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MAY 12, 2020

FCA says that its latest Global Warming Potential (GWP) analysis found that the redesigned-for-2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited has an overall GWP 15% lower than that of its predecessor. Among the highlights, FCA cut its water use by nearly 40%, compared with 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

At its Mexican plant in San José Chiapa, Audi has been producing cars without wastewater since 2018, as certified by independent experts. This underscores the premium manufacturer’s commitment to the sustainable use of water. Depending on weather conditions, up to 260,000 cubic meters of rainwater can be used annually.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Forge’s technology heats waste lipids such as cooking oil, animal renderings and crop seed oil with water at a high temperature, creating fatty acids and glycerol. Forge expects to break-ground on this first LTH plant in 2018. The glycerol is removed and the fatty acids are heated at more than 400 ?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

With upwards of 80% of all EVs projected to use permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) in the years ahead, the rapid rise in EV sales will fuel a 350% increase in demand for rare earths used in EV traction motors between 2018 and 2025, and a further 127% increase in demand between 2025 and 2030, according to the forecast.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Car giant, Volkswagen has set itself an ambitious target of making its plants more sustainable by cutting their environmental impact by 25 per cent by 2018.

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JUNE 5, 2017

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, aims to cut its environmental footprint in half by 2025, compared with its 2010 consumption and emissions figures. With this figure, the company successfully concluded the challenge of improving its environmental impact by 25% by 2018 a full two years ahead of schedule. less waste and 16.2%

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018. In July 2010, USDA, Airlines for America, Inc.

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JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Now, an international team of researchers have shown, in an open-access paper published in the journal Nature Communications , that concentrations were increasing at an all-time record by 2018. When we saw the reports of enormous emissions reductions from India and China, we were excited to take a close look at the atmospheric data.

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APRIL 19, 2013

By 2018, the workforce is to increase from 75,000 to 100,000 people. million to more than 4 million units per year in 2018, with a view to relieving the burden on existing plants in a growing market. 88% of the waste and packaging material from the production process is recycled. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Ford is targeting a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) per vehicle produced between 2010 and 2025 globally, and looks to further reduce the amount of water used per vehicle, having achieved its goal of a 30% reduction between 2009 and 2015. The all-new 2.0-liter

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Under the new program, trucks and buses built in 2014 through 2018 will reduce oil consumption by a projected 530 million barrels and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by approximately 270 million metric tons. By the 2018 model year, the program is expected to achieve significant savings relative to current levels, across vehicle types.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

between 2010 and 2017. Magnet-to-magnet recycling has two major advantages: 1) it recovers all the magnet materials and reuses them in new magnets, minimizing waste and resource depletion, and 2) it utilizes mechanical rather than chemical processes, reducing the environmental footprint associated with chemical usage and harmful emissions.

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JUNE 2, 2016

This technology was developed to meet the stringent 2010 EPA emission requirements and was introduced with the ISL G in June 2007. version that is also EPA and ARB certified for the heavy-duty trucking industry in 2018. Cummins-Westport plans to begin delivering an 11.9L

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Volkswagen AG has set the goal of becoming the world’s most sustainable carmaker by the year 2018. Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.)

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MARCH 27, 2015

liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Working in conjunction with Daimler Advanced Engineering, the team developed an innovative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery (WHR) system that converts a portion of the exhaust heat into usable energy. Powertrain.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Belkhir and Elmeligi (2018) Click to enlarge. Smartphones also have a short life which drives further production of new models and an extraordinary amount of waste. In absolute terms, the GHGE emissions of smart phones grew from about 17 Mt-CO 2 -e in 2010 to 125 Mt-CO 2 -e in 2020, representing a 730% increase in the span of 10 years.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the fourth quarter of 2018, light-duty pickup trucks, mini-vans, and SUVs made up 57.3% In 2018, battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles accounted for 1.5% vehicles per 100 persons in 2018. The 2018 wildfires burned more than 1.8 The 2018 wildfires burned more than 1.8 five years ago. Noel Perry.

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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. In 2014, ARB will propose enhancements to strengthen the LCFS.

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MAY 6, 2021

And the new press shop is an important milestone on our “Way To Zero” journey, through which we are aiming to reduce the environmental impact of our production by 2025 in areas such as energy usage, CO 2 emissions, waste and the use of water by 45% per vehicle compared with the baseline year 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams. Wet organic waste streams represent valuable potential feedstocks for the bioeconomy. scale operations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2019

Water consumption at the Martorell factory amounted to around 1,170,000 m 3 in 2018, the equivalent of 470 Olympic swimming pools. m 3 in 2010 to 2.46 Pilot tests are being carried out with electrocoagulation, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis systems to recycle an enormous amount of waste water.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

Important to recall, on the other hand, that a 2010 Spectrum story on the future of nuclear energy contained this projection: “NuScale is in talks with several undisclosed utilities and expects a first plant to be operational in 2018.”) Just like their larger counterparts, SMRs will produce nuclear waste.

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JUNE 24, 2022

For instance, just 8 percent of Indian homes had air-conditioning in 2018, but that share is. The total footprint of such complexes is expected to triple by 2030, compared to 2010. MWh should ensure that no energy is wasted. As India’s GDP and per capita income continue to climb, so too will its energy consumption.

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APRIL 10, 2010

percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. To ensure the program is founded on sound emissions data, mandatory emissions monitoring will commence in January 2010. percent per year over four years for a total reduction of ten percent by 2018. Overview of WCI.

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