Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

As currently written, the bill requires CARB, on or before 1 January 2024, to develop a tool to calculate the average annual gallons of gasoline or diesel that a particular vehicle has used by using both: Publicly available data on the miles per gallon rating of the make, model, and year of the vehicle; and.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the land-use permit necessary to reconfigure the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo to produce renewable fuels. Rodeo Renewed also stands to cut criteria pollutant emissions at the site by 50% and water use by 160 million gallons per year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities. million cars off California roads each year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The city of San Diego, California has begun using Neste renewable diesel in its vehicle fleet. The City expects to begin using renewable diesel at fire stations in the coming weeks, which will result in all of the City’s 1,125 diesel-powered vehicles being powered by renewable diesel. —Major Kevin Faulconer.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

(Credit: peekaystudio/Instagram ) Tesla is said to use lubricating oils, brake fluids, lead acid batteries, aerosols, antifreeze, cleaning fluids, propane, paint, acetone, liquefied petroleum gas, adhesives, and diesel fuel at its Fremont Factory in Northern California.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Each of the 11 projects will receive matching funds from private and public partners.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

The first hubs will be built in the San Francisco Bay Area and are expected to be commissioned in 2022; Hyzon and Raven will then expand into the rest of the US and globally. Our process eliminates waste from going into the landfill, and together with HYZON’s fleets will eliminate emissions pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

High-throughput clusters, such as marine ports, concentrate harmful criteria pollutants such as diesel particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen. Locomotives and marine vessels emit approximately 90% of diesel particulate matter and 24% of statewide NO x.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

The families of Oakland are disproportionately disadvantaged and affected by high rates of asthma and exposure to air pollution from diesel fuels.” The 100% electric school bus fleet is not only emissions-free but also plays a critical dual role as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), giving 2.1 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2016

Volkswagen may buy back more than 500,000 illegally polluting cars in the U.S., A federal judge in San Francisco is slated to hear the proposed plan from VW on April 21. Reuters reported Wednesday.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Correspondingly, the study, reported in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , also concluded that, as of 2010, diesel engines were the dominant on-road source of BC, OA, and NO x. Of the pollutants measured, gasoline vehicles showed higher emission factors compared to diesel for CO only. —Dallmann et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

In-use testing of three light duty diesel vehicles—certified to US-EPA Tier2-Bin5 and California LEV-II ULEV emissions limits— found a wide variation in real world emissions performance relative to the regulatory limits. diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving conditions.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Once the show is over, the HFCEV will be part of pilot programs throughout California, beginning with Recology, an employee-owned solid waste and recycling hauler based in San Francisco. “As Is it cleaner than diesel? Is hydrogen ideal? Does it make sense as an alternative fuel? Maybe , and I want to celebrate the wins I can.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program. ISB EPA 07 200-hp (149 kW) EGR diesel engine and Eaton hybrid-electric system, with Li-ion batteries for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Inventorying criteria air pollutants showed that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 Peak urban diesel buses showed the best overall energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. Such composition is intriguing, as this type of FT product has never been described, ECP says. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet are partnering in a project—SF-BREEZE (San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric vessel with Zero Emissions)—to develop a high-speed, hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered passenger ferry and refueling station.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

and criteria pollutant (smog) emissions were estimated for the Zero-V based on a complete “well-to-waves” (WTW) analysis. This is slightly worse than the equivalent vessel running on fossil diesel, with WTW CO 2 (eq.) emissions from the equivalent diesel vessel running on conventional diesel fuel. The annual WTW CO 2 (eq.)

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The aim of the conversion programme is not only to reduce pollution but also to extend the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production. ISB EPA 07 200hp EGR diesel engine and an Eaton hybrid-electric system featuring lithium-ion batteries for energy storage. The powertrain equipment was replaced with a Cummins 6.7l

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2007

The governor and his people are contradicting each other and the recently "fired" are releasing documents and voice mails to prove their good intentions and reveal the governor's meddling in CARB's attempts to regulate diesel exhaust and greenhouse gases. New rules contemplated by CARB are angering the construction industry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. 505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. million gallons of diesel fuel each year. By displacing petroleum-based diesel, the 5.25

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

These trucks will displace conventional diesel trucks, which consume substantial quantities of petroleum fuel and emit substantial pollutants and greenhouse gases. will receive $2,590,929 to build an anaerobic digestion facility in South San Francisco. CNG is much less polluting than conventional diesel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

An overview of the current science of climate change in the draft includes an expanded discussion of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon. Heavy-duty natural gas vehicles may offer significantly lower NO x emissions than current diesel technology, and slight improvements in GHG emissions.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, if you provide EV charging, you get that EV driver who’s coming in pollution-free. They moved them to COVID emergency medical centers and they got rid of the diesel generators—they used the EV ARCs to power the emergency centers and also charge their vehicles on those sites. So it’s a very real application.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. It is reminiscent of the early 1900’s, when steam, electric, diesel, biomass, and gasoline power options competed on a level playing field for consumers’ attention.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Neal is a partner at Jane Capital Partners , a San Francisco based merchant bank focused on cleantech, energy & environmental technologies. Carbon trading vs t. Cleantech blogs founder is Neal Dikeman. SZ (1) 6753.T SZ (1) 6753.T

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Twenty-three percent describe regional air pollution as a big problem, an 11-point drop since last year (34%) and the smallest percentage since PPIC began asking the question in June 2000. Today, residents in the Central Valley (36%), Los Angeles (30%) and Inland Empire (27%) are more likely to characterize air pollution as a big problem.

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