Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

million (US$141 million) of government funding, alongside significant funding from industry, to help develop the next generation of driverless and low-carbon vehicles, as part of the Industrial Strategy and the government’s Plan for Britain. The UK Government recently awarded £109.7 million (US$21.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Most (86%) “agree” (38% strongly/47% somewhat) that “ zero emissions vehicles are key to Canada reducing its carbon emissions ”, while 14% “disagree” (3% strongly/11% somewhat). There are many ways to produce hydrogen, and some are less carbon intensive than others. gCO 2 e per km driven.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The latest annual survey of the UK Automobile Association (AA) has found that of the respondents who may be replacing their car within 12 months only 1% will be looking to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

Though the Postal Service now says at least 40% of the new delivery vehicles will be electric, the flaws in the USPS environmental analysis remain and need to be addressed, said Woody, a research area specialist at the Center for Sustainable Systems, which is part of the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. The USPS estimate was 10.3

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. The Government intends to introduce legislation to underpin the carbon pricing mechanism into Parliament in the second half of 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

The goal of the mandate is to improve the environment by spurring the sale of vehicles with alternative powertrains thus reducing carbon emissions. These numbers suggest that the ZEV mandate’s success in Maryland will require significant change in consumer attitudes and buying behavior. The bill would take effect 1 July 2018.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The program is slated to invest approximately $90 million during this fiscal year to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, with the goal of reducing dependence on foreign oil and improving the environment. The award recipients are: Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

The UK Government is establishing a £30 million fund (US$49 million) to encourage the purchase of low carbon emission buses (LCEB). The fund is part of the Department for Transport’s wider strategy to encourage a shift to low carbon transport and improve air quality in UK cities. At present, low carbon buses make up just 0.2%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

Biogas is created from the anaerobic digestion of organic matter and contains approximately 60% CH 4 and 40% carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), plus very small quantities of oxygen (O 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen (N 2 ). The release of this CO 2 is part of a sustainable carbon cycle—hence, biomethane is a renewable fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2011

has found that money, not the environment, is the main driver of interest in environmentally friendly cars. Only 23% claim that the environment never crosses their mind when on the road. Auto Trader also discovered that 49% of UK motorists would not consider buying an electric car in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Lithium carbonate prices in China dropped between January and August 2019 by nearly 20% since the beginning of 2019 to RMB 65,000/t, equivalent to $9.25/kg CRU expects to see some marginal improvements on the demand side in the coming months as Q4 is generally a busier buying season. Raw material oversupply.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Swedish and Chinese researchers have fashioned a novel nano-alloy composed of palladium nano-islands embedded in tungsten nanoparticles supported on ordered mesoporous carbon as an efficient fuel cell catalyst. The Pd-islands (light-brown spheres) are embedded in an environment of tungsten (blue spheres). Source: Umeå University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, other countries benefit from this fact, with about $900 million flowing out of the US to buy foreign oil every day, and about 40% of that going to OPEC. [ 2 ] Furthermore, our environment cannot continue to bear the brunt of carbon emissions stemming from our heavy use of oil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jack Rosebro, founder of Perfect Sky in Los Angeles [and a contributor to Green Car Congress ], spoke of the need for government policy makers to move beyond incremental changes that are not providing enough incentive for the market to produce alternatives to oil as the almost exclusive source of energy for road and rail transportation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A new analysis by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) concludes that diesel cars emit more CO 2 than equivalent cars on a full lifecycle basis—i.e., 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.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2013

This project would complement these existing efforts by evaluating the ZEV market in detail from a more holistic perspective and provide a measure of the representativeness of survey and interview respondents to the overall ZEV buying population. Low Carbon Fuel Standard. —ARB FY 2013-2014 Research Plan.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

said Dr. Hansen this same week testifying to Congress and that’s not all he said. Dr. Hansen is giving us 12 months to get our act together: “ The next President and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2011

Swim, Penn State professor of psychology and her colleagues report that growing consumption and growing population are two significant contributors to human impact on the environment. Swim and her colleagues reported that peoples’ perceptions of how their behavior affects the environment influences how they act.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

million) demonstration program to encourage road haulage operators in the UK to buy and use lower carbon commercial vehicles. More than 300 low-carbon commercial vehicles will be involved in the demonstration program. The UK government will provide more than £11 million (US$17.5 million) in support to a £23 million (US$36.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Based on emission levels recorded in vehicle tests, car registration data analyzed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the report “CO 2 emissions performance of car manufacturers in 2012” shows that in 2012 all major car manufacturers met their targets for their fleet. Carbon emissions of the average car sold in the EU fell 2.6%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

Average carbon dioxide emissions per kilometer continue to fall in Europe, according to preliminary figures released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). A combination of changes in buying behavior, improved technology and engine efficiency was mostly responsible for this reduction, according to EEA analysis. There were 12.8

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JANUARY 18, 2012

The Council’s recommendations for energy policy, which reflect current policy discussions in Congress and within the administration, are aimed to achieve energy resilience and diversity. Optimize use of all US natural resources while protecting public health and the environment. Cuts in this area would be terribly shortsighted.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Revenues from the tax go into the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is independent of the General Fund; every five years or so Congress passes an authorization bill to allocate these revenues. User Charges Based on Fuel Consumption (Gasoline and Carbon Taxes). States use similar mechanisms.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

It examines, among other things, how likely consumers would be to consider buying or leasing an electric vehicle when they buy or lease their next vehicle. of GDP, and the reduction of carbon emissions by 17%. The online survey captures the views of more than 12,000 consumers across the Americas, Asia and Europe in 17 countries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In a briefing in Chattanooga in June of this year, Ron Drumeller, Head of Environment and Energy at the plant, outlined the Think Blue environmental KPIs (key performance indicators): Indicator. Think Blue KPIs. Think Blue is the long-term attitude of Volkswagen toward ecological sustainability. 2012 baseline. 2018 target. 1,253 kWh/car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

million hydrogen-powered vehicles could be on UK roads by 2030, according to interim Phase I findings of the UKH 2 Mobility project, a joint Government-industry to evaluate the potential for hydrogen as a fuel for Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles in the UK before developing an action plan for an anticipated roll-out to consumers in 2014/15.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Many of the resulting environmental problems can be addressed by stepping up efforts to meet new EU targets, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The EEA’s annual report under the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) assesses the environmental impact of transport across Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

To the biofuels industry, we say: If you build it, we will buy it. Industry leaders agree that biofuels represent a critical element in cutting aviation’s carbon footprint. —Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Environment and Aviation Policy Billy Glover. —Alaska Air Group Chairman and CEO Bill Ayer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2012

If policymakers are to succeed in their efforts to foster economic growth, improve public health, and protect the environment, they need to know which policies work, which don’t, and why. Cumulative CO 2 reductions from 2010 through 2030 would total almost 10 Gt, with a cumulative net savings of $800 billion to $1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The project will be the next step in CTDOT's zero emission bus deployment program with the goal to minimize the carbon emissions of Connecticut's bus fleet. Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment. Delaware Transit Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers. GM hosted Green Car Congress at the Business of Plugging In Conference.]. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. Earlier post.). convert] millions of cars on the road. —Felix Kramer. [GM

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AUGUST 18, 2009

With payments of up to $4,500 for motorists willing to swap their ageing gas guzzling vehicles for more fuel efficient ones, it seemed like a ‘can’t lose’ scheme with consumers getting cheaper cars, the automotive industry enjoying more sales and the environment boosted by a reduction in harmful emissions. So is this scheme green at all?

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