Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Despite this, research on the environmental and health impacts of tire wear has been neglected in comparison to the research and innovations dedicated to tackling fuel emissions. Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The CMs list provided by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) includes Rare Earth Elements (REEs) consisting of the Lanthanide series (La-Lu) as well as yttrium and scandium, Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), cobalt, fluorspar (CaF 2 ), manganese, niobium, tin, among others.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

It quickly became clear that 11 million vehicles of the VW group were affected worldwide. In many countries, the EA 189 engines manufactured by the VW group had to be retrofitted with software or hardware updates. liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions. 0c00188.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

While Russia holds significant leverage in influencing oil and gas prices, it pales in comparison to China’s position in several strategic industries critical to the energy transition, says report author Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and materials at the Baker Institute. —Baker Institute report Need Nickel?

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

That same year, in my role as founding organizer of climate action group, 350 South Bay Los Angeles, I was able to bring my skills and experience to a wider community and make the case for our need to switch to 100% fossil free transportation to stave off the impending climate crisis. The Bolt debuts at the 2016 LA Car Show.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Lucid Group announced on Tuesday morning that it had officially launched an at-home charging station for its EVs. For comparison, Tesla’s Wall Connector has a power output of up to 11.5 ” Credit: Lucid Group. kW or 44 miles of ranger per hour. Lucid’s Air Cargo Capsule will cost $2,000 USD and $2,750 in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

the role of national governments in improving pedestrian mobility and proposes 12 sets of measures to create safer walking environments. Urban environments are often making it difficult to enjoy this most fundamental form of moving. Create national pedestrian observatories and encourage international comparisons.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Previous neuroimaging studies have found multiple brain areas associated with distinct aspects of car driving in simulated traffic environments. The voxels in the left cerebellar hemisphere survived the multiple comparison correction. An open access paper on their work is published in the journal Scientific Reports. drivers  et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2017

This knowledge, in turn, allows the vehicle to adjust the functions of advanced driver assistance systems to the actual road conditions, said Bernd Hartmann, Head of the Enhanced ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) & Tire Interactions project group within the Advanced Engineering department of Continental’s Chassis & Safety division.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

However, R&D staff member Thomas Karnowski of ORNL’s Imaging, Signals, and Machine Learning Group determined that these classifications weren’t numerous enough to effectively train a deep learning network—and the team didn’t have sufficient time left in their year-long project to gather more. —Thomas Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS), which was developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCV), has been adopted to provide better energy efficiency in comparison with internal combustion engines, as well as to deliver superior environmental performance with no CO 2 emissions or Substances of Concern (SoC) emitted when driving.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. A small but growing group of analysts, though, are pushing for a zero-emissions technology that already plows the oceans: nuclear propulsion. The group has shortlisted three designs and plan to have picked one by the end of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Li-sulfur batteries—which conventionally use elemental sulfur (with conductive additives) as the cathode, an aprotic liquid electrolyte, and lithium metal as the anode—are under intensive investigation by research groups worldwide because of the promise for low-cost, high-energy storage. Earlier post.) —Guo et al.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Known as Starlink Group 2-1, the mission debuted the operational design of new V1.5 In comparison, Falcon 9 B1051 debuted in March 2019 and became the first booster to cross the ten-flight mark in May 2021, just 26 months later. Originally scheduled to launch as early as July, apparent hiccups mass-producing new Starlink V1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

There’s not one that makes sense everywhere; it’s more of a localized environment.” In the future, the researchers would like to do side-by-side comparisons of different species across multiple environments to better understand their yield potential. Crop potential varies by region, Owens said. Anderson, E. Anderson, W.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The authors say the effects could potentially apply to other age groups as well and highlight the need for stricter air quality limits and greater access to green spaces. By comparison, a walk along Oxford Street led to only a small increase in lung capacity in participants, far lower than recorded in the park. —Professor Chung.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2015

Yet vegetation on marginal lands is often limited by water availability, and we lack a clear understanding of water demands by these perennial cropping systems in comparison to what they would replace, and how their water use will respond to climate variability and change. … —Hamilton et al. Resources. S K Hamilton et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

IFPEN is a French public-sector research, innovation and training center active in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. This could forces a change of paradigm, the R&D group says. In this environment, volcanic systems create hydrothermal circulation, bringing together sea water and peridotites at high temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC. An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. …

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. —Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

The positive impact on our environment is one of the biggest and best, especially if you have a business that runs a fleet of vehicles. Are electric cars better for the environment? This is cleaner and better for the environment than producing petrol and diesel. In short, yes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

In its report, entitled “EU/US Transport Research Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities”, the ECTRI/TRB Working Group writes it is important to intensify cooperation in the field of research in order to establish greater research projects in the future. EU/US Transport Research Collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

Wheaton and Sons Ltd (Somerset), John Lewis Partnership plc (London), T Baden Hardstaff Ltd (Nottingham), Robert Wiseman Dairies (Glasgow), Tesco plc (Northants), The BOC Group (Guildford) and United Biscuits UK Ltd (Leicestershire).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

With sales of vehicles equipped with the popular eight-speed transmission growing, FCA US LLC (the new name for Chrysler Group LLC) will invest an additional $266 million in its Kokomo Transmission Plant (Ind.) Eight-speed transmission housings move down the assembly line at Kokomo Transmission Plant. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Engineers at BMW Group Research and Technology are developing advanced automated driver assistance systems for the highway. Researchers have equipped a BMW 5 sedan with intelligent software as well as vision assistance and environment detection systems. Nico Kämpchen on an automated test drive. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The sixth annual analysis conducted by T&E, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, of new car CO 2 emissions in Europe ( 2011 Cars & CO 2 Report: How clean are Europe’s cars ) found that Volvo Car Corporation led the pack with a CO 2 reduction of 9%. Source: T&E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The BMW Group is involved in several projects, each with different approaches to recovering dissipated heat energy, and at various levels: in research, pre-production and series development. Research project Turbosteamer: comparison of the heat exchanger generation 1 (top) and generation 2 (bottom). Click to enlarge. Turbosteamer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

According to the latest annual life-cycle study from the Automotive Science Group ( ASG ), the all-new lightweight aluminum 2015 Ford F-150 leads the full-size light-duty truck competition in all environmental and economic performance areas; accordingly, ASG selected the F-150 as its Best Full-size Truck of 2015. ASG approach and methodology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

Acetogens have several advantages to yeast: they convert all xylose (C 5 ) and glucose (C 6 ) sugars and tolerate all breakdown products of biomass; they operate in harsh environments; and they produce no CO 2 as a by-product. In comparison, traditional yeast fermentation creates one molecule of CO 2 for every molecule of ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The primary transportation application where this is noteworthy is in the micro-hybrid space ,” said Jeff Kessen, A123’s director of global marketing for the Automotive Solutions group. “ We feel that we have erased the cold cranking deficit—the Achilles heel [for Li-ion] from a performance perspective against lead acid. ”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

The only incentive that TDI vehicles receive—and it isn’t doled out by the US government—is almost consistently best-in-class fuel economy, reduced CO 2 emissions and clean diesel drivers knowing that they are doing their part to reduce the impact on the environment. denotes a model in the Rally **for comparison.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

In March, the second intersessional meeting of IMO’s Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) from Ships reported “ major progress ” in developing measures to enhance energy efficiency in international shipping and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Currently copper is the conductive material of choice; however, in comparison to aluminum copper is heavy and expensive. The goal of this research is to use an interdisciplinary perspective to develop industry-relevant solutions in dealing with dynamic changes in company environments, as well as in company internal process landscapes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Lifecycle Analysis (LCA)—a tool to assess the affect of an item on the environment—broadly consists of two main stages: building a model of all the inputs and outputs of all the constituent processes (inventory analysis); and then interpreting the resulting data (impact assessment). Rogers and Seager (2009). Kristin Rogers, and Thomas P.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Mining any mineral from earth has an impact on the environment. The photos shown are photos from the Diavik diamond mine in Canada, which is owned and operated by the Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto. [1] In this article, we will document some important facts that debunk this narrative with facts and sources.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 27, 2023

As the leader of the Modeling Group in the Section of Glaciology at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, Humbert works to extract broader lessons from Nioghalvfjerdsbræ’s ongoing decline. (Fig. Humbert, et al. European Space Agency, “ Spalte Breaks Up “, September 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

There are three primary funded organizations within DOE: National Security; Energy and Environment; and Science. The combined Energy and Environment organization has a $10.269 billion request (39% of the total), a decrease of 8.7%. billion for this group. billion); carbon capture and sequestration ($3.4 billion.

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