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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

STEP aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase access to clean transportation, and address community resident’s transportation needs by funding planning, clean transportation, and land use projects. STEP has $20 million available for one to three implementation block grants to fund clean transportation and land use projects.

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JUNE 4, 2020

This is a combined effort, with funding provided by CEC’s Clean Transportation Program funds and CARB’s Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives for Low Carbon Transportation Investments and the Air Quality Improvement Program.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

The rebates and grants are administered by the State Department of Environmental Conservation and supported by the state’s Environmental Protection Fund. ZEV Infrastructure Grants: $2,500,000. Maximum grant amounts are $250,000 for any facility and $500,000 to any one municipality.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6-million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest electric vehicle (EV) fleet charging systems in the United States that will be powered by a solar and storage microgrid.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

He worked as Postdoctoral Researcher under Dr Ilias Belharouak at ORNL from 2019-2021 before he was named to his current position. The author of 52 articles with an h-index of 25, and four books/book chapters, Dr. Bai has seven patents pending and one granted patent. Forbes included him in the 2021 “30 Under 30” young innovators list.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced a grant solicitation for Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Pilot Commercial Deployment Projects. All work must be completed by 1 April 2019. Transit bus pilot projects funded under this Solicitation will support updates to the Advanced Clean Transit regulations.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Imperium3 New York will commercialize an innovative technology for making more efficient and less expensive lithium ion batteries while operating the state’s first giga-factory producing lithium ion batteries, producing 3GWh of batteries by Q4 2019, growing to 15 GWh. The Imperium3NY consortium was formed by nearly 10 companies.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental has been working with Carbon Engineering on direct air capture (DAC) deployment since 2019. This transaction is expected to close before the end of 2023, subject to Canadian court reviews, Canadian and US regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 27, 2021

The purpose of this Notice of Reconsideration is to seek comment on a number of issues in the 2019 SAFE-1 action including: Whether it was proper for EPA to reconsider a previously issued CAA waiver. On 29 September 2019, EPA and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly issued the SAFE-1 rule.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In November 2021, Forth was awarded two grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) funding opportunity for the creation of solutions that reduce vehicle emissions and accelerate the expansion of EV infrastructure and charging (DE-FOA-0002475, earlier post ).

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (South Coast AQMD) Clean Fuel Funds and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) have awarded a combined $600,000 ($300,000 each) to Landi Renzo USA for Landi Renzo’s 7.3L Many of these vehicles will be able to take advantage of various grant funding opportunities.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The four CCAs—San José Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy, Peninsula Clean Energy, and Central Coast Community Energy—provide competitively priced, clean energy choices to their communities while reinvesting revenues into local and statewide projects and programs.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp/hr).

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JULY 23, 2019

Stäubli’s QCC system features an enclosed pin-and-socket design that is self-cleaning, touch-protected on both sides of the connector and easily corrects for misalignment. Installation of the chargers is scheduled to begin in 2019, and deliveries of the converted vehicles are scheduled to begin later this year through October 2020.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Additionally, the State of California in 2019 awarded Oberon a $2.9-million million grant to upgrade its existing DME pilot facility to demonstration scale and facilitate the first production of rDME in the US, with a target production capacity of approximately 1.6 million gallons of DME per year. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

On 22 October 2019, GSC Logistics was the first to haul a commercial cargo using an electric semi through the Altamont Pass, with their BYD 8TT heavy-duty electric truck. It manage 200 owner-operated trucks each day and currently operates five company trucks, including three BYD 8TT electric trucks that were grant-funded by CARB.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The agency is seeking comments on this possible use of the waiver authority granted it for that purpose under the Clean Air Act. EPA also sought comment on possible reductions to the proposed 2019 BBD volume requirement. Congress never intended for RFS waiver authorities to serve as tools for managing trade flows.

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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.

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

million through its ZANZEFF (Zero and Near Zero Emissions Freight Facilities) grant program, which is focused on accelerating the adoption of clean freight technologies and reducing air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state of California. CARB has announced a preliminary funding award of $5.8

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JULY 6, 2017

Further, EPA is proposing no increase, relative to the finalized 2018 levels, in the volume requirement for biomass-based diesel for 2019. Key elements of the proposal include: Non-advanced or “conventional” renewable fuel volumes are maintained at the 15-billion gallon target set by Congress. Proposed 2019. billion gallons.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

In a paper published in Atmospheric Environment , researchers from the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) looked at how three types of road-side green infrastructure—trees, hedges, and a combination of trees with hedges and shrubs—affected the concentration levels of air pollution. Abhijith, K.V., 2018.12.036.

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MAY 20, 2019

On 1 March 2019, Messer Group and CVC Capital Partners Fund VII completed the planned acquisition of certain businesses in the Americas from Linde plc. Since 1941, Iwatani has regarded hydrogen as the ultimate clean energy source and has consistently engaged in initiatives to encourage its widespread use.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Locations with clean energy sources, however, saw reductions. In the Pacific Northwester or Northeast, where there is already more clean power available, EV adoption—even with the current energy mix—will decrease particulate matter pollution. —Jordan Schnell. Schnell, Vaishali Naik, Larry W. 2019.04.003.

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JULY 9, 2019

Three months since the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) in London, results of a year-long trial in the capital suggest that plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) commercial vehicles could present the most practical, readily available option for businesses trying to meet clean-air targets in cities. million (US$5.9-million)

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The first 20 are scheduled to go into service this year and 2019. Eight of the buses are slated to go into service this year; 12 more in 2019. Metro is a leader in clean technology. As part of this commitment, Metro will purchase up to 73 battery buses from Burlingame, Calif.-based based Proterra. million to $6.6

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

When the IEA released its special report on The Future of Hydrogen for the G20 in 2019, only France, Japan and Korea had strategies for the use of hydrogen. We have experienced false starts before with hydrogen, so we can’t take success for granted.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The class-wide settlement in the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation will provide owners and lessees of Volkswagen and Audi 2.0-liter liter vehicles by 30 June 2019. When and if the Court grants final approval, the claims process will open to eligible Volkswagen and Audi 2.0

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Ford plans to introduce a Transit Custom PHEV van on the market in 2019; the Transit Custom PHEV vans in the London trial are an advanced prototype design that allows them to be charged with mains electricity for zero-emission journeys, while featuring an efficient on-board combustion engine for extended range when longer trips are required.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s to the volunteers who carried us into a future of clean transportation, in their own words. At the 2019 NDEW-Mexico City event, we took advantage of the ELECTRATON eKarts race to have the electric cars on display for the first time in the Mexican capital city. Photo credit: Nicole Trusty, Photographer. EVHybridNoire.

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MAY 18, 2021

Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. 2019) “Mixing-Limited Combustion of Alcohol Fuels in a Diesel Engine,” SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-0552, doi: 10.4271/2019-01-0552. Blumreiter, J., Johnson, B., Magnotti, G. Johnson, B.,

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Funds provided through this proposed solicitation include $24 million for projects eligible under CARB’s Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives for Low Carbon Transportation Investments and the Air Quality Improvement Program, and $20.1

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The fleet of 40kWh Nissan LEAFs, which can travel up to 168 miles on a single charge and are manufactured in Sunderland, will be offered to drivers as part of Uber’s Clean Air Plan. Through the Clean Air Plan, drivers will on average save £4,500, depending on the miles they’ve driven, off the cost of switching to an electric car.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The funding comes from a cy-près distribution from the 2019 settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen Group over clean diesel marketing and fuel economy labeling. The grant will also support eight researchers who will work on both battery and fuel-cell related activities, Abruña said.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Among the transportation-related updates going into AEO2011, the EIA increased the limit for blending ethanol into gasoline for approved vehicles from 10% to 15%, as a result of the waiver granted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in October 2010. The total in 2035 is about 1.6 trillion cubic feet).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Existing law exempts certain clean, alternative-fuel vehicles from these occupancy requirements, so that a vehicle with a sole occupant may use an HOV lane—if the vehicle displays a Clean Air Vehicle sticker. The state has implemented three clean air vehicle HOV sticker programs in recent years: White HOV stickers.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Shortly after that, BMW Group will roll out battery-only solutions across its core brands, with Plant Oxford starting production of the battery-powered MINI in 2019, and the battery-only BMW X3 following in 2020. The following year, 2021, will see the launch of the BMW Group’s new technology spearhead: the all-electric BMW iNEXT.

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