Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of these organizations.]. Reducing government revenue from income tax and increasing revenue from a gas tax is a concept most consumers can understand and may accept if it is well presented. The fear that a carbon tax is unworkable must be overcome.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The small number of operators who run mixed-fuel fleets (diesel and gasoline, or diesel and natural gas) will understand these tradeoffs better. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. When it comes to diesel fuel, the only significant variables are how far away it is and what it costs per gallon. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 29, 2022

This article may contain affiliate links. While the total cost of owning an EV is far cheaper than owning its gas-powered counterpart, the initial cost of purchasing an electric car is still high. If you live in a big city like Los Angeles or San Francisco, you’ll be able to find electric car charging stations relatively easily.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

“ Really, Los Angeles Times? It sounds like you’re saying that only “some&# scientists think weaning us off coal is the single most crucial thing we must do to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving us to a climate catastrophe. “ Some Scientists?&# That’s your report?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

REGULATORY RISKS In Oklahoma, which has several brine deposits, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission – which oversees oil and gas development – said it has no jurisdiction over lithium production and royalties, and referred comment to the state’s Department of Mines, which said it also does not oversee lithium. .”

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 12, 2023

I spent a day with a rented Tesla Model 3 on a recent trip to Los Angeles, and I’m here to tell you that the Model 3, like the company that made it, is equal parts innovation and exasperation. The follow-up article will go into more depth, but we’ll go over the broad strokes here. That changes today. It’s complicated.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

But if you read the news articles, solar advocates are supposed to be oh-s0-grateful and thrilled that the net metering cap wasn’t filled leaving no more room for new solar owners. It’s just another win for the polluting, greenhouse gas producing utilities and their own fat wallets.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

But I recently came across an article and data that suggests that perhaps more than one-third of US households with garages don’t actually park their cars in them. And another UCLA study of 32 Los Angeles-area families found that 75% of them didn’t use their garages for parking. The study by Jamey M. Volker and Calvin G.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. If Los Angeles County were a nation, its economy would be the 18th largest in the world.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan. Such is the case with the Biden Administration’s attempted transition of the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By Robert Gammon for the East Bay Express.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. people’s desire for electric over gas cars 2. — Goodbye 2. — Dan 3.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. April 16, 2009 3:28 pm Link Jared - that’s a one time emission and certainly better than what would come out of a gas powered car over its lifetime. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. — Jeff U 6.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It’s my great honor to have written this update on our South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group for the 350.org org Bill McKibben Jamie Henn Joe Solomon Matt Fitzgerald May Boeve South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. org site where you will find it cross posted and currently on their homepage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: Los Angeles Times. While most of us who read about energy slapped our palms to our foreheads , many people believed Governor Abbott and blamed renewable energy for power outages. Credit: The Texas Tribune. The Push to Decarbonize by 2035. Do We Have the Political Will? energy goal.

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