Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It also updated the costs and sizes of electric and plug-in hybrid electric batteries and revised downward light-duty vehicle travel demand due to the adoption of a new estimation technique. Coal remains the dominant energy source for electricity generation because of continued reliance on existing coal-fired plants.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. cited one study showing that the full lifecycle (well-to-wheel) CO 2 emissions from M85 (with coal-derived methanol) are 2.5

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JUNE 2, 2014

Power plants accounted for 32% (2,064 million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent) of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2012, according to the EPA. Each state’s goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power sources to plug in to each part of the formula. billion kWh).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US electricity generation in 2010 was 70% fossil fuels (coal 44.9%, natural gas 23.8%); 20% nuclear; and 10% renewable, of which 6.2% EIA forecasts that the mix in 2035 will shift to include 39% coal; 27% natural gas; and 16% renewables. was conventional hydropower.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. F of warming.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. as stated.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Although Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis can convert coal-, biomass-, and natural gas-derived synthesis gas into hydrocarbon derivatives, selectivity toward lower olefins tends to be low. de Jong (2012) Supported Iron Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Sustainable Production of Lower Olefins. —Galvis et al. Torres Galvis, Johannes H.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Reductions in battery electric vehicles are offset by increased sales of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grow to about 1.3 An industrial capital expenditure and fuel price adjustment for coal and residual fuel has been applied to reflect risk perception about the use of those fuels relative to natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e., Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

The Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf will lead the way, with others manufacturers including Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Tesla planning to introduce their electric cars sometime between 2011 and 2012. Plug-in hybrids run on an electrical charge for about 40 miles before switching to gas power. roads by 2015 and has provided $2.4

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

According to the US Department of Energy, the two countries will explore the development of joint products and testing standards for electric vehicles including common design standards for the plugs to be used in electric vehicles; and common test protocols. So what does this mean for electric cars?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

90% is from coal. Among their findings were: The order-of-magnitude variability in EGU emission factors by region yields the same degree of variability in EV emission factors and with the same spatial pattern (highest in the Northeast because of heavy reliance on coal). in most cities. —Ji et al. Shuguang Ji, Christopher R.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. And people have no idea what’s coming with coal and what that’s going to cost them in electric bills. No, I mean you’re cheaper than coal today at $3 today – You’re cheaper than coal today. Yeah, that’s right.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Green Cars News

JULY 7, 2009

He questions whether it ever makes sense for a car to operate with energy from a coal-fired plant. Plugging in to the future. Above all, he says, the question remains as to where the electricity comes from. And perhaps his most telling statement? He predicts that electric vehicles will hold a mere 1-1.5 per cent market share by 2020.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

From 2012/13 the scales will be reviewed, while retaining the incentive to purchase the lowest emitting vehicles. The Budget confirmed the recently announced proposals to encourage the uptake of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. £20 What is a Plug-in hybrid? Emissions g/km. P11d value**. 16. * +3% for diesel cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Plug-ins are slated to hit the Chinese market in earnest over the next few years. BYD’s plug-in hybrid F3DM went on sale (for fleet operators) late last year, and it’s supposed to launch its first all-electric model — the E6 — in the second half of 2009.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

With its lower carbon emission, shale gas is a cleaner energy that has strategic significance to coal-consuming China. On 28 November 2012, Sinopec discovered high yield shale gas flow with capacity of 203,000 cubic meters per day in Fuling’s Jiaoye 1HF well in Chongqing, which marked a significant breakthrough in shale gas exploration.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

It would then be offered for public use in 2012, said Brian Carolin, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Nissan North America Inc. Other carmakers plug in Other automakers are working on electric vehicles as well, including Chrysler LLC, which plans to provide the U.S. The car Bredesen and others drove at Nissans U.S.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. Considering how much GM plugs we do 80% of our driving in the city, those highway miles dont get much use. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal.

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