Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

They found that the level of emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants in diesel exhaust depends on fuel, load, engine calibration, and exhaust aftertreatment technology. L/2004 calibration engines. L/2004 calibration engines. Unregulated pollutants also include ozone precursors and bioaccumulative and toxic compounds.

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Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Low emission, low temperature engine concepts of the future operate in regimes where combustion is poorly understood. In an effort to reliably predict efficiency and pollutant emissions for new engines and fuels, computer simulations are used to study fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions. Wagner and Pannala. Click to enlarge.

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Engine 2001 2012 Fuel Economy 291

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

There is also a potential of applying the quantitative approach developed in this study to other pollutants. 2004) A technology-based global inventory of black and organic carbon emissions from combustion. Subsequently, spatial and temporal variations of global BC emission can be characterized with reduced uncertainty. Streets, D.

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Universal Emissions Carbon Global 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2009

They caution that its negative socio-economic impacts can only be avoided by limiting future atmospheric CO 2 levels. The report from the symposium summarizes the state of the science and priorities for future research, while the Monaco Declaration implores political leaders to launch urgent actions to limit the source of the problem.

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Monaco Mariner Climate Change Montenegro 150

Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Cold starts mean more pollution. The catalytic converter that keeps the ICE from being a gross polluter in conventional cars and hybrids however, isn't kept warm by the continual embrace of an ever-churning engine in a hybrid with all-electric range. What can, what should, car companies be making?

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Plug-in Plug Prius Highlander 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future. Dr. Heywood believes it will take a collection of actions: to get to a future state with 25% of today’s level would require six equal elements with a 20% improvement (0.8) Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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2009 Congress 2007 Personal 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

nk City Electric car www.thinkelectric.org Documentary about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and the future of transportation. Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!nk

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Plug-in America Plug EV1 30

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2013

In addition, a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) anode technology for possible future use in these batteries was assessed. the SWCNT anode) can be assessed before the technology is mature, and provides a benchmark for future life-cycle assessments of this technology. O 2 , Li-NCM); and lithium-iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 ).

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Li-ion PHEV Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

This project will help the Energy Commission track its progress in reaching energy security and petroleum reduction goals as well as improve the future AB118 investment portfolio. The ethanol will be mixed with conventional gasoline for a lower-carbon, less-polluting fuel. Aemetis, Inc. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

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California Los Angeles Transportation Sacramento 240

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Tom Wigley, and Christopher Green questioned the relevance of the reference emissions scenarios that the IPCC used in the Fourth Assessment Report to underpin estimates of future warming trends. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

Consequently, gasoline-power vehicles pollute the most when the engine is first turned on in the morning after being off for many hours. This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start. However, it’s possible for plug-in hybrids to have several of these high-pollution moments in a single afternoon of driving.

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Prius Plug-in Plug Gasoline-Electric 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids.

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The development and deployment of current and future generations of EcoBoost and other technologies are not alternatives to electrification of the powertrain, Kapp said. Future generations of EcoBoost. These systems will also need to deliver very low criteria pollutant levels (e.g., Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Volkswagen CEO says "Future belongs to electric cars," has gained German government support for development. Its not in todays Prius and we wouldnt expect that in the future. Expects production around 2014.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But starting to raise immediate finance is more important than determining its exact future size. Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Twenty-three percent describe regional air pollution as a big problem, an 11-point drop since last year (34%) and the smallest percentage since PPIC began asking the question in June 2000. Today, residents in the Central Valley (36%), Los Angeles (30%) and Inland Empire (27%) are more likely to characterize air pollution as a big problem.

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Economy Los Angeles Climate Change 2008 170