Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2014

A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. XXXXX Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

At the time of adoption, ARB agreed to continue its study of indirect effects, including indirect land use change as well as the indirect effects of all other transportation fuels. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-09-42.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It comes at a time when there is increasing focus on emissions and air quality, following vehicle certification irregularities and legal actions against European countries for air quality violations in cities. Dr. Adam Boeis – Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The repeal of the federal speed control law in 1995 that restricted the maximum speed limit to 55 mph on all interstate roads in the US has resulted in an increase in road fatalities and injuries, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. The researchers found a 3.2% Lee Friedman.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In their study, Slemrod and Sallee focus on “car notches”—where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in tax liability or the amount of a subsidy—in policies intended to encourage the production and use of fuel-efficient vehicles. All of this behavior is perfectly legal, they add.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

constitutional amendment that was passed by the National Congress of Chile and signed by the president, the people of Chile are the first in the world to be granted a new kind of human rights—“neurorights”—which advocates say are made necessary by rapid advances in neurotechnology. Chile’s congress is currently considering.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

GCEP, founded 11 years ago, supports research not only at Stanford, but also at universities around the world. Several of GCEP’s studies have blossomed into multimillion-dollar research programs, including Caltech’s Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

AdaptIVe is an effort by a consortium of 29 partners—automotive manufacturers, suppliers, research institutes and universities, and small- and medium-sized businesses—coordinated by Volkswagen Group Research. Seven cars and one truck will demonstrate various combinations of automated functions. RENAULT s.a.s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

At the April meeting, ARB staff will discuss its biodiesel literature search, completed and on-going emissions research studies, as well as preliminary regulatory concepts for ADFs. Some of these diesel fuel substitutes legally exist in commerce today and are controlled through industry consensus standards.

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels. —Liu et al.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

A new cost-benefit analysis of biofuels policies by economists Harry de Gorter and David Just at Cornell University has concluded that government mandates for biofuels “ are clearly superior to all other policies, with few tradeoffs arising. Other findings from the study include: Ethanol policy can have a substantial impact on corn prices.

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JULY 11, 2011

Engineers at Arizona State University have engineered E. Styrene is on the list, HHS said, based on human cancer studies, laboratory animal studies, and mechanistic scientific information. SIRC legal counsel will work with government counsel to develop that schedule while. evaluating other possible legal options.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have provided new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the US by using an empirical approach that combines visual interpretation with statistical analysis. —Nelson et al.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

—Steve Strauss, a distinguished professor of forest biotechnology at Oregon State University, and lead author of the paper. Even research on traits expressly intended to reduce environmental impacts face the same legal risks and regulatory barriers as other traits. Strauss, Drew L. Kershen, Joe H. Bouton, Thomas P. 2010.60.9.10.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

A team from Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology have designed and tested a smart phone application that can pinpoint where in the car a cell phone user is sitting—i.e., 08, the legal limit. Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

All these challenges are supported by studies of legal issues and effectiveness evaluation. Novel techniques are developed on the basis of experimental studies. MAN Truck & Bus AG; PTV Group; Institute of Automotive Engineering at the RWTH University in Aachen; state capital Düsseldorf; city of Kassel; Tech. Lutz Bürkle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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MAY 24, 2014

Numerous additional university and research institutes as well as small and mid-size companies are also participating in the projects as subcontractors. All these challenges are supported by studies of legal issues and effectiveness evaluation. Areas of effective application, legal issues.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A study by the University of San Diego Burnham-Morse Center for Real Estate estimates that worker productivity gains with improved indoor air quality average $5,204 per worker. Poor indoor air quality impacts employee health, productivity, retention and recruiting. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 11, 2009

The unit can be disabled at the touch of a button, at which point it reverts to an advisory status where the current, legal speed limit is simply displayed as a driver aid. They partners commissioned the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds to produce the report.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In the prepared testimony, Horn says that in the spring of 2014 when the West Virginia University study that brought the emissions issue to the fore was published, he was told that there was a possible emissions non-compliance issue that could be remedied. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

The study follows another recent ICCT report showing that the gap between official and real-world fuel-economy figures in Europe has risen to about 38%. The testing of the US-spec vehicles certified to the US Tier 2 Bin 5/California LEV II standard was commissioned to West Virginia University (WVU) by the ICCT.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If Congress establishes a GHG emission cap-and-trade program, only sources not covered by the cap could generate offsets. Although Congress could address GHG emissions with alternative policies—e.g., A 2008 EPA study analyzed the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. nonpermanence).

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

The Met Office is currently negotiating with national meteorological and hydrological services that maintain the stations, and plan to release the remaining records as soon as they are legally able to do so. “ Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), operated by the National.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In the study, law professor Jay P. Nonetheless, Congress has demonstrated ineptitude in its ability to accurately determine what these mandates should be.

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JULY 19, 2012

California’s original approach to heavy carbon oils resulted in a legal challenge that is still pending; the EU’s adoption of a similar approach has resulted in protracted discussion and negotiation with Canada that has yet to be resolved, either.).

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MARCH 22, 2010

If cap-and-trade in the United States were to become reality along the lines of proposals now before Congress, up to 2 billion of the new credits would be drawn from carbon offsets, potentially increasing the worldwide supply of such credits by a factor of seven. FLAWS IN THE UN APPROVAL PROCESS FOR CARBON OFFSETS. Lack of Additionality.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have shown that between 87 and 98 percent of ships comply with the tougher regulations for sulfur emissions that were introduced in northern Europe in 2015. Such inspections are a prerequisite for taking legal action against rule breakers. —Johan Mellqvist.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Academia, civil society, people who are really taking the time to study what is the most effective regulation that still will hold industry’s feet to the fire a bit but allow them to innovate. And that brings us to the question, what most needs regulating? Wald: Absolutely.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

First, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress and also issued the targets for 2010. Feedstock Supply Chain Workforce Development – USDA (REE, FS, and RD) and universities.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. According to Baylor University, “as far as safety and performance is concerned, hydrous ethanol is a slightly better fuel [than anhydrous ethanol] in every respect (except specific fuel consumption since water does not provide any caloric content).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) gives Congress the power to regulate commerce “with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”. The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. NERA Studies on Timing of GHG Releases.

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APRIL 1, 2009

EPA is directed in the draft to use its existing authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions of black carbon domestically and study opportunities for reductions internationally. light duty vehicles—e.g., heavy duty on-road vehicles, off-road vehicles, locomotives, marine and aviation engines. Clean Air Act Exemptions.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The concept study offers sports car-like performance. Introduced last year at the LA Auto Show, the technology study Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62.1 The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. lb-ft) of torque.

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