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.). Since 1990, methane emissions in the United States have decreased by 8%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Six million tonnes of tire wear particles (TWP) are released globally each year, and in London alone, 2.6 Tire waste does not naturally degrade and instead builds up in the environment, and may interact with other pollutants as well as biological organisms. Imperial College London (2023). doi: 10.25561/101707 Mao, Y. Klöckner, P.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

in environmental impact: energy -23.5%; CO 2 - 28.6%; waste -58.6%; water -27.5%; and solvent emissions -7.6%. We reached our environmental target of producing our vehicles 25 percent more sustainable by 2018 before the date set. We are on the way to the resource-optimized factory at all the locations of the brand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Zero-Carbon is based on the average carbon index score (approved by the California Air Resources Board) of Clean Energy’s fuel supply portfolio. That is the equivalent of planting 11 million trees, removing 141 thousand gasoline-powered cars from the road, and recycling 232 thousand tons of landfill waste.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Globally there has been an increasing focus on low or zero emission powertrains, driven by climate concerns. While this transition will be crucial in reducing emissions, even by 2030, a large part of the global vehicle parc, especially in the developing world, will continue to be dependent on fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. Resources. This is not the first time that HFC-23 reduction measures attracted controversy. Stanley, D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust). Sherwood, J.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. The team’s first step in February 2018 was to use GRIDSMART cameras to create an image dataset of vehicle classes. Karnowski, R. Eicholtz, J.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It is technically already possible to produce biofuels from renewable resources by using microbes such as yeast and bacteria as tiny cell factories. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2050, 27 percent of global transport fuels will be biofuels. That is in line with our research too. That is in line with our research too.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste. China has been able to provide a low-cost supply of rare earths using these methods, and therefore, dominates the global market. Conceptual Process Flowsheet. Two-step process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sources of these super pollutants include petroleum-based transportation fuels, agriculture, waste disposal and synthetic gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol products. Black carbon, for example, has a global warming potential 3200 times that of CO 2 on a 20-year time scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Advanced separation materials concepts such as ours could potentially turn this waste stream into a resource recovery opportunity. Hill and Huanting Wang (2018) “Ultrafast selective transport of alkali metal ions in metal organic frameworks with subnanometer pores”. —Benny Freeman, UT Austin. million smartphones.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2016

Dagenham Engine Plant is Ford’s largest diesel engine production facility globally, and produced the first EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) in April this year. The second phase of engine production is scheduled to start in 2017, with the first installation in Ford cars planned for 2018. The all-new 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2021

DeepGreen Metals, which is exploring for deep-ocean polymetallic nodules as a lower impact and more cost-effective alternative to land-based mining ( earlier post ), announced an upward revision to the nodule resource reported within the NORI-D exploration contract area held by its subsidiary, Nauru Ocean Resources, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2021

percent of global CO 2 emissions. But the IT sector also holds the potential to help reduce overall global emissions. In fact, a report by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative estimates that IT solutions can help cut nearly 10 times more CO 2 than they emit. From 2012 to 2018, for instance, the. estimated 1.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

It can be produced from many kind of non edible vegetable oils, animal fats, waste oils and consists of a mixture of paraffinic hydrocarbons in diesel boiling range, free of sulfur, oxygen and aromatics. Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) has become an attractive industrial-scale alternative to ester-type biodiesel. —Napolitano et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

For example, when the standards are fully phased in, tractors in a tractor-trailer will achieve up to 25% lower CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption than an equivalent tractor in 2018. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced its support for the new Phase 2 MDHD rulemaking.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

That article quoted Roskill’s David Merriman as saying that global demand of 31,700 tonnes for neodymium last year already outstripped supply by 3,300 tonnes. Global warming potential of each processing step in virgin production and magnet-to-magnet recycling for 1kg of NdFeB magnets. between 2010 and 2017. Credit: ACS, Jin et al.

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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. Working together, CalRecycle and CARB will have a regulation in place by 2018 to effectively eliminate disposal of organics in landfills by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

They further agreed to reduce air pollutant emissions by aligning air pollutant emission standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles and corresponding ultra low-sulfur fuel standards by 2018. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. It would be wasteful to discard those consumer savings, but EPA now appears poised to do just that.”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Volkswagen’s worldwide conservation program is called Think Blue and it’s a global call to sustainable ecological action on our blue planet. 2018 target. Green power is electricity that is generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact hydro.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

Under the new program, trucks and buses built in 2014 through 2018 will reduce oil consumption by a projected 530 million barrels and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by approximately 270 million metric tons. By the 2018 model year, the program is expected to achieve significant savings relative to current levels, across vehicle types.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

In a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production , Associate Professor Lotfi Belkhir and Ahmed Elmeligi, a recent grad, assessed the global carbon footprint of the overall ICT industry, including the contribution from the main consumer devices, the data centers and communication networks, and compared it with total worldwide GHGE.

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MARCH 1, 2023

He states that Tesla reduced the cost of the Model 3 by 30% since 2018 as of 2022. She thanks the global Tesla team. And with recycling in the picture, the resources that the world will need to shift to sustainability will be even more efficient. The electrified economy will use less resources than the (fossil fuel) economy.”

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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. Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

However, Benchmark points out, known domestic Chinese spodumene and other hard rock resources are low-quality, a key reason why there has been an increasing reliance by Chinese converters on Australia for supply instead. Associated opex and ramp up times are also commonly underestimated.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the most successful German-engineered luxury automotive brands, Audi AG delivered about 1.845 million vehicles globally in 2019. According to Audi, global deliveries of its e-tron increased by a massive 86.8% Globally, the brand aims to be CO2 neutral by 2050. In the U.S., market in the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The proposal builds on the Phase 1 fuel efficiency and GHG emissions standards already in place for model years 2014-2018. They would achieve up to 24% lower CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption than an equivalent tractor in 2018, based on the fully phased-in standards for the tractor alone in a tractor-trailer vehicle. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 25, 2022

You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. What’s worse, only a small quantity of all recyclables makes it into the bins—just 32 percent in the United States and 10 to 15 percent globally. That’s a lot of material made from finite resources that needlessly goes to waste. AMP Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the public discussion draft of the required update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan. Waste Management. EPA’s “Phase I” GHG standard will reduce new vehicle emissions by about 4–5% per year from 2014–2018. Earlier post.) The focus areas include: Energy. Agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2017

The Trump Administration released its proposed FY 2018 budget, which it calls “A New Foundation for American Greatness”. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeted for the largest percentage reduction in FY 2018, with a $2.6-billion 2017 est. 2018 prop. Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change.

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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. The driver can program times for charging as well as preheating or cooling and adapt them to his or her requirements, such as departure time, so as to save resources and costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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