Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Environmental Protection Agency , in implementing the 1970 Clean Air Act , was struggling to establish baselines for air-quality levels, she says. “To

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

But after the second half of 2008, when international oil prices dropped 75%, global energy intensity started rising. Since the early 2000s, the Korean government and industry have sought actively to shift the country’s energy use patterns by focusing more on advanced technology R&D and clean energy initiatives.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

The partial waiver was in response to a March 2009 application submitted by Growth Energy under the Clean Air Act. A decision on the use of E15 in model year 2001 to 2006 vehicles will be made after EPA receives the results of additional DOE testing, which is expected to be completed in November. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The gap between official fuel-economy figures and the real world for new cars in the EU has reached 40 per cent, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into in-use vehicle fuel efficiency and CO 2 emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

has agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. BP Products North America Inc. The company will also pay a $12 million civil penalty.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

China fully embraced HFC-134a in 2001 when it implemented its obligations under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. The first systems with HFC-134a appeared in 1990; four years later almost all MAC systems in developed countries were using the new refrigerant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The ZEV regulations, which are now part of California’s comprehensive Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) program which also includes the LEV III tailpipe emissions standard, is the “technology-forcing piece” of the state’s regulatory package for light-duty vehicles. California has a much more ambitious long-term policy commitment to EVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. As with metals, studies on legacy vehicles (model years 1994–2001) did not observe any degradation of elastomers, polymers, or any other materials with E15 or E20.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber. Between 1998 and 2001, a 400 ton-per-day plant using the SilvaGas biomass gasification technology successfully operated in Burlington, VT, producing synthesis gas (syngas) from wood-based biomass in a series of operating campaigns. This process is now known as the SilvaGas process. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Agility Fuel Solution, a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, introduced its new third-generation roof-mount compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system for Automated Side Loader, Rear End Loader and Front End Loader refuse collection vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

A new white paper published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) comparing official and “real-world” fuel consumption and CO 2 emission values for passenger cars in Europe and the United States shows that the average discrepancy between the values in Europe increased from less than 10% in 2001 to 25% in 2011.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. Before they embarked on their own projects, he put them to work cleaning the lab, repairing and upgrading equipment, and tracking down necessary parts.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A. In 2001 she terminated our grass lawns and replaced them with drought tolerant plants because of her concerns for water use.

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Climate Change Los Angeles Climate Water 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV). The USPS fleet travels more than 1.3 The payload capacity is approximately 1,400 pounds.

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Plug-in Plug Vehicles Fleet 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Since 2001, the share of the world’s R&D performed in the US and Europe has decreased, respectively, from 37% to 30% and from 26% to 22%. In addition, emerging economies now invest more in clean energy than advanced economies. In addition, emerging economies now invest more in clean energy than advanced economies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The gap between official and real-world fuel-economy figures in Europe has risen to about 38%, according to a new report published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The data show that for private cars, the difference between on-road and official CO 2 values rose from around 8% in 2001 to 31% in 2013.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“Well, I confess, I still go to a gas station regularly—to clean my damn windows,” says my friend and fellow Plug In America co-founder Ron Freund. “I haven’t paid for electricity for my house or my EV since 2001,” he says. And, of course, bypassing the gas station in the process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

Goal: Build and test a prototype of a new, high-efficiency "smart façade" for buildings that captures solar energy, transmits light, provides enhanced insulation and is capable of changing its characteristics through sensor-based interaction with internal building climate controls.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The comparison keeps being raised, though studies are conclusive: The "well-to-wheel" emissions of electric vehicles are lower than those from gasoline internal combustion vehicles. model in 2001 by the DOEs Argonne National Lab estimates hybrids reduce greenhouse gases by 22%, and plug-in hybrids by 36% (see table 2).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Millennials—the demographic cohort following Generation X, and defined as people born between 1982 – 2001—are tech-savvy, environmentally aware and cost-conscious. A clean, simple high-mount instrument panel display features easy-to-use interfaces. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Good old, John Bryson, the CEO of Edison International, the parent company of SCE told Thomas Friedman on page 287 of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded &#. Then I’ll be generating my own clean, renewable power and wait till you see what I do with that.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In 1978, a Clean Air Act waiver allowed the use of 10 volume percent ethanol in gasoline (E10). In June 2011, EPA approved a partial waiver for blends of 15 vol% ethanol in gasoline for use in model year 2001 and newer passenger cars, light-trucks and medium-duty vehicles. Today, almost all gasoline are E10 blends.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

I began our interview by asking Lillian about the early days of EPN which she helped found in 2001. What was your environmental priority in 2001 and what is it today? We covered: global warming, nuclear power, clean air, smart growth, globalization and the environment. Public Policy Conference on Clean Air - 2004.

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