Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Aggregated damage costs by pollutant. Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed Clean Air Act standards to reduce CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants (electric utility generating units, EGUs). those that burn biomass only); or low capacity factor EGUs that sell less than 1/3 of their power to the grid. Background. Earlier post.)

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Cities and local governments around the world understand the reliance on fossil fuels to power cars, buses, trucks, and delivery fleets. However, transportation is responsible for the highest amount of air pollution in America. But there are a few ways to do our part and clear the air.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rules establish the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants, with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.). up to 1,700 heart attacks. 90,000 asthma attacks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles and its partners rolled out five new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and introduced two hydrogen fueling stations. The Port’s technology development partners are Toyota Motor North America, which designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power supply system; Kenworth Truck Co.,

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The carbon pollution from electricity varies based on local energy production methods. For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The objective of POWERFUl was to design engines for light-duty urban and micro-urban vehicles (segment A and B), capable of reducing CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. The main feature of the Spanish, French and Czech researchers’ work is the reduction in the engine’s weight and size, which results in a high specific power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for CO 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. fired power plants meet an output?based According to the EPA, new natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plant units should be able to meet the proposed standard without add?on

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said that the ambitious target is grounded in analysis of cost-effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on a trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide reductions on the order of 80% by 2050. The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

A biomass power plant in Stockton, California, was the host site for the engineering design effort. The Gasification-powered RNG Process. Reducing black carbon—a potent climate change pollutant—and other conventional air pollutants that can lead to breathing disorders is high on our priority list. Source: GTI.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. of EV sales in 2020. of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

With the construction of the solar-cell park, we are now taking a further step to achieve this in terms of power supply. We were the first premium manufacturer to have our CO2 footprint measured and certified in 2014. Our goal is to have completely CO 2 -neutral plant operation in the future. As part of the joint project with E.ON

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants to control 90% of their carbon emissions or shut down. Coal plants that intend to stay online beyond 2039 will have to cut or capture 90% of their CO2 emissions by 2032. Coal powered around 16% of US electricity in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now “ the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China ”. The power of EVs is electricity from the grid. and NO x emissions.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 25, 2021

All you need to know about EV charging infrastructure in India-Power ratings, standards for AC & DC charging. The EV charging requirements depend on the specifications of EV batteries as power must be supplied to the battery at the right voltage and current levels to permit charging. EV charging infrastructure in India.

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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. As of 2022 the battery bus will come with a range extender (hydrogen-based fuel cell provides the high-voltage battery with power). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases originally developed as substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals. With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author Earlier post.) Ramanathan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. Thus, PHEVLERs and other electric vehicles may be allowed to continue driving when governments ban fossil fuel vehicles from driving in city centers due to air pollution crises or other reasons. [

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

More work is needed to understand and to optimize the reaction, but this approach could offer an easy and inexpensive way to recapture some of the carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles and power plants, says Christopher Cummins, an MIT professor of chemistry and leader of the research team. —Christopher Cummins. doi: 10.1039/C4SC00132J.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The ACEA said that this target should be conditional on the real market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles and the availability of charging infrastructure for alternatively-powered vehicles which are crucial to achieve any significant CO 2 reductions beyond 2020 levels. —Dieter Zetsche.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Weather observations such as wind speed and direction (with other evidence) allowed researchers to identify plumes of polluted air from the Beijing urban area and population centers to the south, as opposed to relatively clean air arriving from the north. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

However, many of these studies rely on a single electricity production emission factor estimate or conduct sensitivity analyses on grid emission factors over a range of power plant types. A more detailed assessment is needed to estimate regionally specific emissions from those power plants that respond to PEV charging. … Mili-Ann M.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Algenol’s patented Direct to Ethanol technology process utilizes industrial CO 2 emissions directly from power plants as a feedstock for proprietary cyanobacteria (blue green algae) to produce the four most important renewable transportation fuels (ethanol, gas, diesel and jet).

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 24, 2024

In sodium-ion batteries, just like in the Lithium-ion battery, an anode, cathode, separator, and electrolyte are used in the same chemical processes that lithium-ion batteries use to power their devices. Another Sodium-ion Powered EV From China Chinese car manufacturer JMEV rolled off their sodium-Ion battery-provided EV on December 28, 2023.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To reduce CO2 emissions, many countries signed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, pledging to cut their emissions by certain targets. Some cities are also promoting the use of EVs for urban delivery trucks, which have shorter ranges and less noise and air pollution than diesel trucks.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

KC Cottrell), a global leader in air pollution control based out of Seoul, Korea. KC Cottrell is currently in the construction phase of a pilot project that captures and purifies 1/2 tonne of CO 2 per day from an industrial power plant. Mantra Venture Group Ltd. signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with KC Cottrell Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Unlike in the US, Brazil uses almost all of the sugarcane plant for energy, extracting the sugar to make ethanol but also burning the stem residue, known as bagasse, to power the mill, with the excess being used to generate and sell electricity. Deepak Jaiswal, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, David S. LeBauer, Fernando E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

There, QUILL researchers also will show a new process for trapping carbon dioxide from power plants and gas fields. zero potential for pollution, ionic liquids are much “greener” than the solvents traditionally used in industry. The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow, 1 July, at Royal Society headquarters in central London.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2010

This integrated pilot-scale carbon dioxide capture facility simultaneously removes pollutants while purifying and compressing CO 2 for transport, storage or use. Canada officially opened the CanmetENERGY CO 2 Research Facility (CanCO 2 ). The CanCO 2 is located at the Natural Resources Canada Ottawa Research Centre in Bells Corners.

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Baua Electric

MAY 22, 2023

The international locations mentioned the more difficult limits for pollution together with nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide may divert a very powerful investments wanted to succeed in the EU’s objective of successfully banning unutilized combustion engine automobiles nearest 2035.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The researchers are starting with a medium-load driving style that is common in highway operation, where the engine must deliver 100 kW of power. This leads to a significantly more compact and cost efficient exhaust gas aftertreatment system, even for future extremely strict pollutant emission limits. —Patrik Soltic.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Or, as he put it: “Electric vehicles need a huge amount of battery capacity and this makes them much heavier than comparable petrol-powered cars. “A A study in Nature showed that, in total, heavier electric cars will cause so many more deaths that the toll could outweigh the total climate benefits from reduced CO2 emissions.”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The article provides an assessment of the state of power generation in the world today, and provides analyses of productive directions for the future. We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft (of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen), NRL researchers Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab used a novel liquid hydrocarbon fuel to power the aircraft’s unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

They also found that extending the lifetime of a vehicle contributed to a moderate increase in emissions of criteria pollutants (NO x , HC, and CO) during the use phase of the vehicle. A reduction of more than 2.1 years lifetime reduction conversely increases the CO 2 emission under the 14.1% market share of hybrid cars. —Kagawa et al.

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