article thumbnail

Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

Green Car Congress

He served as Chief Engineer for Ford’s hybrid technologies during 2003 and was also Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003. Lane has more than 30 years of experience building and leading global hardware operations and supply chain teams for Fortune 100 companies.

Batteries 186
article thumbnail

Study estimates California’s GHG reductions since 2003 could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

Green Car Congress

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

2003 447
article thumbnail

Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

Green Car Congress

New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

Emissions 223
article thumbnail

Potent GHG SF6 rapidly accumulating in atmosphere, driven by demand for SF6-insulated switchgear in developing countries

Green Car Congress

Of all the greenhouse gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, SF 6 is the most potent, with a global warming potential (GWP) of 23,500 over a 100-year time horizon. Peter Simmonds at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues calculated annual emissions of SF 6 between 1978 and 2018. Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

article thumbnail

Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

Cars That Think

She was named a top businesswoman in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park area, and she made the 2003 Business Leader Impact 100 list. In 2001 he founded the computational engineering science program at the University of California, Berkeley, and he served as its chair until 2010. He received a Ph.D. S K Ramesh IEEE Fellow S.K.

article thumbnail

Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Analysts say the group companies’ problems are likely to have a limited impact on Toyota’s earnings because their sales and profits are a small fraction of Toyota’s overall global earnings. Its group global vehicle sales for 2023 were a record 11.22 million vehicles.

Toyota 40
article thumbnail

BMW Spartanburg plant now largest manufacturing facility in the BMW Group production network

Green Car Congress

million BMW X3 vehicles have been delivered to customers worldwide since it was first launched at the end of 2003. The BMW Group produces BMW X models in Spartanburg for the US and global markets. During the ceremony to mark the anniversary, the all-new BMW X3 rolled off the production line in Spartanburg. More than 1.5

BMW 186