Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2022

FlagshipONE adds to Ørsted’s growing hydrogen and Power-to-X project pipeline, which includes several projects aimed at decarbonizing maritime transport. FlagshipONE will have an electrolyzer capacity of around 70 MW and is expected to produce 50,000 tonnes of e-methanol per year based on renewable hydrogen and biogenic CO 2.

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Wind Sweden Hydrogen Denmark 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Shale gas in particular has grown rapidly, from less than one percent of US production in 2000 to 34% in 2012, and projections show strong production growth continuing for the foreseeable future. In this paper, we focus on the implications of growing shale gas production for the climate. —Newell and Raimi.

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Climate Gas Coal Gas-Electric 199

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced.

Grid 138

Grid Powered Power Vehicles 138

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Of the four end-use sectors, only transportation emissions increased in 2015 (+2.1%). The downward pressure on emissions was slightly offset by an uptick in transportation energy consumption that was influenced by lower fuel prices that put upward pressure on emissions. decline in energy intensity (Btu/GDP). from 2014 levels.

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2015 Transportation CO2 Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Initial work between ExxonMobil and the national laboratories will explore ways to bring biofuels and carbon capture and storage to commercial scale across the power generation, transportation, and manufacturing sectors. The company has spent more than $9 billion since 2000 developing and deploying lower-emissions energy solutions.

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Emissions Idaho Climate Change 2000 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

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2005 2000 Emissions China 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GHG emissions grew on average by 1.0 GtCO 2 eq (1.3%) per year from 1970 to 2000.

Emissions 257

Emissions Climate Change 2000 Climate 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.].

Mariner 435

Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh, a power-electronics engineer, has been working to replace the internal combustion engines used in the company’s equipment with hybrid (diesel-electric) and all-electric versions. That was Singh’s job when he joined the company’s advanced power-electronics department in 2011 as a senior staff engineer.

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Engine Powered Power New Zealand 83

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

Carbon intensity changes in the electric power and industrial end use sectors. In 2009, the carbon intensity of the electric power sector decreased by nearly 4.3%, primarily due to fuel switching as the price of coal rose 6.8% The average decline in energy intensity from 2000 to 2008 was 2.0%. Transportation. Source: EIA.

2009 239

2009 Emissions Carbon Transportation 239

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power. Future LCA research on offshore wind power should strive to develop detailed inventories for installation and maintenance life cycle phases while ensuring transparency in the reporting of materials. NO x , SO 2 and particulates). —Arvesen et al.

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Wind Parts Powered Power 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

Improvements in combustion technology and changes in fuel composition had led to an increase in energy use efficiency, and subsequently a decline of BC emission intensities in power plants, the residential sector, and transportation. Climate Change Emissions Health' in Europe and from 0.06 in North America during the 1960?

2007 268

2007 Emissions Carbon Global 268

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating. According to national statistics, in 2013 total oil consumption in transport increased somewhat by 0.5%, relative to 2012 levels.

2013 240

2013 Emissions Global CO2 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2015

They counted more than 500 electric passenger vehicles of all those types worldwide in the period from 2000 to 2013. Number of series-production electric vehicles by OEM, 2000-2013. The focus was in particular on electrical machinery, power electronics and various technologies for traction batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Global 2000 2013 Germany 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

California 274

California Climate Transportation 2017 274

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In the US alone, oil reserves have expanded 59% between 2000 and 2014, and natural gas reserves have expanded 94% in the same time. Currently only 12% of fossil fuel-based power plants are sufficiently green that electric vehicles powered by them are responsible for fewer emissions than a Toyota Prius.

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Chicago MIT Carbon Tax 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

The RCPs were chosen to represent a broad range of climate outcomes, based on a literature review. Warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur the chemical reactions that lead to ozone. The RCP 8.5 petaflop Yellowstone supercomputer.

Ozone 199

Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

These shares are based on the BP convention of 38% average thermal power conversion efficiency for converting renewable electricity production to primary energy. Japan (4%). Although still very small, their share is increasing with accelerating speed: it took 12 years since 1992 to double the share from 0.5% of all energy.

2011 236

2011 Emissions CO2 Global 236

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. The idea of running out of power and getting stranded on the side of the road can be terrifying to women for safety reasons.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Minivan Purchase Gas-Electric 94

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Built on an all-new platform, the K5 is wider, longer and lower than the Optima, more powerful, and takes design cues from the performance minded Kia Stinger. They kick-up that performance with a more powerful engine which takes the K5 to an all new level of fun. More Power. engine that has power ratings of 180 hp and 195 lb.

Kia 75

Kia MPG Fuel Economy Clean 75

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. World Transport Biofuel Production. of the world’s transport fuel.

Ozone 186

Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2024

Challenges include climate-change threats to human infrastructure and habitats; cyberwarfare by state and nonstate actors attacking energy sources and health care systems; and the global water crisis, which is compounded by the climate crisis. A quick glance at the news headlines each morning might convey that the world is in crisis.

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Engine Climate Change Climate Future 103

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Scale up tested and low-barrier decarbonization measures for road freight transport.

Emissions 255

Emissions CO2 Alternative Fuels Climate Change 255

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Bar chart of 2000 to 2013 GHG emissions by category as defined in the Scoping Plan. The drop in hydropower has now been completely replaced by in-state wind and solar power. Over the 2000 to 2013 period, per capita GHG emissions in California dropped from a peak of 14.0 Click to enlarge. The 2013 inventory shows a decline of 1.5

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California Gas 2020 2001 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Average per capita light-duty vehicle (LDV) transport CO 2. Per capita transport CO 2 emissions are decomposed into the product of two terms: per capita LDV use (horizontal axis, veh-km person -1 yr -1 ) and propulsion carbon intensity (vertical axis, g CO 2 veh-km -1 ). —Sager et al. Sager et al. Sager et al. Sager et al.

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Light Vehicles Climate Emissions 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. —Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. a year from now to 2050.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The proposals are part of a £250m strategy, seen by the Guardian, spelling out a revolution in Britains road transport network based on ultra-low carbon vehicles. Something like 35% of all our carbon emissions are caused by domestic transport," he said. "Of The new breed of electric car. My Web del.icio.us My Web del.icio.us

Environment 51

Environment Electric Cars Cars 2009 51

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Since 2009, ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics have been partners in researching and developing oil from algae to be used as a renewable, lower-emission alternative to traditional transportation fuels. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has spent about $8 billion to develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions across its operations.

Production 170

Production Oil Carbon Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

To continue to decrease CO 2 emissions from the transportation of vehicles from its plants to dealers. The project is an early result of an ongoing companywide evaluation aimed at increasing the use of renewable energy to meet its power needs. Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations.

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Honda Green North America Manufacturer 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that 1,960 tonnes of mercury arising from human activities are currently emitted annually into the atmosphere, generated mainly by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)—the largest single anthropogenic source globally—and coal- or lignite-fired power plants.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

With the addition of the top-of-the-line Calligraphy trim model, Hyundai also gave the 2021 Santa Fe more power, two new engines and improved fuel economy. The power-assisted braking system consists of vented front and solid rear discs, four-wheel anti-lock brakes with electronic brake-force distribution. Propulsion Options.

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Hyundai MPG Fuel Economy Clean 69

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Buckled train tracks and sagging power lines interrupted much of the city’s passenger train service, and residents were advised to conserve water. Although Victoria Premier John Brumby had expressed confidence in the resilience of the city’s power systems, blackouts affected as many as half a million of the city’s residents at a time.

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Australia Climate Change Water 2009 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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Grid Iowa Wind Miles 104

Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

PART A: INTRODUCTION About us Drive Electric is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation supporting the uptake and mainstreaming of e-mobility in New Zealand as part of the effort to decarbonise transport. The case for an EV Charging Strategy New Zealand is on the cusp of the biggest transformation in transport in over a century.

Future 52

Future Charging New Zealand Installation 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

We should continue to adopt policies to reduce transportation energy demand and emissions, while using our evolving information base to assess and reassess which options have the greatest leverage. Overall, we have substantial opportunities for reducing environmental and climate impacts from light-duty road vehicles.

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MIT Transportation Climate Energy 150

Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. Had national and economic security trumped the power of oil and auto companies, a large percentage of cars would run today on cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas. Natural gas, like petroleum, is not forever.

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Al Gore Gore Gas-Electric Gas 100