Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

The efforts also build on the airline’s existing programs such as investments in fuel-saving technologies and aircraft, as well as advocating for a more fuel-efficient air traffic control system that would reduce emissions from flying. All of JetBlue’s purchased carbon offsets are audited, verified and retired on the airline’s behalf.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. ones that burn coal) still see a significant amount of emissions from workplace EV charging. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is mainly due to our reliance on purchasing natural gas on the spot market to feed our power stations to make electricity and gas that is pumped into millions of homes for heating and the cost of gas has increased significantly over the last 6 months. In the U.K., Europe has wedged itself between a rock and a hard place.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

Most people are turning towards initiatives that build the environment rather than destroy it. The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. Car dealerships will advise you on the frequency of maintenance needed at the time of purchase. It’s Getting Easier To Go Electric.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

That’s why we’ve already doubled the number of alternative vehicles in the federal fleet, and that’s why, today, I am directing agencies to purchase 100% alternative fuel, hybrid, or electric vehicles by 2015. We’ll incorporate those conclusions and lessons from Japan in designing and building the next generation of plants.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The President called on Congress to build on the positioning of America to be the world’s leading manufacturer in high-tech batteries and reiterated his call for action on clean energy tax credits and a national goal of moving toward. billion from the nation’s energy bills. Create clean energy jobs in the United States. :

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

Very broadly, the report lays out an agenda to “Invest in Our Future” through education and innovation, “Build on Our Strengths” in the critical sectors of energy and manufacturing, and “Play to Win” by making overdue tax and regulatory reforms to stay competitive. All levels of government can encourage home energy testing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The investment consists of an initial investment and additional purchases of CRI equity over a 3-year period. This investment will build on our existing methanol technology, facilitating even more valuable solutions and helping to propel this part of our business in China. million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

To build this first public metaverse, Seoul will invest 3.9 Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced in sustainable ways, using solar or wind-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Highview Power has said it plans to build a similar plant in Vermont, although it has not specified a timeline yet.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

An industrial capital expenditure and fuel price adjustment for coal and residual fuel has been applied to reflect risk perception about the use of those fuels relative to natural gas. Updated handling of the representation of purchase decisions for alternative fuels for heavy-duty vehicles. mpg in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. Federal Purchases of Renewable Electricity. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If a cap-and-trade program includes offsets, regulated entities have the opportunity to purchase the “emission credits” generated by carbon offset projects to help them meet their compliance obligations. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Emission reductions from regulated sources (e.g.,

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Three of Australia’s largest coal-fired power generators have committed to building test facilities adjacent to their power stations using MBD’s proprietary growth system, the Algae Synthesizer, where smoke-stack CO 2 emissions are captured and used to grow oil-rich algae in solar bioreactors. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Susan oversees the development and implementation of the City’s energy and green building programs and policies. With my interest in installing solar on my roof I’ve been closely watching their approach and frankly wishing my own city of Torrance was following their lead. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

I heard that you can change zones 3 times and then you have to purchase another car. Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. Neutral ???? @

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition. In addition, I am finalizing the manuscript for Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array. billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply to this comment by rossocorrecto April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT There are already efficient 2 wheeled transports that are available for purchase today at very reasonable prices. The technology is available (evacuated tubes), theres no reason not to lead the world into the future. Thats double the milage of a Prius and a lot more fun!

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. To convince me and the general public about purchasing an electric car, there are a lot of challenges to overcome.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” Reduced Output.

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