Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

The aviation sector is responsible for about 5% of global anthropogenic emissions causing climate change. The amount of CO 2 emitted during kerosene combustion in a jet engine equals that consumed during its production in the solar plant. —Aldo Steinfeld. It can also be blended with fossil-derived kerosene. Zoller et al.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The UK government has launched a £75-million (US$120-million) fund to speed the development of low carbon technologies for engines. By mid 2017, 100 pods that are fully autonomous will be running on pathways alongside people and will use sensors to avoid obstacles. Autonomous driving Engines Fuel Efficiency' Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2018

The research will enable ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics better to understand fundamental engineering parameters including viscosity and flow, which cannot easily be replicated in a lab. —Vijay Swarup, vice president for research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. —Oliver Fetzer, Ph.D.,

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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

JULY 1, 2023

Since 2017, British Lithium has carried out drilling and exploration on Imerys-owned land in Cornwall and developed a unique process and pilot plant to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. British Lithium’s processing engineers have successfully beneficiated Cornish micas to produce a lithium concentrate grading in excess of 1.2%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2020

This proposed action would align US standards with the international CO 2 emissions standards adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in 2017, making domestically manufactured aircraft competitive in the global marketplace. turboprops) with a MTOM greater than 8,618 kilograms. Proposed In-Production Rule.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

A paper and subsequent formal comments and responses in the journal Climatic Change highlights the conceptual differences and the impact on policy. That paper has now drawn a rebuttal from a team at Ford’s Research & Advanced Engineering Group in Dearborn. —DeCicco (2017). earlier post ). earlier post ).

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JULY 22, 2022

TAE’s fifth-generation reactor, Norman, was unveiled in 2017 and was designed to keep plasma stable at 30 million degrees Celsius. TAE’s safe, non-radioactive approach avoids carbon and particulate emissions, mitigating any impact on the environment or climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

The Government of Canada has proposed regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines. The Canadian regulations are aligned with the US fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles announced in August 2011. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2018

Modern diesel drives were part of the solution, not part of the problem, he stressed—also with regard to climate change. In spite of the billions in cash outflows from the diesel crisis, net liquidity at the end of 2017 remained at €22.4 billion (US$27.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Average CO 2 emissions generated by new cars in Europe increased during 2017—the first rise in 10 years— according to a new analysis by JATO Dynamics. g/km in 2017, finishing at 118.1 g/km in 2017—far higher than the average CO 2 emissions of diesel and gasoline vehicles across all segments. g/km CO 2 emitted.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. We can allow teams of robots to communicate and collaborate, to send data, get instructions, and change their mission in real time.” This blind spot is rather striking.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Trucks therefore are an important place to look for energy savings and climate change mitigation in the transportation sector. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was engaged to perform the vehicle and engine simulation modeling. million barrels per day. The core of the analysis consisted of a series of modeled simulations.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

The Hydrogen Horizon Automotive Challenge is a semester-long, afterschool program focused on alternative fuels and climate change. The program kicked off with a teacher training event at Toyota’s offices in Torrance, California and will cross the finish line when student teams race their fuel cells vehicles in March 2017.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. A common theme across the.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Converging macro trends in China, including large-scale urbanization, continued build-out of mass urban transportation, degrading air quality and a mandate to address climate change, together present an historic opportunity for zero-emission fuel cell solutions in the world’s largest mobility market.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Living Blended Drought Atlas grid points are shown; 122 with Palmer Drought Severity Index data, 1–2017 CE (red filled circles), and three with missing data for 1–209 CE (black filled circles). —Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, lead study author and an engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation. Gangopadhyay et al.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Moody’s report highlights that tightening emission requirements, changing consumer preferences amid growing concerns around climate change, and technological innovation are driving the push for alternative-fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

The joint inquiry resulting in the report “Improving Air Quality” was launched in 2017 amid concerns about the inadequacy of the UK Government’s plan to improve air quality in the UK. 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Beyond 2025, ARB notes, the driving force for lowering emissions in California will thus be climate change. Heavier vehicles with larger displacement engines will likely require additional emission control equipment such as secondary air and hydrocarbon absorbers to achieve the proposed emission levels. would be $135.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. Advanced technology vehicle multiplier credits for MYs 2023-2024 with a cumulative credit cap of 10 grams CO2 per mile.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

A new report by the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) calls for urgent action to tackle the damage to health caused by air pollution. IMechE says that the new Clean Air Act needs to set out ways to help the 71% of local authorities which missed their 2017 air quality targets.

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JULY 23, 2018

More than 90% of such vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines burning oil-derived fuels. Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Growth Energy: “For several years, Growth Energy has strongly emphasized the fact that fuels and engines are a system and that high-octane fuels—such as ethanol blends like E25-E30—should be part of this discussion. EPA and the US Department of Transportation announced a reestablishment of the MTE process in March 2017.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The first areas of focus in 2017 for the body will be the challenges of global CO 2 emissions and the corresponding regulations post-2025, plus the company’s transformation process. Connie Hedegaard – former EU Commissioner for Climate Action. The Council elected Georg Kell, Founding Director UN Global Compact, as its chair.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2023

The lack of an engineering mentor while growing up didn’t hinder Anna Zakrzewska from having a successful career in telecommunications. She is a senior principal engineer at Dell Technologies in Dublin. None of my family members or family friends were engineers,” she says.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. Car and truck engines used to be the largest sources of anthropogenic black carbon emissions in California; the existing air quality policies will virtually eliminate black carbon emissions from on-road diesel engines within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

While the proposed China regulation for 2020 is more stringent than the glide path, the 2017 Brazil regulation is less stringent. The vehicle glide path targets for 450 ppm beyond 2025 are very challenging for internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). … Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Policy'

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

Higher octane fuels can lead to higher compression ratios which in turn can lead to more efficient gasoline engines and reduced fuel consumption. With turbocharged gasoline engines, there is a double benefit: higher compression ratios and increased boost. Earlier post.) such a fuel would result in equivalent emissions performance.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

In line with COP 21, the Walloon strategy envisages that 50% of its public fleet vehicles, in need of replacement, will run on alternative fuels starting from 1 January 2017, and the percentage will rise to 100% starting from 1 January 2030. The Government of Wallonia also set a new regulation to promote the development of CNG infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 26, 2022

The IEEE senior member established an innovation lab for budding entrepreneurs at La Trobe University , in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an engineering professor. The project brought engineers together with computer scientists and health care professionals. He’s now doing so, in a number of ways. I’ve really taken that to heart.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

With colleagues at the Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Michael Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and lead author of the study, measured the decrease in solar energy gathered by the IITGN’s solar panels as they became dirtier over time.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Outlook predicts a rise in electric vehicles as well as efficiency improvements in conventional engines, both trends likely leading to a peak in liquid fuels use by the world’s light-duty vehicle fleet by 2030. l/100 km) now to close to 50 miles per gallon (4.7 l/100 km) in 2040.

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MAY 13, 2010

In advance of the workshop, ARB staff is directing workshop participants to the following studies in the general area of vehicle mass-reduction technology: Lotus Engineering, Incorporated, 2010. An Assessment of Mass Reduction Opportunities for a 2017-2020 Model Year Vehicle Program. EDAG, 2009. Future Steel Vehicle: Phase I.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

miles per gallon MY 2017, according to the annual Automotive Trends Report released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the US, Model Year (MY) 2018 vehicle fuel economy was 25.1 miles per gallon, 0.8% higher than the 24.9

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