Remove 2018 Remove Climate Remove Cost Of Remove Document
article thumbnail

California agencies release report charting path to 100% clean electricity; need to triple grid capacity by 2045

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. About 36% of that comes from renewable sources, predominantly wind and solar.

Clean 170
article thumbnail

Audi A4 and A5 now available to order as g-tron in Europe; Audi e-gas for 3 years as standard

Green Car Congress

Like the A3 Sportback g-tron that is already on the market ( earlier post ), they can run on a choice of the climate-friendly fuel Audi e-gas, conventional CNG (compressed natural gas) or gasoline. Audi offers this fuel for three years as a standard feature to customers ordering a g-tron model by 31 May 2018.

Audi 150
article thumbnail

ICCT report highlights importance of California ZEV mandate for EV policies worldwide, recommends steps forward

Green Car Congress

It highlights the declining cost of EV technologies but also persistent market uncertainties. Costs of transitioning to a self-sustaining market. To put those numbers in perspective, the Nissan Leaf battery pack is 24 kWh, for a total cost of $7,200 at $300 per kWh.) Complementary policies to support electric vehicle deployment.

article thumbnail

MIT team reexamines rates of Li-ion cost decline

Green Car Congress

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. Ziegler and Trancik.

Li-ion 284
article thumbnail

The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

The 1964 Oklahoma City tests involved more than 1,000 flights, which sparked more than 15,000 complaints, as documented in a 1971 report prepared by the National Bureau of Standards. Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms.

article thumbnail

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

Gas 244