Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change. —GM CEO Mary Barra.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) will invest $1 billion over the next ten years to develop and to accelerate the commercial deployment of innovative low-emissions technologies. OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI) will aim to deploy successfully-developed new technologies among member companies and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

With its electric-powered school sales up more than 250% in fiscal 2020 compared with last year, and an ever-increasing interest from school districts and fleet operators across the US and Canada, Blue Bird is ramping up its electric bus production capacity to 1,000 units annually to meet the anticipated growth in demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Hyundai introduced the US-market version of its Kona Electric crossover at the New York Auto Show. Kona Electric rides on an all-new CUV platform and is Hyundai’s first compact electric crossover for the US market. The steering wheel itself offers a wide range of tilt and telescopic adjustment for greater driver comfort.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That’s why we are always encouraged to learn about and partner with other companies that are identifying innovative ways to fight the growing climate crisis. Today, we’re excited to share our new partnership with Arcadia , a tech company working to stop climate change by breaking the fossil fuel monopoly. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

European lawmakers have been promoting the by-product of industrial meat farming as a way of reducing the carbon impact of transport fuels.They are now setting their sights on planes and to a lesser extent ships. A flight from Paris to New York needs 8,800 dead pigs, T&E’s calculations show. Animal fats don’t grow on trees.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. Audi was among the first automotive manufacturers to publicly support and align its actions with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Lightning eMotors’ new and repowered products give us the flexibility we need to provide sustainable transportation systems to the Pacific Islands. Elemental Excelerator, a commercialization catalyst for growth-stage climate technology companies, facilitated and contributed funding to the venture.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

What the final economic impact of this year’s inundations might be is unclear, but according to a recent report by the African Climate Foundation , climate-change-related events like floods and droughts led to losses of 3 to 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product from 2010 to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

US Hybrid plans to expand its Connecticut production facility via a partnership with China-based Jiangsu Dewei Advanced Materials. The FC engines are utilizing US Hybrid’s advanced freeze capable technology, which enables start at temperatures as low as -30 degrees Celsius without a cold climate option package. The US FuelCell, Inc.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

You will soon see arguments from certain anti-EV types that new rule is an EV mandate. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line. I want to focus on one particular egregious lie. It very much is not. It’s up to the manufacturers to decide how to comply.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The airline will purchase renewable jet fuel made from rapidly renewable, bio-based feedstocks that do not compete with food production. JetBlue is currently progressing forward and working through the process with the intent of supplying New York-metropolitan area airports with renewable jet fuel.

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Teslarati

APRIL 14, 2022

At Rivian, Costa will be responsible for the company’s sustainability roadmap for both the business and its products. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, Costa earned a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York City. Credit: Tiffany & Co.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Continental has opened a fully automated high-bay warehouse at the tire production plant in Otrokovice, Czech Republic. The new warehouse is 43 meters high – which equals approximately to the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA. It has a storage capacity of more than 930,000 tires.

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

“Our computer models are in good agreement that it’s going to be another unusually hot summer, especially during late July through August,” said Todd Crawford, vice president of meteorology at Atmospheric G2 , a weather and climate intelligence firm based in Manchester, N.H. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling?

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 31, 2018

Which plug-in hybrid concepts and production electric cars debuted at the New York auto show? What words were EPA staff told to use to sow doubt about climate change and its effects? Friday, we covered a new study.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

. ‘Environment’ was a word that appeared more often in spelling contests than on the evening news. Although mainstream America largely remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). And a major product of fossil fuel combustion is sulfur dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

Circle areas are proportional to values for (A and B) climate change, (C and D) human health (values for population over age 30), and (E and F) agriculture. Black carbon, a product of burning fossil fuels or biomass such as wood or dung, can worsen a number of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Source: Shindell et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. For feedstock application, carbon stored in products such as plastics are not included in reported emissions for the states where they are produced. Climate Change Emissions'

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 15, 2022

Toyota motors corp is in a critical situation into its annual general meeting(AGM) on Wednesday (15-06-2022) under fire from new york city and fired on battery electric vehicles its needs to offer a variety of choices to suit the different environments and customer needs. still, it excepts annual sales of such cars to reach only 3.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Mercedes-Benz staged the world premiere of the production battery-electric 2014 B-Class Electric Drive at the New York International Auto Show; a concept version had appeared last year at the Paris Motor Show. This pre-entry climate control system makes the B-Class Electric Drive unique in its segment. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The three new reports detail continued strength in the US fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market as well as efforts by US businesses and states to increase American competitiveness in this growing global industry. Earlier post.). Each individual project team provides a summary of their annual progress. Pathways To Commercial Success.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“By developing smarter vehicle batteries, we can make these technologies cheaper and more accessible, while positioning America to become a global leader of EV infrastructure production and clean energy jobs.”. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY). “I

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today. The scientific case for such a strategy was laid out in an Op Ed in The New York Times by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleague, Professor David Victor.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2023

” Mercedes also specifies that the new facility will be 100% carbon neutral as part of the German automaker’s continuing efforts to decarbonize its production facilities in the coming years. Tesla has already announced that it would make recycled materials a bigger part of its production with the help of Redwood materials.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S. By the time Zadeh received his master’s degree in 1946, his parents had moved from Tehran to New York City.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The company found that BLOOM’s final training emitted 50 tonnes of CO 2 —equivalent to about a dozen flights from New York City to Sydney. Software may be eating the world , but it is also heating it. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In fact, although there are indeed environmental and social problems associated with battery production, many scientific studies have demonstrated that the environmental footprint of EVs pales in comparison to that of fossil fuel extraction. See recent articles in The Guardian , the New York Times , et al.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Volkswagen of America (VoA) plans to show the Tarok pickup concept for the first time in the US at the New York International Auto Show. This compact unibody pickup was first seen at the São Paulo International Motor Show at the end of 2018 and is expected to enter production for the South American market in the near future.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 23, 2010

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and noted New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman blazed through town recently to promote his new book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.&#. Thomas Friedman (left) and Chris Paine (right).

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

New research by a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York suggests that gas-aerosol interactions can amplify the global warming impact of some greenhouse gases. It’s a seemingly minor change, but it makes a difference to the climate. Source: Shindell at al. Click to enlarge. Drew Shindell.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles. At Daimler Trucks & Buses we are clearly committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and thus to the decarbonization of our industry. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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Baua Electric

MAY 28, 2024

New York City is on the brink of implementing congestion pricing, a bold move aimed at reducing traffic in Manhattan’s most congested areas. If we’re to hope that we can still save our planet and maintain a habitable climate into the future, we’ve all got to play a part. We’re in a race against the clock here.

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