CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 29, 2021

Naturally, an article about a particular EV would make such references. Much of the reporting about electric vehicles focuses solely on the vehicles themselves, such as performance metrics: range, battery size, and acceleration. Other aspects are the frunk size, seating capacity, and cost. Electric […].

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Green Car Reports

MAY 26, 2014

While its light weight helps raise fuel economy in vehicles, carbon fiber has its critics. Recently, BMW defended the carbon footprint of carbon fiber in a recent WardsAuto article. An often-long supply chain has led some to question the material''s environmental benefit.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 14, 2021

While this performance feat is certainly impressive, it detracts from the primary goal of electric vehicles which is to help reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector as quickly as possible. The point of electric vehicles is to reduce the amount of carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has stated that the newest iteration of the Euro 7 emission regulations regarding nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide are “useless.” ” Regarding the new emissions rules, “It is not helpful, it is costly, it does not bring customers benefits, it does not bring environmental benefit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year, according to Terrance Gerlach of the US Geological Survey (USGS). Gerlach’s findings are detailed in an article published today in Eos , the weekly newspaper of the Earth and space sciences.

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Emissions CO2 Indonesia Carbon 249

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

A multi-institution team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power plant emissions. They have significant performance advantages over the carbon-absorbing materials used in current CCS technology. —Vericella et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2023

The Government of Canada’s commitment to eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies signals both greater support for clean technology as well as emission reductions across the economy from traditional sectors. Canada’s Assessment Framework uses the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (PDF) Article 1.1

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Canada Fuel Climate Change Financing 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Ramanathan. Wallack and Ramanathan. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Photo credit: Nick Starichenko / Shutterstock.com Contrary to common misconceptions , electric vehicles (EVs) generally have a smaller carbon footprint compared to traditional gasoline cars. One key distinction is that EVs produce no direct tailpipe emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Schematic overview of the primary black-carbon emission sources and the processes that control. the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Beijing 2022 Organising Committee aims to make the games carbon neutral, or as close as possible—a benchmark for the International Olympic Committee’s mission to make the Olympics carbon positive by 2024. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2011

Decomposition of greenhouse gas emission in transportation (A), relevant actors (B), and corresponding policy instruments (C). volume and GHG-based fuel standards) to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from on-road transportation need to evolve towards energy-intensity-based fuel standards (e.g., Creutzig et al.

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Transportation Emissions Carbon Standards 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. emissions (although this is not explored here).

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Oil Carbon Emissions CO2 220

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. The target of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030 was established through an executive order in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

Particles of nitrogen-containing porous carbon polymerize CO 2 from natural gas under pressure at a wellhead. Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. Courtesy of the Tour Group.

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Carbon Gas Energy Polymer 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2016

New research published today (23 May) in Scientific Reports has found a marked and progressive 80% decline in atmospheric CO (carbon monoxide) in SE England since 1997, following adoption of strict controls on gasoline vehicle emissions begin in the 1990s. The open-access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The fund is the result of distinct initiatives from two groups of investors: Air Liquide, TotalEnergies and VINCI, all fully committed to low carbon and renewable hydrogen development, each of which has pledged to invest €100 million each as anchor investors. These include: Groupe ADP, Ballard, EDF and Schaeffler. More are expected soon.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Global CO 2 emissions decreased 1.3% in 2009, the first decrease recorded this decade, according to an addendum to an earlier study outlining a method for updating global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Resources. 5 039701 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/039701.

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Stimulus Package 2009 India Emissions 210

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. Link to original article: [link]. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

The new rules will apply from 1 January 2025, apart from articles 8 and 9 which will apply from 31 August 2024. The new regulation contains the following main provisions: Measures to ensure that the greenhouse gas intensity of fuels used by the shipping sector will gradually decrease over time, by 2% in 2025 to as much as 80% by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

A UCLA study of the performance of retrofit systems for diesel-powered school buses has found that while the systems significantly lowered tailpipe emissions, there was no unequivocal decrease for in-cabin air pollutants after retrofitting. and BC (black carbon). The combination of both increased the efficiency to 33%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Teslarati

JULY 12, 2022

The article noted that a high EV adoption rate isn’t just good news for our planet. The study , published in 2021 in Nature Communications, noted that adding 4,434 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020 was equivalent to the lifetime emissions of 3.5 The article pointed to Tesla’s recent Impact Report.

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Tesla 2020 Carbon Emissions 89

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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Polymer Convert CO2 Carbon 255

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Net life cycle GHG emissions of five CO 2 -EOR projects used as case studies. million the US Department of Energy recently awarded to carbon capture and storage research projects, $5.9 The study boundary also excludes any emissions associated with the construction of the physical infrastructure needed for these projects.

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Oil Carbon Emissions CO2 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

O’Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Supremacy and Commerce clauses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Researchers from Tsinghua University and Peking University have investigated the effects of fuel properties on particulate emissions gasoline direct injection engines (GDI). The study results, reported in the journal Fuel , demonstrated that the fuel composition has a significant on particulate emissions from GDI engines.

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Gasoline Emissions Engine Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Fuel-based particulate matter emission factors (A: PM 2.5 mass, B: organic carbon fraction (OC/PM), C: elemental carbon fraction (EC/PM)), global warming commitment (D: GWC-Kyoto, E: GWC-All), and F: fuel consumption. emission factor (mean (95% confidence interval)) for CNG-2S (14.2 Credit: ACS, Reynolds et al.

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Gasoline Emissions Fuel India 287

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Life-cycle GHG emissions from fossil and alternative sources of electricity. This global climate change problem becomes manageable only if society deals quickly with emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal in electric power plants, they state. Technol Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903884a. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change 239

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Their selective processing could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 90 percent compared to traditional liquid-based separation. Most of the emissions come from the lack of selectivity and the low concentration at which they operate. Cite this article Stinn, C., It’s quite clear that these processes are not efficient.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to the Mexican Airline, it plans to employ the electric aircraft “for middle-mile travel across regions including Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Veracruz, providing historically underserved communities in northern areas of the country with access to carbon-free, cost-effective and convenient air travel.”.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 4, 2023

How the Electric Vehicle Revolution Is Changing the World Impacts Are Appearing All Over This article may contain affiliate links. From reducing emissions and preserving natural resources to enhancing energy security and creating new jobs, the electric vehicle (EV) revolution is changing how people live and work.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 90

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

Throughout 2014, the research team travelled the streets of Toronto measuring vehicle emissions from a mobile lab that resembles a Canada Post mail truck. Evans and team found that one-quarter of the vehicles on the road produced: 95% of black carbon (or “soot”), 93% of carbon monoxide, and. A vehicle emissions map of Toronto.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

Indian Oil also stated that it is aiming to achieve its net-zero operational emissions target by 2046, aligning with the country’s goal to achieve carbon neutrality for the country by 2070. New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Japan’s Panasonic Energy Co.

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Lithium Ion India Oil Manufacturer 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech calculated the life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for three different system scenarios for this proposed ethanol production process, using process simulations and thermodynamic calculations. MJ/MJEtOH, and the net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions range from 29.8 wt % to 5 wt %.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

The company is only second to Tesla in achieving the highest fuel economy and the lowest CO2 emissions amongst major automakers. Hyundai's Environmental Progress Between 2017 and 2022, Hyundai has successfully reduced its CO2 emissions from 311 g/mi to 302 g/mi and improved its fuel economy from 28.6

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Hyundai EPA Fuel Economy CO2 52

Teslarati

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“Big actors in the transport business play a key role in leading the industry’s efforts to lower its carbon footprint. Volvo Trucks’ press release shows that domestic, commercial transport creates 36% of Germany’s overall carbon footprint. What do you think of the article?

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