Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

With additional fleet turnover, EPA expects these reductions to grow to 80% by the year 2030. Other results include: a 66% reduction in benzene; a nearly 60% reduction in mercury from man-made sources such as coal-fired power plants; an 84% decrease of lead in outdoor air; the removal of an estimated 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The project was directed by an steering committee comprising representatives from major truck and powertrain manufacturers, government agencies, trucking fleets, and fuel economy and heavy-duty experts from non-profit organizations. This is also equivalent to the amount of CO 2 emitted from 20 coal-fired power plants in a year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2010

Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. Qatar Airways currently operates a fleet of 76 aircraft to 85 destinations worldwide. Qatar Airways will operate a fleet of 120 aircraft by 2013. All of these are known as xTL fuels. Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

F or those who think that GM is not serious about its new PHEV , the Volt , here is a piece that makes you think they are: The Volt To Be Lutz's Legacy May 21, 2007 So, I heard General Motors’ Bob Lutz on National Public Radio’s “Wait. But given the fact that something like 75% of driving in the U.S. Make that a world changer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. mpg by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

For the study, the team reconstructed the vehicle technology portfolios from two national vehicle studies (the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by the Electric Power Research Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council; and the 2009 Multi-Path Transportation Futures study by Argonne National Laboratory).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. In the second study, for the next 20 years, even if, worst-case, we still use lots of coal, nationwide air quality for other emissions will also improve. The GREET 1.6

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Coming to public in 12 Nissans first electric car is to go into corporate and government fleets beginning in late 2010. Postal Service with a fleet of 250 all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivans in Michigan, North Carolina and the New York City area beginning later this year. 16,000 miles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Cleantech blogs founder is Neal Dikeman.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

3 billion in long-desired (and, to this author’s mind, sorely needed) enhancements to the United States Postal Service’s fleet electrification efforts: $1.29 Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array. borders. . $3 billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71 billion for supporting charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Funds under this heading include: $1 billion for fossil energy research and development programs; $800 million for additional amounts for the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III Funding Opportunity Announcement; $1.52 Energy-Efficient Federal Motor Vehicle Fleet Procurement. The conferees agree to provide an additional $3.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal.

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