Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. Projected consumption assumes efficiency improvements in powertrain and vehicle are offset by increases in performance, size and weight.

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Coal Conversion Light Future 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM 10 and PM 2.5

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Coal Pollution China Gas 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). Natural gas overtakes coal as the largest fuel for US electricity generation. In some areas, natural gas-fired generation replaces power formerly supplied by coal and nuclear plants. quadrillion Btu in 2012 to 12.1

Oil 290

Oil Light Energy Vehicles 290

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. in emissions from on-road vehicles. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9

California 150

California Light Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Winter O 3 increases due to reduced loss via traffic NO x. Winter while PM 2.5

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Conversion Jordan Ozone Coal 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Additional processing and refining separates the oxides from their tight bonds and further groups them into light rare earths and heavy rare earths. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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West Virginia Coal Virginia Waste 170

Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

A planned network of landing spots will let eVTOLs recharge their batteries between flights, keeping people above the hustle and bustle (and traffic tie-ups) that come standard with taking private cars or taxis on city streets. A camera recorded the near-infrared light. They next used the far-red beam to illuminate the sample.

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Wind Coal Taxi Light 101

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Vehicle technologies include conventional internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric systems, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. Blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock, these bio-blendstocks are designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty, boosted-spark ignition (BSI) engines. O 2 (NMC 532).

2020 324

2020 Gas-Electric Lithium Ion Mariner 324

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Assessments of GHG emissions from light-duty vehicles should take a cradle-to-grave life cycle perspective and capture important regional effects. We report the first regionally explicit (county-level) life cycle assessment of the use of lightweighting and electrification for light-duty vehicles in the U.S.

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MIT Ford Vehicles Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. The report suggests that these impacts could be minimized through a circular economy approach that facilitates reuse and recycling—especially of batteries.

Climate 268

Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

The production cost implications due to the additional load varied from 3% in Arizona, where there is some available coal generation, to 23% in California, where combustion turbines are required to meet the peak load set by EVs. Managed charging could reduce the curtailment the most by an additional 16%.

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Grid Charging Power Grid California 396

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The second round is focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Earlier post.)

Carbon 199

Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The study found that a carbon price of $50/tCO 2 would be enough to switch from coal to clean hydrogen in steel making by 2050; $60/tCO 2 to use hydrogen for heat in cement production; $78/tCO 2 for making chemicals like ammonia, and $145/tCO 2 to power ships with clean fuel, if hydrogen costs reach $1/kg.

Hydrogen 221

Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price 221

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

coal, hydro, natural gas) on well-to-wheel (WTW) energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). 100% coal (pulverized coal boiler). For their study, as in their previous work, they used an 8 kWh intermediate battery capacity. 100% natural gas (combined cycle).

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PHEV C1 Emissions Coal 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Continued growth of on-road travel increases energy use later in the projection period because current fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards require no additional efficiency increases for new light-duty vehicles after 2025 and for new heavy-duty vehicles after 2027. trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

Transportation 207

Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

Battery-electric range for plug-in hybrids is 60 km, while electric range for full battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles is 180 km. Li-ion battery specific energy density is presumed to be 150 Wh kg -1 , and fuel cell specific weight is 3 kg kW -1. —Yazdanie et al. 2013.10.043. 2013.10.043.

Alternative Fuels 252

Alternative Fuels Emissions Fuel Switzerland 252

Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. These include low-cost solutions such as using more efficient light bulbs and lowering the temperature of your air conditioner. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal.

Climate Change 95

Climate Change Climate Coal Solar 95

Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

kilowatt-hours (121 megajoules) of energy is drained from its batteries. Depending on factors like the ambient-air temperature, how empty the battery is when you start charging, and the supply voltage to your EV's charging unit, the efficiency of charging can vary between 70 percent and 90 percent. kilowatt-hours? Because the U.S.

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Gasoline-Electric Recharge Gasoline United States 135

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Net emissions resulting from the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) depend on the efficiency of the conventional vehicle fleet; PHEV CD (all-electric, charge-depleting mode) efficiency; charging strategy; battery pack capacity; driving patterns; and generator mix used for charging. Battery size results in few qualitative changes.

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PHEV Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric 240

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

Power 52

Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. DOE’s most significant role in transport research is here.

Transportation 218

Transportation Fuel Economy Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Expanded the power sector in GREET with several natural gas and coal combined heat and power (CHP) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. Updated the fuel economy and vehicle weights of light duty vehicles. Added LCI data for the production of new and recycled cathode material for batteries of electric vehicles.

Transportation 150

Transportation Pollution Alternative Fuels Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. Coal technologies continue to dominate growth in power generation. Around half of coal-fired power plants built in 2011 use inefficient technologies.

Carbon 265

Carbon Supplies Global Transportation 265

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It also updated the costs and sizes of electric and plug-in hybrid electric batteries and revised downward light-duty vehicle travel demand due to the adoption of a new estimation technique. Beyond 2020, CAFE standards for both passenger cars and light-duty trucks are held constant. Transportation projections.

Gas 199

Gas 2011 Price Energy 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. million tonnes in 2050, due to existing control requirements and the shift away from coal-fired generation.

Emissions 150

Emissions Economy Gasoline-Electric Coal 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Boiler emission factors: updated stationary combustion emission factors for coal and biomass boilers for industrial applications. Vehicle fuel economy and emissions: updated fuel economies and emission factors for both light-duty vehicles (LDVs) and heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).

Oil-Sands 150

Oil-Sands Li-ion Fuel Economy Waste 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

Magnesium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of the structural metals; as such, it is attractive for use in transportation as well as in sustainable battery technologies (e.g, The hot reaction zone is either gas-fired, coal-fired, or electrically heated in a furnace; the condensing section is water-cooled. earlier post ).

Energy 236

Energy Production Coal Suzuki 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

These range from medical equipment such as thermometers and energy-saving light bulbs to the mining, cement and coal-fired power sectors. These include: Batteries, except for button cell batteries used in implantable medical devices. Switches and relays. Certain types of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

Mercury 250

Mercury Legal Emissions Global 250

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

Hydrogen 240

Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green 240

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to the Tesla owners, Norway is a canary in the coal mine of sorts, as its population owns more Teslas per capita than any country in the world. . The group is calling on anyone willing to help to spread the word about its efforts. “We are a group of dissatisfied Norwegian Tesla owners.

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Norway Tesla Coal Charging 83

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Needs – Solar and Battery. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link]. No Fracking.

Power 98

Power Powered Gas-Electric Gas 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Credit: ACS, Wallington et al.

Hydrogen 236

Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet 236

Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

For the transportation sector, electrification means replacing fossil fuels with electricity as the means of powering light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses. So, road vehicles, in particular light-duty vehicles, are where the most opportunity lies for GHG reduction in the sector. But again, location matters.

Transportation 52

Transportation CO2 Grid Fleet 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

By 2040, natural gas is expected to account for more than a quarter of global energy use, surpassing coal in the overall mix. Still, over time, global coal demand is expected to remain most prominent in Asia Pacific, primarily to support growing power-generation requirements. Projected sales of light-duty vehicles by type.

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Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands 252

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

Light-duty vehicle fleet by type - projections. Light-duty vehicle demand trends - projections. ExxonMobil forecasts that the amount of fuel used by light-duty vehicles in the US and other OECD countries will decline. Non-OECD share of global light-duty demand rises from 40% now to 60% in 2040.

2014 150

2014 Carbon Energy Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Almost all electrical consumers in production—computers, industrial drives, robots and production technologies, hall lighting and so on—already require direct current.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170