Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

FedEx Express is bringing new all-electric delivery vehicles to New York City, Chicago and Memphis, and diversifying the existing Los Angeles fleet. In Chicago, FedEx Express will be comparing different all-electric vehicle technologies to determine what works best for its fleet needs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. This scenario assumes that 100% of the study region’s vehicle fleet will be HEVs by 2050—half of which will be grid plug-in HEVs—but that the fleet will otherwise remain unchanged from 2000 in terms of its relative composition of different vehicle size classes.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2022

He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Boehm’s honors included the 2000 IEEE Harlan D. In 1977 Tredennick joined Motorola in Chicago as a senior design engineer in the integrated circuits division. He was also a member of the U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Notice in [link] that GM carefully avoids claiming to reduce CO2 by shifting to the grid, but leads people off the track by focusing on smog related issues. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2. GM knows better and guards against making fraudulent claims. Many others are not so careful.

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