Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2019

Energy Information Agency forecasts that for the first time in two years annual carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. CO2 emissions will fall by 2.2 percent in 2019, in what it says is the largest decrease since 2015. A new report by the U.S. will decrease. The report, issued last week, forecasts that U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has set a goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve this goal, carbon neutral vessels must be commercially viable by 2030, and an acceleration in new innovations and adaption of new technology is required. of global CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

Stuart Licht reports that the addition of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) produced from CO 2 by low-energy C2CNT (CO 2 to CNT) molten electrolysis ( earlier post ) to materials such as concrete or steel not only forms composites with significantly better properties, but amplifies the reduction of CO 2. A) Carbon mitigation with CNT-cement. (B)

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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.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German automaker BMW has announced an updated timeline to reduce carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle of its internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, including the entire production process. more… The post BMW plans to reduce CO2 emissions in vehicle life cycles by 40% by 2030 appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at EPFL have patented a new concept that could cut trucks’ CO 2 emissions by almost 90%. Only 10% of the CO 2 emissions cannot be recycled, and the researchers propose to offset that using biomass. The EPFL system captures CO 2 directly in the trucks’ exhaust system and liquefies it in a box on the vehicle’s roof.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. —Greg Smithies, Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

Together with start-up Circulor , Mercedes-Benz is conducting a pilot project for transparency on CO 2 emissions in the cobalt supply chain as part of STARTUP AUTOBAHN. With “Ambition2039”, Mercedes-Benz Cars aims for a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet in less than 20 years. Blockchain in the supply chain. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. Earlier post.). Energy Access.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Carbon dioxide emissions from S energy consumption will remain near current levels through 2050, according to projections in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019. USenergy-related carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel energy consumption. Energy-related CO 2 emissions generally follow energy consumption trends.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) report a process for the high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) by electrolysis of CO 2 in molten carbonate. High yield electrolytic synthesis of carbon nano-onions from CO 2 , either directly from the air or from smoke stack CO 2 , in molten carbonate. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

For example, about 60 percent of roadway emissions come from 10 percent of the roads. We can identify the ones with the highest emissions and track how well efforts to reduce those emissions are working. It’s the first megacity for which we’ve quantified emissions down to the scale of every building and roadway.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The European Commission has proposed new CO 2 emissions targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) from 2030 onwards. To stimulate faster deployment of zero-emission buses in cities, the Commission also proposes to make all new city buses zero-emission as of 2030. very steep mountains) can still be non-zero emission vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. —Dr Wang.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Audi Hungaria is thus the second of five Audi sites (after Audi Brussels) to achieve a neutral carbon balance, according to the company. We have a clear aim: that all Audi sites will have carbon-neutral operation by 2025. The remaining heat is generated through natural gas, with carbon neutrality assured thanks to bio-gas certificates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

A team of researchers in China suggest that, in the context of promoting the use of clean fuel vehicles and increasing vehicle fuel efficiency, CO 2 emissions of China’s urban passenger transport sector could reach a peak of 225 MtCO 2 in 2030. A paper on their study appears in the journal Energy Policy. —Li and Yu.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

Climeworks, a company founded at ETH Zurich in 2009, is pursuing CO 2 air separation to provide the carbon required for fuel synthesis in a sustainable manner. The CO 2 collectors selectively capture carbon dioxide in a two-step process. Second, after the filter material is full with carbon dioxide, the collector is closed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2019

Researchers in the UK report that, with a bit of management, a largely untended slag heap could absorb significant amounts of CO 2 , partially offsetting the emissions from steel production. In reactor experiments, i.e., at elevated temperatures, pressures, or CO 2 concentrations, these wastes have high silicate to carbonate conversion rates.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030. In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMT CO 2 Eq.), or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2019

One possible way to counteract rising global CO 2 emissions is to capture and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, but current methods are highly energy intensive. They describe the material in an open access paper in the journal Nature Communications. —Wu et al. —Susumu Kitagawa, materials chemist at Kyoto University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

All but three European car manufacturers met their specific emission targets in 2017, based on current European vehicle test rules. Nevertheless, average carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars sold in the European Union in 2017 rose by 0.4g However, between 2015 and 2016, emissions decreased by only 1.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen. The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions. Injecting hydrogen-rich coke oven gas is an efficient, cost effective method that allows steelmakers to reduce CO 2 emissions now.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2020

In 2019, Li-ion battery capacity reached 180GWh, as the market shifted to increase demand from the automotive industry. Forming roughly 60% of Li-ion battery demand in 2019, demands from the automotive industry are shifting the design and chemistry of Li-ion technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. —Dietmar Huber, Vice President Innovation Business Platform Power-to-X at Neste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

Ken Motokura, Chihiro Nakagawa, Ria Ayu Pramudita, and Yuichi Manaka (2019) “Formate-Catalyzed Selective Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate Products Using Hydrosilanes” ACS Sustainable Chem. doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02172. 9b02172.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not in the foreseeable future. For vehicle emission rates, those numbers dropped 2.6% Looking at the data, the researchers also saw a drop in emissions during the pandemic.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Indeed, much of Big Oil's reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leans on the so-called natural gas bridge. Eni has announced plans to cut down its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% over the next three decades. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A. 2 Total SA.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

The partnership aims to further reduce the carbon footprint of EVs by recycling key battery materials. As one of the first legacy automakers to commit to an all-electric future, Volvo is already making massive strides to reduce its carbon footprint. Volvo aims to reduce CO2 emissions per average vehicle by 75% by 2030.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

The production-weighted annual carbon footprint of all domestic and imported SUVs has improved by an impressive 33 percent since its worst year, in 1995, but in 2019 the average U.S. car SUV still emitted annually about 15 percent more CO2 than a car. models, and in 2019 SUVs made up 38 percent of new vehicle sales there.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

The global economy still relies on the fossil carbon sources of petroleum, natural gas and coal, not just to produce fuel, but also as a raw material used by the chemical industry to manufacture plastics and countless other chemical compounds. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

New Zealand rolled out a Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount program to address the transportation sector’s CO2 emission levels and combat climate change. The Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019 requires NZ’s CO2 emissions to reach net zero by 2050.

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Teslarati

MAY 7, 2021

It was announced earlier this week by Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares that the company would no longer need to purchase the regulatory credits from Tesla as it could reach CO2 emissions goals on its own. Thus, we will not need to call on European CO2 credits, and FCA will no longer have to pool with Tesla or anyone,” Tavares said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

The principle of continuous improvement will remain at the heart of the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions and increase resource efficiency. The aim is to significantly reduce CO 2 emissions per vehicle by at least one third across the entire spectrum. CO 2 emissions will then be less than 10% of what they were in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

Reintroducing airships into the world’s transportation mix could contribute to lowering the transport sector’s carbon emissions and can play a role in establishing a sustainable hydrogen based economy, according to a new IIASA-led study. The transport sector is responsible for around 25% of global CO 2 emissions caused by humans.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. So the net effect is that every day that passes, EVs are increasingly charged from energy sources that emit fewer carbon emissions and pollutants.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. Using concentrated solar energy, they were able to produce kerosene from water vapor and carbon dioxide directly from air. Finally, the syngas is processed to kerosene in the gas-to-liquid unit.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, electric vehicles basically are emission-free at least when they are powered by electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, etc. In simple words, the emissions are moved from one pipe to another which will need new regulations. Lithium-ion battery production. Energy used in the battery value chain.

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