CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Everyone, their mother, and their dog can see that the auto industry is electrifying. That includes oil companies (like Shell) and gas stations & convenience stores (like 7-Eleven). Regarding the latter, the news this week is that 7-Eleven has launched its own EV charging network! The first […]

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

Americans' opinions of the automobile industry have posted a 15-point positive increase after reaching an all-time low last year, and now tilt more positive than negative for the first time in three years, according to a new Gallup poll. Click to enlarge. in Gallup's annual Work and Education Poll.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2015

It's not uncommon for media commenters to look at electric-car sales numbers, only to conclude that the segment is teetering on the brink of death. Electric cars will never become mainstream, they argue, because of fickle consumers who base their-car purchases on what the price of gas happens to be the moment they walk into a dealership.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The oil industry is a major consumer of electricity, and there are many other facets of the auto industry people don't think about.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The auto industry in principle is not opposed to the introduction of such mid-level blends (i.e., The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is current considering a request to allow more than the current limit of 10% ethanol in gasoline to increase overall ethanol consumption in the US fuel pool. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

CAR said that a number of positive factors support a high level of US light vehicle sales, including: Projected moderate US economic output growth in 2019; Historically low US unemployment rates; Relatively low oil prices continue through 2020; Underlying nominal wage growth continues; High levels of consumer confidence were reached in Q4 2018; and.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Rising EV sales are set to remake the global auto industry and significantly reduce oil consumption for road transport, according to the new edition of the IEA’s annual Global EV Outlook , released today. This shift will have major ramifications for both the auto industry and the energy sector.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Upon expected commencement of operations in 2021, LeMond Carbon intends to produce and to sell carbon fiber composite products to the wind, aerospace, oil and gas and auto industries where there is significant interest in our technology and strong adoption potential for lower-cost carbon fiber products.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

or no cars at all, but at the end of the day that’s not their decision,” said Elizabeth Murrill, the attorney general of Louisiana, a major oil and gas producing state that has been involved in a series of lawsuits challenging the Biden E.P.A. That's just three I thought of off the top of my head as I typed -- I am sure there are others.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

Further, according to the latest IHS Markit forecasts, the global auto industry will exerience an unprecedented and almost instant stalling of demand in 2020, with global auto sales forecast to plummet more than 12% from 2019 to 78.8 A faltering global auto market will have a big hit on sales of EVs. million units.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In response to the 1970s oil crises, engineers began contemplating ways to move the auto industry beyond fossil fuels, using much less sophisticated technology than what became available in the ensuing decades. Hybrid cars are often thought of as a fairly recent development, but few things under the sun are truly new.

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Teslarati

MAY 24, 2022

billion, and Tesla, of course, represents a revolution in the auto industry. And that could really change the demand picture for oil going forward,” O’Keefe said. Tesla’s profits shot up more than 600% last year to $5.5 Fortune summarized its thoughts on Tesla in the following section.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Some are valid, some are idiotic, and some simply betray a lack of knowledge about how the auto industry really works. It's always good to hear the arguments against electric cars. Into that last category may go some comments by one William M. Colton, ExxonMobil’s vice president for corporate strategic planning.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

First, we had to educate a Forbes columnist (and oil-industry consultant) about how the auto industry works. This seems to be our time for debunking dumb stories about plug-in electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The composition of the biodiesel itself uses the average shares of rapeseed oil (48%), palm oil (27%), waste oils (15%), soya oil (5%), tallow & grease (4%), etc. This is because the auto industry could not be fully responsible for their targets otherwise.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

PME= palm oil methyl ester, RME = rapeseed methyl ester, SME = soy methyl ester, WME = waste cooking oil methyl ester, FTD = Fischer-Tropsch diesel, HBD = hydrogenated biodiesel. JAMA bases its postion on the results of study from the Japan Auto-Oil Program subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

This has been a point of debate in the auto industry, as many appealed to the government to lower the tax rate for hybrid cars considering they are less polluting than the pure petrol models. Hybrid cars see higher tax incidence in India compared to their pure petrol counterparts, despite emitting lower pollutants into the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Segregating mixed end-of-life plastic by type for recycling has been a long-term problem for the auto industry, Tour said, and it’s becoming more critical because of potential environmental regulations around end-of-life vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

The CFA report examines historical and current day mileage and pricing data as well as new polling data to determine what consumers want and need, whether or not the auto industry can deliver on those needs, and whether or not fuel economy improvements will be cost prohibitive. Poll Results.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2011

The full list of US DRIVE partners includes: Auto industry: United States Council for Automotive Research LLC (the collaborative research company for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors) and Tesla Motors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. To optimise friction behavior in the press-shop, different types of pre-lubes (oils and hot-melts) are available upon request.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Oil prices rose to a seven-year high above $100 a barrel, while palladium, used in catalytic converters, also hit a seven-month high. Prices for nickel, a key battery material, rose to their highest levels since 2011 this week following Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Standards Will Achieve Significant CO 2 and Oil Reductions. The footprint-based GHG standards curves for MY2022-2025 are projected to achieve an industry-wide fleet average CO 2 target of 173 grams/mile (g/mi) in MY2025. The projected fleet average CO 2 target represents a 2-cycle GHG emissions compliance level equivalent to 51.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development. Founded in 1992, USCAR is the collaborative automotive technology company for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

We see a momentous inflection point for the global auto industry in the second half of the 2020s. The result will be rapidly rising market shares for electric vehicles in the biggest markets, even with oil prices staying low. It also factors in the rising EV commitments from automakers and the number of new EV models planned.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective air quality control is an essential component of green manufacturing for the automotive industry. Some of the problematic processes commonly used in the auto industry include: Welding: Both manual and robotic welding produce microscopic particulates that can make their way deep into the lungs. Click to enlarge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 11, 2022

As we all know, the auto industry will not be the only one to profit from this megatrend. Opportunities exist in a variety of industries. Oil giants such as Indian Oil Corporation and BPCL have already committed to installing 17,000 electric vehicle charging stations through their outlets.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2011

While the global economic climate may still be fairly dire, a new report suggests that for the UK auto industry growth will be driven by new technology and investment into alternative fuel powertrains over the coming few years. While rising oil prices might seem to pose a threat to auto makers, according to the latest [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

In addition, there is a new dimension from the substitution of oil, which is largely imported, with electricity and hydrogen, which are largely generated from indigenous energy resources. The impact in Phase II are typified by higher costs of technology and greater avoided fuel costs. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Finally, it is difficult to imagine the Venezuelan market tumbling any lower than it already has; however, as oil prices plummet, the government’s access to foreign currency will continue to be limited, thus impairing vehicle production. Europe; Russia influences. million units; a 27% decline over 2014 and nearly 40% (1.2

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

During the meeting, GM estimated the auto industry as a whole could see penalties ranging from $1,300 to $4,300 per vehicle by 2031. According to Reuters , GM executive David Strickland met with White House Office of Management and Budget officials on July 17th to discuss the matter.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The auto industry should play a central role in the energy discussion, Akerson noted, because light-duty vehicles account for about 60% of total transportation energy usage in the United States. Going forward, the company has committed to achieving a 20% reduction per vehicle in its global CO 2 footprint by 2020. Energy policy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Improved oil and fuel economy. Ford researchers began collaborating with Flame-Spray Industries and other suppliers in the 1990s to transfer this efficient, lightweight aerospace technology to a low-cost, high-volume application suitable for the auto industry. Improved engine performance due to better heat management.

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