Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2015

mpg Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) target for 2025, and why electric-car loving Washington state gets so few models. Washington state loves electric cars, but it doesn't get as many models as California. Today, we discuss Tesla batteries for energy storage, the real meaning for the 54.5 Find out why.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

States should avoid basing electrification mandates on vehicle emissions reduction and fuel economy—grounds exclusively within federal control under the federal Clean Air Act and Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The article points to the 2019 Supreme Court case of Virginia Uranium v.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

million over three years as part of an $80-million Co-Optima funding round ( earlier post ) to conduct research and development for an advanced mixed-mode gasoline (spark/compression ignition) engine to attain significant improvements in both fuel economy and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

A reliable, US supply of lithium is essential to enabling a 100% clean energy economy and strengthening our energy security. The finalists are: George Washington University – Team Ellexco: “Chemical-Free Extraction of Lithium from Brines”. Each team will receive $280,000 and will compete in the third and final phase of the competition.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Boston (164 hours lost due to congestion) and Washington D.C. Boston drivers lost up to $2,291 per year due to congestion, followed by Washington D.C. It will continue to have serious consequences for national and local economies, businesses and citizens in the years to come. Surprisingly, Washington D.C., Wichita, Kan.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

C2CNT was founded by Dr. Stuart Licht, a Professor at George Washington University, a former Program Director in Chemistry at the National Science Foundation and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. Our C2CNT team is working on bringing to fruition a carbon-based economy with change comparable to the introduction of the plastics economy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Washington DC-based Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Kenya signed a $60 million Kenya threshold program agreement earlier this week. They say the program is designed to improve urban connectivity and promote economic growth in Kenya.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

If constructed, Vancouver-based Teck’s recycling facility would be the largest recycling plant on North America’s western coast and have the capacity to recycle the equivalent of 35,000 metric tons annually of battery material each year, Price told the SAFE Critical Minerals Summit in Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2011

The two Federal agencies that set gas mileage and emissions standards for future cars may propose rules that require corporate average fuel economy to reach 56 miles per gallon by 2025. News reports out of Washington, D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The Governors of California, Oregon and Washington and the Premier of British Columbia signed a regional agreement strategically to align policies to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Washington will set binding limits on carbon emissions and deploy market mechanisms to meet those limits.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

Natural and artificial graphite anode materials and other value‐added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the company’s proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility expected to be located in Washington State.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US NRC panel’s summary estimates of the potential reduction in petroleum consumption by 2035 for vehicle powertrain types assuming that the entire potential of these technologies is used to improve fuel economy rather than performance. This is equivalent to increasing fuel economy from about 30 to about 60 MPG, from 12.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

These are essential vehicles to California’s economy and Californian's quality of life, yet are hard to electrify. As more states, such as Washington, New Mexico, and New York, progress and adopt clean fuel standards, Neste will be ready to move quickly and supply renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel into these markets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The report found that 56 million scrap tires remain in stockpiles, mostly in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Washington, half of which—New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia—do not have active stockpile cleanup programs.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

While much of the auto industry is focused on the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, a handful of folks are looking in the opposite direction, toward Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2022

A team from Washington State University (WSU) and the Gas Technology Institute have used an ethanol and water mixture and a small amount of electricity in an electrochemical conversion system to produce pure compressed hydrogen. —Kee et al. This is a new way of thinking about how to produce hydrogen gas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 27, 2023

CATL is the largest battery manufacturer in the world, but it is largely shut out of the US market because of the current antipathy between Washington and Beijing. Ford has crafted a plan to build a battery factory in Michigan that will use CATL technology, but be owned and operated by Ford. That plan has

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

Washington Gov. Work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington that burns over one million tons of coal per year, TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired power plant near Centralia by more than half.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2018

All of these bioproducts can add great value to the economy and enhance their market value. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee. Yuan said current lignocellulose bioconversion refineries burn off 60% of the lignin produced. They will help with technical, economic and material analysis.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 29, 2023

With EV charging standardization still up in the air, Tesla CEO Elon Musk goes to Washington.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The first states included in the program are: Oregon, Washington State, North Carolina, Missouri and Michigan. Support to other communities that are working to develop non-profit shared mobility models.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

Transonic was exhibiting at the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington earlier this week. Transonic’s testing on a mid-size vehicle on a chassis dynamometer resulted in EPA highway fuel economy of 64 mpg (3.7 TSCi combustion minimizes heat loss to the cylinder walls and in the exhaust. Source: Transonic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Maven is excited to offer an all-electric fleet of shared vehicles for the gig economy.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Ideanomics and Global Environmental Products (GEP) announced today that it has developed a series of zero-emissions, electric vehicle street sweepers that will soon come to New York City, cities in California, Helena, Montana, and Washington D.C. Two will go to the City of South San Francisco, three to Washington D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

3) the economy of the United States would benefit from the rapid development and control of intellectual property relating to the commercial development of technology utilizing thorium. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), rare earth elements are located in the Pea Ridge iron-ore mine in Washington County, Mo.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2019

It's a war of words in Washington over emissions and fuel economy standards. Tesla's home solar business is sliding. And yes, the trucks picking up the trash can go electric, too. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

These new blendstocks, co-optimized with advanced gasoline engines, show potential to improve passenger vehicle fuel economy by 10%. Co-Optima, which launched in October 2015, explores fuel and engine innovations that work together to maximize vehicle performance and fuel economy. Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The US National Science Board (NSB) released for public review and comment a draft report, Building a Sustainable Energy Future , which calls on the nation to lead the fundamental transformation of the current energy economy from one that is dependent on fossil fuel to one that thrives on sustainable and clean energy. Golden, Colo.;

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2014

Two facts sit in opposition to each other in Washington, D.C., Highway Trust Fund is broke, because the Federal gasoline tax hasn''t been raised in two decades and continually improving fuel economy means.' and have for many years. First, raising taxes--in any way, for any purpose, under any circumstances--is virtually impossible.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2019

A new study by a team from the University of New Mexico, University of Washington and the University of Minnesota examines the health and economic impacts of PM 2.5 Moving forward, the researchers want to focus more directly on certain sectors of the economy where emission reductions have been limited. Goodkind et al. 1816102116.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 19, 2024

President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Supports New Projects Building Grid Transformers, Manufacturing EV Chargers and Solar Components, and Processing Critical Minerals, Helping Revitalize Local Economies with Clean Energy Jobs WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

including Atlanta, San Francisco, Metro Detroit, Phoenix and Kirkland, Washington. The plug-in 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid earned an electric-mode fuel economy rating of 84 miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe) from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); no other minivan has ever come close to this rating.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

Over the next three years, NREL engineers will work with teams led by Utah State University, Washington University, and Eaton Corporation to optimize utilization, life, and cost of lithium-ion batteries for electric-drive vehicles (EDVs) through improved battery management and controls.

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