Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2016

More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed World Health Organization (WHO) limits, according to the organization. Global urban air pollution trends. While all regions of the world are affected, populations in low-income cities are the most impacted.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

—Andrew Lund, chief engineer, Toyota Motor North America Research and Development. Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. Toyota’s next generation fuel cell electric technology is now powering a new set of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. and Long Beach is an important driver of this program.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The Port’s technology development partners are Toyota Motor North America, which designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power supply system; Kenworth Truck Co., —Bob Carter, Executive Vice President, Sales, Toyota Motor North America. —Bob Carter, Executive Vice President, Sales, Toyota Motor North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2011

Coast Guard (USCG) will jointly enforce US and international air pollution requirements for vessels operating in US waters. The most stringent requirements apply to ships operating within 200 nautical miles of the coast of North America. Earlier post.). million tons per year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Professor Barbara Maher, from Lancaster Environment Centre, and colleagues (from Oxford, Glasgow, Manchester and Mexico City) used spectroscopic analysis to identify the particles as magnetite. Particles smaller than 200 nm are small enough to enter the brain directly through the olfactory nerve after breathing air pollution through the nose.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that BP North America Inc. has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and invest more than $400 million to install advanced pollution controls and cut emissions from BP’s petroleum refinery in Whiting, Ind. Earlier post.). —Ignacia S.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. ‘Environment’ was a word that appeared more often in spelling contests than on the evening news. We are imperilling food production, polluting our ocean and air, creating a more dangerous, less stable environment, and holding back sustainable development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. In some parts of Asia, Africa and South America, the researchers identified data gaps which prevented them from characterizing ozone pollution exposure patterns. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. The conurbation of the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto is one of the fastest growing urban settlements in South America with the particularity of being located in a very complex terrain at a high altitude. Tilo Arnhold. Wiedensohler, A.,

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2023

Is it bad for the environment? According to independent testing and data firm Emissions Analytics , they can be as much as 1,000 times worse for the environment. million metric tons of tire-wear particles are lost to the environment each year, equivalent to 30% of the weight of every tire used in the U.S. — Jack C.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

In fact, some experts predict electric vehicles (EVs) to account for 65 percent to 75 percent of sales in 2050—which is also good news for the environment. The pros of going gasless include reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel expense and—most importantly—less pollution. Fewer Traffic Jams, Less Pollution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

The researchers acknowledge funding from private donors, the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International Development Agency, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Vetlesen Foundation and the Alderson Foundation. Abhishek Kar, Ibrahim H. Rehman, Jennifer Burney, S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Less than a year after the first PowerReady project reached completion in a Manhattan apartment building, the program has supported the installation of more than 340 Level 2 chargers and 45 DC fast chargers—including the largest publicly accessible universal charging hub in the Americas, operated by Revel in Brooklyn. Curbside Charging.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Powered by two MTU 8V4000M55RN natural gas engines from Rolls-Royce and designed for use on inland waterways, the push boat is more cost-effective to operate, and produces less pollutants and climate-unfriendly exhaust gases than vessels with conventional propulsion systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Regulating mass, and thereby larger particles, is important particularly for marine pollution, as the over 50% reduction in the population of coho salmon on the west coast of North America shows. This die-off has been conclusively linked by academics to a preservative compound found primarily in tyres.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

Just mosey on over to the Republic of Texas where two of America’s biggest polluting oil companies are ponying up millions of dollars to pay for an initiative on the California ballot that would suspend our state’s Global Warming Solutions act, AB 32.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Under Navigant Research’s aggressive scenario, in which e-bicycle become a stronger alternative to passenger vehicles in urban environments, global e-bicycle sales could reach as many as 44.4 Navigant forecasts faster growth for North America, Western Europe, and Latin America (6.8%, 12.3%, and 9.5% CAGRs, respectively).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Ideanomics’ Mobile Energy Group (MEG) is expanding its activities with heavy-duty electric trucks as part of an ongoing effort to identify commercial vehicle activities where significant pollution reduction can be achieved by eliminating fossil fuels. Bruno Wu, Chairman of Ideanomics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc.,

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Efficient and inexpensive electric vehicles are crucial to California’s goals to address climate change and reduce air pollution. Climate change is devastating our state, leading to more record-setting droughts and wildfires that take lives, damage property, hurt our economy and destroy California’s renowned natural environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SunLine Transit Agency in California has awarded New Flyer of America—the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries—with a contract for five Xcelsior fuel cell-electric forty-foot, heavy-duty transit buses. At least 35% of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In California, Big Blue Bus (BBB) will receive $870,000 from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Near Zero Engine Incentive Program. Nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to a cleaner environment, the entire fleet operates on alternative fuels, including renewable natural gas (RNG).

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

.& Bloomberg , which reported on the study, focused primarily on the accident rates and air pollution — noting that the paper accused modern roadworks of prioritizing “speed over safety.” Meanwhile, EVs will likely increase specific forms of air pollution (e.g. & Those were the more sensational aspects.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It is akin to him saying that America has some of the best abortion and gun-control laws in the world, or that China has one of the fairest and most transparent systems of justice. Speaking of the folks in that industry, boy, aren’t they welcoming the proposed fuel efficiency like a long, tall glass of bear vomit? Look, I get it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Córdoba is the first city in Argentina, and the second in South America, after São Paulo, to sign this kind of agreement. The municipality has adopted short-, medium- and long-term strategic priorities to protect the environment. Córdoba is the site of the Alliance’s Santa Isabel plant.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2022

Among this number, around 2,200 were for Europe, 280 were for North America, 110 were for Japan, and 60 were for the rest of the Asian region. But while the Model Y has also been subjected to several recalls over the past months, most of them were software-based, which meant that they could be fixed through an over-the-air update. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. Determining effective strategies for mitigating surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution requires knowledge of the relative ambient concentrations of its precursors, NO x , and VOCs.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. Surprisingly, a survey by Zebra found that the average American only keeps their longest-owned car for eight years. This practice isn’t the norm throughout the industry, says only1, but it is gaining in popularity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The joint venture would also enable Plug Power to leverage its success with its current base of North America customers with global brands and to further extend these relationships in the European market. Plug Power is the leading hydrogen fuel cell supplier for material handling operations in North America, holding 85% market share.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. The current limit values in Mexico are equivalent to Euro IV or EPA 2004 standards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. We can use this information to guide the development of particulate transport models.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Electrek’s Take This is good news, but it’s watered-down good news.

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