Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Research into low-soot engines and alternative fuels to counteract the climate impact of aviation is worthwhile, as contrail cirrus today have an impact similar to the total of all the atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions due to air travel over the past 100 years combined. The results are expected in summer 2019.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant. In the short-term, the airline is improving its operational efficiency, flying more fuel-efficient aircraft and introducing carbon offset and removal projects.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions. Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. Now, a study from University of Michigan researchers shows that when, where and how those fleet vehicles are charged can greatly impact their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. —Maxwell Woody, lead author. —Maxwell Woody.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives, largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Clean Cleaning Transportation Pollution 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. Global energy investment totalled more than US$1.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed an onboard separation system that could support increased fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of an octane-on-demand fuel-delivery system. Higher-octane fuels can eliminate knock but are expensive to produce.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The draft Memorandum of Understanding builds on a program framework made public on 1 October 2019. Those topics include: What factors should TCI jurisdictions consider when setting the starting level and the trajectory for a regional cap on carbon dioxide emissions from transportation fuels?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will make the remaining $5 million of the $14 million initial allocation available for electric transit buses for next year’s transit grant cycle, which will open on 1 December 2019. Recipients of VW Trust and statewide transit capital funding include: Alexandria (DASH): $5.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

MAN Energy Solutions developed the ME-LGIM dual-fuel engine for operation on methanol, heavy fuel oil (HFO), marine diesel oil (MDO) or marine gas oil (MGO). With the growing demand for cleaner marine fuels, methanol is a sulfur-free alternative that meets the industry’s increasingly stringent emission regulations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

Global investment in oil and gas is expected to fall by almost one-third in 2020. The overall share of global energy spending that goes to clean energy technologies—including renewables, efficiency, nuclear and carbon capture, utilisation and storage—has been stuck at around one-third in recent years. —Dr Birol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

As part of the new technology to achieve this vision, the company disclosed plans to introduce a next-generation gasoline engine called SKYACTIV-X in 2019. Under Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030, Mazda aims to reduce corporate average well-to-wheel carbon dioxide emissions to 50% of 2010 levels by 2030, and achieve a 90% reduction by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

This study sheds light on the urban passenger transport sector in China, which accounted for around 20% (188 MtCO 2 ) of the total carbon emissions of the transport sector in 2016, and aims to answer whether the CO 2 emissions from the urban passenger transport sector can reach its peak before 2030 and how to reach the peak. 2019.110913.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2018

The agency plans to commission an additional twenty-three (23) 40-foot Gillig buses by December 2019. Among other enhancements, buses will be equipped with Cummins-Westport Near-Zero engines and fueled by Renewable Natural Gas, to further reduce NO x vehicle emissions by more than 90% by December 2018. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. A key element of that partnership is a goal for North America to strive to achieve 50% clean power generation by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs include black carbon (soot), methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions in California and globally—which are used as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and insulation. Black carbon. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

billion through 2019. Consequently, the credits will result in little or no reduction in the total gasoline use and greenhouse gas emissions of the nation’s vehicle fleet over the next several years. Cultivate local PEV clusters. Similarly, programs should be targeted at cities already facilitating PEV use.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

In January 2019, the Indian government launched the National Clean Air Program (NCAP), a five-year action plan to curb air pollution; build a pan-India air quality monitoring network; and improve citizen awareness. —Markus Amann, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program director at IIASA. of GDP, or 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Di Wu, Fengdi Guo, Frank R. 9b00648.

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

When Tesla unveiled the Megapack, the company positioned it as a battery that had the potential to render traditional coal and gas-fired peaker plants obsolete. Since their introduction in 2019, Tesla Megapacks have been deployed across the globe, and they are starting to live up to their promise.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Improving access to cleaner forms of transportation, like electrified public transport and active commuting by cycling and walking, would not only bring down NO 2 levels, but would also reduce asthma, enhance physical fitness, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. —Susan Anenberg.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 2019, Volkswagen Group Logistics will use two LNG-powered charter vessels from Siem Car Carriers AS, making it one of the first automakers to opt for low-emission LNG-powered vessels for the marine transport of vehicles. Volkswagen is considering the changeover of other conventionally powered freighters to LNG drive systems.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 29, 2022

According to the American Public Transit Association, Americans took nearly 10 billion trips via public transportation in 2019. Electric public transportation is essential to creating cleaner, greener cities. An investment in clean public transportation could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 0.71

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve always been involved with sustainability and my husband and I wanted to lower our carbon footprint,” said Sinclair, who has spent many years working in the sustainable energy world, most recently at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. EV Gals is a small group that formed in 2019 among women in the clean energy space.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to extend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ) by ten years to 2030 and to double the program’s carbon intensity reductions target from 10 to 20 percent. Under the LCFS, petroleum refineries and fuel importers must gradually reduce the average carbon intensity of the fuels they sell.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Transportation accounts for only 27 percent of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S.; Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. Even assuming that the required EV targets were met in the U.S. For instance, recent U.S.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It has become a cleaner energy storage solution. The first significant step is found in the mining, conversion and refining step of the active materials where nickel, manganese and cobalt are processed into sulphates and lithium either into lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate. during the forecast period of 2019-2014.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

Parallel’s competitive edge is our autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, which are designed to move freight cleaner, faster, safer and more cost effectively than traditional trains or trucks. Parallel’s zero-emission vehicles could reduce the freight industry’s carbon emissions significantly.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This year’s Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions—the latest year for which data are available—rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent (MMTCO 2 e) to 425.3 lower and 8.3% billion—with $1.25

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

The European Commission has adopted a package of proposals to make the EU's climate, energy, land use, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels ( Fit for 55 ). It has brought down emissions from power generation and energy-intensive industries by 42.8%

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to Royal Caribbean, the ship, which is registered in the Bahamas, also sets a new standard for sustainability with the use of energy-efficient technology designed to minimize the ship’s carbon footprint and move closer to the company’s goal of introducing a net-zero ship by 2035. “We as a viable marine fuel. s long-term problems.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

As environmental concerns continue to rise, brands and consumers alike are looking to do their part to reduce their carbon footprint. In fact, three-fourths of EV drivers say, “the long-term savings on gas outweigh the higher upfront price tag of buying an electric vehicle (74%),” while only 60% of overall drivers say the same.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2022

For a cleaner and more elegant look, the rear wiper could be tucked under the spoiler to increase rearward vision for the driver. Introduced on the 2019 Lincoln Aviator, the chimes are now found on all Lincoln models. All seats are covered in Bridge of Weir Scottish leather, which is made with a low carbon process.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Although sales of gasoline-powered passenger vehicles dropped in 2019, electric vehicle sales continued to rise. In 2019, there were more than 7.2 However, internally, more than 70% of an EV’s parts may be different from comparable size gas-powered vehicles. policies incentivizing the purchase of EVs.

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MyEVOnline

JULY 29, 2020

They convert the stored hydrogen gas into electricity that powers the electric motor and propels the car. Considering the inefficiency factor, the hydrogen car is not an option if you dream of a greener and cleaner planet. Today, most of the hydrogen is obtained from natural gas. Hydrogen is a highly explosive gas.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While traditional gas motorcycles use less gasoline and thus have lower emissions than passenger cars, motorcycle exhaust is higher in smog-forming pollutants and poisonous carbon monoxide, meaning that electric motorcycles (and EVs in general) are a great option to significantly improve air quality. Unlike cars in the U.S.,

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that transportation produced 29% of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. However, transportation is responsible for the highest amount of air pollution in America. Let’s celebrate today, and clear the air together !

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