Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

Today, operating the best-selling gas-powered commercial leaf blower for one hour emits air pollutants comparable to driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver. It’s time to phase out these super polluters. Smog-forming emissions from small engines will surpass those from passenger vehicles this year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in adults over 60, according to new research led by Imperial College London and Duke University. Our research suggests that we might advise older adults to walk in green spaces, away from built-up areas and pollution from traffic.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Methane is the most abundant of the short-lived climate pollutants in California.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2021

However, the team’s analysis of data in 210 cities across 16 countries from 1999-2017 found human health risks from air pollution vary depending on the proportion of different components in PM 2.5. Specific action aimed at the agricultural and farming sectors may speed up the reduction of the negative health impacts of air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Vehicles must meet strict emission standards to drive in the ULEZ area: Euro 4 for gasoline cars and vans (widely available since 2006). Euro 6 for diesel cars and vans (widely available since 2016). Euro 3 for motorcycles and mopeds (widely available since 2007). Vehicles that do not meet the standards must pay a £12.50

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later. By MY 2026, EPA projects that the final standards can be met with sales of about 17% electric vehicles (EVs), and wider uptake of advanced gasoline engine and vehicle technologies available today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The combined port complex is on pace in 2017 for the busiest year ever.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

The UK House of Commons has released a new report on air pollution that calls for urgent action by national leadership to bring about a step change in how the problem of air quality is tackled. The report makes a number of recommendations on the Government’s approach to air quality and how the delivery of the 2017 plan should be improved.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Running from 1 September 2017, Hyundai’s scheme targets older and more polluting vehicles with Euro 1-4 emissions standard, cars which were registered before 31 December 2009. The offer is only available for retail customers and the discounts on new Hyundais is in lieu of any other offer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

A new study provides the most detailed picture available to date of the global, regional, and local health impacts attributable to emissions from four transportation subsectors: on-road diesel vehicles; other on-road vehicles; shipping; and non-road mobile engines such as agricultural and construction equipment. of global ambient PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The most recent GREET versions are the GREET1 2017 version for fuel-cycle analysis and GREET2 2017 version for vehicle-cycle analysis. Updated the emission factors of criteria air pollutant (combustion and non-combustion emissions) for SMR hydrogen and petroleum fuels. The first version of GREET was released in 1996.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Vehicle keepers in the 14 cities classified by the federal government as having the highest levels of pollution and in the surrounding areas will be entitled to the new exchange premiums. Depending on the brand, the incentives are available for both new vehicles and on a varying scale for nearly-new used vehicles from the brand’s range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death worldwide according to the State of Global Air 2018 , the annual report and interactive website published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). Millions of people around the world are also exposed to air pollution in their homes arising from the use of solid fuels (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

Many communities near major refineries live in fear of exposure to airborne pollutants during a major refinery incident—or during normal operations. Air regulators presented a draft of the report, released in fall of 2017, at a series of meetings in California communities most impacted by potential and actual refinery emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District also are investing in the project. liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid). —Slowik and Lutsey (2017). Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

For the near term, interim targets are to increase the number of new light-duty electric vehicles sold on an annual basis from 4,156 in 2017 to 10,500 by 30 June 2020 and to 23,500 by 30 June 2022. This will require maintaining 50% plus annual growth rates.

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APRIL 12, 2017

The Dalia study is based on a census-representative survey of 43,034 people across 52 countries completed in February 2017. An interactive map showing Dalia findings is available here.). 65% say it’s beneficial that electric vehicles pollute less and that “they reduce reliance on fossil fuels” (43%).

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The transport sector is not on track towards achieving sustainable mobility, according to the newly published Global Mobility Report 2017 (GMR). The GMR report focuses on two primary impacts: climate change and air and noise pollution. The publication covers all modes of transport, including road, air, waterborne, and rail transport.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

These investments support the emission reduction goals of the California’s 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), State Implementation Plans and the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan. The majority of funding for the Fiscal Year 2017-18 plan comes from California’s cap-and-trade auction proceeds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Cuomo announced that the state has seen a 74% increase in electric car sales over the same time period last year, resulting from the Drive Clean Rebate initiative launched on 21 March 2017. For the first half of 2017, New York saw 4,209 EVs sold, a 61% increase from the 2,609 sold in the same period in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

California state and local air quality officials released a draft report outlining a range of recommended actions to improve air monitoring at the state’s oil refineries, and strategies to better inform surrounding communities during incidents at refineries that result in increases in pollution or toxic releases.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2018

As a result of this initiative, more than 10,000 electric cars were sold in 2017, a 67% increase over 2016. Since the Drive Clean Rebate was announced in March of 2017, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which administers the initiative, has approved more than $7.5 New York City. Western NY. Central NY.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2017

Running OLEA LIB on OLEA T222 —Field Programmable Control Unit (FPCU) automotive qualified solution—provides up to x40 computation speed improvement on advanced mathematical and computation functions in regards to actual available solution. OLEA LIB Inverter Control is available for evaluation for selected customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Together, we are taking a further step in electrifying urban logistics, contributing to decreased noise and air pollution in major cities across eleven European countries. The vehicles are charged simply overnight either with alternating current or direct current chargers depending on availability.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 23, 2022

At the same time, the three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw) industry is considered a major source of pollution in last mile connectivity services. Tork Motors has also been working with electric 3-wheeler OEMs since 2017 and is already manufacturing and supplying powertrains to multiple companies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

This new undertaking will capture detailed information on pollutants from vehicle exhaust using remote-sensing equipment and portable emissions monitoring systems. The new initiatives will award each car model a score based on all of the air pollutants they release during real-world, on-road conditions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The new product utilizes a new base-metal alloy to withstand higher temperatures while reducing production costs and helping to improve air pollution from engine emissions. As environmental regulations grow more stringent, soot sensors are expected to become necessary for monitoring diesel engine emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The ACEA said that this target should be conditional on the real market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles and the availability of charging infrastructure for alternatively-powered vehicles which are crucial to achieve any significant CO 2 reductions beyond 2020 levels. —ACEA President, Dieter Zetsche. of total new car sales.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Through a collaboration agreement, the two parties have agreed to work together to develop solutions which can help tackle the city’s air pollution challenges. However, the resulting environmental impact, particularly air pollution, has become a priority for the Chinese government and a matter of global importance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The PSA, H 2 membrane separator and recycle gas compressors required for recycle at full scale represent commercially available equipment having minimal technical or cost risk and, on that basis, have not been considered for demonstration on the proposed pilot. 2017) “One Step Hydrogen Generation Through Sorption Enhanced Reforming.”

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MAY 4, 2011

However, Nissan will be able to manufacture the NV200 to run on electric-only power starting in 2017. Nissan will train taxi fleet operators to conduct routine in-house service and repairs, and Nissan Commercial Vehicle dealers will provide prompt service by providing the first available service bay to taxi operators needing service.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The iDisc is scheduled to go into production for a European manufacturer in November 2017. The unique selling point of the iDisc (the “i” stands for innovation) is a tungsten-carbide coating that is currently only available from Buderus Guss. The technology is based on a conventional cast iron brake disc.

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APRIL 2, 2013

Up to $200,000 is available for this project, which seeks to identify cost-effective options to retrofit older Class-8 tractor trailers that currently move cargo to and from the Port of Seattle. Diesel engines emit fine particle pollution, a toxic pollutant of concern to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 23, 2022

At the same time, the three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw) industry is considered a major source of pollution in last mile connectivity services. Tork Motors has also been working with electric 3-wheeler OEMs since 2017 and is already manufacturing and supplying powertrains to multiple companies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The propulsion systems will also be made available for yachts, work boats, ferries and patrol boats in a power range extending from around 1,000 kilowatts to 4,000 kilowatts per powertrain. With the aid of a modular system, we will make integrated hybrid propulsion systems available that are tailored to the customer’s specific requirements.

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