Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

California accounts for more than 50% of sales in the United States. California’s market has shown strong growth recently, with ZEVs accounting for more than 10% of new vehicles in 16 California cities in 2016, according to a recent analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

As the US works to reduce dependence on foreign oil, promote clean energy and combat climate change, this report definitively documents why aluminum offers the most promise for cutting total automotive-related carbon emissions and energy use. LCA functional unit materials for each of the three configurations. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The ESA’s goal is to grow as a space fairing nation and compete side by side with the United States, Russia, and China on all fronts – including the possible creation of their own domestic human spaceflight program. "As European astronauts, we know very well that space exploration is hard. “A

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Lack of Additionality.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2011

A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe. Globalautoregs.com.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Secondly, the climate agenda becomes more urgent and even more is expected from technological progress. However, the document notes, while Horizon 2020 will provide the general framework for transport research and. A stronger internal market and smart regulation. billion Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs program).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet, which has been increasing during the past decade over its southern region, is now moving up its northwest coast, according to a new international study. Greenland is about one-fourth the size of the United States and the massive ice sheet covers about 80% of its surface.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

Either way, as Ronald Coase demonstrated, the social costs of air pollution are internalized into the market decision, resulting in an economically efficient outcome. shift away from the principle of consumer sovereignty will also lead to regulations focused more on correcting self harm than on internalizing environmental harm.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Northeast States, Oregon, the EU, etc.). According to the 2010 Low Carbon Fuels Policy Document, proposed recommendations are to use 2005 as baseline for reductions and to require 10% reductions within 10 years of implementation. Earlier post.). US National LCFS. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2018

CARB staff released the Innovative Clean Transit Discussion Document on 12 December 2017 for public comments and held a regulatory workshop on 15 December 2017. Californians for Zero Emissions Vehicles is a coalition of more than ten organizations and companies, including: AxleTech International, Inc.,

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

California is expected to become the first state in the U.S. to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035, requiring all new cars sold in the state after that year to be 100 percent free of fossil fuel emissions. The Golden State wants this number to reach 68 percent by 2030. The New York Times first reported the story.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The State Department released the long-anticipated and voluminous Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Final Supplemental EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project. The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008.

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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. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. The truth is George W.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

California agency leaders released the Draft California Sustainable Freight Action Plan , an ambitious document that lays a foundation for modernizing California’s multi-billion dollar freight transportation system. Benefits include meeting the state’s freight infrastructure, public health, air quality and climate goals.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

The Bureau of Land Management released more than 2,000 pages of documents in a draft environmental impact statement last week for the Rhyolite Ridge mine. Lithium is a metal key to the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles – a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s “green energy” agenda. .” 22 email.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

The Department of Energy’s analysis of the advanced battery supply chain documents the European Union’s (EU) support for demand policies, investment incentives, and regulatory tools—at both the EU and member-state level—to stimulate domestic production of electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. Some experts predict that such a battery - or a similar battery - could be production-ready by 2010 to 2012.Larry

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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