Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Previous generation methanol vehicles faced difficulties with cold starts but with Geely Auto’s NordThor Power (previously called Leishen Power) hybrid technology and the latest generation methanol powertrains, issues with extreme cold environment performance have been eliminated, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Hawaii have provided direct experimental evidence for the validity of a proposed mechanism for the first step in the process that transforms gas-phase molecules into solid particles such as soot and other carbon-based compounds.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of improved cookstoves (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the black carbon particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires. Abhishek Kar, Ibrahim H. Rehman, Jennifer Burney, S.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Electric cars have no tailpipe emissions, but their overall impact on the environment includes the electricity generated to recharge their batteries. The carbon emissions associated with that power vary greatly, depending on the local utility that provides it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals for a project to provide assistance in developing and implementing assessment and mitigation activities for diesel sources of black carbon in the Russian Arctic. Previous research on black carbon and climate overlooked that topic.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This includes industrial coal gasification applications in China as well as jointly pursuing the deployment of commercial scale IGCC plants with carbon capture. There is significant interest in seeing cleaner gasification technologies and IGCC with carbon capture widely deployed in a carbon-constrained environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2012

This will also result in substantial lowering of vehicular emissions and a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions by 1.3% The NEMMP 2020 has set a target of 6-7 million units of new vehicle sales of full range of electrified vehicles, along with resultant savings of liquid fuel of 2.2 – 2.5 million tonnes to be achieved in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Propel Fuels, California’s leading low carbon fuel retailer, plans to launch an electric vehicle (EV) charging network to bring fast and affordable access across the state of California. The move to low carbon transportation is well underway. Propel has deployed a proprietary, low-carbon retail platform throughout California.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 16, 2013

My young friends in their 40s, 30s, 20s and teens not only have the right to a future that’s better, brighter and cleaner than our past but they sure as s**t also have a basic human right not to suffer the consequences of the fossil fuel companies continuing to burn climate-killing carbon for profit.

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Green Car Congress

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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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We must quickly transition away from fossil fuels to stop carbon emissions. In doing so, we must make choices between various low-carbon technologies, all of which have some social and environmental impacts. If your perspective is the next thousand years, then wind power is enormously cleaner than coal or gas. 2018.09.009.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The newly cleaned water is then returned to the environment, while the algae are further concentrated to maximize the potential for energy and nutrient recovery. In other words, with removal of the algae and associated nutrients such as phosphorus, the water was much cleaner when returned to the lake.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Use of electric vehicles would achieve greater reductions in GHG emissions, corresponding to the rate that the electric grid becomes cleaner, through greater reliance on renewables and low- and non-emitting generation. This research points to the importance of two fundamental and parallel trends in energy and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. Energy use by households (the burning of wood, gas, coal etc) is the most important source of PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is sailing round the world in order to speed up development of the most innovative solutions for the environment. The CMA CGM partnership deals with the development of cleaner and more sustainable energies to eliminate CO 2 emissions, greenhouse gases and air pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We are committed to a cleaner, safer environment and to reducing our carbon footprint. The vans are used as support vehicles for roadside assistance and for distributing spare parts around Go-Ahead London’s locations in the capital. The electric vans are simply another step towards this goal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Transitioning our fleet to propane autogas was an extremely easy decision to make because we are saving taxpayer dollars, improving the environment through cleaner auto emissions and supporting a domestically produced fuel source. We estimate our fuel savings in the first year alone to be more than $82,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that while the state continues to stay below its 2020 target for emissions, there is much more work to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Because of the enormous potential impact of these products, reducing their emissions has a disproportionate benefit to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2 ] Furthermore, our environment cannot continue to bear the brunt of carbon emissions stemming from our heavy use of oil. We must fight against the increasing amount of carbon pollution entering our atmosphere if we are to leave our planet in better shape for generations to come. In short, we need mobility choice.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

The funding will focus on expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging accessibility, create cleaner non-road vehicles through electrification and the use of alternative fuels, and develop electric drive components and materials to maximize EV efficiency and affordability. Creating Cleaner Non-Road Engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

This study sheds light on the urban passenger transport sector in China, which accounted for around 20% (188 MtCO 2 ) of the total carbon emissions of the transport sector in 2016, and aims to answer whether the CO 2 emissions from the urban passenger transport sector can reach its peak before 2030 and how to reach the peak. 2019.110913.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

Under the plan, 95% of electricity by 2030 could be low-carbon, the government said. Currently, low-carbon nuclear supplies 15% of power as a steady source of generation to complement intermittent renewables. The strategy will see a significant acceleration of nuclear, with an ambition of up to 24GW by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The measurements provide the most detailed look at carbon emissions for a specific urbanized and industrialized region of China to date. Fuel combustion releases energy by converting carbon to CO 2 , but some is only converted to CO, losing some of the available chemical energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

Results from the world’s first civil flight powered by 100% biofuel that met petroleum fuel specifications without blending released by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) show that the biofuel used in the flight last October is cleaner than and as efficient as conventional aviation fuel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

The Maid of the Mist’s conversion to an all-electric fleet is a bold move that shows the world we take our commitment to lowering carbon emissions seriously. — Gil C. Quiniones, President and CEO at the New York Power Authority.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

A drone that detects nitrogen IEEE student members Ye Wint Aung [left] and Shrawak Shakya from Ohlone College are showcasing a sensor system that displays the nitrogen levels within the soil in the box and the carbon dioxide levels in the room. and its environs. EPICS in IEEE is a donor-supported program through the IEEE Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel). The investment in GBF will expand bp’s global biofuels portfolio and its lower carbon solutions for UK customers, in line with its strategic aim of growing its bioenergy businesses as it transitions to become an integrated energy company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The combination of performance and range, as well as the passenger experience that comes from riding a battery-electric vehicle, all contribute to making it a great choice for door-to-door transit in urban and suburban environments. This also contributes to municipal sustainability goals, as well as providing cleaner air on the roads.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

verdeX production also uses less water, partly by capturing all storm water at the facility, utilizing it in production and returning it to the environment. BRS is the only steel mill in North America to combine an electric arc furnace (EAF) with a Ruhrstahl Heraeus (RH) degasser for cleaner, more formable steels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

In fact, some experts predict electric vehicles (EVs) to account for 65 percent to 75 percent of sales in 2050—which is also good news for the environment. In the future, autonomous vehicles and battery-powered technology could work together to create cleaner, more efficient roads. Electric Vehicles: Right Now. The solution?

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EV Connect

APRIL 29, 2024

EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions , reducing the carbon footprint of the transportation sector, which accounts for the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. By working together, we can create a greener, cleaner future for generations to come.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis competition the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE , a competition to address CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels. While cleaner energy sources are on the rise, overall energy demand is expected to grow 37% by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Introducing accurate, robust and mandatory reporting systems for the carbon intensity of oil down to the project level. While such reporting will inevitably be incomplete in the beginning, they said, it needs to start now in order to create the necessary transparency for future reviews of the law.

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