Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The study found that 60% of the winter primary hydrocarbon hydroxyl radical reactivity in London is from those diesel-related hydrocarbons; the authors predicted that the longer-chain HCs contribute up to 50 % of the ozone production potential in London. —Dunmore et al. Dunmore et al. Dunmore et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

The main purpose of the LoNo Program is to deploy the cleanest and most energy efficient US-made transit buses that have been largely proven in testing and demonstrations but are not yet widely deployed in transit fleets. A maintenance area, as defined in section 5303, for ozone or carbon monoxide. 7407(d)); or.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Volvo Trucks will deliver the EPA-funded VNR Electric trucks to Southern California fleet operators starting in 2021 through the third quarter of 2022, allowing for at least a full year of operations by the end of the project period in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

CARB also adopted a new plan to curb destructive “super pollutants” including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. Approximately 70% of the reductions needed to meet the ozone standard in the South Coast in 2031 would come from existing or proposed regulatory actions. emissions by more than 20%. emissions by more than 20%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

Achieving our long-term climate goal and 2032 ozone standards will require a much deeper penetration of ZEVs into the fleet. Furthermore, commercially available technologies, such as fuel efficient passenger vehicle tires, can be utilized by both new and in-use vehicles in the near-term to achieve GHG emission reductions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A new report prepared by the World Bank at the request of the G8 identifies ways that the World Bank can do more through its projects to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs): black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and fluorinated gases known as HFCs. Black carbon Climate Change Emissions'

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. Individual states and electric utilities also have their own funding programs for transitioning school bus fleets.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2023

We can assume that this is the result of so many years of ex-fleet Altimas being dumped into the market after full depreciation, coupled with a general sense of utter dysfunction in Nissan HQ. One of its owners applied faux-carbon-fiber decals to the dash trim, as one does. It passed the Lexus ball-bearing test.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

while the carbon intensity of its economy declined by 4.5%. Emissions from all other sectors have remained relatively constant in recent years, although emissions from high Global Warming Potential (GWP) gases have continued to increase as they replace Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated the five-county Philadelphia region of Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties as non-attainment for ozone and fine particulate matter air quality standards. Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties recently achieved attainment status for federal ozone standards.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The project also supports RTC’s efforts to transition its aging diesel bus fleet to zero emission vehicles to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in an area where ozone levels currently exceed air quality targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Background. million zero emission vehicles on its roads by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The proposed standards are projected to result in an industry-wide average target for the light-duty fleet of 82 grams/mile (g/mile) of CO 2 in MY 2032, representing a 56% reduction in projected fleet average GHG emissions target levels from the existing MY 2026 standards. Mid roof tractor 68.2 High roof tractor 66.0

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AUGUST 31, 2013

As part of a US Department of Energy sponsored effort, local fleets will replace existing diesel delivery vehicles with all-electric medium- and heavy-duty Smith Newton trucks for daily operations in the Houston-Galveston area. The project will have additional impact with an expected reduction in GHG emissions by 37.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

In the first, they found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20%. At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

According to a newly-published discussion paper, the primary objective of the proposed standards is to require fleet average SULEV-level emissions performance (similar to the Federal Tier 2 Bin 2 standard) from new vehicles by model year 2022. LEV III—for new passenger vehicles, to be considered by the Board later this year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The ICCT team assessed baseline and alternative system emissions under a variety of different transition pathways using an ICCT model of MAC emissions in the passenger vehicle fleet. These were shown to be ozone-depleting, however, and were targeted for phasing out under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Mary Fallin joined 14 other states to sign a multi-state Memorandum of Understanding committing to the purchase of NGVs for each State’s fleet and encouraging the development of more functional and affordable CNG vehicles. In 2011, Hickenlooper and Oklahoma Gov.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

systems in areas classified “Serious,” “Severe,” or “Extreme” for nonattainment of the ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). ORVR systems are carbon canisters installed in vehicles to capture gasoline vapors evacuated from the gasoline tank before they reach the pump nozzle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

Using urban eddy covariance measurements, the researchers found that traffic-related NO x emissions in current operational air quality models can be significantly underestimated by up to a factor of 4 across countries with a sizeable fraction of diesel-powered cars in their fleet. We record 36,000 data points per hour. —Thomas Karl.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In the Lower GHG Scenario, further reductions in carbon emissions result from adoption of policies that apply an increasing price on carbon emissions, resulting in faster deployment of low-emission generation technologies. Transportation electrification can lead to modest, but widespread air quality benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Clean Fuels grant recipients will be chosen through a competitive selection process based on their ability to help communities achieve or maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone and carbon monoxide, while supporting emerging clean fuel and advanced propulsion technologies for transit buses.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meanwhile, environmentalists were voicing concern—about how noisy such aircraft are taking off, about the possibility that their high-altitude emissions would erode the ozone layer, and about how disruptive the sonic booms would be. The last of these issues was perhaps the most vexing, prompting the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. Unger et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines. —Saliba et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles are primarily under the regulatory jurisdiction of state and federal government, and voluntary incentive programs are critical to transitioning fleets to the next generation of cleaner technologies and achieving reductions needed to meet air quality standards. standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

All will have zero NO x /PM emissions with carbon-neutral emissions by consuming an RNG/CNG mixture. The rail sector is the only transportation modality without significant emissions related development that is feasible in the near-term to eliminate ozone, smog and GHG emissions, OptiFuel says. g/bhp-hr of PM.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath inventoried on-road, rail, and air travel to determine energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and criteria air pollutant (CAP) emissions (excluding PM, lead, and ozone due to lack of data).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The 2013-2014 plan update allocates $100 million to projects in the following areas: $23 million for biofuels production and supply, with an emphasis on fuels made from waste-based and other low-carbon, sustainable materials. $20 Workplace, fleet and multi-unit dwelling projects will be given priority. $5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

Volkswagen said it would roll out CO 2 MAC systems progressively over its entire vehicle fleet. R134a replaced CFC-12 as the MAC refrigerant in the early 1990s due to the negative impact of CFCs on the Earth’s ozone layer. Earlier post.). With a GWP (Global Warming Potential) value of 1, R744 is 99.3%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The grant award is part of a larger statewide investment in low-carbon transportation projects intended to help meet California’s ambitious goals to reduce GHG emissions, improve air quality, deploy zero-emission vehicles and reduce petroleum dependency by accelerating the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Climate benefits in the near-term (estimated using a GWP-20) are more than three times as large given the rapid benefits that the control of black carbon provides. Next-generation standards would target new reductions in emissions of NO x and non-methane hydrocarbons (HC), which are precursors to ozone and secondary particulate matter.

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