government leadership in the emergence of electric vehicles dominated a recent Green Fleet Management discussion in Toronto, hosted by Fleet Challenge Ontario. In an interview published in Maclean’s, a Canadian news magazine, the chairman and CEO of General Electric said, “ Government should be a catalyst for change.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 17, 2014

Suddenly we were at The Crossroads as Ted Lieu runs for Henry Waxman’s seat in the United States Congress. Waxman has been our heroic climate champion for many years now and is retiring. And it all suddenly became clear to me. All of you in this room would probably agree with the notion of Community Choice. But it will.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The goal of the Awards is to celebrate innovators with new ideas or contributions to the field of sustainability that may not already have gained widespread attention. The Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability. In addition to Professor Cui, the other awardees are: Joel L.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Added to the list are impressive grassroots efforts like the South Bay Climate Action Group and business community innovations like Balqon’s all electric heavy duty trucks and LEDtronics’ high efficiency lighting. Harman with South Bay community leaders outside the Green Idea House home site of Robert and Monica Fortunato.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

and Endesa, Spain’s largest electricity supply company, are developing a Quick Charging network for electric vehicles. The DC technology will be based on the CHAdeMo standard ( earlier post ) for electric vehicle charging stations. Nissan Motor Co., Endesa is a regular member of CHAdeMo.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The report shows how thes massive changes on the horizon caused by automation, connectivity, decarbonization and sharing, represent an opportunity to move towards a transport system that is more efficient, safer, less polluting and more accessible than the current one centered on private car ownership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Even while projecting to the future and talking about batteries and electric vehicles, he said, “ when you look at our actual analysis and you look to our projections for the future, 95% or more of the vehicles, all of the heavy-duty vehicles in our analysis are relying on IC engines. Electricity, hydrogen, biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes. The most frequent designs resulting from the game include higher charge-sustaining (CS) and charge-depleting (CD) blended operation—few valued all-electric range. Ken Kurani.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Edwards (2010) Turning carbon dioxide into fuel.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

A coalition of car makers, battery suppliers and electricity providers has come together to ask for federal help for EVs. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. starting next year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Their invention impressed a panel of judges which included leading climate change expert Lord Oxburgh, UK Low Carbon Business Advisor Professor Julia King and Greenpeace Chief Scientist Doug Parr. Shell Springboard provides a financial boost to innovative, low-carbon business ideas from across the UK and was piloted in 2005.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The UK Carbon Trust launched the “Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge”, which aims to accelerate the commercialization of UK technology that could see the mainstream cost-effective mass production of fuel cell powered cars and buses, as well as providing electricity and heat in homes and business. The £8 million (US$12.8 million, €8.7 million, €1.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

wind, solar, electric) are not yet at the stage where they can significantly impact petroleum use. Proposals are encouraged that advance transformative ideas to develop the enabling understanding for improving the efficiency of the ICE and the emissions they generate. At the present time, sustainable energy technologies (e.g.,

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It found the following potential: Electricity production: 2.2 GtCO 2 e per year through improved fuel efficiency, adoption of electric drive vehicles, shifting to public transit and use of low-carbon fuels. UNEP released the first—the Emissions Gap Report —at last year’s international climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. said Dr. Hansen this same week testifying to Congress and that’s not all he said. So don’t buy another car until you can go electric. That’s 18 months away.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

International agreements on the need to combat climate change, the fluctuating but generally rising costs of marine fuels which account for a large proportion of the running costs of a ship, and developments on a number of other fronts have led many in the industry to question whether the present methods of ship propulsion are sustainable.

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Plug in America

JULY 13, 2022

Congress recently passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which includes $7.5 As more people consider or make the switch to EVs, quickly transitioning to an electric driving future will require expanding the charging network, as well as boosting American confidence in the EVs themselves. billion discretionary grant program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, demonstrates how the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle or MiEV plugs into their Garage of the Future at their Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Photo by Eric Tom). By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Interrelationship between EV energy economy (y-axis) and and the electricity grid emissions intensity (x-axis) in determining full fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions. The source of the electricity used to power electric vehicles is a key issue in Victoria. Source: “Environmental Impacts”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

gigawatt-hours of energy annually, is anticipated to meet more than half of the site’s total electricity needs and offset an estimated 576 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Honda’s associates in the plant have contributed numerous ideas and solutions toward this end. million dollars. Source: Honda North America.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Focusing on all-electric, Nissan-Renault partnership with Better Place for EVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal. Reductions in Emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Sources: Large electric generators. Representatives Henry A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2018

A number of groups and organizations, including some that are Republican, Libertarian, or conservative, have promoted the idea of a revenue-neutral carbon tax, with a variety of perspectives on how revenue neutrality should work in practice. Weyant (2018) Climate Change Economics. Change Econ. Fawcett, J. McFarland, A.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. It isa fundamental change in direction for GM. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. I cant stand all these "GM killed the electric car" crap. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

By 2026, car manufacturers will have to [make approximately 17% of new vehicles] in their total fleets electric and zero-emission. By 2026, car manufacturers will have to make approximately 17% of new vehicles in their total fleets electric and zero-emission. Congress has, I think, 90 days or 160 days to act.

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