2006, Cost Of, Electrical and Environment

EPA researchers suggest US electricity consumers should be willing to pay 2-4x for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to health impacts

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

US consumers of electricity should be willing to pay, on average, $0.24–$0.45/kWh—approximately 2006) and Pope et al. In a paper in press in the journal Environment International , Ben Machol and Sarah Rizk quantify the economic value of health impacts associated with PM 2.5 The high (?) values are given by Laden et al.

EPA

EPA Emissions Fuel Climate Change

Georgia Tech study finds MD electric urban delivery trucks have cost advantages over diesel in some conditions; relative benefits depend on numerous factors

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The study found that TCO for electric and diesel medium-duty urban delivery trucks were similar. The electric truck is relatively more cost-effective on the NYCC and when VKT demand is higher. Cost-competitiveness of the electric truck diminishes in drive cycles with higher average speeds. Credit: ACS, Lee et al.

Georgia

Georgia Diesel Gas-Electric Electric

DOE awarding $7+ million to four hydrogen and fuel cell projects, including fuel cell delivery trucks

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Private industry and DOE’s national laboratories have already helped to reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. These projects include: Center for Transportation and the Environment ($3 million DOE investment): Based in Atlanta, Ga., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Memphis Atlanta

Nature Materials editorial urges reconsideration of approach to battery regulation in Europe

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Making this battery technology more sustainable demands a consideration of the environmental and economic costs of extraction and transport of raw materials, manufacture, and increasingly of materials recycling and reuse at the end of a battery’s life.

Europe

Europe Batteries Battery Chile

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. below their 2006 levels.

California

California Light Emissions Climate

Google Unveils Faster, Cheaper Mechanism To Track Worldwide Deforestation Online; Support for Land Use Change Measurement, Verification and Reporting

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. The 2006 Stern Economic Review of Climate Change estimated , for example, that protecting forests in just eight countries could avert up to 70% of emissions from land use at an initial cost of about USD 5 billion per annum. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil.

Google

Google Climate Change Brazil 2006

Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

While oil sands emissions have more than doubled from 1990 to 2006, the absolute increase in emissions from oil sands over the same period is less than the absolute increase in Canadian electric or transportation sector emissions, and far less than the increases in these sectors on a North American basis, they note. Charpentier, A.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Coal

X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

Water

Water 2004 Climate Change Clean

Your AB 920 Greenius Update & A Call For Three Times The Sun!

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

One of the groups I support and learn from is Environment California who have been great advocates of AB 811 and AB 920, the one-two punch for solar we absolutely need to drive solar sales at the rate demanded by today’s CO2 levels. Legislative Director, Environment California. It’s very common. Dan Jacobson. Thanks, Brian Hurd.

Sacramento

Sacramento Solar California Environment

CPT/AVL Study: New Generation of Micro-Hybrid Technologies Can Enable More than 25% Reduction in Fuel Consumption at Lower Cost Than Full Hybrid Drive Systems

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

CPT and AVL have been working for the past 18 months to develop a value-driven micro/mild HEV solution, utilizing CPT’s production-ready VTES electric supercharger ( earlier post ). This compares with €6,000 to more than €18,000 for a full hybrid or electric vehicle. Click to enlarge. common rail TDI engine.

VRLA

VRLA Hybrid Downsizing Fuel

How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

After 150 years without much happening around electric vehicles, Tesla set off a spark in 2006 that triggered a chain reaction of rapid growth and change. Since then, the market for electric vehicles has exploded, and with it the EV charging industry. In 2010, there were only about 17,000 electric cars on roads around the world.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Charging 2019

A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Even getting there comes at a price: 17-Mile Drive , the coastal scenic route, costs $12 to drive. Fortunately, it’s free to cyclists, which helped take the edge off the cost of the bike I rented to explore some of Monterey’s celebrated cycling routes.

Miles

Miles Mariner Cheap Chad

Audi banking on Gen 2 3.0L TDI diesel for US sales; calls for a “fair shot” for diesel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

The only incentive that TDI vehicles receive—and it isn’t doled out by the US government—is almost consistently best-in-class fuel economy, reduced CO 2 emissions and clean diesel drivers knowing that they are doing their part to reduce the impact on the environment. Earlier post.). marketshare in 2012 to 1.25 million units and 7.4%

Diesel

Diesel Audi Sale Fuel Economy

Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., in electrical engineering in 1969. Because quartz has piezoelectric properties, changes in forces acting upon it cause changes in electric charge. But several people wanted to buy us, and one, Schneider Electric, was relentless.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Universal Engine California

Road Test: 2022 Acura RDX SH-AWD A-Spec Advance

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Acura RDX has been one of the best-selling compact premium SUVs since 2006, and has sold more than 50,000 every year since 2015. HVAC vents, power ports and cup holders complete the rear seating environment. See image gallery at cleanfleetreport.com ] Other Premium Compact SUVs We’ve Checked Out (& More Electrics Coming).

Acura

Acura MPG Fuel Economy SUV

Goal!

Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

Volt

Volt Austin Plug-in Plug

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He runs a company called solarsolar at solarsolar.com He wrote the bible of the industry years ago “The New Solar Electric Home” (now in its 3rd printing). And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? Joel Davidson would be the primary one. That’s correct.

Solar

Solar Installation California Building

Governor Pataki On Board

Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

Plug-in hybrid vehicles can be plugged into the electric grid – such as a normal 120 volt household outlet - to boost mileage. Taken from the press release , New York Governor's Office, August 2, 2006 Become a Partner today. Thanks to Green Car Congress for the tip. Sign the On Line Petition more news HOME

New York

New York Alternative Fuels PHEV Renewable

Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries.

Nickel Metal Hydride

Nickel Metal Hydride EPRI Plug-in Austin

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2010

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) modeled the emissions impact had plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) replaced light duty gasoline vehicles in the Denver, Colorado area in summer 2006. million vehicles and would have increased by 3 tpd from power plants.

Denver

Denver Ozone PHEV Colorado

Power Companies Driving Drunk With Power – If Only PG&E and SCE Didn’t Hate Rooftop Solar So Much We Might Meet Our AB 32 Emission Reductions.

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

That 20% goal was made into a law in 2006. And that’s because the utilities and our PUC don’t want you generating your own solar electricity. Tags: Sustainability climate change environment fossil fuels renewable energy solar power AB 510 AB 811 DWP feed in tarrif net metering PG&E SCE. No you do not.

Solar

Solar Power Powered Climate Change

The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing. In 2006, the U.S. We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race.

United States

United States Design Baltimore Power

Plug In America Challenges Obama Auto Task Force Conclusion on GM Volt, Proposes Reduction in Warranty Terms to Reduce Manufacturer Cost

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

To ensure this longer life, automakers are as much as doubling the size of the battery pack, increasing cost to manufacturer and consumer. This alone could cut the number of batteries required by as much as half and reduce the cost of each vehicle by thousands of dollars. Chelsea Sexton. and was a co-founder of Plug In America.

Obama

Obama Plug-in Volt America

Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

Audi

Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Focusing on all-electric, Nissan-Renault partnership with Better Place for EVs.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or

Grid

Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands

Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric Cars

Electric Cars Charging Cars 2009

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal. The cost of fully implementing the Kyoto Protocol (in terms of lost economic growth) has been estimated at roughly $180 billion a year. Vonortas (2006), “Determinants of Technology Licensing”, Managerial and Decision Economics , 27 (4), pp. Field-to-Pump” Strategy.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry. Sources: Large electric generators. Sources: In 2012–electricity generators and large industrial sources. Factors Determining Abatement Costs.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

EPA researchers suggest US electricity consumers should be willing to pay 2-4x for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to health impacts

Georgia Tech study finds MD electric urban delivery trucks have cost advantages over diesel in some conditions; relative benefits depend on numerous factors

DOE awarding $7+ million to four hydrogen and fuel cell projects, including fuel cell delivery trucks

Nature Materials editorial urges reconsideration of approach to battery regulation in Europe

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Google Unveils Faster, Cheaper Mechanism To Track Worldwide Deforestation Online; Support for Land Use Change Measurement, Verification and Reporting

Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense

X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Your AB 920 Greenius Update & A Call For Three Times The Sun!

CPT/AVL Study: New Generation of Micro-Hybrid Technologies Can Enable More than 25% Reduction in Fuel Consumption at Lower Cost Than Full Hybrid Drive Systems

How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

A Cheapskate in Monterey

Audi banking on Gen 2 3.0L TDI diesel for US sales; calls for a “fair shot” for diesel

Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Road Test: 2022 Acura RDX SH-AWD A-Spec Advance

Goal!

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Governor Pataki On Board

Campaign Begins

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

Power Companies Driving Drunk With Power – If Only PG&E and SCE Didn’t Hate Rooftop Solar So Much We Might Meet Our AB 32 Emission Reductions.

The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Plug In America Challenges Obama Auto Task Force Conclusion on GM Volt, Proposes Reduction in Warranty Terms to Reduce Manufacturer Cost

Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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