Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2011

How people choose to consume resources and use contraception influences their responses to climate change, according to a new study by a team of psychologists. If a family buys a fuel-efficient vehicle but chooses to drive more miles than they previously did, there is no gain for the environment. Swim, Janet K.;

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Contrary to Shakespeare’s existential question, to buy or not to buy an internal combustion car is a very simple question with an even simpler answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

The report’s best estimate of direct climate influence by black carbon is about a factor of two higher than most previous work. This includes the estimates in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment, which were based on the best available evidence and analysis at that time.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Since then, LTD hired a Sustainability Program Manager and conducted carbon footprint analysis of its operations to measure the impacts and benefits of public transit on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ports of Auckland (New Zealand) has signed a contract with Dutch company Damen Shipyards to buy the world’s first full-size, fully electric port tug. Ports of Auckland is a founding member of the Climate Leaders Coalition, a group formed to promote business leadership and collective action on the issue of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Noting the references in scientific and policy literature to the need for fast-action mitigation to help avoid DAI and abrupt climate changes, the authors define “fast-action” to include regulatory measures that can begin within 2–3 years, be substantially implemented in 5–10 years, and produce a climate response within decades.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 19, 2023

Table 1: Chapter 9 Energy and Industry Table 2: Chapter 11 Transport Table 3: Climate Change Commission Recommendations Table 4: Drive Electrics Summary Recommendations Part B: Detailed response Introduction New Zealand is on the cusp of the biggest transformation in transport in over a century.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A new study links summer's wacky weather to climate change. We consider which electric car is the Best Car To Buy for 2019. Tesla's new Navigate on Autopilot gets its first test. And we ask you to weigh in. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 12, 2024

A new report from Reuters found that insurance rates are climbing just as the financial pain of buying a new car is easing. There’s also the problem of climate change, and the more intense weather that comes along with it, making it riskier to insure cars in some parts of the country.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2015

Today, find out whether it's worth buying a used electric car, why some car dealers may support Tesla's direct-sales model, and what California legislators want to do to combat climate change. All this and more on Green Car Reports. It turns out that not all car dealers hate Tesla's direct-sales model.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first I wanted to talk about climate change deniers, and how remarkable it is that they still exist. A few years ago, climate change deniers were annoying, unscientific troll turds, the kind of people who choose their feelings over facts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. This unintended effect could erode goals of fuel economy standard policies by up to 60%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent collaborative study led by the University of Maryland (UMD), researchers found that consumers tend to buy something less fuel efficient than they normally would for their second car after buying an eco-friendly vehicle. Then, I tend to buy a bigger second car. —James Archsmith. —David Rapson.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Can software save the world from climate change and other environmental threats? We’re not going to know the answer to that question for a very long time, but a venture capital firm is betting that companies that develop business management software for addressing climate change can be profitable while they are trying.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Among people in advanced economies, 72 percent are concerned that global climate change will harm them , according to a Pew survey. Only 46 percent had confidence in efforts to reduce the effects of global climate change. And climate change isn’t the only problem worth worrying about. We want modular design.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

California’s work with leading manufacturers is an example of the collaboration that will clean our air, combat climate change, and improve health outcomes for residents in the state,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph. Stellantis and CARB (California Air Resources Board) partnered to reduce carbon emissions.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 per life saved, and so it just sort of grounds you, as in: don’t go to Mars.” “Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change,” Musk said.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As part of California’s AB 32 climate change program, Executive Order B-48-18 administratively created a goal of 5 million zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on California roads by 2030. This action expands on the prior Executive Order B-16-2012, which set a goal of 1.5 million by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Climate Change Emissions Policy Sustainability Vehicle Manufacturers' The brand has supported many projects, from helping a landfill heat a hospital with methane gas to helping truckers avoid idling their engines at rest stops.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 30, 2021

Automobile flood tests seem to grow pertinent every year as climate change increases the likelihood of record-breaking floods. In certain parts of the world, a car’s ability to drive through floods is a significant factor to consider when buying a vehicle.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 18, 2015

The forces of darkness who support this dirty, climate wrecking, grotesquery of ugliness of a project might want to buy some of those E&B Blackout Curtains offered by the oil company as their mitigation.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2022

Elon Musk declined a meeting to discuss climate change philanthropy with Bill Gates because Gates admitted he still holds a short position on Tesla stock, the automaker and sustainably energy company Musk has been CEO of since 2008. And you know, I have lots of relatives who own Teslas that I’ve helped buy for them.

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My Energi

APRIL 25, 2024

Last week (19 April), the UK Government ruled-out recommendations from the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee to equalise VAT on public charging. [1] More importantly still, it means that those reliant on public charging, with no access to off-street parking and no opportunity to charge at home (an estimated 24.6%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The average car stays on the road for over eight years; meaning that even if the whole world switched to buying 100% electric cars tomorrow, it would still take almost a decade for today’s internal combustion engines to be off the road. The ability to create gasoline from air, cost competitively with fossil fuels, is a game changer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

One in three Europeans would spend more to buy an environmentally friendly car even though 71% say they have reduced overall spending as a result of the economic recession, according to a Ford Motor Company-sponsored poll.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

FCAI spokeshead Tony Weber came out swinging scary falsehoods, telling the very willing listeners at The Australian Financial Review that if we continued to buy utes and SUVs at our current rates until 2029, the poor, innocent car companies would face fines of up to $38 billion. Yes, BILLIONS. FCAI chief Tony Weber.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2019

A new UN climate report calls for optimism in tackling climate change. And our latest Twitter poll asks readers which electric SUV they would buy. We took a Chevrolet Bolt EV to the top of the Continental Divide to see how its range fares in mountain driving.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2019

Hawaii fights climate change with a sea wall. Oil-rich Norway has become famous for how many of its citizens buy electric cars. Electric cars have become "normal" in Norway. Hyundai aims to keep particulates out of the cabin. And CEO Elon Musk takes another razor blade to Tesla expenses. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Plug in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The existential threat of climate change is finally getting the federal attention it requires. On January 27, President Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order that declared an all-of-government approach to fighting climate change, integrating it into actions across every agency and taking back global leadership.

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Plug in America

JULY 20, 2022

To combat climate change, we must electrify our transportation system, and we all want to do our part. If you’d consider a Toyota next time you buy a car, but there aren’t any battery electric Toyotas for you to buy when you visit a local dealership, keep reading! Add your name—consumers want battery-electric Toyotas!

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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. The United States buys power from Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL). —Jonn Axsen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate change goals. Upland is located in San Bernardino County. Greenkraft, Inc.,

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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 two regulatory agencies will also work together on emissions testing and enforcement of vehicle regulations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

The Energy Commission’s buy-down incentives are reserved in blocks for vehicle manufacturers or their designated dealers. The newly approved incentive go to the following companies: Tom’s Truck Center is awarded $400,000 for the buy-down of 20 natural gas-powered vehicles in the 14,001-to-26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight range.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 18, 2015

And now the SBBC is having its first fund raiser , cause there’s no more grant money and we need the dough-ray-me to buy bike helmets for kids who don’t have one of their own. The plan that’s now being implemented bit by bit all over the place. Tell them the Greenius sent you.

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