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AUGUST 12, 2010

The battle against greenhouse gas emissions doesn’t just involve preventing these emissions in the first place – it also involves getting rid of the carbon dioxide that’s already in the atmosphere.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

This application alone will cut petroleum usage by some 20,000 pounds a year and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30,000 pounds a year. Researchers from Ford were originally approached with the wheat straw based plastics by the University of Waterloo in Ontario as part of the Ontario BioCar Initiative – a multi-university study.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

How do socio-cultural factors impact on the uptake of low emission vehicles? That’s a question for Coventry University PhD student, Jonathan Kershaw who is currently researching this area. Green credentials' In its fourth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that, globally, the tran[.].

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APRIL 26, 2010

Sorption Energy, a spin-off from Warwick University, is aiming to put a new spin on vehicle air conditioning systems. Currently, air conditioning units in cars and light commercial vehicles burn more than five per cent of the vehicle fuel consumed annually throughout the EU.

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MAY 26, 2009

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport operations not only improves a company’s environmental performance but also makes business sense in terms of improved efficiency. Tough new mandatory CO2 targets and requirements for carbon reporting will inevitably put freight in the spotlight.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Electric cars are greener and could help us cut not only carbon emissions but levels of nitrogen dioxide emissions which are contributing to reduced life expectancy in our towns and cities. Data gathered and analysed by transport experts at Newcastle University shows that daytime air pollution lev[.].

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JULY 14, 2009

Scientists have developed a new laser-based spark plug which will increase a car’s fuel efficiency and make it easier to start it in cold conditions. That’s not surprising”, comments the head of the Powertrain Laboratory at Liverpool University, Dr Tom Shenton, “since it was obvious it would be a risky enterprise.”.

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APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. PHEVLERs produce no tailpipe emissions in local driving. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Three UK universities have been awarded funding to research into new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products including new fuels. million to the University of Bath, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England to research nanotechnology methods [.].

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AUGUST 24, 2009

A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia suggests that Canadian government programmes that offer rebates to hybrid car buyers are failing to offer the environmental benefits commensurate with the cost. What do you make of these findings? Are rebate schemes a good idea or could the money be better spent elsewhere?

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Carbon dioxide (CO2) may be the emission that most car manufacturers are desperately trying to drive down, but even it has its uses and now one company is hoping for funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to target its beneficial use.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Taking the bus instead of a car on your daily commute offers a boost to the environment, as more people on buses means fewer cars on the road and less emissions. Well, now a consortium brought together by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia has launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas.

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JULY 29, 2009

Saudi Arabia is probably the last place you’d expect to see a concerted shift towards emission free motoring - after all, the Kingdom is the world’s leading oil producer and exporter.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Ford has furthered its commitment to electric vehicles by including demonstration models as part of the UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle fleet. A fleet of zero emission prototype Ford Focus battery electric vehicles will be used by both the Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) company and a number of evaluation drivers in Hillingdon, Middlesex.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

A consortium led by Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system that can be used to convert conventional internal combustion engines. The Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle technology shows how it may be possible to convert the existing UK fleet into plug-ins via a through-the-road approach.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Although the starch-to-ethanol pathway is similar to that used for corn ethanol, based upon initial calculations from Drexel University, OBE’s winter barley ethanol has the potential to meet the criteria of an Advanced Biofuel as defined by the Renewable Fuel Standard-2 (RFS-2) and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).

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MAY 3, 2009

Solar energy could be used as the main energy source in a new process for producing synfuel devised by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction is driven by solar power and produced by electrolysing the water, which prevents the production of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health in Lausanne, Switzerland, along with Barbara Rothen-Ruthishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern, Switzerland, worked with researchers to study the effects of brake particles on cultured lung cells placed in a chamber close to the axle of the car. .

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Governments, universities and utility companies are expected to be among the early adopters; while Asia Pacific will be the leader in terms of unit volumes by that time with 420,000 fleet hybrids sold each year. The success of hybrids is expected to be spurred by companies needing to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Known as the Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle (ADDZEV), the technology that has been developed demonstrates how it may be possible to convert much of the UK vehicle fleet into hybrid vehicles. Developed to reduce the carbon emissions of inner-city driving, the ADDZEV system was perfected utilising a standard Vauxhall Combo van.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The University of Sunderland’s Institute of Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) has joined forces with experts from Shanghai’s Shen Li High Technology and Cramlington-based AVID Vehicles to carry out the work. The ECO2Trans project will provide a rolling test bed for North East companies to develop technology.

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JULY 8, 2009

Current climate change policies which focus on overall carbon emissions are failing and should be abandoned, a consortium of research institutes concludes. The report points out that between 1990 and 2000 the carbon intensity of the global economy was 0.27 tonnes for every additional $1000 of GDP.

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JULY 20, 2009

The announcement comes as the Prime Minister announced the region would become the UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area specialising in ultra-low carbon vehicles. Low Carbon Economic Areas (LCEAs) were introduced in the Government’s Low Carbon Industrial Strategy last week.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The Government has approved a £10 million loan to a subsidiary owned by Indian carmaker Tata, to encourage the development of electric cars. The loan will go to the Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) based at the University of Warwick in Coventry.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Speaking to the New York Times , Lee Schipper, an energy and transportation specialist at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford, commented that creating zero-emission cars for China won’t solve the much bigger problems of urban congestion, traffic fatalities, and paving over once beautiful cities to make room for more cars.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Following successful trials in the UK, the zero-emission, smart fortwo electric drive is ready for small series production. Kulveer Ranger, Mayor’s director of transport, said: “The Mayor and I are working with manufacturers through the London Electric Vehicle Partnership and urge the entire car industry to invest in this technology.

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JULY 22, 2009

Fulton was followed by Dr. Lee Schipper, Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute of Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, who stressed the range of the problem of sustainable mobility and highlighted the need to deal with both carbon and traffic safety.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Part funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board for the Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicles initiative, the Ford Focus BEV will be produced in very small numbers and used in real life situations during 2010 to access the car and the component technology’s suitability. Tags: Ford BEV Electric cars Ford Focus.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

To achieve societal goals of significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, more and more consumers will need to drive zero-emissions vehicles. We think fuel cell technology will increase the adoption rate of zero-emission vehicles, and we’ll all share the environmental benefits. —John Krafcik. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The figures have been produced by Ray Hammond, a leading expert in predicting future social and economic trends and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Institute for the Future of Humanity. He also advises urgent political action to address the underlying causes of the food crisis.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). How does the US deal with local and state economies with high carbon economies and little renewable resources?

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JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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JULY 1, 2009

Ford Motor Company’s global commitment to the development of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) is reinforced with a British project including Ford demonstration models as part of the UK Government’s Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicle fleet announced this week. Tags: Electric cars Ford low carbon fleet uk government.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 20, 2009

Byron Elton, President and COO of Carbon Sciences Inc. CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, discussed the company’s revolutionary biocatalytic process on Clean Skies Television during a recent newscast of “The Energy Report.&#.

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APRIL 17, 2009

Ian Robertson, Sales and Marketing Director of BMW Group AG, today joined Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon in Scotland as they launched the Government’s vision for ultra-low carbon transport in the UK. Based on the current MINI Hatch, the car is available as a two-seater.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ).

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