Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising primarily due to air flowing eastward from the Pacific Ocean, a trend that is largest when the air originates in Asia. In springtime, pollution from across the hemisphere, not nearby sources, contributes to the ozone increases above western North America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

ScanWind is a developer of advanced drive train and control wind turbine technologies aimed at offshore deployment. The ScanWind turbine technology will join GE’s family of wind turbines that includes the GE 1.5-megawatt megawatt series, the most widely deployed wind turbine in the world with more than 12,000 now in operation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

Tide gauge data at Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego show sea level along the Pacific coast rising at about the global rate from 1930 to about 1980, but scant rise or even a lowering of sea level over the past three decades that is consistent with altimetry. inches) per year, an uptick frequently linked to global warming.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

—Francesco Venturini, Head of Enel’s Global e-Solutions division. Enel is planning to use JuiceNet platform’s functions in all of its EV charging stations globally. Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global, power, gas and renewables markets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2013

In a new report, Navigant Research forecasts that global vehicle-to-grid (V2G)-enabled plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) servicing the ancillary services market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3% Globally, Navigant Research forecasts that frequency regulation revenue will reach $190.7 from 2013 to 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Report highlights include: Cape Wind’s troubles. Source: IRENA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. We will work with a variety of public and private partners to ultimately create jobs and boost global manufacturing competitiveness. Honda R&D Americas, Inc.;

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MAY 10, 2011

Ranges of global technical potentials of renewable energy sources derived from studies analyzed in SRREN report. Wind energy, including on- and offshore systems. Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses. Note that the figure is presented in logarithmic scale due to the wide range of assessed data.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 10, 2016

Toyota Motor North America has awarded MP2 Energy, a full-service power company based in The Woodlands, Texas, a five-year retail electricity contract to provide 100% renewable energy solutions to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The five-year deal also supports 7.75

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., However, establishing a physical connection between the decadal solar cycle and global climate patterns has proven elusive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Hybrids are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040. Without the projected gains in efficiency, global energy demand could have risen by more than 100%. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

General Motors plans to generate or source all electrical power for its 350 operations in 59 countries with 100% renewable energy—such as wind, sun and landfill gas—by 2050. The company expects to exceed this when two new wind projects come online later this year to help power four manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power (CSP), and solar photovoltaic power (PV) will see accelerating adoption and growth and are on track to change the global energy mix far earlier than is often assumed, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2014

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.; Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Participating auto manufacturers are American Honda Motor Co.; BMW Group; Chrysler Group LLC; Ford Motor Company; General Motors Co.;

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AUGUST 4, 2011

This is probably due to changes in the prevailing wind systems. The results are based on driftwood gathered along the coast of northern Greenland, which scientists expect will be the final place summer ice will survive, if global temperatures continue to rise. —Svend Funder, team leader. —Sven Funder. Kjær, Niels J.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

The executives also foresee shale oil and gas having a transformative effect on helping to meet the world’s energy needs, according to the results of the 9 th Annual Energy Survey conducted by the KPMG Global Energy Institute. What is exciting about these findings is that it demonstrates the industry's intent to explore all options.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Recently, regional public-private partnerships have developed comprehensive strategies for coordinating early hydrogen infrastructure development with FCV rollouts in North America, Europe and Asia. Global public support now totals about $1 billion per year, leveraging many times that amount in private funds.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board tracked variations in the amount of lead transported across the Pacific over time. The research was supported in large part by the California Air Resources Board. Stephanie A.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

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APRIL 24, 2018

The high-resolution E3SM earth system model simulates the strongest storms with surface winds exceeding 150 mph—hurricanes that leave cold wakes that are 2 to 4 degrees Celsius cooler than their surroundings. Pictured here is global E3SM simulation showing eddy activity. Source: E3SM. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

The announcement was made during the Clinton Global Initiative ’s (CGI) fifth annual meeting in New York City. The FPL Group/Duke Energy initiative was developed following the March 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Planning Retreat, a forum for building industry leadership. FPL Group, Inc. Lew Hay, FPL Group chairman and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Professor Jacoby is co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas. Russia, the Middle East, and the US have the highest concentration of global gas reserves.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

million units globally) for viability planning purposes. GM will eliminate 47,000 jobs—37,000 hourly and 10,000 salaried—globally, including 20,000 workers in the US. Five additional plant closings in North America, bringing the total to 14 plant closures within the next three years. million units (57.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. Recent trends suggest that a demand-driven peak is increasingly plausible.

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Oil Oil-Sands Fuel Economy Transportation 207

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Driven by Asian markets, global demand for virgin polyolefins is expected to grow above global GDP by 2030. Demand for recycled polyolefins is expected to grow globally about three times faster than virgin polymers until 2030. OMV’s goal is to become a leading global supplier of specialty polyolefin solutions.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Charged spoke with Robert Privette, Umicore’s Business Development Manager for North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

The introduction of leaded gasoline in the 1920s initiated a period of unabated growth in the global emissions of Pb. Long-term histories of Pb pollution in Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Asia show evidence that, in these regions, the highest Pb emissions of the past 2000 years occurred in the second half of the 20 th century.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The European Commission (EC) unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that the Commission fears are luring European clean-tech companies to North America. The E uropean Critical Raw Materials Act would help the bloc secure supply of the metals needed to build batteries, wind turbines and other green technologies.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Charged spoke with Robert Privette, Umicore’s Business Development Manager for North America.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

However, the report advises, long-term solutions to global challenges remain scarce; as one example, the report sees global CO 2 emissions rising by 20% to 37.2 The US moves steadily towards meeting all of its energy needs from domestic resources by 2035. Gt by 2035. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. —WEO-2013.

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JUNE 26, 2021

GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. Novozymes North America (Franklinton, North Carolina). IP Group, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Honda has announced several initiatives under its new “Green Path” approach to reducing the total life-cycle environmental impact of its products and operations in North America. Source: Honda North America. Credit: Honda North America. Click to enlarge. SOCs are chemical (e.g., solvents) or materials (e.g.,

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Electric grid reliability and sustainability are the foundation for an EV powered future,” said Thomas Ruemenapp, Vice President, Engineering, BMW of North America. ChargeScape will allegedly help “reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints” by utilizing electricity stemming from renewables like wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

The new Cruze will be offered in more than 40 global markets and goes on sale first in North America in early 2016. turbocharged direct injection engine (for North America) helps enable a General Motors-estimated 40 mpg (5.88 diesel already proven in Europe and other global markets. A new, standard 1.4L

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

In a new report , Pike Research forecasts that global sales of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment (EVSE) will grow at a steady pace from 2012 to 2020 as the global market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) grows. The EVSE market will rise from below 200,000 units sold in 2012 to almost 2.4 install a charger.

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