Will Higher Oil Prices Spark a Tesla Stock Surge?
CleanTechnica EVs
MARCH 22, 2022
As Ukraine weathers a continued Russian invasion, sanctions are causing high oil prices, resulting in high gas costs at the pump for consumers. Brent Crude oil […].
Tesla’s production expansion, surging oil prices bring stock upgrade from Daiwa Securities
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Tesla’s ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) plans to expand its production capacity, along with other factors like surging oil prices that could sway consumers to electric vehicles, have contributed to Daiwa Securities analysts upgrading their outlook on the automaker’s stock.
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BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2014
The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. However, the slump in the Brent crude price per barrel from $112.36 on 30 June to $61.60
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Oil Well Strippers Suffering From Low Oil Prices
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2015
With OPEC breaking down and any kind of coordination among its members on price cuts looking increasingly unlikely, it now appears that oil prices could remain below $50 a barrel for a year or more. billion barrels of oil and 18.8 Mcf of natural gas. by Michael McDonald of Oilprice.com.
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Rhodium Group estimates US GHG emissions rose 1.3% in 2022
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2023
Despite efforts to continue stimulating the US economy in the wake of the pandemic, high inflation put a damper on economic growth, which was exacerbated by a spike in oil prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, the US economy grew 1.9% in 2022, down from a 5.7% GDP increase in 2021.
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$10-Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2015
OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past.
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EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Renewables will be the primary source for new electricity generation, but natural gas, coal, and increasingly batteries will be used to help meet load and support grid reliability. EIA projects electricity generation to almost double in developing non-OECD countries by 2050. —Stephen Nalley.
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Study finds that dry-feed gasification for coal-to-liquids is more efficient, lower-emitting and cheaper than slurry-feed; CCS cost-effective for reduction of CO2
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
A co-production scenario—yet to be commercial—would take unconverted syngas from the FT reactor and combust it in a combined cycle power plant to generate electricity that is sold to the grid. Plant-level CO 2 emissions can be greatly reduced by using the CCS technology, the study found, without much increase in capital cost.
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Lux Research: despite cheap oil, niche plug-in vehicle sales will be resilient; conventional hybrids to be hardest hit
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
The current plunge in oil prices will likely negatively affect plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales in the short term; automakers such as BMW are already warning of lower sales of plug-in vehicles given the market context. Anticipated price of oil and forecast plug-in sales. Lux on the price of oil.
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Roland Berger study outlines integrated vehicle and fuels roadmap for further abating transport GHG emissions 2030+ at lowest societal cost
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2016
The study was commissioned by a coalition of fuel suppliers and automotive companies with a view to identifying a roadmap to 2030+ to identify GHG abatement options at the lowest cost to society. GHG abatement in road transport sector will cost approx. PHEVs fueled with advanced biofuels and low carbon, renewable electricity (for PC).
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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2015
The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Real weighted average cost of capital is 7.5% Source: IRENA.
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EIA AEO2015 projects elimination of net US energy imports in 2020-2030 timeframe; transportation energy consumption drops
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2015
The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. With greater U.S.
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Navigant forecasts global medium- and heavy-duty alt powertrain sales to exceed 820K units in 2026
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2016
Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs. —“ Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Technologies ”.
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EIA expects US motor fuel consumption to increase this summer, but remain below 2019 levels
Green Car Congress
APRIL 7, 2021
EIA also forecasts the Brent crude oil price will average $64 per barrel this summer, a 78% increase from last summer’s average of $36 per barrel. That price increase paired with an increase in gasoline and diesel demand will likely increase the cost of regular gasoline and diesel fuel this summer. MMBtu in 2020 to $3.31/MMBtu
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186 GE and Sargas AS partner on gas-fired plants with carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2012
GE has concluded a commercial alliance agreement with Norway-based Sargas AS to provide a gas turbine for one of the world’s first gas-fired plants with integrated carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). GE’s LMS100 turbine is a combination of proven frame and aero-derivative gas turbine technology.
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220 EIA Energy Outlook 2013 reference case sees drop in fossil fuel consumption as use of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls; projects 20% higher sales of hybrids and PHEVs than AEO2012
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Sales of battery-powered electric vehicles are 65% lower in the AEO2013 Reference case than the year before, with annual sales in 2035 estimated to be about 119,000. Reductions in battery electric vehicles are offset by increased sales of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grow to about 1.3 million, or less than one-half the 2.9
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GE Aviation testing 100% Gevo Alcohol-to-Jet fuel
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Gevo and LANL are looking to develop a low-cost, catalytic technology that would be bolted-on to Gevo’s existing isobutanol-to-hydrocarbons process to produce high energy density fuels (HEDFs). HEDFs are currently used in air and sea-launched cruise missiles used by the US military forces.
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AECOM study finds EV adoption in Victoria can offer significant economic benefits by late 2020s; PHEVs initially lead uptake
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2011
According to a recently published report commissioned by the Victoria (Australia) Department of Transport from AECOM, electric vehicle (EV) technology offers the state of Victoria potentially significant economic benefits by the late 2020s. most consumers, according to the report. most consumers, according to the report. Scenario 1.
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Baker Institute expert: crude-oil production increase a risky strategy for Saudi Arabia
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
At home, the kingdom needs oil and natural gas for transportation, industrial production and electricity generation. Each of these sources of domestic demand is increasing, propelled by rising populations, growing incomes and subsidized end-user prices that, despite a recent adjustment, remain among the lowest in the world.
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Study finds no alternative to widespread switching of direct fuel uses to electricity to meet 2050 California GHG targets; putting detail in climate wedges
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Technically feasible levels of energy efficiency and decarbonized energy supply alone will not be sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, according to a detailed modeling of the California economy performed by a team from Energy and Environmental Economics, the Monterey. Williams et al. Click to enlarge.
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A Look at EV Charging Pricing Policy and Why It Matters
EV Connect
JULY 5, 2022
For many drivers there is a basic understanding of how traditional gasoline pricing functions: Oil prices based on availability and proximity in large part dictate how much a driver will pay at the pump. Pricing at a Glance Charging up your electric car at home sets a pricing baseline.
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52 EIA 2035 reference case projects drop in US imports of petroleum due to modest economic growth, increased efficiency, growing domestic oil production, and biofuels
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 23, 2012
EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
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210 BCG report finds advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power, and solar photovoltaic tracking to make significant market impact sooner than commonly assumed
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
BCG’s analysis finds that cellulosic ethanol is on the verge of becoming cost-competitive with gasoline at $3/gal US. The costs of these alternative energy technologies are falling rapidly, and they are on the path to becoming cost-competitive within the next five to ten years, if not sooner. Click to enlarge.
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295 Study Finds Integrated Biorefinery Processes Could Be Highly Competitive With Petroleum Fuels on Efficiency and Costs, While Offering Substantial Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Green Car Congress
MARCH 8, 2009
integrating biological and thermochemical processing to produce biofuels and/or power could offer similar, if not lower, efficiencies and costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuel, according to a comparative analysis of 14 mature technology biomass refining scenarios. GTCC power.
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170 Study projects emission impacts of inexpensive, efficient EVs: 36% further reduction in LDV GHG by 2050, or 9% economy-wide
Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2017
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. The work is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Keshavarzmohammadian et al.
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MITEI releases report on Electrification of the Transportation System
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2011
The transportation sector thus represents a significant fraction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions both globally and in the US—light-duty vehicles (LDVs) are responsible for 17.5% Electrification will also reduce oil dependence, providing foreign policy benefits and the potential to reduce real oil prices and oil price volatility.
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252 GM and Hawaii Gas Company to Collaborate on Hydrogen Infrastructure Pilot; Different Approach to Provisioning Fueling Stations
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2010
General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. Fuel prices are among the highest in the US. Electricity costs are the highest in the US. TGC infrastructure follows the populated core on Oahu. Click to enlarge.
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The Real Reason for USA based Economic Recessions.
DIY Electric Car
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
There have been 5 recession since then until now and I wanted to see if Oil had anything to do with them, because deep in my heart, I knew the most recent recession was directly caused by the oil price spikes that started in 2007 and peaked in 2008. OPEC quadrupled the price of oil and the US quickly fell into recession.
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180 EIA: light duty vehicle energy consumption to drop 25% by 2040; increased oil production, vehicle efficiency reduce US oil and liquid imports
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards and CAFE standards increase new LDV fuel economy through model year 2025 and beyond, with more fuel-efficient new vehicles gradually replacing older vehicles on the road and raising the fuel efficiency of the LDV stock by an average of 2.0% per year, from 21.5 l/100 km) in 2012 to 37.2
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Multiple Trends Turning Slowly Against Oil, Says Rocky Mountain Institute
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set prices unilaterally.
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60 DNV GL paper suggests near-term success for LNG in shipping; alternative fuel mix to diversify over time
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 29, 2014
DNV and GL merged in September 2013 to form DNV GL—the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. —“Alternative Fuels for Shipping”.
Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2012
Performance in the study is measured by such metrics as: (1) required selling price of the fuel; (2) crude oil price when the process will become economically viable; (3) the Well-to-Wheels (WTW) life cycle GHG emissions profile of the diesel fuel; and (4) the water usage associated with the facility. —White and Gray.
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Study Finds That CO2 Standards for Vehicles Can Reduce Price of Oil
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2009
A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.
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150 Fossil Fuel Production Up in 2008 Despite Recession
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 17, 2009
World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) per day, according to a Worldwatch Institute analysis. Nonetheless, high oil prices pushed production from the Canadian oil sands to 1.2 Total gas production grew 3.8% in 2008 to reach 27.4
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150 KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.
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Study Finds EVs Economically and Financially Viable in New South Wales, Australia Market Today
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2010
The study found that for small and medium passenger vehicles, expected lifetime cost per kilometer for EVs is already lower than that of conventional ICE. The total cost of ownership includes the vehicle price, annual fuel and maintenance costs and insurance. Future costs have been discounted at 7%. Source: AECOM.
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199 Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report concludes DOE is underinvested in transport; greatest efforts to go to electrification
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. DOE’s most significant role in transport research is here.
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EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Source: EIA.
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KPMG survey finds majority of energy execs see oil over $121/barrel this year; shale expected to have transformative impact, investment in alternatives increasing
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2011
Energy executives expect continued volatility in the price-per-barrel of oil for the remainder of the year, with 64% predicting crude prices to exceed $121 per barrel. Increased production of shale gas in North America could have profound implications on the global energy sector. Alternative energy sources.
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225 Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers.
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231 Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2010
Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., A growing supply of unconventional transportation fuels would tend to moderate oil prices and would drive up emissions on a life cycle basis.
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Syngas Engages Rentech and GE for Clinton Coal and Biomass to Liquids Project in Australia
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Gas Conditioning. Projected output of the Clinton Project is a maximum 13,000 barrels of diesel per day (15,800 barrels of oil equivalent per day or 5.3 Syngas projects about a 10% ROI at US$60/barrel of crude, which higher returns at higher oil prices. Budget Level Cost Estimates for the FT Unit.
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218 IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. In the New Policies Scenario, the WEO ’s central scenario, the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035.
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UC Berkeley Study Concludes Battery Switching Model Would Accelerate Mass-Market Adoption of Electric Cars; Baseline Scenario Projects EVs Reaching 64% of New LDV Sales in 2030
Green Car Congress
JULY 14, 2009
In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030” was written by Thomas Becker, a Ph.D.
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