Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Vega Biofuels announced that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that significantly reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock for the company’s Allendale, SC pilot torrefaction plant by using site remediation biomass.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2024

It could also point to tightening profit margins and softening demand for EVs, especially in the United States. The automaker is constantly adjusting its pricing, recently slashing the cost of Full Self-Driving tech and bumping the price of the brand-new Model 3 Performance by $1,000.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. About 40 corporations, valued at a trillion dollars, own the vast majority of transmission lines in the United States. The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2023

The Clean Ports Program builds on EPA’s existing Ports Initiative. Respondents are also requested to explain if equipment and components are currently manufactured in the United States or expect to be in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

This analysis builds on a previous comprehensive life cycle analysis, updating that study’s 2016 assumptions and methods. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways; the levelized cost of driving (LCD); and the cost of avoided GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2023

The CEC will publish additional analysis this year comparing the cost of alternatives to the cost of extending DCPP. Ultimately, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission will consider whether to approve PG&E’s application to extend the plant’s operating license.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. This analysis indicates that energy storage could provide some grid flexibility but its build up will require decades. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The buildings we inhabit, and their parking lots, are evolving too. More and more municipalities are adopting new building codes that mandate electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in new developments, further facilitating the overall adoption of EVs. And this is where EVSE building codes come in.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

emission; a particulate matter emission standard for newly manufactured non-truck TRU engines (on trailers, domestic shipping containers, railcars, and generator set units); the use of lower global warming potential refrigerants; facility registration and reporting; expanded reporting and labeling; and fees. Reductions of PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The agreements are part of the White House’s Startup America initiative, which was launched in January and is designed to help young companies grow, move innovative technologies into the marketplace and create good-paying jobs in the United States. Vorbeck Materials , based in Jessup, Md.,

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Blink Charging

JUNE 2, 2023

million electric vehicles in the United States in April 2023. The benefits of having electric vehicle charging stations at your medical office building or healthcare facility might surprise you. If your medical facility has any kind of ambulatory or medical transportation fleet , vehicle maintenance and fuel costs all add up.

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Teslarati

MARCH 27, 2024

Recent reports have emerged suggesting that Tesla and the United States Government have objected to Mexico’s proposed electric vehicle charging station rules. As per Patel, Tesla has already invested a substantial amount of resources building out a cross-country charging network in Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There are 110 domestic fluid catalytic cracking units currently operating in the United States. This product can then be further finished into a conventional fuel blendstock at a petroleum refinery, where existing infrastructure can be leveraged to reduce the overall cost of upgrading.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If the steel industry were a country, its carbon emissions would rank third in the world behind China and the United States. Hydrogen or natural gas-based steelmaking requires ores with the highest iron content at 67% or above, making the cost and ore supply challenge even more acute for these processes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In addition to concerted research efforts, the Roadmap’s approach includes accelerating the transition of technologies from the lab to the marketplace, focusing on ways to manufacture competitively technologies at scale in the United States, and ensuring secure supply chains to enable domestic manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

We look forward to working with Sparkz to build on this initiative as traditional energy workers meet the challenges of the ongoing energy transition. Earlier post.). We have lost thousands of mining jobs over the last decade in West Virginia. —UMWA International President Cecil E.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell technologies. The agreement provides for initial units to be developed for both battery-electric and fuel-cell electric, with plans to ramp up production in late 2021 and early 2022, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for permission to build an estimated 25,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargers at sites across its service area in Northern and Central California—8 times the number currently installed.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 17, 2024

The effort is reportedly part of the ride-hailing giant’s goals to be emissions-free in the United States and Canada by the end of the decade. This data should help Tesla plan out where to build its next wave of charging locations, including those that could offer overnight destination charging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario. —Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. —Roman Cornell.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The resulting deal mimics what we’ve seen offered to the UAW after taking on all three American automakers since mid-September, with the Canadian pay bumps looking a little leaner than the percentages seen in the United States. This is in addition to a forecasted cost of living allowance of $1.61

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Blink Charging

JUNE 2, 2023

million electric vehicles in the United States in April 2023. The benefits of having electric vehicle charging stations at your medical office building or healthcare facility might surprise you. If your medical facility has any kind of ambulatory or medical transportation fleet , vehicle maintenance and fuel costs all add up.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Higher prices for lithium and other key battery materials (such as nickel, graphite and cobalt) continue to put upward pressure on the cost of batteries which in turn is putting upward pressure on EV prices, the report notes. of Australia’s lithium export volumes, followed by South Korea (0.9%) and the United States (0.7%).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced up to $64 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002229 ) to advance innovations that will build new markets for the H2@Scale initiative ( earlier post ). Hydrogen and fuel cells represent an industry with the potential to enable resiliency, energy security, emission reductions, and economic growth across sectors.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thanks to initiatives such as cost-cutting measures, Ford, GM, and Stellantis should be able to weather an estimated combined $2.9 The agreement’s 25% wage increase, restoration of cost-of-living allowances, and other benefits will add $850 to $900 to the cost of every car that Ford manufactures, as noted in an Automotive News report.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Jon Jacobs: Westwater Resources is positioned to be the only vertically integrated natural graphite supplier in the United States. Charged : Tell us about the processing plant Westwater is building in rural Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

will use Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and machine learning to rapidly improve catalysts which are imperative to the efficiency and economy of the United States by making energy production, manufacturing and transportation more efficient and eco-friendly. Awards include: Accustrata Inc. TDA Research Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

will end assembly of the Passat sedan in Chattanooga with model year 2022 as part of the plant’s transformation to build future electric vehicles. To celebrate the integral role of the Passat in the resurgence of Volkswagen in the United States, a short-run Limited Edition will join the lineup with Chattanooga-inspired details.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The Electrify America charging system features the first certified cooled-cable 350 kW chargers in the United States. Electrify America’s nationwide DC fast charging stations will be located in 17 metropolitan areas and along high-traffic corridors in 42 states, including two cross-country routes.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

However, its goal is to give customers easier access to at-home charging solutions as the United States EV infrastructure continues to grow under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). billion to build out a national network of EV chargers. The IRA has set aside $7.5 This was a $3,594, or a 5.5 percent decrease from November.

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2023

Tesla New Zealand’s revenue hints at the potential benefits of the United States Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Credit: New Zealand Government ) “The cost of EVs has reduced significantly over the past couple of years. million (USD$303.3), double the company’s $230.7 million (USD$140.1) revenue in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a new 10-year contract to build and operate two new CNG fueling stations and sell fuel to the company’s growing CNG taxi fleet. TAS operates about 3,000 cabs across its Yellow, Checker, American United and Blue Diamond lines. Taxi Affiliation Services (TAS), which operates Yellow Cab Chicago, has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2024

Understand European car consumers and their needs Improved marketing to increase brand awareness Expand dealership networks Build an extensive after-sales care service network, including improved service-and-repair operations. China is ahead regarding battery-minerals mining, a critical part of the EV supply chain that affects costs.

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Teslarati

JUNE 1, 2022

Many automakers have hiked the prices of their vehicles due to supply chain constraints and materials shortages, especially with electric vehicle batteries, which make up the bulk of the cost of an EV. Owners were advised not to park near other cars, not to park indoors, and to limit their state of charge to 90 percent in some instances.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, these applications need the hydrogen refueling station to be in place in order to come to market, and they also need an affordable cost of hydrogen to be competitive with diesel for long-term operation and increased adoption.

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