Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The CISTAR approach could decrease the amount of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, while reducing chilled and pressurized trucking of light hydrocarbons and simplifying transportation of fuels to end users. Research will also occur at all of the universities involved.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. clip Austin takes pride in both its environmental record and its quirkiness. The whole story is here.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

Two of the largest emitters of these pollutants are vehicles and electricity generating units (EGUs), with some of the most densely populated regions in the US still failing to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards after 30 years of regulation. For all charging scenarios in San Antonio and Austin, potential exposure is reduced.

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Teslarati

MARCH 26, 2022

Located just east of downtown Austin, Giga Texas will produce several of Tesla’s electric vehicles, including the Model Y and Cybertruck. Tesla announced it would hold an event to commemorate the opening of its newest production facility and second in the United States, Gigafactory Texas. Credit: Joe Tegtmeyer/YouTube.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

Usage-based mobility pricing and payments for vehicles, insurance, energy, congestion, pollution, infrastructure, etc. Secure mobility ecosystem commerce. Data markets for autonomous and human driving. Car sharing and ride hailing.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 6, 2006

The resolution was submitted by 13 mayors: Mayor Will Wynn of Austin, Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, Mayor Dr. Robert Cluck of Arlington, VA, Mayor Patrick H. This vote shows the increasing interest in plug-in hybrids,” said Austin Mayor Will Wynn , who has been leading the national Plug-in Partners campaign. Become a Partner today.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's the press release: PLUG-IN PARTNERS DECLARES VICTORY In January 2006, Austin Energy launched the national Plug-In Partners campaign, a grassroots effort to demonstrate to automakers that there is sufficient demand to support the mass production of flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. First, were economics.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2025

Saerbeck, Germany-based Enapter and Austin, Texas-based Agastya offer commercial megawatt-scale AEM electrolyzers used in industry for chemical reactions and heating. Fluorinated polymer membranes are an efficient option, but they pollute water and introduce forever chemicals.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This helps reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the fight against climate change. Most importantly (and obviously), they bring about significant environmental benefits by producing significantly lower emissions compared to traditional diesel buses. Immediate human health is also improved, as e-buses […]

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In the 1990s, California adopted a reformulated diesel fuel program; started a heavy-duty diesel truck roadside inspection program; implemented particle pollution standards for urban transit buses; and established standards for off-road diesel engines. In 2006, California began requiring ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel. Estimating DPM.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2023

Unitree ] ORNL researchers study the effects of energy use on waterways and develop solutions to limit water pollution. Happy Peep Consumption Day! Soft Robotics ] Appropriate facial expressions for Ameca in this video are selected by GPT-3. We also tried GPT-4; the processing time with 4 was longer and made Ameca appear less responsive.

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2022

” Paul stated he represented the Environmental Justice Organization based in East Austin. ” “Take this analogy: I just moved to a new neighborhood in Austin, and that is Commissioner [Brigid] Shea’s Precinct,” they said. “It’s a small item, right,” Paul said. I’d love to hear from you!

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to an Austin Business Journal analysis, this could save Tesla an estimated $16.2 In their presentation, they said that the facility would not produce lithium batteries in a conventional manner in order to limit waste production and pollution. million on property taxes over that period.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 4, 2025

Volvo claims it is: The global leader in zero-emission electric trucks, is committed to reducing pollution, noise and traffic on crowded urban streets. Voltera announced the addition of 294 charging stalls in Santa Monica and San Francisco, California, and Dallas and Austin, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). This initiative demonstrates and promote of the feasibility of alternative fuel sources, education and public outreach, and reduction of pollution/emissions. Total DOE award: $5,924,190.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Tesla CEO has previously noted that a home HVAC system is “especially important in places like Austin, which has next-level amounts of pollen in the air.”

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The car still has plenty of other impacts – higher carbon emissions and energy use, contribution to sprawl and land use, oil dependency and so on – but for these specific smog-forming pollutants, SOREs have a major impact.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Timed perfectly to hit the news cycle at the end of Climate Week and just ahead of Drive Electric Week , the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice announced the formation of the NAECC in partnership with other C40 Cities like Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and San Diego and Long Beach, California (among others).

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Cars That Think

MAY 19, 2023

He is a former president and CEO of National Instruments , an engineering-solutions company he helped found in Austin, Texas. AI and robots can be used to monitor the health of the Earth, remove pollutants from water and soil, and better understand viruses such as the one that causes COVID-19, Kavraki said. Mulligan Jr.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It takes attention away from micromobility, better urban infrastructure, and other strategies to improve the safety, pollution, climate, equity and economic returns of this sector. Already established in San Francisco and Phoenix, Waymo has recently launched in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. That was then and this is now.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

And it’s not just polluting vehicles, but golden oldies too which are making their way to the scrap heap. The oldest car to be traded in this week at a Hyundai dealership was a 1966 Austin 1100, closely followed by a Morris Minor, which was just two years younger.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2018

pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new open-access study from a team of environmental engineers and public health researchers published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The researchers looked at outdoor air pollution from particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. demonstrated a measurement approach to for urban air pollution mapping at 4–5 orders of magnitude greater spatial precision than possible with current central-site ambient monitoring. —Apte et al. —Joshua Apte.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Each of the aforementioned “primary energy sources&# generates carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases plus other pollutants coming from the contaminants or byproducts of using these “primary energy sources&#. The coal ash is known to have many toxic metals and other pollutants.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In search of thinner wearable sensors, Deji Akinwande and Nanshu Lu , professors at the University of Texas at Austin, created graphene electronic tattoos (GETs) in 2017. Dmitry Kireev/The University of Texas at Austin Some people mistakenly think that graphene isnt biocompatible and cant be used in bioelectronic applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

When life cycle air pollution and greenhouse gas emission externalities are internalized via a Pigovian tax, fleet electrification increases and externalities decrease, suggesting a role for policy. Air pollution is a classic case where free markets fail.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Most Americans commute less than 40 miles daily, so that most days they would consume practically NO combustible fuel, na d not pollute the environment while driving or idling. April 18, 2009 1:03 pm Link Writing from Panama where we could use a few more electric cars to reduce pollution. Give them the choice, and they’ll shift.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

used global composition-climate modelling to examine the integrated impacts of adopting stringent European on-road vehicle-emission standards for non-CO 2 pollutants in 2015 in many developing countries. Austin, Koch. Shindell et al. million metric tons of avoided ozone-related yield losses of major food crops; $US0.6-2.4 Anenberg, R.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods. This time around, though, the emphasis is on “green hydrogen”—that is, hydrogen produced using clean energy such as solar or wind power. And most green hydrogen production still relies on electrolyzers, which themselves consume lots of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The plan is designed to cut Australian emissions by at least 5% from 2000 levels by 2020, or up to 25% if similar levels are multilaterally agreed upon in Copenhagen.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. “To utilize these regulations, you first must establish where you currently are with air-quality levels,” she says. She earned her Ph.D.

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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. So why don’t journalist ever write the full story? — Kaare Nilsen 2. — Jared 9.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2019

The study adds to the evidence that exposure to diesel pollutants at what are considered relatively low levels may contribute to subtle changes in the lungs that may make people more prone to developing chronic lung disease, the third leading cause of death globally. These levels are below the current air pollution limits for PM 2.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: Pete Austin | Apr 14, 2009 9:46:22 AM @ Joe I am one of the first to say end the income tax and property tax on houses and cars (not land). The mines in Canada where the nickel & cadmium are mined is one of the most polluted places on Earth. The metals used are shipped (using fossil fuels) all over the planet for processing.

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