Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unfortunately, thanks to the fast pace of electrification and the slow pace of standards bodies, electrical safety standards for heavy vehicles are lagging behind the market. Charged : So, there’s a lack of standards for vehicles that use higher-voltage electrical architectures? Geoff Schwartz: Yes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es9011433. Earlier post.). In the current study, Christine Costello, W.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. It has now received a Certificate of Conformity for the Semi from the EPA. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Benefits to Developing Countries. CONCLUSION.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve been building a separate open-source tool called Power Genome that pulls together all the public data from the Department of Energy, EPA [U.S. Jenkins: There’s the Big Wires Act that’s been introduced in Congress to set minimum standards for interregional transfer capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. On 24 February 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In an article “Falling thirst for Fuel Leaves Ethanol Enthusiasts with a Hangover” published on 4 May 2009, The Wall Street Journal summarized three of the challenges traditional corn ethanol faces today. First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Bird Cage Liners article this morning: Asking carmakers to comply with California’s rules would be tantamount to forcing a cancer patient to “finish chemo and then go run the Boston Marathon,&# General Motors Corp. All I ever heard them do was badmouth the small Honda car I drive and complain about CAFE fuel economy standards.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

California has led the nation in the fight against air pollution. The Trump administration attempted to revoke California’s right to set its own more stringent standards. Charged : We’re all waiting to see what President Biden’s EPA is going to do in terms of updating the federal emissions standards.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Q&A with former EPA exec Margo Oge. Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. However, this can’t be done with the stroke of a pen.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 10, 2024

If you pursued the news over the weekend, you undoubtedly saw articles claiming that the Biden administration both relaxed and tightened U.S. vehicle emissions standards. However, it has softened on earlier proposals that would have set the standards even higher. That’s modest, but not inconsequential.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Biden administration has announced three major pro-EV initiatives in recent months—a revamping of the federal tax credits , an infrastructure funding package , and new EPA emissions standards. But to answer your question, yes, I’m very pleased with the final standards. The EPA and NHTSA standards are interrelated.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. China recently surpassed the US as the world’s biggest producer of GHGs.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

Further, as one of the most polluting sectors globally and the most polluting in rich countries , it is necessary that transportation clean up its act, and fast, in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The sooner this happens, the easier it will be for all of us. As a result, many American steelworkers lost their jobs.

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