Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

FCA says that its latest Global Warming Potential (GWP) analysis found that the redesigned-for-2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited has an overall GWP 15% lower than that of its predecessor. tons of coal burned in a power-generation plant. CO 2 e output from 7.7 CO 2 e produced when powering 2.4 average American homes for one year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. That’s with only 0.1% by weight or less of graphene. Wyss et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). The Administration will expand the program to multifamily housing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

For example, emerging environmental hazards, such as electronic and electrical waste (such as old mobile phones) that is improperly recycled, expose children to toxins which can lead to reduced intelligence, attention deficits, lung damage, and cancer. Industry: Manage hazardous waste and reduce the use of harmful chemicals.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

For instance, just 8 percent of Indian homes had air-conditioning in 2018, but that share is. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7 In 2021, about 73 percent of the country’s electricity was produced from coal, and only 9.6 For coal, the capacity utilization rate can go as high as 90 percent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Major sources of air pollution from particulate matter include the inefficient use of energy by households, industry, the agriculture and transport sectors, and coal-fired power plants. In some regions, sand and desert dust, waste burning and deforestation are additional sources of air pollution.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it. These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

Fuel cells, like stem cells in medical science, are a new technology in the automobile industry. According to the International Energy Agency, global demand for hydrogen as a fuel has quadrupled since 1975, reaching 70 million tonnes per year in 2018. Hydrogen has a long history of working with industry. What exactly is an FCEV?

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

It’s a really exciting time for the nuclear industry,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. , Important to recall, on the other hand, that a 2010 Spectrum story on the future of nuclear energy contained this projection: “NuScale is in talks with several undisclosed utilities and expects a first plant to be operational in 2018.”)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Sources: In 2012–electricity generators and large industrial sources.

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