EV Central

AUGUST 18, 2022

Australia now has a Government “that gets it” and there’s opportunity to give Australians access to the “world’s best transport technology.” Words from Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy in the new Albanese Government, as he addressed the National EV Summit in Canberra this morning. .”

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The Driven EV News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Australia needs to introduce strong fuel efficiency standards without loopholes to bring price parity for EVs and to help reach net zero goals. The post Strong fuel efficiency standards – and no loopholes – will deliver EV price parity, says CCA appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Australia’s per capita CO 2 emissions are higher than those of the US due to an emissions-intensive energy sector. Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Westport Carbon Project (WCP) is in the process of being registered with the Voluntary Carbon Market Standard (VCS) and will be the first VCS transport project and one of the largest voluntary carbon market projects worldwide. Westport Innovations Inc.,

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We are the only country in the civilised world not to have a a fuel efficiency standard (some people like to point out that Russia doesn’t have one either, but invading your neighbours is about as civilised as drinking vodka out of a sock). READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles!

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tesla Model Y deliveries expected to start in NZ later this week as more cars arrive in Australia. New Zealand rolled out a Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount program to address the transportation sector’s CO2 emission levels and combat climate change. Tesla Model Y deliveries in NZ.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The proposed new EU regulations, which may come into force in 2023 and will update the 2006 EU Battery Directive, seek to make all of these considerations comply with strict standards geared towards minimizing the costs to the environment. Excessively rigid restrictions on how it may operate can stifle its ability to adapt and compete.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The regulations also provide joint, enforceable standards for development and use of carbon offsets, as well as a range of steps to ensure the security of the market. Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climate change and steer our economy toward a clean energy future.

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Drive Electric

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Press release 13 December 2023 New research shows the new Government’s policy to remove the Clean Car Discount (CCD) and weaken the Clean Car Standard could mean between 100,000 and 350,000 fewer electric cars on New Zealand roads by 2030, and increasing emissions by between 900 and 3,000 kilotonnes. And they won’t be needed forever.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

Gavin Jennings, Victoria Environment and Climate Change Minister. Climate control. The trial will allow us to examine the financial, social and environmental effects from the use of this new technology on Melbourne’s roads. The trial will assess the performance of the buses in three areas: Financial. Energy storage. Denso LD8i.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

After years of waiting Australia will have a CO2 emissions standard by January 1 2025 officially encouraging the purchase of electric vehicles if an ambitious Albanese Labor government timetable comes to pass. I cannot underestimate the difficulty in developing this standard. Tesla: A potential winner under NVES.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

This work is significant as salinity already affects over 20% of the world's agricultural soils, and salinity poses an increasing threat to food production due to climate change. Field trials were conducted at a variety of sites across Australia, including a commercial farm in northern New South Wales. Dr. Rana Munns.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

A better understanding of this zone is crucial to both improving short-term weather and navigation forecasts as well as long-term climate models. The prototype reported only position and not wave-motion data and had a third battery, accounting for its longer operational life than the three months expected for a standard tracker.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

The new metamodel is capable of efficiently simulating the urban concentration, surface deposition, and net export flux of these species that are important to human health and the global climate. These pollutants include anthropogenic aerosols, which have important climate and health implications. —Jason Cohen. Cohen, J.B.,

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

International evidence demonstrates that a Clean Vehicle Standard and Clean Vehicle Discount, including the feebate mechanism, should rapidly accelerate the uptake of zero emissions vehicles in New Zealand. New Zealand should use Europe, not Australia, as the source of homologation vehicle standards in this Bill.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature Climate Change that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. Imagine this hopeful, and not impossible, energy scenario for the year 2040.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And this was on top of a 2018 fire season that burned more than 700,000 hectares of land in California, and a 2019-to-2020 wildfire season in Australia that torched nearly 18 million hectares. Power companies trim trees and inspect lines on a regular—if not particularly frequent—basis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This is the area in which Australia-based ioneer is planning to develop its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron mining project. However, the listing will hold ioneer to a higher standard. Climate change could impact the frequency and severity of future herbivory events because future conditions will likely be warmer and drier.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Australian Government has released a discussion paper outlining the issues involved in the setting of mandatory standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from passenger vehicles from 2015. The planned CO 2 standards will complement the Government’s carbon price scheme and help to reduce carbon emissions from light vehicles.

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EV Central

JULY 25, 2022

Indeed, this was the one entirely happy, unstressed, how-good-is-this-EV-thing moment of my whole trip from Sydney to Canberra in a vehicle with not quite enough range (511km on the WLTP , or 587km on the ADR or Fairy Land standard) to make such extravagance possible. Mercedes-Benz EQS53 AMG charging at the Goulburn 350kW charger.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2022

According to Singapore’s LTA , “As part of Singapore’s efforts to tackle climate change, Singapore intends to reduce our land transport emissions by 80% from 2016 levels, by around 2050. Tesla Model Y orders start in Australia, Japan, New Zealand & Singapore.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place, which is an active participant in the global standards bodies, is demonstrating charge spot standards’ compliance with the world’s two leading charging connector standards—IEC 62196 and J1772—in Frankfurt. Continental, Intel and Microsoft. Progress to date.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2023

KoBold Metals The world needs a lot more metal Preventing the most catastrophic impacts of climate change requires achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 , which includes, among many other things, replacing all fossil-fuel-powered light cars and trucks with electric vehicles. In February 2022, KoBold raised $192.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Victoria (Australia) EV Trial—a major 5-year initiative ( earlier post )—has released a comparative lifecycle assessment of the environmental impacts of electric vehicles relative to conventional gasoline vehicles in Victoria from now until 2030. Source: “Environmental Impacts”. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Whenever a new rule comes out, no matter how well-reasoned and attainable, industry lobbies for it to be loosened (and not just in the US, see: Europe , Australia ), and usually compromises go their way, not the public’s way. In the runup to adoption of the rule, 100+ businesses called for a strong truck standard.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This new approach is not merely an incremental sub-system level change, like setting new vehicle mileage or emission standards, but a whole system change. The federal government has also increased mileage standards for new passenger cars and light trucks to a fleet average of 49 mpg in model year 2026 , up from 41 mpg today.

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EV Central

JUNE 18, 2024

His recent U-turns on supporting our Paris climate targets seem to suggest that he has had a few late nights out with Lay Down Barnaby Joyce and has decided to go full MAGGA (Make Australia Gas Guzzling Again). And because, just like Barnaby Loudvoice, he doesn’t actually believe climate change is real.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By electric grid standards, Anahola’s 4-megawatt-hour storage facility is not big. Currently, materials such as nickel, manganese, lithium, and cobalt are sourced from Indonesia, South Africa, Australia, South America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

How will the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness reshape society? Search This Blog Previous Post: The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? Powered by Blogrunner Latest From Green Inc. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc. Follow the money.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Gregg Small, executive director of environmental nonprofit Climate Solutions , said electric cars could be a big part of achieving energy independence and addressing climate change, if done in conjunction with energy conservation. "If Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

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