Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The EPA cited these GM achievements in 2014: Reduced energy intensity by 6 percent globally. GM earned ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Climate Communications for its commitment to educating employees, customers and other stakeholders about the importance of energy efficiency and the impacts of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. The FCV has an overall energy conversion efficiency about 30%. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group , will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. We are absolutely determined to reduce our impact on climate change and are proud to lead the way on aviation’s environmental initiatives.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

OGCI Climate Investments is the $1-billion investment fund established last year by OGCI to invest in promising technologies and business models that have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. OGCI currently comprises ten oil and gas companies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

The program develops and deploys innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change goals. The Energy Commission also approved the 2015-2016 Investment Plan Update for its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. F of warming.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

The Directorate for Engineering is now seeking proposals (NSF 12-559) for awards totalling up to $12 million for FY 2012, 2013, and 2014, pending availability of funds. Additional benefits of reduced combustion temperatures include lower particulate and toxic gas emissions which are important considerations in global climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. President Obama and President Xi Jinping announced a renewal and expansion of the CERC in November 2014. Combustion control and optimization technology. Advanced air management system (exhaust gas recirculation, turbocharger, supercharging). Waste heat recovery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

The study accounted for CO 2 and non-CO 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, such as methane (CH 4 ), that impact climate change and included lifecycle emissions on a CO 2 -equivalent basis relative to the base diesel case. Climate Change Emissions Fleets Heavy-duty Natural Gas' Uven Chong, Steve H. Yim, Steven R.

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London Climate Diesel Climate Change 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

Currently, only a small part of Global Bioenergies’ ton scale isobutene production is directed toward e-fuels, using Fraunhofer’s lab scale conversion unit. In Dresden, Audi’s cooperation partner Sunfire operated a pilot plant for this purpose from late 2014 to October 2016. Audi e-diesel is also part of the Audi e-fuels portfolio.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. 2014 research paper. Research takes a long time. Solar geoengineering is not a substitute for curbing emissions.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. I really enjoyed the conversation. Is that how you think about it?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Hao Chen, Lu Yang, Peng-hui Zhang, Andrew Harrison (2014) “The controversial fuel methanol strategy in China and its evaluation,” Energy Strategy Reviews , Volume 4, Pages 28-33 doi: 10.1016/j.esr.2014.07.002. Finally, on the test vehicle, burning methanol instead of gasoline reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions by 8.8%. 2014.07.002.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

Estrin’s father died in 2012, and her mother died in 2014. At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system. “I’m honored that I received this award,” Estrin says, “and I smile to think what my parents’ reactions would have been if they were still around.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature Climate Change that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

EPA’s draft results suggest that biofuel-induced land use change can produce significant near-term GHG emissions; however, displacement of petroleum by biofuels over subsequent years can “pay back” earlier land conversion impacts. Tags: Biomass Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 2, 2014

Joe Galliani in Keep Hermosa Hermosa hat receiving his 2014 Environmental Hero Award from the City of Manhattan Beach and V.O.I.C.E. Photo taken by the Greenius on Wednesday April 31, 2014. with Sona Kalapura, Manhattan Beach Mayor Amy Howorth, State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, Kaye Gagnon of V.O.I.C.E and Councilman Wayne Powell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The new report—“From Laboratory to Road: 2014 Update”—updates ICCT’s original 2013 report on the growing discrepancy. —“From Laboratory to Road: 2014 Update”. One new feature in the 2014 report is an examination of vehicle models. —“From Laboratory to Road: 2014 Update”. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

Combining these technologies could not only produce Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) and other hydrocarbon fuels with net zero carbon emissions but also mitigate climate change by converting carbon dioxide into renewable plastics, thus permanently removing this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. —Vertimass CEO Charles Wyman.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 26, 2021

When Christopher Matos-Rogers launched a new career as an Atlanta-area real estate agent a decade ago, he had just spent five years as a marine biologist and he knew what was up with climate change. An all-Tesla family Matos-Roger’s personal connection with electric vehicles (EVs) started in 2014 with the lease of a Nissan LEAF.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The PEME is the most mature technology cited for renewables-to-hydrogen conversion, but prevention of such gas crossover at low current densities remains a challenge. Around 95% of the world’s hydrogen supply is currently obtained from fossil fuels, a finite resource which we know harms the environment and speeds climate change.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. We have 23 MW of projects signed up, well into the 2014 allocation based on 4 MW per year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

This helps to explain the climate changes we are now experiencing. While this may be a problem for a blind pedestrian who cannot hear an approaching car, truck or bus, it is a welcome convenience for deaf passengers who normally have difficulty participating in conversation. 3 ] PHEVs using renewable fuels EAA-PHEV Wiki. [

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Expects production around 2014. That said, the interest in conversions continues to validate hybrid technology as a core technology thats here to stay.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Earlier this month, Volkswagen and Eaton executives met with a small group of journalists at the VW Electronics Research Laboratory in Belmont, California, to discuss VW’s partnership with Eaton on AC and DC charging, followed by a broader conversation about VW’s plans for vehicle electrification over the next several years.

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