CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Energy Information Administration has created a map showing what portion of the 50 US states’ CO2 emissions come from transportation (as of 2018*). This is an interesting use of data for a state comparison. As you can see above, states in the West and Florida (and Vermont) had the highest portions of their […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its Triennial Strategic Research Plan. The plan serves as a roadmap for research planning for fiscal years 2021-2024, and ensures that CARB’s research portfolio addresses policy and program needs.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schneider, a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services, will soon begin taking delivery of 92 Class 8 battery-electric Freightliner e-Cascadia trucks ( earlier post ) at its intermodal operations in Southern California. by 2025 and 60% by 2035.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Berkeley, California-based carbon transformation company Twelve and Tulsa-based Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) today announced that they have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an electrochemical process. more… The post Is the first fossil-free jet fuel made from CO2 viable?

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

California is moving to require the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) under its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). In the United States, the federal government aims to produce 3 billion gallons of SAF by 2030, supported by subsidies of up to $1.75/gallon gallon under the “Inflation Reduction Act”.

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MARCH 16, 2013

LP is opening a new carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in the California central valley. The plant joins Air Liquide’s five other industrial gas liquefaction plants in California. Air Liquide Industrial U.S. Air Liquide also announces the expansion of its Wilmington, Calif., carbon dioxide plant.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By Miles Muller & Max Baumhefner The California Public Utilities Commission broke new ground this week, approving new rules that will ensure utilities provide “utility-side make-ready” infrastructure (illustrated below) to support electric vehicle (EV) charging at no cost to the typical customer. Article courtesy of NRDC.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 3, 2021

Originally published by the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP): The Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) will open to new voucher requests at 10 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Dealers and other participants should familiarize themselves […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 10, 2021

Southern California air quality regulators approved a rule on Friday to cut down on air pollution related to the approximately 3,000 logistics warehouses that have proliferated in the region, disproportionately in and around Black and Latino neighborhoods.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Formerly Opus 12, Twelve is based in Berkeley, California. Twelve was founded in 2015 by Dr. Etosha Cave, Dr. Kendra Kuhl, and Nicholas Flanders, who met as graduate students at Stanford University. Twelve refers to the Carbon-12 isotope, the most abundant form of the element that amounts to 98.93% of the carbon on Earth.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Along that chain, battery scrap and off-spec material from Nanotech’s pilot operation in Chico, California, as well as from its planned commercial facility will be recycled by ABTC.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and West Virginia University (WVU), in collaboration with industry partners Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and C4-MCP, have developed a novel bi-metallic catalyst for the thermocatalytic decomposition of methane (TCD)—a promising approach for producing hydrogen without (..)

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 14, 2021

By Miles Muller, Attorney, Climate & Clean Energy Program State legislators and Governor Newsom just signed a historic California budget that includes unprecedented levels of investment in clean transportation. Originally published on NRDC Expert Blog.

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MAY 14, 2013

million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 Examining 2010 energy-related CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector, the report found California was the top transportation emitter (214.0 California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 7, 2021

California, a global leader in electric vehicle deployment and policy innovation, presented plans today for the next round of its Advanced Clean Cars […]. By Simon Mui With transportation now the largest source of carbon pollution in the U.S., the state that created car culture is now driving toward eliminating tailpipe pollution.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the 2018 Base-year Emissions Inventory Report , as required by Senate Bill 1014 (SB 1014, California Clean Miles Standard). The analysis indicates that the industry-wide TNC fleet has a 7% lower passenger occupancy than the California statewide passenger vehicle fleet.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Researchers have measured CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel use in California and compared them to reported emissions. The study, funded by NASA, marks the first time scientists have been able to measure fossil fuel CO 2 emissions over a large area such as California. —Graven et al.

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JUNE 29, 2019

The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is expected to mandate reductions of NO x emissions by approximately 70% by 2024 and up to 90% by 2027. Mihai Dorobantu, director, Technology Planning and Government Affairs, Eaton’s Vehicle Group.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

HIF’s facility in Texas will help remove 2 million tonnes of CO2 from the air every year. The eGasoline produced will meet the strict California specifications for conventional gasoline. The plant will produce carbon-neutral fuel—enough to decarbonize more than 400,000 vehicles annually.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 15, 2021

By Victoria Rome Many bills are working their way through the California Legislature having survived votes in their house of origin and are now moving to policy committee hearings in the opposite house. Originally published on NRDC Expert Blog.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

By Alex Jackson Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his administration’s revised budget today, known colloquially as the May Revise, culminating a weeklong tour to promote a “$100 billion California Comeback Plan.”

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AUGUST 30, 2019

California has an aggressive policy when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, and people want to know what the best policy options are and whether those policies are working. Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley , found that between 2018 and 2022, CO2 emission from all sources (industries, homes, traffic) across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped around 1.8% Around 70% of global CO2 emissions come from cities, yet few urban areas have granular data about where those emissions originate.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 16, 2021

California’s Mobile Source Strategy, and federal air quality standards. the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) proposed ACF rule?does rule promises to be an essential step to eliminating fossil fuel truck pollution. The rule is the linchpin to achieving Governor Newsom’s?Executive Executive Order,?California’s

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JUNE 14, 2021

By utilizing this technology, port operators like our own Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) can utilize a zero-emissions and scalable solution for CO2 reductions, which will contribute to cleaner air at the port and the surrounding communities where TLS operates. This is an important milestone in Toyota’s drive toward carbon neutrality.

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Reducing CO2 emissions widely aligns with the climate goals of many countries, including those that are a part of the European Union, Belgium included. “We are strengthening our renewable energy activities in order to contribute to reducing CO2 emissions,” Tine Deheegher, Manager of Renewable Energy Solutions at Eneco, said.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

A biomass power plant in Stockton, California, was the host site for the engineering design effort. According to the analysis, California has the potential to produce tens of billions of cubic feet of RNG per year from the wastes that are now being used for biomass-based electricity.

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JUNE 26, 2019

—Omar Yaghi, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a pioneer in this area of chemistry, who was not involved in the study. MOFs have the largest surface areas of any known material.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2018

The EPA is planning to cancel the special waiver that California has relied on since 1970 to set its own emissions standards, according to a Bloomberg report.

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JULY 14, 2014

The work was jointly funded by Cummins and partners ($3,790,027) in partnership with the California Energy Commission (CEC) ($2,712,140). Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2019

Prometheus Fuels is a California startup aiming to scale up a process that can sound remarkably simple that several have tried before: “We remove CO2 from the air and turn it into gasoline.” ” The process, which recently has been either a holy grail or a red herring for the oil and gas industry, isn't new.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

These two innovations have helped the Saratoga team win a series of grants from the US Department of Energy, the NSF, and the California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development program. The company realized it had invented a new and better way to make carbon nanotubes, as well.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The EU law will require automakers to cut CO2 emissions of new cars sold by 100% by 2035. However, several states have declared their intention to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars , including New Jersey, California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Connecticut.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2019

And a California startup company wants to turn CO2 into gasoline. Audi plans a more affordable, shorter-range E-tron in Europe. Tesla is introducing a larger stationary battery pack for businesses. The Kia Optima Hybrid merges back in for 2020 with minor changes. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The new EU law will require that all carmakers achieve a 100 percent cut in CO2 emissions by 2035 for all new cars sold, eliminating the possibility that gas or petrol-fueled engines can be sold in any of the 27 countries in the EU. Along with the 2035 ban, the EU plans to cut 55 percent of CO2 emissions for all new cars sold from 2030 on.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Berkeley, California-based Saratoga Energy won the $1 million grant based on a promising prototype funded by a DOE SBIR Phase I grant awarded last year. The SBIR Phase II grant will help Saratoga establish a pilot production facility, ramp up production, and optimize processes.

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