Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

The City of London Corporation—the municipal governing body of the City of London—has banned the purchase of diesel vehicles for its business, in a drive to reduce public exposure to air pollution. These vehicles will continue to be used until a clean alternative becomes available on the market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. The amount of this fine particle pollution in the US has declined since 1999. The current US annual PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Cities Anne Hidalgo and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced they are working together to create schemes to score new cars based on their real-world emissions and their impact on air quality and to provide that data in an accurate and accessible form to the public.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This finding stems from the largest global analysis of its kind, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as part of the Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) Collaborative Research Network. Specific action aimed at the agricultural and farming sectors may speed up the reduction of the negative health impacts of air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Medium-sized battery-electric cars are on average 14% cheaper to run than equivalent diesels today, if slow charging overnight near home and/or fast charging at preferential rates are available. By then more than 200 different EV models will be available in the showrooms. The savings can be higher (24%) in the case of Parisian drivers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

UK Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has committed an additional £5 million (US$8 million) funding to the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to help improve air quality in the capital. The funding is for a program of localized measures designed to improve London’s air quality and help compliance with legally binding European targets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The study found that almost a third (32%) of drivers who are open to EVs require a greater availability of charging points to make the switch, while one in five (20%) of those currently not considering an EV would consider buying one if their range were greater. RingGo survey. —Peter O’Driscoll, Managing Director at RingGo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

A new study provides the most detailed picture available to date of the global, regional, and local health impacts attributable to emissions from four transportation subsectors: on-road diesel vehicles; other on-road vehicles; shipping; and non-road mobile engines such as agricultural and construction equipment. of global ambient PM 2.5

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 12, 2009

London belongs to one of the largest cities in the world. London's undergrounds is one of the most developed in the world but also one of the oldest in the world counting over a 100 years. Overall the benefits that come from electric drives are huge, there is simply no pollution in the direct way, it's quiet and efficient.

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JULY 28, 2021

You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that. What is the London Congestion Charge? The London Congestion Charge was first introduced in 2003. It applies to most vehicles entering central London and is clearly signposted by a large letter ‘C’ within a red circle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The results will be publicly available, with the aim of influencing policy development and implementation, allowing consumers to make informed purchase decisions and demonstrating the improvements that vehicle manufacturers are making to bring about improvements in air quality. Dr. Adam Boeis – Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The study, which is also testing Ford PHEVs on the streets of London and Valencia, Spain, aims to better analyse and show the real-world benefits of such vehicles for the environment and for commercial vehicle owners and operators. Ford is extending its European plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) trial to Cologne.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The power outputs of wind and solar are intermittent, fluctuating according to real-time availability, whilst infrastructure must be built in specific locations. However, wind and solar generation is location specific, and it is not as simple as transmitting wind power from Scotland to power homes in London. 2 ] Swart, R.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

In 2018, the Government will publish a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy which will address other sources of air pollution. Air quality in the UK has been improving significantly in recent decades, with reductions in emissions of all of the key pollutants, and NO 2 levels down by half in the last 15 years. 100M – National road network.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the regulatory authority for international shipping, decided to implement a global sulfur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) (5,000 ppm) on fuel oil starting 1 January 2020 during its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), meeting for its 70 th session in London.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Launched in January 2019, Uber’s Clean Air Plan aims to tackle air pollution by helping drivers upgrade to an electric vehicle through the introduction of a Clean Air Fee: 15p a mile is added on to all London journeys which will help drivers with the cost of adopting an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow, 1 July, at Royal Society headquarters in central London. zero potential for pollution, ionic liquids are much “greener” than the solvents traditionally used in industry. So where there are 300 conventional molecular solvents, there are over a trillion available ionic liquids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

ISA speed map for Greater London. Transport for London (TfL) will begin a six-month trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology which aims to reduce road casualties and help drivers avoid speeding penalties. As part of the trial, which will start this summer, a London bus will be fitted with ISA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The LUTZ program grew out of the Automotive Council’s Intelligent Mobility Summit which was held in April 2012 in London. Driverless cars are another invention that has the potential to generate the kind of high-skilled jobs we want Britain to be famous for, as well as cutting congestion and pollution and improving road safety.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The tech incubator is aiming to deliver innovative mobility and transportation solutions that help alleviate growing global challenges such as traffic congestion, parking availability and pollution. The company has since expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York, San Antonio, Austin, Chicago and London.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

With our holistic approach to e-mobility in the bus sector, which consists of an electric city bus and consulting, we are already making a significant contribution to the locally emission-free public transport of the future and air pollution control in urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The app shows which cars are available and how much the ride will cost before a customer books a trip. We started one year ago at TechCrunch in London with the vision of partnering with cities to improve the efficiency on their streets. A driver app and comprehensive fleet management complete the system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Millard-Ball is the first researcher to analyze the combined impact of parking costs and self-driving cars on city centers, where the cost and availability of parking is the only tool that effectively restricts car travel. In London, motorists pay a flat fee of £11.50 (about $15) to enter the city center.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

The report, Europe’s Parking U-Turn: From Accommodation to Regulation , examines European parking over the last half century, through the prism of ten European cities: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Strasbourg and Zurich. The report found: Parking is increasingly linked to public transport.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Data for some components are available, e.g., for urban transportation or electricity. The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. Reviews by Decker et al. and Kennedy et al.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

To find the upside of emergencies, we first looked at the economic effects of a tidy little crisis, a two-day strike that partially disrupted service of the London Underground in 2014. London commuters found better routes, and Icelandic young people got more schooling and found better places to live.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2016

Transport for London (TfL) has introduced the first long-range, battery-electric BYD Double-Decker buses into revenue service routes. Route 98 was chosen given its status as a pollution hotspot in the city. TfL is putting five of the all-electric double decker buses on Route 98 operated on behalf of TfL by Metroline.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The current iSPEX-EU project, which runs until 15 October, is a scaled-up version of the original iSPEX-project that enlisted the general public to contribute to the understanding of air pollution. Participating cities include: Athens, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Manchester, Milan, and Rome. iSPEX add-on.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

study led by UCLA researchers has revealed that the smallest particles from vehicle emissions may be the most damaging components of air pollution in triggering plaque buildup in the arteries, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.Another study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, linked exposure to diesel exhaust with asthma.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) has agreed to move forward with a prohibition on the carriage of high-sulfur fuel oil for use on board ships, when that fuel oil is not compliant with a new low-sulfur limit which comes into force from 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Speaking at the launch of the IEA report in London, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that “ An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change. Based on available data, the report estimates that shale gas, produced to proper standards of environmental responsibility, has 3.5% Source: IEA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). The methodology used by Searchinger et al. SCOPE symposium on finance, food and energy crisis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

For the Tokyo electric taxi project, Better Place and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, are operating three switchable-battery electric taxis, which are available to the public at the taxi line reserved for environmentally-friendly vehicles on the first floor of the Roppongi Hills Complex. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

For instance, in Spain, SEAT’s recommended list price for its Mii electric is just €17.900 and the Nissan Leaf, one of the most popular EV models on the market, is available for €25.900. Moreover, you can save up to €6.000 on the purchase price thanks to several electric vehicle incentives available across Europe.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). can help reduce noise and air pollution caused by diesel and gasoline trucks that idle in parking lots, streets and alleys for hours a day while cargo is being loaded and unloaded.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. These PUMAs dont pollute the air, they dont make loud noises, and they go slow enough to prevent a lot of traffic accidents, especially for teens.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

they have a degree of autonomy beyond the reach of federal government and can often make tough decisions: for example, California’s climate goals and London’s congestion charging. Among these fuels natural produces the least of the “dirty byproducts&# , then oil and then coal which produces the most unwanted pollutants.

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