Aptera's hyper-efficient, solar-charged car: Does $2 gas change its appeal?
Green Car Reports
MARCH 30, 2020
Is it a good idea to market an efficiency-focused car around oil dependence when national-average gas prices are headed toward $2.00
Pew Center on Global Climate Change and GPI facilitating new Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2011
The EOR Initiative is facilitated by the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The fiscal struggles facing federal and state governments combined with a challenging political climate demand new ideas for US energy policy.
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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
An analysis of near-term spending plans on renewables by the biggest oil and gas companies shows that real investments in renewable energy will continue to pale in comparison to capex plans for greenfield fossil fuel projects. Indeed, much of Big Oil's reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leans on the so-called natural gas bridge.
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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2020
Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. More than half use electric hybrid propulsion, helping to lower emissions from public transit.
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The Greening of Transportation
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.
MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2011
A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. For each year of delay it will be necessary to “bend the curve” of carbon emissions that much more sharply if the worst consequences of climate change are to be averted.
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EV Life is awarded CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission to make financing electric cars cheaper than gas vehicles.
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The grant will fund the development of a fintech platform to empower EV buyers to save up to $200/month on electric vehicle loans. EV Life, a car site dedicated exclusively to electric vehicles, announced that it was 1 of 28 companies to win a CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC). Scott, Vice-Chair of the CEC.
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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2019
water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. This reaction is energetically uphill, so electricity must be added to drive the reaction forward, and it is not possible without a new family of CO?-reducing reducing catalysts. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)
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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand
Cars That Think
JANUARY 18, 2023
When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future?
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94 General Motors plans to be carbon-neutral by 2040; eliminate LDV tailpipe emissions by 2035
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 29, 2021
In addition to GM’s carbon goals, the company worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035. C, an urgent call to action from a global coalition of UN agencies, business and industry leaders.
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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
states and two Canadian provinces, where furnaces and boilers burning fossil gas, fuel oil or propane are more commonly used. But the DOE will help them expand into cold climate markets by engaging with stakeholders in those regions, a DOE spokesperson told IEEE S pectrum. The study found that if every heated home in the U.S.
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Stanford’s Yi Cui receives CalTech Resonate award for battery work
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.
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A Bamboo Carbon Filter for Diesels Could Reduce Emissions
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The Green Warriors idea won the US $300 prize for best impact in the IEEE Women in Engineering Big Idea Pitch competition. Our groundbreaking activated-carbon-based filter represents a significant leap forward in environmental and economic efficiency,” the electrical engineering student added.
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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.
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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment
Cars That Think
APRIL 20, 2023
Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.
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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 19, 2021
This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. Critics say that pursuing the technology is a dangerous distraction from the more essential task of rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008
Creative Greenius
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”. That’s 18 months away.
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Volvo CE and Rolls-Royce develop wood-burning charger for off-grid EVs
Baua Electric
JANUARY 12, 2024
When work is being done off the grid in remote locations, it can be hard to keep construction equipment fueled up – regardless of whether that fuel is liquid or electric. The resulting heat is converted into electric energy and stored in a connected Battery Storage Module, or BSM. Volvo CE AirBurners BioCharger; image via Air Burners.
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Hyundai brings electric excavators, AI, and see-thru steel to CES 2024
Baua Electric
JANUARY 12, 2024
Xite Transformation is HD Hyundai’s site vision for future construction sites that aims to solve pressing issues humanity is facing such as safety, security, supply chain issues, climate change, and more,” explains Young-cheul Cho, the president and CEO of HD Hyundai XiteSolution and Hyundai Infracore.
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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project
Cars That Think
AUGUST 24, 2023
After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report.
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EPA official: the future of the internal combustion engine is bright and clear
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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A closer look at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. The Green Piece
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 7, 2009
With scientists convinced that global warming is a serious issue, there is a need to not only halt the growth of greenhouse gas emissions but to bring them down too. The idea of carbon credits has been put forward – however, if this is to cut real emissions, the cap set on the market would need to be tight. What is the aim?
Heat Pumps Go North
Cars That Think
APRIL 3, 2024
And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our newsletters. That percentage is smaller for natural gas and electric resistance heating. So that’s pretty good.
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Top 7 Best, Classy and Fastest Electric Cars In Today?s World
DIY Electric Car
JULY 11, 2017
However, modern engineering has been able to change this notion by introducing the fastest electric cars. Why make electric cars? Electric cars in the long run can be cheaper. Instead of being dependent on gas, cars make use of electricity that can power your vehicle. Detroit Electric SP:01.
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Tesla for a vaccine: Doctor offers the ultimate COVID-19 vaccination incentive
Teslarati
MAY 4, 2021
Dr. Raul Vazquez of Urban Family Practice in Buffalo, New York, had an idea to bring awareness to and hopefully encourage more people to get the COVID-19 vaccine: Everyone who gets vaccinated will be entered into a raffle and the winner will get a new Tesla. Dr. Raul Vazquez, M.D.
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Ted Lieu To The Rescue! Heroic Climate Champion Saves Community Choice Aggregation.
Creative Greenius
JUNE 17, 2014
. “ These amazing young people are absolutely right, too, ” continued Ted enthusiastically. “ Community Choice Aggregation is just about the best idea we’ve ever had in California about how we should deliver electricity to our communities. Yeah, I know that none of this really happened. But it will.
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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance
Clean Fleet Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. Electric cars are on the leading edge of the green vehicle spectrum. Electric cars can cut your insurance. Electric Cars. We’ll start with the greenest car available, the electric vehicle (EV). Green Vehicles. Hybrid Cars. Car Repair.
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Who will be in the driver’s seat?
Electric Auto Association
APRIL 1, 2021
Amy Sinclair speaks to friend about driving electric. Amy Sinclair is the only woman presently serving on the board of the Golden Gate Electric Vehicle Association (GGEVA) , and for many years she has been one of the few female members of this Electric Auto Association (EAA) Bay Area chapter.
The Disgrace of the Morrison Government
My Electric Car
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Now with a pending war with China, an economic collapse resulting from massive debt and corporate greed plus the environmental disaster of climate change edging ever closer, those in power have decided that our insurance will be to invest in more oil, gas and coal. A bit late Angus but better late than never!
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Oxford Team Outlines Progress and Potential in CO2 Capture and Conversion to Synthetic Transportation Fuels
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. 1923 3343-3364 doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0119.
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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. Today, the art of turning heat from burning gas, nuclear fission, Earth’s core, the sun, and other sources into useful energy underpins modern life.
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Greenius Says The Congresswoman Gets It. Harman Calls Lack of Bold or Binding Agreement to Cap GHG Emissions in Copenhagen, “Stunning.”
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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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE , said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars. About Gas 2.0
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Cella Energy Ltd named UK winner for Shell Springboard Awards 2011 for novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 26, 2011
The hydrogen micro-bead technology is compatible with standard combustion engines and can either be used as an additive to conventional fuels where it would reduce carbon emissions, or on its own to make hydrogen gas for zero-carbon driving. Cella is a spin-off from STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK.
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We Need to Decarbonize Software
Cars That Think
MARCH 23, 2024
s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. While software on its own doesn’t release any emissions, it runs on hardware in data centers and steers data through transmission networks, which account for about 1 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions each.
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Perspective: Government Leadership Needed for Electric Vehicles to Succeed
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.
Going with the talent flow
Electric Auto Association
MAY 3, 2021
Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association members take part in a Fourth of July parade in Eugene, Oregon. Phil Barnhart, the President of the 2-year-old Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association (EVEVA ) in Oregon, has learned in his career to turn the talent that comes his way into an asset. And that’s how he runs the EVEVA now.
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NSF and DOE form Partnership on Advanced Combustion Engines; goal 25-40% better LDV fuel economy and 55% BTE in heavy-duty engines; $12M in awards for FY 2012-2014
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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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
As The Wall Street Journal noted in a July 2023 profile , Jenkins has played an “outsized role” in determining where federal cash can have the biggest impact, and politicos like White House clean-energy advisor John Podesta name-drop the professor and his numbers to sell their ideas. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?”
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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.
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139 MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. Like this post?
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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers
Get Electric Vehicle
JUNE 7, 2023
The electric vehicle industry is growing at a high pace these days. Are you planning a job in electric vehicle industry? Then this Electric Vehicle Interview Questions and Answers will definitely help you out. There are different types of firms working in the electric vehicle domain.
Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
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75 New UNEP report says bridging emissions gap to meet 2-degree target doable, outlines pathways to 2020
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
The scenarios were all able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet the 2-degree target by 2020 by using a combination of the following: Improving energy efficiency: primary energy production would need to drop up to 11% from business-as-usual models in 2020, and the amount of energy used per unit of GDP would need to fall 1.1-2.3%
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