Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The carbon intensity of both biodiesel and ethanol is derived by adding ILUC values (the Globiom EC study) to the direct carbon intensity of different feedstocks. The benefit will continue to increase in the coming years, as more low-carbon and renewable electricity enters European electricity mixes. —T&E study.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

AT&T is launching an EV pilot program as it will attempt to improve safety, reduce costs, and cut its carbon footprint. This is just one of several ways it hopes to reach carbon neutrality by 2035. One of several ways AT&T is aiming to cut costs is by increasing electrification throughout its fleet of vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Carbon emissions of the average car sold in the EU fell 2.6% Earlier this year, the EEA analysed preliminary car registration data for 2012, showing car buying habits across the EU. Danish and Portuguese people buy the most efficient cars, the data showed. between 2011 and 2012, cutting the EU average to 132.2

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

. “Government must therefore use the upcoming Budget to support private EV buyers, temporarily halving VAT to cut carbon, drive economic growth and help everyone make the switch,” Hawes added. The next UK parliament budget is set to take effect on March 6. percent in January 2023.

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Supercharged EV

JANUARY 6, 2021

Found an article on Forbes from 2015 already stating at that time that as long as people are buying and driving cars, Teslas are excellent choices regarding carbon emissions. 2-before anyone says "But electricity is generated from coal!", they took that into account too --> it's included in the 53% overall reduction. Convinced ?

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2011

Emission levels are having a growing influence on consumer buying habits, according to a new survey of UK car dealers. Research undertaken by used car data firm HPI reveals a 52 per cent increase in dealers confirming that CO2 emissions influenced customers’ purchasing decisions in 2010 compared to 2007.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50% of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). million lives lost each year due to black carbon soot.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author Black Carbon. Black carbon is responsible for almost 50% of the 1.9°C Black carbon is responsible for almost 50% of the 1.9°C From Molina et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Similarly, the researchers note, policies directed toward extending vehicle lifetime would be subject to two types of rebound effects: With reduced spending on new vehicles, consumers would spend their additional disposable income on other goods and services and generating additional carbon emissions in the sectors that produce them.

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2022

Toyota, which pushed against mandates for zero-emissions guidelines by 2035 in the past, committed to a 100 CO2 reduction in Europe by 2035. Otherwise, many loyal customers like us will stop buying Toyotas and move to other brands that are more environmentally responsible.” Seven of the fifteen will feature the bZ brand moniker.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Not only would this cut CO2 by more than five million tonnes during that time3, it would mean that the next million EVs could be delivered in just two years.” Government must therefore use the upcoming Budget to support private EV buyers, temporarily halving VAT to cut carbon, drive economic growth and help everyone make the switch.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

cap and trade or a carbon tax) is a likely key part of a US strategy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, such a market-based approach alone will not induce the investments in long-lived technology required to achieve a 50 to 80% reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by mid-century. For electric power. Samaras et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

The UK Transport and Business Secretaries launched the Government’s vision for cutting carbon from road transport over the next five years. The scale of incentives we’re announcing today will mean that an electric car is a real option for motorists as well as helping to make the UK a world leader in low carbon transport. billion (US$3.4

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: Hyundai Kia-owner Hyundai certainly isn’t in a big rush to go carbon neutral. Currently the 2024 Hyundai Nexo compact crossover and the Toyota Mirai sedan are the only two hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) EVs available to buy in the US, and that’s only in California. The biogas is then treated to capture CO2 and produce hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2012

Fuel and vehicle fees, on the other hand, encourage consumers to buy the most efficient models and thus nudge automakers to continuously improve efficiency beyond the minimum mandated levels. Also, performance standards generally do not incentivize automakers to surpass the minimum requirements.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

They’re “fuming&# just like the deadly CO2 fumes they’re spewing into the atmosphere as you read these very words. According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. The US Chamber of Commerce is another pissed off business group.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The research performed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows that a 25% and 15% increase in the albedos of roofs and pavements, respectively, in urban areas, could lead to an offset of approximately 57 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. —Menon et al.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Under the new rules, its 230g/km CO2 emissions place it in the top BIK taxation group of 37 [percent]. Dumbed down to the simplest explanation, that amount of taxes owed equates to a combination of income, vehicle price and carbon-dioxide emissions. percent] market share in 2023. The most popular Wildtrak variant with a 2.0-litre

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. So the net effect is that every day that passes, EVs are increasingly charged from energy sources that emit fewer carbon emissions and pollutants.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. For example, it’s cheaper for New York state to buy electricity from Canada than to build more power plants. Carbon sequestration. IEEE is here to listen to them.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Rush to switch to low carbon generation. In the light of competition OfGem gave permit to far too many outfits to join the Power company bandwagon and make a business on buying and selling gas and electricity. While Boris is in New York pressing world leaders to cut CO2 output here is the UK we find ourselves lacking in CO2.

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EV Central

AUGUST 4, 2022

You can see that in Australian communities and the way the accepted order of things has changed, from the politicians we elect to the cars that we buy. The process for manufacturing the recycled plastic emits around 80 percent less CO2 than conventional production of petroleum-based nylon. They concern all of us at a fundamental level.

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EV Connect

JULY 8, 2021

Because 2018 emissions from faculty, staff, and student commuting represented 10% of their overall carbon footprint (32% of Scope 3 emissions), Union planned to improve their EV charging infrastructure and encourage EV adoption hoping to reduce CO2 emissions. I think we’re a kind of forward-thinking institution.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 2, 2010

The Japanese carmaker has issued a new 8-step environmental strategy to help save energy and reduce emissions across its retail network too, so that you can buy a green car from a green centre. [.]. Tags: Toyota Carbon Trust Cars centre co2 emissions dealers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

One reason is the belief that the shift to a low-carbon transport is inevitable but that an early (and assisted) shift to electro-mobility will reduce the overall burden on society. where electricity production is highly carbon intensive, efficient electric cars will. Exactly how much less depends on the carbon intensity of.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive, traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry. If we want to add carbon footprint or any sustainability data, we could.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Unlike the others, however, Audi over the past few years has embarked on a comprehensive approach to developing a range of new CO₂-neutral fuels as part of its overall strategy for sustainable, carbon-neutral mobility: Audi e-fuels. solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

Plans to extend the carbon dioxide (CO2) and fuel economy labelling scheme to used cars has been welcomed by HPI. It has actively been involved with the Department for Transport, the Vehicle Certification Agency and the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership in launching the new HPI used car CO2 certificate that comes with every HPI check.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 14, 2022

That rapid blast of acceleration produces a grand total of 0g/km CO2 emissions. A similar performance saloon car with a sub-5 second 0-60 time emits CO2 in the region of 225g/km. Interiors are often produced with vegan leather, reducing their carbon footprint right from the point of manufacture. Availability. The future is now.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

Better fuel efficiency and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have become staples of new sports utility vehicle (SUV) releases as manufacturers realise that there is no room for compromise on environmental features regardless of the type of vehicle being sold.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2009

By announcing the grant will commence in 2011, Mr. Hoon is actually inviting consumers to wait until 2011 to buy an electric car. This is clearly detrimental to the introduction of battery electric vehicles into the UK market and meeting its target of reducing CO2 emissions by 26 per cent by 2020.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 30, 2009

Though details of the scheme were never confirmed it was believed it would have meant that importers of less fuel efficient vehicles would have had to buy credits, whereas the more fuel efficient vehicles would have been rewarded credits. km to 203.8g/km km in the first half of this year.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

The Budget confirmed and built on the Chancellor’s measures in Budget 2008 and the Pre-Budget report by: Confirming the new rules on capital allowances linked to CO2 emissions. Increasing company car benefit in kind tax in the future for all but the lowest carbon cars. Confirming future increases in fuel duty. Capital Allowances.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2009

Ostensibly, the scrappage scheme has been presented as an incentive to buy less polluting cars and therefore reduce damage to the environment. However, the manufacture of new cars in itself pumps carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The proposals are part of a £250m strategy, seen by the Guardian, spelling out a revolution in Britains road transport network based on ultra-low carbon vehicles. Something like 35% of all our carbon emissions are caused by domestic transport," he said. "Of The new breed of electric car. My Web del.icio.us

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Shipping is responsible for an estimated 100 crore tonnes of CO2 per year, and 10% of that is shipping oil. of electricity comes from sources that emit no CO2. Going solar now is cheaper than buying electricity from the grid and starts paying for itself from day one. In India 39.1% In Europe it is even better at 56%.

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