Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Richmond, Va.;

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Seven months after kicking off production of its Class 3 electric trucks in Mississippi, EV startup Mullen Automotive has secured fruitful environmental compliance and approvals from CARB and the EPA. Having both our Class 1 and Class 3 commercial EVs now CARB and EPA certified will continue to drive sales in all states across America.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

As part of the Energy Datapalooza event in Washington, DC, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a challenge to to foster new technologies that can. Agency (EPA) also jointly announced the development of a new interface for data from the fueleconomy.gov website. DOE and the Environmental Protection.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Production of the 2014 model year Prius Plug-in begins in October with pricing taking effect when these models arrive in showrooms in November.The Prius Plug-in qualifies for a Federal Tax Credit of up to $2,500 in addition to the State of California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) which offers a $1,500 rebate. kWh Li-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. We found an increased risk, even at low levels of air pollution currently considered safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Furthermore, airborne chemicals that originate inside a house don’t stay there: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from products such as shampoo, perfume and cleaning solutions eventually escape outside and contribute to ozone and fine particle formation, making up an even greater source of global atmospheric air pollution than cars and trucks do.

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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 L/100km) EPA city and 48 mpg (4.9 As a comparison, the 2010 Prius delivers 51 mpg US (4.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2009

Growth Energy , a new advocacy group promoting ethanol and biofuels, has submitted , on behalf of 52 US ethanol manufacturers, a request for a “green jobs” waiver allowing an increase in the ethanol blend limit from 10% (E10) up to 15% (E15) to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). billion into the US economy annually.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting its 16 th annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award ceremony tonight in Washington, DC. BDO is used to make spandex, automotive plastics, running shoes, and many other products; it has an approximately 2.8 billion pound, $3-billion worldwide market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

Example of results from EPA lifecycle analyses in the NPRM. EPA is soliciting peer review scientific feedback to ensure that the rule when finalized contains the best available science. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. EPA is seeking comments on the proposal for 60 days. Click to enlarge. The proposed rule includes that.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

The total number of verified (US EPA- and/or California ARB-verified) diesel retrofit devices (for both on-road and off-road diesel engines) sold in the US (including California) by MECA member companies in 2011 was 20,177, according to the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA). 4% (881) were flow-through filters (FTFs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Internal AC Kinetics testing used an AC induction motor coupled to a large inertia, following a modified EPA city traffic cycle. will introduce its next-generation motor control technology at the upcoming ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., Source: AC Kinetics. Click to enlarge. Motor control company AC Kinetics, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

The THINK EV-Ready Cities Index was presented by THINK CEO Richard Canny at the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference and Meeting at the Washington Auto Show. The remaining cities included Denver, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Phoenix. with US production slated to begin early next year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” However, he added, “ scapegoating and stoking fear among workers over the permitting process is counter-productive. The state has seen record low coal unemployment, coupled with record high coal production, in part because of “brute force” mining processes such as mountaintop removal. —Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Rates of nitrous oxide production via denitrification in small streams increase with nitrate concentrations. —Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The majority of previous studies aiming to assess GHG emissions from OP production systems on tropical peatlands have at best based their analyses on values below or towards the lower end of this range, and in all likelihood have significantly underestimated CO 2 emissions from drained peats.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Clean Energy Holdings, a feedstock-only pathway for the production of camelina-based fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Lower CIs could be achieved by processors with more efficient production profiles. The California Air Resources Board has issued Sustainable Oils Inc., gCO 2 e/MJ.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

In addition to a the hybrid option, both models meet or exceed EPA 2010 emission regulations by utilizing an optimized SCR system. Due to initial product availability, the hybrid models will follow a roll-out approach and will be available in the following markets in December of 2011: New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

This week in Washington, the company held a series of media drives (“TDI Efficiency Rally”) for the Q5, A6 and A7 diesel models to highlight their efficiency and performance, and also offered up its—as well as several other experts’—perspectives on the potential for diesel in the US market. Optimized production time.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing activities on drinking water resources in the United States. Source: EPA. —EPA draft assessment. The stages of the hydraulic fracturing water cycle. Click to enlarge. Major findings.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

Other Administration efforts to enhance US energy security presented by President Obama at Andrews included: The announcement that EPA and NHTSA will sign the final GHG emission standards and fuel economy rules for light duty vehicles on 1 April. Secretary Salazar. Energy Security Announcements.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2013

The 2013 SAE International High Octane Fuels Symposium (HOFS) this week in Washington, DC, explored the pros and the cons of high octane fuels, with a particular focus on using ethanol as the source of the octane improvement. products produced via the reaction of light olefin gases with isobutane in the presence of a catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

High concentrations of tropospheric ozone are toxic, however, and have a detrimental effect on human health and ecosystem productivity. The US EPA recently proposed new tougher ground-level ozone standards. Earlier post.) Moreover, tropospheric ozone itself acts as an effective greenhouse gas. and NASA’s Langley Research Center.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

The production version of the i3. In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g., Production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Build better products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

FDG and Chanje co-created the product. James Chen, VP and General Counsel - previously VP at Tesla, two of Washington, D.C.’s s top law firms, the US EPA and other. FDG brings immediate scale and OEM expertise in medium-duty EVs. Joerg Sommer, Chief Operating Officer - previously SVP at Volkswagen, Daimler, Renault and others.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. We’ve been building a separate open-source tool called Power Genome that pulls together all the public data from the Department of Energy, EPA [U.S. C in this century. You need a bigger grid to supply that electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2012 the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which regulates fuel economy, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which regulates greenhouse gas emissions, proposed new unified standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions over the years 2017 to 2025. Background. to 41 mpg by 2021 and 48.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. Washington Post Foreign Service, 22 November 2009. [ World Resources Institute, October 2009. [

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Toyota introduced the production Prius Plug-in Hybrid at the Green Drive Expo in Richmond, CA, as the newest member of the expanding Prius Family. With a starting base price of $32,000 (before rebates), the production Prius Plug-in features a 4.4 EPA label calculations do not include Eco mode. 2012 Prius Plug-in hybrid.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Since the products you make actually give people cancer and a reason to need chemo, your punchline has an extra bonus laugh attached. Maybe some Washington Mutual stock instead? These auto workers knew what kind of products they were making and they knew what damage these products cause. Way to kill the audience, Greg.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

There is also a push to make those who own SUVs pay a steep annual registration fee to discourage their ownership, as is happening in Washington, D.C. GM wants the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to make the Administration’s aspirational 50 percent EV sales goal by 2030 a national mandate instead.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

The new program-wide funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000991 ) ( earlier post ), was announced by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the Washington Auto Show. The application shall demonstrate that the cost of retrofitting or additional production costs must be recoverable by fuel savings within 36 months of typical vehicle operation.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s hoping that 2022 will be productive and meaningful for the work we do in the electric vehicle (EV) community to advance the adoption of electric cars, trucks, and buses. Invest $5 billion in an EPA effort to replace thousands of polluting diesel school buses with electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved waivers for selling fuel containing up to 15% ethanol (E15) in model year 2001 and newer light-duty vehicles. The testing procedures were based on existing SAE and USCAR protocols which are used in the automotive industry to predict new product life. Earlier post.).

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