Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2015

GDI engines help improve fuel economy and therefore reduce CO 2 emissions; however, they can have higher particulate emissions due to shorter fuel/air mixing times in the cylinder compared to multiport fuel injection engines. —Josep Fornos, Executive Vice President, Clean Air, Tenneco. Emissions Engines Europe Regulations'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, managed to deliver an agreement after an extension to negotiations. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by 1 May 2012. as possible, but not later than 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Climate change presents major long-term risks to the global economy and to the assets in which we invest. Recognize that scale is critical to addressing risk and enabling low-carbon investment opportunities to be more cost-effective relative to high-carbon opportunities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Our economic modeling suggests that an investment of a few extra billion per year today could develop technologies that could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 in scenarios where there are stringent policies limiting how much carbon can be emitted.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

A continuing sharp decline in technology costs—particularly in solar but also in wind—meant that every dollar invested in renewable energy bought significantly more generating capacity in 2014. billion, was up 36% on the previous year and came the closest ever to overhauling the total for developed economies, at $138.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ). Given that China’s economy is still growing, such a strategy is unlikely to result in year-to-year emissions reductions for several decades. Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

The cost of a fill up is approximately $2.00. Nègre has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa. 37% Higher fuel economy. That is, if you live nearby a gas station with custom air compressor units. And this isn't the last we'll hear of the technology.

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New York City New York Alternative Fuels Plug-in 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source: BNEF.

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Africa Supplies Emissions Poland 221

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2018

Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa have seen significant depreciations in their currencies this year. But those measures come at a huge cost to public coffers, and might not be enough to stave off demand destruction and/or economic slowdown. There is a bit of a feedback effect at hand as well.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. EVs have finally come of age. 6 million. passenger vehicles.

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