Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

CO 2 emissions from private jets in Europe increased by nearly a third (31%) between 2005 and 2019, rising faster than commercial aviation emissions, according to a new report from environmental campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E). And yet, super-rich super polluters are flying around like there’s no climate crisis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. The amount of this fine particle pollution in the US has declined since 1999. The current US annual PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The delivery of the three e-trucks is part of a larger partnership between Volvo Trucks and Danfoss, focusing on pioneering sustainable electric transport operations. Since Danfoss has signed Power Purchase Agreements for its sites in Denmark, a substantial part of the power will be sustainable. Danfoss technology in the trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

The ACC program is a package of state regulations that set emissions standards for criteria pollutants and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for light-duty vehicles and a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

Bloom Energy also received verification as an alternative power source for vessels as part of the American Bureau of Shipping’s (ABS) New Technology Qualification (NTQ) service. SHI and Bloom Energy first announced plans in 2019 to design and develop fuel cell-powered ships. DNV Approval in Principle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funds will support the deployment of thousands of zero-emission trucks, school buses and transit buses to deliver clean air benefits to communities hit hardest by the impacts of pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, is testing a 2019 Peterbilt 579 EV Class 8 electric truck for a year on a dedicated account in Southern California. Funding for the tractor was provided by the California Climate Investments (CCI), the state’s climate change-fighting, cap-and-trade program.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

California’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) provides incentives to purchase the cleanest medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and Clean Cars 4 All incentivizes lower-income California drivers to scrap their older, high-polluting cars and replace them with zero-emission, plug-in hybrid or hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Construction work will start in August 2019 and renewable energy generation will start at the beginning of next year. Approximately 70 percent of Audi Hungaria’s heat requirements are already covered by climate-neutral, geothermal energy. As part of the joint project with E.ON

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The sooner Uber and taxis go 100% electric, the sooner citizens will enjoy cleaner air and quieter neighbourhoods, the planet will have less climate-wrecking emissions and drivers will earn more money. Because of Uber drivers’ high mileage, the climate benefits of replacing a combustion car with an EV in this sector are even greater.

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The findings are outlined in three new papers published in Earth System Science Data , Environmental Research Letters , and Nature Climate Change. In 2019, consumption of coal is expected to drop 11% in the U.S.—down this year due in part to China’s economic downturn. increase in carbon dioxide emissions for 2019.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. —Petter Ljungman, first author. Ljungman, Niklas Andersson, Leo Stockfelt, Eva M.

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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. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Through October 2019, HVIP has committed to supporting the purchase of 3,400 zero-emission trucks and buses; more than 2,600 hybrid trucks; 3,200 low NO x engines, and 240 trucks outfitted with electric power take-off systems with vouchers requested by California fleets. At the 24 October Board meeting, CARB approved changes to HVIP.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The state of Virginia will allocate more than $12 million in state funding to deploy electric transit buses in three Virginia localities, using nearly $9 million from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust (VW Trust) that the Commonwealth received as part of its settlement with Volkswagen. Statewide contract for electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To reduce methane’s impact on the climate, California has set a goal to cut overall emissions in the state by 40 from 2013 levels by 2030. 2019) “California’s methane super-emitters.” CARB is working with other state agencies to reduce emissions from dairy cattle and other livestock. Duren, R.M., Thorpe, A.K., Foster, K.T.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

The continual exploitation of ore reserves leads to the necessity of mining ores from deeper parts of deposits, often with increasing mineralogical complexity. However, climate change has caused an increase in rainfall in recent years, which now raises the issue of environmental contamination. Raw copper smelting in a blast furnace.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2018

By the end of 2019, they will represent a fleet of 2,000 electric vehicles. This will make it possible to offer Parisians and Ile-de-France residents a healthier, less polluted living environment, where everyone can move more easily. This offering will be based on Groupe Renault’s battery-electric range: ZOE, Twizy, Kangoo Z.E,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2018

By the end of 2019, they will represent a fleet of 2,000 electric vehicles. This will make it possible to offer Parisians and Ile-de-France residents a healthier, less polluted living environment, where everyone can move more easily. This offering will be based on Groupe Renault’s battery-electric range: ZOE, Twizy, Kangoo Z.E,

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. They also are being subjected to disinformation campaigns fueled in part by Donald Trump’s long-standing hatred of windmills. The current technologies work but have limits.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

The fuel is free of sulfur and benzene and is therefore especially low in pollutants when it burns. Currently, only a small part of Global Bioenergies’ ton scale isobutene production is directed toward e-fuels, using Fraunhofer’s lab scale conversion unit. Audi e-diesel is also part of the Audi e-fuels portfolio. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The editorial addresses important issues in the current politically charged discussions of global warming and climate-change alarm. … It is very likely that highly efficient “fully flexible” engines with hybridized solutions will be a big part of sought-after efficiency improvements, as well as emission/GHG reductions. Fansler, T.,

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019. It also proposed multi-pollutant emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and later.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

This is not in dispute by any serious person – and any alternative scenario, where humans continue to pollute as much as we do today, will result in worse and worse results for humanity the longer we pollute as climate change becomes progressively worse. It is necessary that we stop burning fossil fuels, and fast. Namely: China.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019. climate scientist Michael E. Research takes a long time. cancel the launch. Mann has said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The fully electric van—based on the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter—combines a variety of innovative solutions designed to improve the quality of life in cities; to conserve resources and protect the climate; and to better the health and safety of the driver and other road users.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. Electric Buses - 12 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The ICT is part of a statewide effort to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and 80-90% of smog-forming pollutants. The transition to zero-emission technologies, where feasible, is essential to meeting California’s air quality and climate goals.

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Green Charging

MARCH 15, 2021

By the end of 2019, an additional 130 dealerships received the accreditation, and more are expected to be approved this year. Address climate emergency- the climate is changing rapidly. This organisation is responsible for addressing climatic changes and how to cope with them. Wrapping up.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association members take part in a Fourth of July parade in Eugene, Oregon. We were especially excited about the 4-wheelers because they’re used on farms all over the state and the gas vehicles are very noisy and air polluting.” “I A chapter in Oregon is guided by the genius of its members.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water. It’s a gas.

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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. Data from the report illustrate that California now must reduce emissions by an average of 4.9%

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