Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

New projects planned in Finland, France and the United States are not yet in service and have faced major cost overruns. Without additional lifetime extensions and new builds, achieving key sustainable energy goals, including international climate targets, would become more difficult and expensive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility.

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Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2021

Tesla has officially submitted amended application documents to build electric vehicle battery cells at its German production plant, Giga Berlin. The post Tesla submits its application to build batteries at Giga Berlin appeared first on TESLARATI. What do you think?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

The partnership will benefit from Imerys’ existing mining footprint in Cornwall, its experienced teams, and solid infrastructure, as well as its lithium expertise developed through its EMILI (Exploitation de MIca Lithinifère par Imerys) project in France—expected to be one of the largest lithium extraction projects in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

This cornerstone is needed to build-up production capacity and organize feedstock value chains while avoiding investments that either fail to deliver emission reductions or cause unintended environmental impacts. —Pete Harrison, Executive Director for EU Policy at the European Climate Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

These investments will enable FiveT to establish itself at the heart of the hydrogen industry and help advance a broader global mission to address climate change and accelerate the energy transition. FiveT will communicate more broadly about the project in the coming days.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Following somewhat in Messmer's footsteps, French president Emmanuel Macron announced a plan earlier this month to build at least six new reactors to help the country decarbonize by 2050. At first glance, there’s little life to be found in the nuclear sectors of France’s neighbors. France, naturally, backed nuclear power’s green-ness.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

Building sustainable and clean energy systems will be harder, riskier and more expensive without nuclear, according to the new report, Nuclear power and secure energy transitions: From today’s challenges to tomorrow’s clean energy systems. However, a new era for nuclear power is by no means guaranteed.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 12, 2023

The entire world is seeking ways to mitigate climate change, but big changes don’t always slide by without some pushback from the public. Other cities in France have taken similar measures, though the European Union’s overall EV plans are more aggressive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Located at HORIBA MIRA’s headquarters in Nuneaton, UK, the facility is centered around a four-wheel drive (4WD) climatic chassis dynamometer and includes three individual climatic soak rooms and an ambient soak room.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Another six non-Arctic nations sit in as observers today: the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands. Many non-Arctic countries are interested in the Arctic as the “canary in the coal mine” that can teach them about how climate change will impact their own states.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high-latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates. The control simulation on the left did not include permafrost processes. —Charles Koven.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

—Pierre Duret of DI2S Consulting & Training and former director Powertrain and Sustainable Mobility, IFP School (France). Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments and other investors. DI2S Consulting & Training, Paris, France. Aramco Americas. Shell plc, London, England. SuperTurbo Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The European Union’s climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC , and the fourth largest city of China, Tianjin, have agreed to collaborate on the JiefangNan Rd New Meijiang pilot, a low-carbon city project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The “Trends and Projections in Europe” package includes an assessment of progress towards the EU’s climate targets, preliminary EU greenhouse gas emissions estimates for 2017, a specific analysis of trends and projections in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and briefing summarizing the recent GHG trends and projections in Europe.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2021

Live Science , the Chinese government plans to build several large MSRs. According to the World Nuclear Association , the country is eyeing thorium MSRs as a source of energy especially for the northwestern portion of the country, which has lower population density and an arid climate.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.” Professor Frances Wall, Professor of Applied Mineralogy at Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The US reached separate agreements with the G-20 and with China to address the rapid growth in the use and release of climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Left unabated, HFC emissions could grow to nearly 20% of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, a serious climate mitigation concern.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. We hope to see other countries join us!

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2014

is an electrified vehicle that is used to transport DHL Express shipments at the moment in France as well as in Aruba, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. In addition to its fleet, the company invests in its network optimization, operations, and a sustainable use of energy in its buildings and business operations. The Kangoo Z.E.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

As the UN climate conference COP21 opened in Paris, Bill Gates announced the formation of the “ Breakthrough energy coalition ”, an investment grouping of global billionaires focused on developing the technologies that will create a new zero-carbon energy mix. Xavier Niel, Founder, Iliad Group, France.

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My Energi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The UK has all the ingredients to become a major player in the global push to build our net-zero emissions future, including world-class research facilities and forward-looking investors. This is especially remarkable in a cooling global venture capital climate. UK cleantech venture capital investment was £3.2

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change. Back to top.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

When the IEA released its special report on The Future of Hydrogen for the G20 in 2019, only France, Japan and Korea had strategies for the use of hydrogen. It is important to support the development of low-carbon hydrogen if governments are going to meet their climate and energy ambitions.

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Cars That Think

MAY 19, 2023

The summit kicked off on 4 May at the Georgia Aquarium with a reception and panel discussion on climate change and sustainability, moderated by Saifur Rahman , IEEE president and CEO. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. cities in creating and executing climate action and resilience plans. UCN assists U.S.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.” The company believes that this novel approach will allow it to build a high-performance tokamak that is much smaller and less expensive than would be possible with previous approaches. But that’s not going to happen.

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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. In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

Launched at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities is intended to work with local and national governments, the private sector and civil society groups to promote energy efficient buildings, efficient water use, sustainable waste management and other activities.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade. Building every electrolyzer promised for 2030 would provide only about one-sixth of the green hydrogen required to meet climate targets, according to figures from the International Energy Agency in Paris. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) The proprietary technology allows the conversion of sugars into jet fuel, including sugars derived from waste wood and straw.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The drive is produced in Renault’s plant in Cléon, Northern France. The company based in Kamenz, Saxony, has been building the electric heart of the smart electric drive since 2012 (see the corresponding section for details). To save energy and further extend the range, the smart electric drive also features pre-entry climate control.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. Most people wouldn’t even notice the difference in brightness, he said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Understanding is most advanced in evaluating the health impacts of the major regional air pollutants, and builds on previous peer-reviewed analysis such as that undertaken to inform the CAFE Programme. Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change. Many countries are reducing fossil fuel subsidies while preventing adverse impact on the poorest.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. What to do? Two words: heat pumps. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours.

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