Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

Global energy demand will increase 25% between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil forecasts in the 2016 edition of its annual The Outlook for Energy. Emissions in OECD nations are projected to fall by about 20% from 2014 to 2040.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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MAY 20, 2014

One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. Complexity of solar purchase power agreements and the cost competitiveness of solar energy in various regions of the world are impacting the pace at which we can add solar capacity. MW in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In December 2014, Böhni submitted a motion for consideration by the National Council (Nationalrat) that would create the legal basis for importers and manufacturers of vehicles that run on CO 2 -neutral synthetic fuels made in Switzerland to receive credit for the corresponding reduction in CO 2 emissions under fleet emission rules.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. If an EV is charged with electricity that is generated from renewable sources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric), then there are no fossil fuel emissions associated with that charging or driving process.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Mitsubishi Motors Australia CEO Shaun Westcott told automotive media last week at a preview of the new-generation diesel-powered Triton ute that renewable power generation, such as solar, was critical to EVs making sense. In Australia, Mitsubishi was an early EV adopter, selling the i-Miev battery electric mini-car from 2010 to 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Size of the diameter of the circle represents the size of the project.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. In the U.K.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

The project is funded by the Local Energy Challenge Fund, created in November 2014 by the Scottish Government. Electricity generated by wind and solar power will be used to power a hydrogen-producing water electrolysis system. This marks Toshiba’s first hydrogen research project outside Japan.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

12-month running averages for transportation and electricity generation since late 2014. per year over 2007-2015 due to the displacement of coal by natural gas, wind and solar for power production as well as energy efficiency gains. CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector increased at an average rate of 1.8%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

Hydrogen production pathways include low- and high-temperature electrolysis; solar thermochemical disassociation; photobiological splitting (four pathways: direct and indirect biophotolysis using hydrogenase and nitrogenase); gasification (coal, biomass); steam reforming (methane, ethanol); and partial oxidation. —Yazdanie et al.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 ERCOT’s generation data also revealed that coal’s market share fell below 10% for the first time ever to just over 9%. million MWh in March.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

On an absolute basis, California’s total GHG emissions fell only slightly in 2015, down 0.34% from 2014. The state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

Higher emissions were caused mainly by increasing road transport, both passenger and freight, and slightly colder winter conditions in Europe, compared to 2014, leading to higher demand for heating. Click to enlarge. According to the EEA, the average CO 2 emissions level of new cars sold in 2015 was 119.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. Concentrations of greenhouse gases are at.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation. There are an estimated 6,683 operating coal-fired power plants in the world, with a combined capacity of 1,964 GW.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2011, the Obama Administration finalized the first fuel economy standards for Model Year 2014-2018 for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, buses, and vans. A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015. Earlier post.). Providing a toolkit for climate resilience. Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Future LDV transportation demand in the US9R database is specified based on US EIA Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2014 projections, allocated to the model’s nine regions and to seven vehicle size classes ranging from mini-compacts to light trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

Renewables need to account for the majority of power generation in 2050, based on continued rapid growth especially for solar and wind power in combination with enabling grids and new operating practices. Coal use would decline most rapidly. Electric vehicles need to become the predominant car type in 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Natural gas is projected to account for more than one quarter of all global energy needs by 2040 and it is expected to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity. Renewable energy supplies—including traditional biomass, hydro and geothermal as well as wind, solar and biofuels—will grow by nearly 60%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

In addition, at a later date, the Government will seek to establish an effective carbon price for heavy on-road liquid fuel use from 1 July 2014. The Authority will complete its first review—which will provide recommendations on the carbon pricing mechanism’s first five years of pollution caps—by February 2014.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Several factors combine to make Puerto Rico an ideal place for solar power and microgrids. Ultimately, such technology could benefit any part of the world where the electricity network is vulnerable to outages and where increasing amounts of solar and wind power are being integrated into the power grid.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some continue to burn coal, for example, because there are no other economically feasible choices for them. “We Efficient coal-burning plants Shutting down coal power plants completely is unlikely to happen anytime soon, he predicted, especially since many countries are building new ones that have 40-year life spans.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He took the first step in Crimea in 2014 , and in the early morning hours of 24 February he ordered a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Certification of the €9.5 Consumption of E.U.-produced

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

For example, motor vehicles in California account for 30% of HCF, compared to 6% for household electricity, while electricity is frequently the largest single source of emissions in locations with predominantly coal-fired electricity. Kammen (2014) “Spatial Distribution of U.S. Christopher Jones and Daniel M.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. Sometimes, the cost is even negative: When there is too much power available from wind or solar plants, grid operators effectively pay utilities to consume the excess. 2, March 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

Although the majority of the work with TICs was then related to space exploration, the focus of that report was the use of TICs with coal combustion. Fan (2014) “Heating graphene to incandescence and the measurement of its work function by the thermionic emission method,” Nano Res. W/cm 2 at 26.6% W/cm 2 at 21.7% Wang, and S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. After 2014, the amount of allowances shrinks gradually by 2.5

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