Remove Carbon Remove Cleaner Remove Financing Remove International
article thumbnail

Why nighttime EV charging is incentivized while daytime is cleaner

Green Car Reports

When it comes to overall carbon emissions, EVs are cleaner than internal-combustion cars, but how much cleaner can depend on when they're charged, according to a recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance blog post. A grid more reliant on renewable energy will shrink the carbon footprint of EVs charging from it.

Cleaner 168
article thumbnail

NRG invests additional $35M in FuelCell Energy for 6% of company; establishes $40M financing facility

Green Car Congress

which designs, manufactures, operates and services carbonate fuel cell power plants, announced a broadening and deepening of its existing relationship with NRG Energy including a $35.0-million The company has the option to continue the financing term for each project after COD for a maximum term of five years per project. per share.

Financing 244
article thumbnail

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

Green Car Congress

Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change.

Obama 249
article thumbnail

IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

Estonia 236
article thumbnail

Rio Tinto makes US$10M strategic equity investment in Nano One; strategic partnership on cathode materials

Green Car Congress

This partnership and funding will accelerate Nano One’s multi-cathode (multi-CAM) commercialization strategy and support cathode active materials (CAM) manufacturing in Canada for a cleaner and more efficient battery supply chain for North American and overseas markets.

article thumbnail

Hybrid used more for “tax breaks” rather than for zero emissions’: PB Balaji of Tata Motors | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

“Hybrid is being used more as a tax break rather than actually getting into zero-carbon emissions,” Balaji said during a media call after the company’s results. Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari is reported to have urged the finance minister to reduce the goods and service tax on hybrid vehicles to 12%.

Tax 40
article thumbnail

IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

Green Car Congress

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. Whichever way you look, we are storing up risks for the future.

2018 191