Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

As part of a pilot project, Audi is procuring 20-inch wheels for the Audi e-tron GT electric car that are made from low-CO 2 emission aluminum supplied by Alcoa to RONAL GROUP, the wheel’s manufacturer. The Audi e-tron GT is the first Audi electric car to be built in the Böllinger Höfe at the Neckarsulm site in Germany.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Chinese EVs achieve greater emissions reductions over time due to improved efficiency and a greener power grid, states a study. While over 10% of Chinese car sales are now electric, the entire life cycle of EVs still generates carbon emissions.

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Emissions Power Grid Electric Cars Chinese 143

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that the rising use of ride-hailing services is increasing carbon emissions, with ride-hailing trips producing nearly 70% greater emissions compared to the trips they are replacing. Error bars for bus and rail emissions represent variability among cities.

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Emissions Cars Cleaner Climate 543

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Sales of electric cars are rising in the UK, which has led to a drop in carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Transportation Emissions Electric Cars Cars 145

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

has set the goal to achieve carbon neutrality across the company’s operations and the life cycle of its products by 2050. The company will also strive for greater energy and material efficiencies to support longer-term carbon neutrality ambitions. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Nissan Carbon Market Climate Change 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

billion) to expand its AP60 ( earlier post ) aluminum smelter equipped with low-carbon technology at Complexe Jonquière in Canada. The investment will add 96 new AP60 pots, increasing capacity by approximately 160,000 metric tonnes of primary aluminum per year, enough for 400,000 electric cars. Rio Tinto will invest $1.1

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Carbon Canada Supplies Industrial 221

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2021

A cartoon on Fakebook spreads lies about EV emissions. PolitiFact sets the record straight.

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Emissions Carbon Electric Cars Cars 141

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions. Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric 52

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As Volkswagen ramps up to build a new generation of mass-market electric vehicles in the aftermath of its diesel scandal, regulators and environmental groups will likely be paying close attention to their emissions—especially the emissions created in making them.

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Emissions Carbon Electric Cars Production 167

Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2022

Electric cars are only as clean as the grid they plug into, and the emissions from using your EV will keep dropping over the years you use it because the grid keeps getting cleaner.

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Electric Cars Cleaner EPA Grid 147

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

Stora Enso’s pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials from lignin has started operations. Pilot production of Lignode by Stora Enso, wood-based carbon for batteries, is currently being ramped up. Applications include electric vehicles and consumer electronics as well as large-scale energy storage systems.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Finland 221

Teslarati

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Tesla’s customer base in China continues to grow with every quarter, and with Gigafactory Shanghai still in the process of optimizing its operations, there is a good chance that the following quarters will see even more local customers take delivery of their premium electric cars in the coming months.

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China Carbon Emissions Tesla 132

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 18, 2022

By focusing on ways to improve efficiency at its factories, EV brand Polestar has managed to reduce carbon emissions by 6% per car.

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Carbon Emissions Cars Electric Vehicles 102

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2021

Added emissions from SUVs cancelled out emissions reductions by electric cars in 2020, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Emissions from SUVs increased last year, even as overall carbon emissions decreased due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Emissions 2020 SUV Carbon 172

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The report, which uses existing, open-source data to model the current trajectory for emissions stemming from the car industry, was carried out by global management consulting firm Kearney. … —Pathway Report Passenger vehicles currently account for 15% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally.

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Industrial Industry Emissions Supplies 195

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 2, 2024

A zero emissions future is fascinating, isn’t it? Aligning investment and innovation cycles helps to reduce the residual emissions burden from. Aligning investment and innovation cycles helps to reduce the residual emissions burden from. It’s a world of change and reinvigoration, a chance to reflect and renew.

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Renewable Emissions Future Industrial 115

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2022

Electric cars don't produce "tailpipe" emissions, but their overall carbon emissions are not zero. The majority of EVs get their electricity from the grid, which in the United States is still 60% fossil-fueled, the group.

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Standards Emissions United States Grid 153

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

A team of researchers in China suggest that, in the context of promoting the use of clean fuel vehicles and increasing vehicle fuel efficiency, CO 2 emissions of China’s urban passenger transport sector could reach a peak of 225 MtCO 2 in 2030. A paper on their study appears in the journal Energy Policy. —Li and Yu.

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Transportation Emissions China Taxi 316

Green Car Reports

MAY 27, 2021

Cancelling out the impact of human activity on the environment would require electric cars to achieve 60% global-market share by 2030, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Emissions Global Sale Environment 210

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 26, 2024

Polestar 3 Cuts Its Carbon Footprint To 24.7 tCO2e By Reducing Aluminium & Battery Related Emissions Polestar creates exclusive electric performance cars that harness minimalistic design, technological innovations, and sustainable solutions to make the desirable choice and the right choice one and the same.

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Carbon Emissions Design Batteries 101

Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Plug-in electric vehicles, including all-electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 5.5 The estimates used regional electric grid mixes and EV/PHEV registration locations.

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CO2 Plug-in Plug Emissions 128

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. They note that the the impacts of battery production on electric vehicles’ overall emissions is “an especially complex topic”.

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Manufacturer Emissions Batteries Battery 270

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Tesla electric cars don't produce "tailpipe" emissions, but a new investment by the automaker could negatively affect its overall carbon footprint. billion of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, and would soon accept bitcoin as payment for its cars. But bitcoin is estimated to produce more carbon.

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Carbon Tesla Emissions Electric Cars 153

Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 19, 2023

(CTR) announced a major investment of more than $100 million from Stellantis to advance the development of CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen project, the world’s largest geothermal lithium project with a total resource capacity to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent each year.

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Emissions Production Carbon Electric Cars 98

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

T&E has commissioned Emissions Analytics to test three of the most popular PHEVs sold in 2019: a BMW X5 (longest EV range PHEV available), a Volvo XC60 and the Mitsubishi Outlander. Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving.

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Plug-in CO2 Plug Emissions 243

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When electric cars first arrived in 2011, it was a reasonable question: Aren't you just shifting emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack? It's not.

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Carbon Electric Cars Cars Gasoline-Electric 135

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volvo Cars has published a lifecycle analysis report on its second fully electric car, the C40 Recharge, which shows the potential CO 2 reductions if a car is built and charged using clean energy sources. Choice of methodology has a significant impact on the total carbon footprint.

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Recharge Volvo Clean Cleaning 433

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

It aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. The result is expected to be fossil-free steelmaking technology, with virtually no carbon footprint. By 2040, Volvo Cars’ ambition is to be a climate-neutral company.

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Volvo Cars Coal Hydrogen 439

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Battery-electric cars produce no direct carbon emissions from driving, but those are not the only potential source of emissions related to these vehicles. The lifetime carbon emissions of electric cars seem to be the question that launches a thousand studies.

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Carbon Emissions Electric Cars Cars 60

Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Volvo Trucks North America continues to demonstrate its commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of its supply chain by scaling up the number of zero-tailpipe emission Volvo VNR Electric trucks that service its North American assembly plants.

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Volvo Fleet Emissions North America 113

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The environmental impact of plug-in electric cars continues to be the subject of significant discussion and debate among those less familiar with the technology and its impacts.

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Carbon Electric Cars Mercedes Emissions 164

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The proceeds of the bond will be used to fund the design, development and manufacturing of fully electric cars in line with the company’s recently established Green Finance Framework. The financial community has a critical role to play in supporting sustainable development, including the transition to a low carbon economy.

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Volvo Green Luxembourg Cars 514

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Electric cars help lower carbon emissions, but many of those who need them most can't afford them. Now there is an answer to that dilemma.

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Affordable Electric Cars Cars Electric 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

From a lifecycle view, this additional carbon burden is offset compared to the combustion engine vehicle during the use phase, as EVs rack up zero-emission miles that eventually pull the EV ahead of the ICE. However, the Volkswagen brand is setting up production of its coming electric ID. As a result, the ID.

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Carbon Production Climate Protection Electric 268

Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2018

At its annual media briefing on Wednesday, Volkswagen Group executives said the costs of meeting new emission tests in the EU, lowering carbon emissions globally, and launching multiple new electric models would eat into the company's profits. Well, that's awkward.

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Carbon Emissions Electric Cars Europe 95

Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

Contrary to the barrage of unsourced speculation on social media, EV adoption is indeed causing carbon emissions and oil demand to fall, albeit by a small amount so far. However, despite what many EV fans might assume, electric cars are not the main drivers of the reduction.

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Emissions Three Wheeled Charging Motorcycles 52