Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Black carbon has a negative impact on the environment and on human health. For their study, the Environment Canada/MECA team used two midsize sedans and two compact vehicles. Ford Focus wall-guided, stoichiometric GDI vehicle (GDI#2) and a 2013 2.0L Climate Change Emissions Engines Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems'

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APRIL 10, 2022

Wyoming is already a leading producer of renewable diesel and is expected to produce a lot more in the near future. It’s a win for the environment and a win for America’s economy. . As such, we are losing an opportunity to deliver needed public health and climate benefits associated with using higher levels of renewable diesel.

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JUNE 8, 2018

species, was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. km-resolution MISR aerosol properties over Southern California for years 2001–2003, 2007–2009 and 2013–2015. The MISR instrument used in the study was initially designed to help understand Earth’s climate. to predict PM 2.5 Maps of 3-year averaged PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The amendment is aimed at harmonizing Québec’s system with California’s as well as with those of future partners. By adopting this regulatory amendment, Québec has taken a major step in pursuing the deployment of further action within the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create an extensive carbon market in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Selected projects will be intended to support program goals to determine the (1) likelihood of methane hydrates as a potential energy resource and (2) their role in the natural environment. The volume of methane held in methane hydrate deposits worldwide is immense. —DE-FOA-0000891. DOE-Alaska cooperation on unconventional resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

To demonstrate that SNG can successfully be used as shipping fuel, 20 of the 120 tons of LNG that the Wes Amelie typically uses per round trip will be replaced by climate-neutral SNG. In another world-first, we will now demonstrate that SNG can successfully be used to reduce harmful emissions even further as the fuel is climate-neutral.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. by Jack Rosebro. as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. ” [ 1 ].

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

On this Veteran’s Day 2013 I honor my father-in-law, Bob Bushweit for his service starting at the age of 18 in World War II where he fought as a member of Patton’s Third Army across Africa and Europe and actually did preserve our freedom and our democracy as part of the greatest generation. . The work I do is my patriotic duty.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Bottom: Development status of a future stack as of early 2013. The significantly more compact dimensions will mean that the future fuel cell system can be accommodated in the engine compartment of a conventional vehicle. Top: The fuel cell system of the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2016

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption. IMO said that the move sends a clear signal about its commitment to climate change mitigation. —IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2013

In selecting the six test site operators, FAA said it considered geography, climate, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experience and risk. This data will help the FAA to develop regulations and operational procedures for future commercial and civil use of the National Airspace System (NAS).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

The report provides information on the progress achieved in economic, environmental and social sustainability in 2013, and was drawn up in accordance with the G3 Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). In the reporting year 2013, average energy consumption per vehicle produced was 2,205 kWh, down 0.4% —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

In March 2013, the Volkswagen Group announced that it was choosing CO 2 as the future low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant for its mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems. With its GWP of 1, it is also the refrigerant that has the least impact on climate. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the really interesting things with these grasses is that the climate in which they have found themselves has changed a lot over the last several hundred thousand years. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. And as glaciers retreated, the populations expanded north. Tom Juenger. Kathrine D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

The study also examined policy on low carbon fuels, where changes in direction and the complexity of fuel and infrastructure investments in general have provided a less stable investment climate for the companies concerned. billion (US$110 billion) in 2013 compared with £46.3 —“Investing in the low carbon journey”.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, pointed to the “ key role ” government policies such as fuel standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations, play in the development and support of Ford’s product and technology pathways. Adapted from ICCT. Click to enlarge. annual increase.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

It will ensure that NETL remains on the forefront of this research, which is critical not only to our economic future but to the environment as well. However, coal and other fossil fuels still provide 80 percent of our energy, 70 percent of our electricity, and will be a major part of our energy future for decades.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2015

They counted more than 500 electric passenger vehicles of all those types worldwide in the period from 2000 to 2013. A total of 87 new BEV and PHEV production cars were presented worldwide between 2006-2013. Number of series-production electric vehicles by OEM, 2000-2013. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

Aves, and John Love (2013) Synthesis of customized petroleum-replica fuel molecules by targeted modification of free fatty acid pools in Escherichia coli. PNAS 2013 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1215966110. Using this strategy, E. —Howard et al. Howard, Sabine Middelhaufe, Karen Moore, Christoph Edner, Dagmara M. Kolak, George N. 1215966110.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2013

Bolden shared the strategic vision in a keynote speech at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Aviation 2013 conference in Los Angeles. PDRC was successfully tested in partnership with the FAA, which plans to implement the tool in the future. —Charles Bolden.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When we published our first study in 2013, the gap had widened over ten years from roughly 10 percent to around 25 percent. Manufacturers measure vehicle fuel consumption in a controlled laboratory environment. But even the new test procedure contains new loopholes that could permit the performance gap to increase again in the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Those manufacturers will have the option of purchasing credits to avoid paying the regulatory charges set out in the regulation or hold the credits for their future needs. Their experience demonstrates that the ZEV offer has increased and has resulted in a drop in prices for this type of vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Recently, the research has been broadened to collect energy from environment, such as wind and human motion, under which the TENG works in relatively dry conditions, because the surface triboelectrification would be greatly decreased if not totally eliminated by the presence of water. —Lin et al. —Lin et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. The Stanford study considered a future US grid where up to 80% of the electricity comes from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

By studying E-Golf use across multiple geographical regions, Volkswagen will monitor the effect of climate conditions, driving patterns, and energy performance; the data and insights gained during the scheme will be used in the final development of future EV technology applications. Diesel TDI models accounted for 21.6%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Increasingly efficient conventional combustion-engine vehicles will be key in moving towards a low carbon future, according to the GFEI. One is that consumers won’t directly see the fuel economy savings—all such savings are relative to a future that doesn’t happen—the “contrapositive” case. this could be the answer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Later, post flight tests of the original batteries at a facility in Germany determined that the batteries were undamaged, with only a small decrease in the capacity of the batteries compared to their original capacity in November 2013. Given the use of the batteries for two years, this level of capacity loss is normal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

With the current supply of PEVs in Canada (7 models), the future PEV new market share is not likely to exceed 4—5% by 2030, according to the report; increasing supply (to 56 models) could increase market share to over 20% by 2030. Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. Axsen, J., Goldberg, J. Kamiya, B.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the presentation of the concept in Germany earlier this year, VW had said the EV would launch on the market in 2013. At the car’s production launch, Volkswagen will announce final driving range data of the production version, which it expects to be “significantly improved” with the battery technology to be used in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. DNV GL is studying a number of alternative fuels or energy carriers that are already used or could be potentially used in shipping in the future. —“Alternative Fuels for Shipping”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that 1,960 tonnes of mercury arising from human activities are currently emitted annually into the atmosphere, generated mainly by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)—the largest single anthropogenic source globally—and coal- or lignite-fired power plants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

420 million for fusion energy sciences, $48 million below the FY 2015 Enacted level, to understand the behavior of matter at high temperatures and densities and to develop fusion as a future energy source, including funding for the U.S. The Science Budget Request includes: $1.85 Sustainable transportation.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 31, 2022

Last month GM Announced that Heat-Pump technology will be included in all of their current and future electric vehicles based on the Ultium-platform. As EV drivers in cold climates are well aware, an ice-cold battery is wasteful and can reduce range. Reversible heat pumps can help in this situation. Other Models With Heat Pump.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The 103GW of capacity added by new renewable energy sources last year compares to 86GW in 2013, 89GW in 2012 and 81GW in 2011 and made 2014 the best year ever for newly installed capacity. billion, up 39% from 2013. billion, 10% higher than in 2013 and its biggest total ever. billion set in 2011. The US was second at $38.3

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

It will be sold in limited quantities in select US and global markets starting in 2013, including California. It complements Chevrolet’s growing range of electrified vehicles, including the Volt extended-range EV and the 2013 Malibu Eco with eAssist technology.

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