Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., of global and 17% of European reserves.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Heath has great job security: half of Phoenix residents are at risk of an emergency room visit or worse if their electricity fails during a future heat wave, according to a recent study. But to get the air conditioner’s compressor working in the first place, a faraway power plant had to produce a surge of electricity.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 25, 2021

From 1982 to 2016, Green Energy Consumers Alliance focused our attention on building energy fo r homes and businesses. But in 2016, alarmed at the rise in greenhouse gas emissions from cars, we became aware of the potential of vehicle electrification as a measure to reduce those emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Sales of new ZEVs and PHEVs will start with 35% that year, build to 68% in 2030, and reach 100% in 2035.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030. In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMT CO 2 Eq.), or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq. or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. From a powertrain frame of reference, Mazda is planning a building block strategy—i.e., ” The initial SKYACTIV-G (gasoline) and SKYACTIV-D (diesel) engines that are being applied into new vehicles this year and next show Mazda’s approach to the goal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives, largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. Shell is also working to use natural gas as a fuel in its own operations. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

The plan, California’s Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, maps out the route to more rapid greenhouse gas reductions by clamping down on these super pollutants. For heavy-duty vehicles, the State SIP Strategy calls for combustion engine technology that is effectively 90% cleaner than today’s standards.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Audi investigating its e-fuels in an optical research engine using laser-induced fluorescence. Our test shows that as well as electric driving on renewable electricity, there are other concepts that permit long-distance, low-emission driving. The optical research engine was another test station. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. Conventional coal-fired electric generating facilities capture about a third of the energy available in the fuel they burn. note in their paper.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The approach described is designed to meet simultaneously federal air quality standards; achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; reduce petroleum consumption; and decrease health risk from transportation sources through 2030. Under current control programs (left) and under the Cleaner Technologies and Fuels scenario (right).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The announcements, which are based on a joint vision of building a more sustainable freight transportation network, were made during a ceremonial gathering on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. The gathering also featured the inaugural display of Wabtec’s FLXdrive, the world’s first heavy-haul battery-electric locomotive. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The Fiscal Year 2018-19 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives , largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s comprehensive strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Clean Cleaning Transportation Climate Change 191

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Background. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr).

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

When Tesla unveiled the Megapack, the company positioned it as a battery that had the potential to render traditional coal and gas-fired peaker plants obsolete. Typical peaker plants are idle for most of the day, since they are only fired up to provide extra energy when demand for electricity spikes up.

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Hawaii Batteries Battery Tesla 88

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2015

Intrexon’s proprietary methanotroph bioconversion platform uses optimized microbial cell lines to convert natural gas into higher carbon compounds such as isobutanol and farnesene under ambient temperatures and pressures. Methanotrophic bacteria oxidize methane as their sole carbon source to support cellular metabolism and growth.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2014

By combining diesel-direct, diesel-electric propulsion and battery power the vessel can achieve average fuel savings of up to 30% and up to 40% reduction of emissions. One additional clutch was been added to the vessel and a 230 kW water-cooled electric propulsion engine between each main engine and the rudder propeller.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

Ltd is building a high-efficiency gas turbine power plant to utilize coke oven gas (COG) into power and steam to meet increasing energy needs in its region. The power plant will be equipped with three GE aeroderivative gas turbines, which are the first LM2500+G4 units sold in China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $125 million in five separate contracts to Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce-North America to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. One such company is Capstone Engineered Solutions, which is backing the No. Renewable natural gas made from organic waste is not a fossil fuel and does not involve drilling, making it appealing. Many of the team transporters will also be using biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative builds on the first-ever US-China Electric Vehicle Forum in September 2009. The two leaders emphasized their countries’ strong shared interest in accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles in order to reduce oil dependence, cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote economic growth.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

liter, 127 hp engine which can run on both 100% methanol (M100) and gasoline. The car starts with fuel from the gasoline tank and automatically switches to methanol once a preset temperature has been reached in the engine. According to Mr. Sigurbjörnsson, methanol can also be used to generate electricity onboard using fuel cells.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. The collective count of electric vehicles, encompassing cars, buses, vans, and large trucks, is anticipated to reach a remarkable 145 million by 2030. EVs are game changers in the reduction of vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. Chesapeake Energy Corporation plans to create a $1.0-billion

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

a developer and manufacturer of advanced range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains for heavy-duty applications ( earlier post ), is gearing up for a commercialization push with the appointent of four advanced engineering and commercialization executives. Vlad Kalika, Director of Engineering. Wrightspeed Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The researchers ultimately find that continued technological innovation is necessary and must be accompanied by cross-sector policies and changes to consumer behavior in order to meet Paris Agreement targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. However, motion control is a significant design challenge for free piston engines, Libertine notes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The 2011-2012 plan allocates $100 million to encourage this menu of transportation investments: $8 million to increase charging infrastructure and support for full electric and plug-in electric vehicles, which are expected to surpass 20,000 sales in California by 2012.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Volkswagen of America will invest $10 million by 2016 to support the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US, said Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Volkswagen will also invest to support installation of charging stations in certain dealer locations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. Port Authority of Allegheny County: A $1,104,000 grant to replace two diesel transit buses with two new battery electric buses and install two charging stations. Centre County.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

Parallel Systems, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers to reimagine the railroad system, has raised $49.55 million in Series A funds to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles that move freight. The funds will be used to build a fleet of rail vehicles, execute advanced testing programs and grow the team.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global push towards sustainability, the rise of electric autos in India comes as no surprise. As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution.

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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. While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5 China recently launched several EV demonstration programs (e.g., Earlier post.]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2011

The two ecoDemonstrators will build upon the 2005 Quiet Technology Demonstrator (QTD2) program that helped both the Boeing 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner exceed international standards for noise emissions. The program also builds on the CLEEN program foundation. —Captain John Hale, American’s vice president – Flight.

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