Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

with an estimated 15 million diesel gallon gas equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG)—biomethane—as part of a multi-year agreement with Memphis Light, Gas and Water and Atmos Energy Marketing, LLC. UPS will supply its fleet in Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss., In 2014, 5.4%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Dubbed “Green Horizon”, the initiative sets out to surpass current global practices in three areas critical to China’s sustainable growth: air quality management; renewable energy forecasting; and energy optimization for industry. Renewable energy forecasting. Sample user interface from IBM''s Hyref energy forecasting system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society. The project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The European Commission has proposed limiting the use of crop-based biofuels to meet the 10% renewable energy target of the Renewable Energy Directive to 5%. For biofuels to help us combat climate change, we must use truly sustainable biofuels. —Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

Member states must enact the legislation by 2017. Current legislation requires EU member states to ensure that renewable energy accounts for at least 10% of energy consumption in transport by 2020. The European Parliament approved a draft law to to cap crop-derived biofuel consumption and accelerate the shift to alternative sources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. —Annamari Enström.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

CARB has awarded $41 million dollars to the Port of Los Angeles for the ZANZEFF project as part of California Climate Investments, a California initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment?particularly

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved a first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standard that will reduce wasted energy by battery chargers commonly used to power cell phones, laptop computers, power tools, and other devices. Energy consumed to charge batteries is increasing in California. Industrial charger compliance (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. mi)—that equates to fuel costs of only about €4 (US$4.23) (as of: March 2017). In the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), the Audi A4 Avant g-tron with S tronic uses just 3.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update. Vehicle technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. We need to be talking about trillions per year if we are to meet climate goals. Renewable energy investment. —Albert Cheung, head of analysis at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? Waste Management. per year from 2017–2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The update sets funding priorities for the approximately $100 million in annual state funds under the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology (ARFVT) Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. An estimated 68 stations are needed to support the anticipated rollout of these vehicles in 2015-2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Failing to take the changing energy requirements of oilfields into account can cause oilfield managers or policymakers to underestimate the true climate impacts, Stanford scientists warn. Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail. Masnadi & Brandt (2017).

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Energy Oil Climate Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The two bills amend the budget act to include the 2017 Greenhouse Gas Revenue Expenditure Plan which reflects the broad portfolio of investments intended to complement the policy work of AB 398 (Eduardo Garcia), Chapter 135, Statutes of 2017, and AB 617(Cristina Garcia), Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017. billion of GGRF and $78.3

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

But there’s much more automakers can do beyond fuel efficiency to reduce our environmental impact by adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout our operations. Construction of the new paint line will begin this December and is slated for completion in December 2017. We work every day on these issues. —Ryan Harty.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The update sets funding priorities for the approximately $100 million in annual state funds under the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (AB 118 program). These include projects that use a wide variety of materials, including waste, algae and crops that can be grown on agriculturally marginal land. $11

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

These awards were made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. Studies suggest that 68 stations are needed by 2017 to support the market. will receive $3 million to build a 100% renewable hydrogen fueling station in Chino (San Bernardino County).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. If you look at the climate impact of aviation, less than half of that is CO 2 , the rest of it is stuff like nitrogen oxide. That has its own problems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The Department of Energy (DOE) is making available up to $9 million ( DE-FOA-0000715 ) for roughly 50 energy efficiency and renewable energy projects through the Department’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. EERE is the only program Office participating in this FOA.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

As energy production from renewable sources typically varies by day or season, EVs offer another advantage. Smart charging technology allows us to align EV electricity consumption with renewable energy availability, which makes charging your EV even cleaner.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. While providing a boost to renewables, such a slowdown would increase import bills, heighten energy security concerns and make it harder and more expensive to combat climate change. billion, around 20% of the world’s population.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. While utilities such as E.ON

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2017

2017 est. 2018 prop. Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change. Enforcement spending takes a 69% haircut, dropping from an estimated $419 million in 2017 to a proposed $129 million for 2018. billion for the State Revolving Funds, a $4-million increase over the 2017 level. billion, or 16.2%). Clean and Safe Water.

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