Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

These included population size and growth; size and growth of the economy; social and scientific progress indicators; quality and extent of infrastructure; and the political and legal context. —Andreas Schlosser, Ricardo Strategic Consulting managing director for Central Europe.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“We will require new homes and buildings to have electric vehicle charging points,” Johnson told the annual conference of the Confederation of Commerce and Industry (CBI). British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the installation of electric car chargers for new buildings in England will be mandatory from 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

Early in 2008, senior EPA officials told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that, after the agency concluded in December 2007 that CO 2 emissions were a danger to the United States and proposed significant cuts in motor vehicle emissions, the agency’s regulatory efforts on this were halted. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

CSAPR (also called the Transport Rule) was finalized in July 2011 and replaced and strengthened the requirements of the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ordered EPA to revise in 2008. In response, a number of states, local governments, industry groups, and. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

The DOE Hydrogen Program conducted a technical assessment of cryo-compressed hydrogen storage for vehicular applications during 2006-2008. This portfolio can be flexibly tailored to different vehicle concepts, customer requirements and legal and regulatory requirements in the international automobile markets. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from agricultural operations or specific industrial processes (GWP = 298).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

2009), reproduced from Ramanathan and Feng (2008) Click to enlarge. A binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed. From Molina et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. 100% for some agricultural processes. Inadequate Oversight of DOEs.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Investor support for climate action as expressed in such a statement has more than doubled since November 2008, when 150 investors with $9 trillion in assets under management first came together to urge government leaders to act on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

Reduce GM’s total number of assembly, powertrain and stamping facilities in the US from 47 in 2008 to 34 by the end of 2010 and 33 by 2012. Feature lower structural costs enabling its North American region to break even (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry volume of approximately 10 million vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Brazilian government’s dedication to the ethanol industry declined and incentives given by the government wore off, causing hydrous ethanol-fueled vehicle production to decline in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. 40 CFR § 80.27 Pursuant to 40 CFR § 80.27(a)(2):

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

AFP Some 21m electric bicycles were sold in China in 2008, according to Frank Jamerson, author of Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports. Advertising info Legal disclaimer Accessibility Privacy policy Terms & Conditions Help. Moreover, making an electric bicycle uses far less energy than making an electric car. All rights reserved.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The industrial, residential, and transportation sectors have only seen small declines, while California’s large commercial sector is moving in the opposite direction, with emissions increasing more than 64%. Over the last 17 years, the industrial, residential and transportation sectors have cut their emissions by less than 5 percent.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Biofuels industry reaction. issue of the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Statoil has step by step developed industrial capabilities through early entrance into Marcellus and Eagle Ford. We are positioning ourselves as a leading player in the fast growing US onshore oil and gas industry, in line with the strategic direction we have set out. —Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The LCFS regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects against biofuels, against the opposition ( earlier post ) of the biofuels industry, and to the particular detriment of corn ethanol. The LCFS imposes excessive burdens on the entire domestic ethanol industry while providing no benefit to Californians.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2014

The sensor and camera technology is active throughout the speed range from standstill to the legally permitted maximum truck speed of 80 km/h. The “World Transport Reports” study conducted by the ProgTrans consulting company predicts that freight transport volumes in the EU will increase by approximately 20% between 2008 and 2025.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

The controversy surrounding the use of biofuel in road fuel has heightened as one African publication accuses the biofuel industry of taking food directly out of the mouths of the hungry. Should fossil fuel suppliers be stopped from exceeding legal obligations on biofuel? Are biofuels green?

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 13, 2008

It is going to be a tough year for the whole industry. As of May, two Roadsters have been delivered, and the expectation is that 300 will be in customers hands by the end of 2008. Still, with all the activity, showrooms remain devoid of a highway-legal electric car. Smart has begun testing a small electric fleet in England.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Yet, when 2008 happens , they’ll wring their hands and say nothing’s guaranteed. Some of these people were breaking into computer systems illegally, though others were exploring the technology in legal, yet unconventional ways. There was some writing about its use in the fashion industry in terms of idealized body image.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. 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.

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