Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

The report notes that while California is the third largest oil producing state in the nation, it imports more than half of the oil it consumes. On a comparative basis, California is more dependent on foreign oil than is the nation as a whole. Require Top Performance with Strong Yet Feasible Air Quality and Climate Standards.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Company researchers were encouraged to look for oil substitutes, pursuing any manner of energy that didn’t involve petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016. By 2022, we will more than double the amount of biofuels we produce to 36 billion gallons, which will decrease our dependence on foreign oil by hundreds of millions of barrels per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Such inspections are a prerequisite for taking legal action against rule breakers. In general, the vessels carry both low-sulfur fuel oil and the less expensive high-sulfur oil on board. There are several alternatives: Powering ships with the significantly more expensive low-sulfur heavy fuel oil (HFO).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Mercedes-Benz is introducing a new family of diesel engines, starting with the new all-aluminum four-cylinder OM 654, which will make its world premiere in the new E-Class E 220 d in spring 2016. The modular family of engines will find broad application across the entire range of Mercedes-Benz cars and vans. Reduced complexity.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. And I wasn’t interested in selling solar based on, “Hey it prevents oil,” you know. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. I want it to be all of California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. Scheduled to launch in late 2016, the A4 Avant g-tron is yet another offer from Audi for the sustainable mobility of the future. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV. Audi A4 Avant g-tron.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. They are also about twice the costs estimated by EPA ($894) and NHTSA ($1,245) in their 2016 Technical Assessment Report. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future. Under President Obama, we set the first set of standards [for model years] 2012 to 2016, and the second set for 2017 to 2025. And yes, there could be legal actions.

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