Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management.

Universal 170

Universal Oil Grant Iowa 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

This type of high-strength aluminum helps boost fuel economy by reducing vehicle weight while still maintaining safety. High volume models, such as the Ford F-150, are using aluminum intensive designs to boost fuel economy performance through lightweighting. Alcoa is licensing the technology to the industry at the request of auto OEMs.

Tennessee 150

Tennessee Production F-150 Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

The auto industry’s current materials portfolio will need to be augmented to meet new 2025 fuel economy standards, according to a WardsAuto and DuPont Automotive survey conducted in late July. 49% of respondents thought that powertrains would see the greatest percentage of material changes as a result of proposed 2025 CAFE standards.

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Auto Industry Industrial Industry Auto 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

With our new product, Cellic CTec3, and the first plants starting commercial production, this is a huge step forward in the transition from an oil-based economy to a bio-based economy. The first plants start commercial production of advanced biofuels this year. —Novozymes’ CEO Steen Riisgaard.

Waste 210

Waste Iowa Gasoline Virginia 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Through the Critical Agricultural Materials program, Iowa State University of Science and Technology received $1 million for the development of new paint, coating, and adhesive products that are derived from acrylated glycerol, which is a co-product of the biodiesel industry. The project period will not exceed five years.

South Dakota 225

South Dakota Idaho Grant New Hampshire 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He will coordinate a team of chemists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers from the University of Delaware; University of Nebraska; Northeastern University; Virginia Commonwealth University; the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa; and the Electron Energy Corporation in Landisville, Pa.

Delaware 186

Delaware Wind Motor Motors 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2011

Soil quality, water quality, and possibly even farm profits will all benefit by using a perennial cover crop on corn fields that allows for similar yields to traditional farming methods, according to Iowa State University research. And Kentucky bluegrass is out in every lawn in Iowa. Click to enlarge. Every farmer grows it already.

Kentucky 186

Kentucky Iowa Grant Water 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Secretary Vilsack has recognized the bio-based economy as one of the four pillars of rural economic growth, in addition to production agriculture, local and regional food systems, and conservation and natural resources. The announcement is USDA’s latest effort to increase renewable fuel use in the United States.

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Renewable Fuel North Carolina United States 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Economy-wide CO 2 prices of $30-60/t CO 2 are too weak on their own to motivate significant reductions in CO 2 emissions from transportation. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case. —Morrow et al.

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Tax Credit Tax Emissions Fuel 220

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2023

My goal was to head north to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, then west to Fargo, ND, and back to Detroit via Iowa. Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. Exilerating, not corny Even using the economy mode setting, I found the EV6’s performance to be exhilarating.

Miles 78

Miles Kia Charging All-Electric 78

Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

In Department of Energy fuel economy tests, in short-trip city driving, a conventional gasoline car’s gas mileage is about 12 percent lower at 20 degrees Fahrenheit than it would be at 77 degrees Fahrenheit and can drop as much as 22 percent for very short trips of around 3 to 4 miles.

Gas-Electric 52

Gas-Electric Gas Norway F-150 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The following projects were selected under Topic 1a: Novel Bio-Based Plastics: Designing Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Bio-Based Plastics: Iowa State University (Ames, IA) - Trojan Horse Repeat Sequences for Triggered Chemical Recycling of Polyesters for Films and Bottles – DOE funding: $2,165,000.

San Diego 321

San Diego San Jose Iowa Oklahoma 321

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Iowa State University. Develop and demonstrate technologies to enable a downsized, boosted, lean, low temperature gasoline combustion engine system that improves fuel economy while meeting emissions requirements. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. HRL Laboratories, LLC.

Vehicles 150

Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

mile per gallon fleet average fuel economy requirement set for automotive companies to be met by 2025. 2 ] The University of Michigan, The University of Iowa, Wayne State University, Clemson University, Oakland University, and Virginia Tech. [ Automotive Research Center.” 4 ] teleoperation, shared control, and full autonomy. [

Universal 150

Universal Vehicles Michigan Oakland 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

Ames Laboratory (Ames, Iowa)—$1.7 This will create jobs and stimulate the economy both directly – in creating and saving research jobs – as well as through scientific advancements that ultimately can be applied in the marketplace. $69 90 million for other core research, providing support for graduate students, postdocs, and Ph.D.

Energy 150

Energy Light Solar Universal 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2011

Brown at Iowa State University propose the evaluation of four economies in well-to-wheels (WTW) analysis of automotive transportation—primary energy consumption, GHG emissions, water usage, and cost of vehicle operation—in a paper published in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. Joshua Gifford and Robert C.

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Economy Transportation Iowa Vehicles 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These vehicles will be the first electric transit buses deployed in Iowa. Des Moines Area Regional Transit will receive funding to purchase all-electric replacement buses and to update supporting electrical infrastructure. Project partners are MidAmerican Energy and Proterra. Mountain Rides Transportation Authority. 797,550.

Purchase 191

Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet 191

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The new Fisher buses will provide more than triple the equivalent fuel economy in all-electric mode and reduce CO2 emissions due to the extensive use of lightweight materials and the large capacity battery system. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000.

Emissions 256

Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Implementing an EV national policy that aims to transform the economy is an exercise in mind-boggling complexity. For example, Iowa is one of the best states for wind power farms.

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Grid Iowa Wind Miles 107

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 2, 2023

Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels. Observations: 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 A new premium contender If a car company ever wanted to buck a trend, Hyundai has done it by introducing an all-new sedan in a SUVworld.

Hyundai 78

Hyundai All-Electric Miles Range 78

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

EV Technical Files :Some handy info on the EV Album website EPA Fuel Economy :complete list of the EPA fuel economy results for recent years MotorPerformance Data : Graphs and drawings of Baldor, GE, and PrestoliteEV motors. DeepCycle Battery FAQ : Everything you need to know. So You want To Build an ElectricCar: Where to begin.

Conversion 28

Conversion Midget Motors Taylor-Dunn Frazer-Nash 28

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Iowa State will use metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to enhance the production of lipids and increase carbon dioxide assimilation and thermal tolerance within algae for the production of biofuels directly from sunlight and CO 2. DOE grant: $5,205,706). A Genetically Tractable Microalgal Platform for Advanced Biofuel Production.

Energy 231

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

It also offered new income opportunities for farmers improving the rural economy; created a use for crop residue; and encouraged commercialization of advanced biofuels that have 85-95% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline.

EPA 170

EPA South Dakota Production Iowa 170

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Meanwhile, Congressman Randy Feenstra of Iowa said President Biden’s intentions are clear and the moves to push strict EPA guidelines on people “to buy electric vehicles to advance his Green New Deal agenda than allow folks to choose the best car or truck for their families, businesses, and farms at an affordable price.

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Iowa EPA China Electric Vehicles 91

Green Cars News

APRIL 23, 2009

The President spoke in Iowa at a wind energy factory about the bloated US energy consumption which was inflicting an unacceptable loss on the economy and the climate. He described the choice as not being between the environment and saving the economy, but between prosperity and decline.

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Obama Green Alternative Fuels Iowa 32

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Several ethanol producers from Iowa and South Dakota—representing more than one billion gallons of capacity—called on the ethanol community to focus their near term advocacy efforts on fuel efficiency rules that are likely to be a top priority for the incoming Biden Administration.

South Dakota 210

South Dakota Iowa Obama Fuel Economy 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)

Gas 244

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

Coleman is on record as suggesting the decision would further harm the American economy, adding there is almost zero interest in all-electric vehicles within his state. .& West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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EPA Emissions West Virginia Gas 97