Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In the data EMIT has collected since being installed on the International Space Station in July, the science team has identified more than 50 “super-emitters” in Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Southwestern United States. The International Space Station hosts seven instruments for NASA Earth Science. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 For more on what other countries’ plans are, check out the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Policy Explorer page.)

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

On current trends, passenger electric cars, electric buses and other light commercial vehicles may reach the numbers needed for zero emissions by 2050, but medium and heavy trucks are off track. These savings, combined with the continuing decline in battery prices, make electric trucks increasingly affordable. Charging infrastructure.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Even with a flurry of activity and available funding, though, only about 1% of school buses in the country are currently electric ( matching the approximate percentage of cars and light duty trucks on the road that are electric ). Here are several reasons for school districts to switch to electric buses.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. And yet the dream lives on. The dream achieved a kind of lift-off in January 2023.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This 6-minute documentary, about the restoration of a 1758 grand orrery —so called because it includes the outer planets—is worth watching because it shows the internal gears and clockwork mechanisms: A predecessor to the orrery was the armillary sphere , which featured a ball representing Earth at its center and stars rotating around it.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Launched in June 2020, the startup produces affordable systems for wireless connections that deliver optical fiber quality, or what Gamzina calls elvespeed connectivity. The company’s name, she says, refers to atmospheric emission of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Automakers will push for changes in the California ZEV mandates. California’s zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulations require volume automakers to sell a minimum number of PEVs each year in the state. By 2022, not even California will meet the 10% ZEV requirement.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

million early deaths associated with exposure to vehicle tailpipe emissions could be avoided annually by 2050 if governments require the strongest vehicle pollution controls and ultralow-sulfur fuels, according to a related analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation included in the report. Further, an estimated 1.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

Typical northern winters take an even bigger toll on battery-powered vehicles than on traditional internal combustion-powered cars and trucks. The Volt has several features designed to minimize the drain on the lithium-ion battery while still affording occupant comfort.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

candidate in economics with a specialization in international finance and environmental economics. In Becker’s analysis, eliminating the need for the consumer to purchase the large battery pack upfront makes the purchase price of an electric car competitive with that of an internal combustion vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. —“Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

California Air Resources Board. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Kansas City Power & Light. Southern California Edison. State of California. Berkshire Hathaway Energy. ChargePoint. Consumers Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

The detailed GPS data was collected by state agencies in Texas, Georgia, and California, using special data loggers installed in cars to assess statewide driving patterns. The team found that the vast majority of cars on the road consume no more energy in a day than the battery energy capacity in affordable EVs available today.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

That kind of computing power was not affordable in the mid-1970s. Then we figured out how to move those objects, shade them, and light them before rendering them as frames of a movie. Because California is a community-property state, George effectively lost half his fortune overnight. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many advanced science and technology developments are still needed to achieve simple, affordable IFE to power homes and businesses, and DOE is currently restarting a broad-based, coordinated IFE program in the United States. LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Even after the fall in US crude, gasoline in California costs $4 on average. At that price, California miles are 16 cents each.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. University of California ‐ San Diego. University of California ‐ Berkeley. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 991,873.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The growth is predicated on two new production facilities—in Texas and Germany—coming online this year to augment existing plants in Fremont, California, and Shanghai, China. According to International Energy Data, Tesla sold the majority of its cars in 2021 in China, followed by the U.S.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J. Starting well-equipped from $68,575, which is in line with prices for loaded, gasoline-powered light-duty pickups, the Rivian is a relative powerhouse of design, innovation and all-around capability. foot cargo bed.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates); fun-to-drive electric vehicle targeted for the urban environment. Internal GM tools allowed the engineers to model how the motor could make noise and we were able to manage noise at the source.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The intended application is light-, medium-, and heavy-duty markets including hybrid architectures. What fuel and engine combinations are sustainable, affordable, and scalable? Fuel impacts on catalyst light-off temperatures. Earlier post.) How do engine parameters affect efficiency? Improving HoV measurements for mixtures.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Average per capita light-duty vehicle (LDV) transport CO 2. A team from the University of California, Berkeley concludes that reducing demand for light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel will likely be essential to meeting the international greenhouse gas emission and climate targets for the year 2050. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He’s tried the sugar and honey approach for ten years but instead of catching flies he’s caught hassles and obstructions from local Southern California city officials who haven’t kept up with modern technology and remain both ignorant and adversarial when it comes to helping their citizens go solar. Yeah, they can afford it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Such economic benefits could be realized earlier through effective policies which reduce first mover costs in the short term and promote rapid take-up once non-ICE vehicle price premiums reduce to levels that make them affordable to. travelled (high, medium and low), and vehicle type (passenger, light commercial, or taxi). Scenario 1.

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Green Cars News

JULY 13, 2009

Today, the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology releases the new study examining the market size for electric cars with switchable batteries and the economic and environmental benefits of mass-market switch to electric cars. light-vehicle fleet by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In addition to the vehicle’s introduction in Japan, Toyota launched the Mirai—a four-door, mid-size fuel cell sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines—in Los Angeles on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show. The system accelerates Mirai from 0–60 in 9.0

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Two different technologies will be used to smooth the heat exchanger components’ internal passages to minimize pressure drop.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. The International Energy Agency predicts that EVs will make up more than 60 percent of vehicles sold globally by 2030.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As one German study on psychological range noted, “users tend to avoid critical and potentially stressful range situations planning for substantial range buffers… Range buffers are also likely present in conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles [but] range buffers are more relevant for EV use.” billion by the same year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Ford Motor Company is introducing its next-generation Fusion Hybrid autonomous development vehicle; the car will first appear at CES 2017 and the North American International Auto Show in January. The aim is to quickly mass-produce a more affordable automotive LiDAR sensor.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

That’s what happens when you start each morning reading blog’s like Joseph Romm’s Climate Progress and following the work of Dr. James Hansen and the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change. But during this same past year, I’ve also been attending the meetings of the South Bay Cities Green Task Force.

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