Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal. Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

One of the last acts of the now-departed Obama Administration was to convene a forum looking at how big data could. Today, a much-loved TV scientist gets a Bolt EV, we drive a pricey luxury plug-in hybrid performance sedan, and we explain why cars don't burn wood any longer. Plus an excuse not to exercise!

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Green Cars News

MAY 23, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Transportation have been directed by US President Barack Obama to create a national policy to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase fuel efficiency from medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

MAY 27, 2015

It's been no secret that President Obama's goal of 1 million plug-in electric cars on U.S. The actual number is likely to be perhaps 400,000 or so; the 1-million goal may not be met until 2018 or later. roads won't be met by the end of this year. That's the goal he announced on the campaign trail toward winning his first term in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The 400 MW, 65-year old plant was shuttered in 2014 in response to low natural gas prices and the onset of strict environmental regulations promulgated by the Obama Administration. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. Since the start of the Obama Administration, the USDA Biorefinery Assistance Program has provided approximately $684 million in assistance to support biofuels projects in eight states.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program. president Barack Obama, the leadership program is for those from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe who are working to improve public, private, and civic development through grassroots action. Established by former U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Our challenge, well, President Obama in one policy statement after another has advocated for an all of the above strategy when it comes to sustainable mobility. marketshare by 2018—i.e., share and volume are expected to more than double from 2013 to 2018. You move from one pump to the other. marketshare in 2012 to 1.25

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2019

In 2009, the Obama administration launched the Car Allowance Rebate System, a program that was intended to not only stimulate spending, but also to improve energy efficiency and safety by encouraging people to upgrade to new cars. Three professors in the W. Carey School of Business analyzed a unique data set. —Michael Wiles. Chadwick J.

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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.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama. Goodenough’s other honors included the Royal Society’s 2019 Copley Medal , a 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2001 Japan Prize , the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal , and a 2009 Enrico Fermi Award.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

President Obama has directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop and to issue the next phase of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 2016. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Filmmakers Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude, and Michael Stern took this archival treasure trove and turned it into the award-winning 2018 documentary General Magic. Megan Smith , a product design lead at General Magic, later becomes chief technology officer in the Obama administration.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

IEEE’s mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity drew him to the organization, he says, after he served a term in the Obama administration as U.S. In 2018, its total net assets were US $391 million, and by the end of last year it had more than $851 million, he says. About Stephen Welby. Employer: IEEE.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Plug-in vehicle (PEV) sales—comprising battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)—in the US by 2015 will fall far short of the 1-million unit target set by the Obama Administration, according to a new report from Pike Research. Instead, the 1 million mark will be reached in early 2018.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Similarly, in response to an invitation by President Obama, ARB worked closely with USEPA and NHTSA on the development of national GHG and fuel economy requirements for 2017-2025. Regulations for MY 2018 and following. MY 2018 and subsequent model year amendments include: Increase Requirement for 2018 and Subsequent Model Years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

In July, the Obama Administration plans to finalize the first national fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for commercial trucks, vans and buses built in 2014 to 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer. There is a new category—BEV x —for battery-electric vehicles with a small range-extender (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Transportation Statistics Analysis Report – US Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2018). The Rhodium Group, an independent research organization unaffiliated with the study, estimates that the policy change would achieve only one-fifth of greenhouse gas reductions that the Obama-era policy would achieve.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

each year through model year 2026, as compared with the standards issued under the Obama administration in 2012, which would have required about 5% annual increases. This is a change from the earlier Trump administration proposal issued in 2018. The final rule increases the stringency of CAFE and CO 2 emissions standards by 1.5%

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dormant for a decade, that Obama-era program initially loaned money to Ford, Nissan, and Tesla (which all paid back their loans) and Fisker, which declared bankruptcy and lost the department more than $100 million. From 2018 through 2021, the disparity between sales in the world’s two largest auto markets grew.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The George W.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 20, 2024

At the time, the Trump administration had attempted to revoke the California Air Resources Board having its own emission standards as part of a broader rollback of Obama-era vehicle regulations. FCA’s Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne passed away in 2018. This included a pathway to ban combustion vehicles by 2030.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order classified broadband as an essential service, and the subsequent Restoring Internet Freedom Order in 2018 undid the 2015 move. The Open Internet Order was implemented under a Democratic-majority FCC led by Tom Wheeler during the Obama administration. Why are we debating net neutrality again?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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