Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

No change between 1991 and 2004 (19.6 A modest increase between 2004 and 2008 (from 19.6 million cars and light trucks sold in the United States in 2017 accounted for only 6.9% Noteworthy fuel-economy trends, taking into account the length of time represented: A minor decrease between 1966 and 1973 (from 13.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. Time trends of BC emissions from motor vehicles in the United States and China (A), four country categories of OECD90, ASIA, REF, and ALM, and global total (C) from 1960 to 2006.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

A major, decade-long study of thousands of Americans has now found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution—even at lower levels common in the United States—accumulate deposits in the arteries that supply the heart faster than do people living in less polluted areas. The study is published in The Lancet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

After his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, Peter Mertens studied production technology at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. In 1985, he gained a master of science degree in industrial engineering and operations research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. Gt in 2004 and 2.2 Gt in 2004 to 1.1 gigatonnes (Gts).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The big-Mercury universe for 1964 included the top-grade Park Lane , the mid-level Montclair and the might-as-well-be-a-Ford-Galaxie Monterey. Most accounts of the origin of the Montclair name state that it was derived from the name of the closest affluent town to Ford's Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Achieving this target would require ethanol consumption in China, the largest motor vehicle market in the world, to at least quadruple within the next three years, according to an analysis by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. Source: USDA FAS. Click to enlarge. billion gallons US.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To complement its work on real-world emissions in Europe, TRUE has compiled remote sensing data from the states of Colorado and Virginia and the University of Denver to investigate the emissions of US light-duty vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

told owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, Matrix, RAV4 and Pontiac Vibe models, mostly in the United States, to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators are at risk of exploding and hurling shrapnel. In an unrelated quality problem, Toyota and General Motors Co.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Both are represented in the study by a major gas of each type, the VOC formaldehyde and NO 2 , that are measureable from space by the Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite, launched in 2004.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In the United States all models that are new in 2022 come with it, although compliance is voluntary, pending formal rulemaking. Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. That’s about 4,000 lives saved each year.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Like other businesses, hotels and vacation rentals use surveillance cameras for two reasons, said Michael McCall, a Hilton Hotels Fellow in the School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University: To protect their customers and their property. But it’s the illegal use of hidden cameras that have shocked travelers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1973 from National Taiwan University in New Taipei.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2013

This is one of the reasons why we are partnering with SAIC and Tsinghua University in CAERC. GM expects the number of vehicles on China’s roads to surpass the number in the United States and Europe by the end of this decade. GM is anxious to work with China and the rest of the world to help make it happen. —Gary Smyth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2011

These sites will supplemented by additional instrumentation provided by NASA, EPA, Howard University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and Millersville University in Pennsylvania.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. The EPA estimates that 8.8

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in the five-year period spanning 2011 to 2015, with ESCs being built into all new cars, the systems saved 7,000 lives in the United States alone. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., missile guidance systems, too. 1969, and M.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Greenland is about one-fourth the size of the United States and the massive ice sheet covers about 80% of its surface. A 2006 study by Wahr and Velicogna using the GRACE satellite indicated that Greenland lost roughly 684 cubic kilometers (164 cubic miles) of ice from April 2004 to April 2006—more than the volume of water in Lake Erie.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This daunting task is managed by centers in London, Tokyo, and Beijing; Atlanta and Memphis in the United States; Melbourne, Australia; and Koltsovo, Russia. Only a select few experts are capable of analyzing this esoteric data, and until 2004, they did it mostly in their heads. Derek Smith is not one of those experts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. From 2004 to 2006, Schuur and his team used radiocarbon dating, a technique typically used to determine the age of artifacts, to track the movement of old organic carbon accumulated within the soils and permafrost at an Alaskan site. Permafrost. Ted Schuur.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Converting oil shale to gasoline via the Alberta Taciuk Processor (ATP)—an above-ground shale retort—results in fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ~130-150 g CO 2 equivalent/MJ of gasoline produced, according to a new analysis by Dr. Adam Brandt at Stanford University. These emissions are 1.5 Brandt, 2009.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. Second Sight was selling the Argus II for around $150,000 in the United States—about five times as much as other neuromodulation devices, according to Greenberg. Terry Byland.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The first such vehicles were introduced by Volkswagen in 2003, and by 2004, they accounted for more than 17% of the Brazilian auto market. Use of Hydrous Ethanol in the United States. Hydrous ethanol has been used in the United States as a transportation fuel for at least one hundred years. 40 CFR § 80.27

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

People could buy the machines at ComputerLand , a popular retail chain in the United States. In December 2004, IBM announced it was selling its PC business to Lenovo for $1.75 Some 4,000 IBMers already working in China would switch to Lenovo, along with 6,000 in the United States.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Jung Uck Seo , who served as 2003–2004 IEEE Region 10 director, died on 11 January at the age of 70. Three years later he left for the United States to attend Texas A&M University , in College Station. Later he worked to commercialize the code division multiple access method of encoding data sources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Cervero, The Scandinavian Model: Strings of TODs, Urban Land, May, 2004, p. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2023

www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. The reason? This one performed addition.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ). This will reduce the transportation sectors use of oil to almost zero -- and cut the United States annual oil needs by 2/3. CalCars produced the worlds first plug-in Prius (the PRIUS+) in 2004. The GREET 1.6 The GREET 1.6

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2023

Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard. The alarm was more than just a prank call.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky are investigating the hydrogenation of CO 2 using a conventional Fischer-Tropsch cobalt catalyst for the production of valuable hydrocarbon materials. Dorner et al.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Since its founding in 2004, Proterra has grown to become North America’s largest supplier of electric buses. The company has sold some 950 buses to transit agencies, airports, universities, national parks and private companies in 43 states and provinces. Dustin: They’re two very different industries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

To add a vehicle to this list, please use the following format for your description: Owners name | Vehicle type | Who converted it | Date operational | Location (City or Town or County/State/Country) | Contact info youd like us to make public. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Installation of CCS charging stations has already begun in Europe and the United States. The first technology demonstrator was the compact A2H2 in 2004, which was already equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). The majority of stations currently available on the market support DC charging with 50 kW.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 10, 2023

The Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm, which paved the way for GIF, PNG, and ZIP files, was designated an IEEE Milestone in 2004. He moved to the United States to attend MIT , where he earned a Ph.D. He returned to the United States in 1968 to work at Bell Telephone Laboratories , in Murray Hill, N.J.

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