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JANUARY 20, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded $13 million to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and CALSTART to jump start California’s high-power charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.; Momentum; ORBCOMM, Inc.;

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JUNE 18, 2020

The new rule, expected to be approved by the California Air Resources Board on June 25, would require 60% of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in the state to be zero emission vehicles by 2035. Local and global air pollution benefits are almost indistinguishable. The California EPS finds the proposed rule saves $7.3

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AUGUST 26, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) rule. The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that the second installment of funding for the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Zero?Emission This solicitation is open to eligible bus owners throughout California, and funding is available on a first-come, first-served basis. emission buses.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Ricardo will partner with Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on two major contracts to enable natural gas engines to provide a viable, fuel-efficient, and less polluting alternative to diesel power for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles on the highways of California. and EnerPulse Technologies Inc.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted a plan that demonstrates to the US Environmental Protection Agency how the San Joaquin Valley air basin will attain each of four federal standards for fine particulate matter by regulatory deadlines. The newly adopted 2018 Valley PM 2.5 emissions by nearly 40%—PM 2.5

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The California Air Resources Board approved a smog-check regulation for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. The action taken by CARB will cover roughly 1 million heavy-duty trucks and buses operating in California. OBD systems have been required by CARB on heavy-duty vehicles since 2013.

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APRIL 19, 2013

The study also shows that the proportion of gaseous aromatic compounds—apart from benzene—in hydrocarbon emissions is two to three times greater in pollution plumes in Paris than in Los Angeles, even though the total quantity of hydrocarbons emitted in Los Angeles remains considerably greater than in Paris. Borbon, A., Gilman, W.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is developing a measure to reduce emissions from Transport Refrigeration Units (TRUs) by transitioning to zero-emission technologies. TRU gensets are typically engine-powered generators designed to provide power to electrically driven refrigeration units. NO x : 6,100 tons per year.

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MAY 29, 2014

Results of a new study suggest that emissions particle emissions from airplane traffic at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are a major source of particle number (PN) concentrations in the Los Angeles area that are of the same general magnitude as the entire urban freeway network. Inset shows wind direction. Credit: ACS, Hudda et al.

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JULY 29, 2023

all in California. The California Wind Sources Board intends to stop inner combustion engines in virtually each and every virtue. “Why would we allow for pollutants in addition to greenhouse gases when we don’t have to have them?” roads or somewhere else. Any other weakness is hydrogen’s expense.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

WM International Engineering L.L.C. in Darrien, Illinois, for a project entitled “High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines”. The partners will use the funding to develop new technologies to deliver efficient engine operations with near-zero emissions.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Power management company Eaton’s Vehicle Group has demonstrated cylinder deactivation (CDA) as an effective technology for meeting future global emissions requirements for diesel-engine powered commercial vehicles. New emissions regulations spearheaded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), U.S. Rapid catalyst warm-up essential.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. —Pavlenko et al.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Background. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr).

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that the application period for the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Zero?Emission This solicitation is open to eligible bus owners throughout California, and funding is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Emission Transit, School, and Shuttle Bus program is now open.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USDepartment of Justice (DOJ), and California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a proposed settlement with Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC resolving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and California law associated with emissions cheating.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

California Attorney General Kamala D. International Transportation Service, Inc.; In February, Attorney General Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case in support of efforts by the Port of Los Angeles to reduce air pollution through its Clean Trucks program. Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.;

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions. Representations to EPA.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to the Public Health Foundation of India, air pollution causes more than $36 billion of economic losses each year and about one of every six deaths in India are caused by air pollution. Petroleum diesel emissions are a significant contributor to poor air quality and health issues in India.

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MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Improving the health, quality of life, and local economy of California’s most burdened communities is a critical element of the project. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Comparison of brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption at rated power (ICOMIA Mode 5), hydrogen vs. gasoline engines. Such an engine could provide a cost-effective solution for small recreational vehicle- and motorcycle applications. Oh and Plante. Click to enlarge. —Oh and Plante. Oh and Plante. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. The last, noted Ryan Hart from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in his talk at the SAE symposium, is not a negligible problem.).

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MAY 13, 2021

California leads the way in the United States as more than 4% of its automotive fleet is electric. That is the same for three notable cities in Southern California, where over 90% of Californians breathe unhealthy level of one or more air pollutants during some part of the year.

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JULY 30, 2014

Isolated droplet combustion experiments performed on the International Space Station (ISS) by a team of international researchers have revealed a new type of cool-burning flames. The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

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The state has also said that it’s aiming to get one million zero-emission vehicles on its roads by 2030, along with its plan to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution entirely by 2050. This standard will make clean vehicles more accessible across the state and improve air quality in local communities overburdened by pollution from busy roadways.”

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Such reasons include advantages to the electrical grid such as load balancing and energy storage, increased jobs and economic development, reduced stormwater pollution and consumer savings. —Matthew Metz, lead author of the article and founder of Coltura.

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JUNE 30, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve California’s air quality plans (the State Implementation Plans, SIP) for fine particles (PM 2.5 ) in the South Coast (SC) and San Joaquin Valley (SJV). These plans will reduce pollution to the level required by the health-based 1997 PM 2.5 in California.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Autopia is one of the longer-running attractions at the Anaheim, California, Walt Disney Co. Disneyland will phase out the gasoline engines in its Autopia vehicles “within the next 30 months,” according to the Los Angeles Times. theme park and it undoubtedly has a role in nurturing auto enthusiasm for kids.

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MAY 26, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a plan to mitigate statewide harm from more than 10,000 tons of smog-causing pollutants released in the state due to Volkswagen’s (VW) use of illegal “defeat devices” in diesel passenger cars. The National VW Environmental Trust provides California with $423 million for this purpose.

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MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. Source: College of Engineering. There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. This is important, especially in the relatively clean upper troposphere.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The Port of Oakland, California, has completed construction of its shore power (also known as “cold-ironing” infrastructure. Shore Power is a shore-to-ship connection that provides electrical power to the ship, thereby significantly reducing diesel and other air pollutant emissions from ships while they are at berth.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The latest corporate shoe to drop belongs to Cummins , best known as a maker of diesel engines for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Cummins reached an agreement in principle with the US Justice Department and the state of California under which the engine manufacturer will pay a $1.6-billion

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JUNE 26, 2015

John Wall, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Awards , California’s premier award recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improving air quality. Dr. Kirk R.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

An aerial methane survey conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), California Energy Commission (CEC) and NASA has found that just 10% of the point sources were responsible for 60% of the total methane emissions detected. The most startling finding, however, was that less than 0.2%

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MARCH 15, 2024

Up to 80% of brake-dust particles have an electric charge, which could serve as a means of controlling brake dust and improving air quality, according to a new study from the University of California, Irvine (via Green Car Congress ). A similar argument has been made about particulate emissions from tires.

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