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MAY 17, 2016

Today, Colorado simplifies its electric-car tax incentives, Neste claims very low "well-to-wheels" carbon emissions for its renewable diesel, and the Nikola One is a 2,000-horsepower natural gas-electric semi truck. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

Policies could have a large impact through reducing the need to travel and promoting walking, cycling, public transport and efficient driving, as well as encouraging low carbon cars. Subsidies for low carbon cars are likely to be effective, because the evidence is that people tend to discount long run costs.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Columbia University has announced the development of a tree structure that could capture carbon 1,000 times faster than a real tree. The idea is that it would be used to capture carbon emitted into the air by vehicles and aeroplanes.

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Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

The UK has been an epicentre for drivers with a green conscience for many years. Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the news as the Government embarks on the Building Britain’s Future scheme – a plan for recovery based on low carbon, high technology industries, products and services. Now it seems that its efforts have been rewarded.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

A new paper has been published outlining the role that natural gas could play in reducing vehicle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), it suggests that over the long term there needs to be a commitment to transition to very low CO2 gas sources including biogas or bio-synthentic gas.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 31, 2009

We’ll soon find out after governors of 11 North-East and Mid-Atlantic States signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing them to continued participation in a regional effort to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and other uses. A Low Carbon Fuel Standard programme is being considered by [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Fuel Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to opening the fuel market to allow alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity fairly to compete with gasoline at the pump. We need to open the market to replacement fuels like methanol, ethanol and natural gas. —John Hofmeister.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) faces strong opposition after the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to the US District Court. Under the terms of the [.]. Under the terms of the [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

we like to feature the best of the green car news from around the world. The city of Athens, in Greece, is buying 108 Mercedes Benz Econic natural gas vehicles which will be used in refuse collection across the city. Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk Even pollutants such as nitrogen oxides are significantly lower. .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Energy, power generation and distribution.

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Green Cars News

MAY 23, 2009

The Taxi Stockholm firm has stepped up its natural gas taxi fleet by ordering 350 natural gas vehicles which will be fuelled by bio-methane - and it is expected that more will follow. The company has also ordered 100 Mercedes B170 SMTH gas and 50 Volkswagen Passat EcoFuel Gas cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Perspective by Chris Hill, Manager, Central Fleet for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and author of Hamilton’s Green Fleet Implementation Plan. [Mr. Hill is currently chair of the Ontario Chapter of NAFA Fleet Management Association, and a Green Party candidate for Canada’s Parliament in the next general election.

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Green Cars News

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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Green Cars News

APRIL 26, 2009

The California Air Resources Board has now adopted regulation in Governor Schwarzenegger’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard which calls for at least a 10 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels from 2006 levels by 2020.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2009

Construction work has been completed on a gas-to-liquids (GTL) demonstration plant which will produce 500 barrels a day. The GTL process used by the consortium differs from other technologies used in that it uses carbon dioxide gas as a raw material and does not require any oxygen supply in order to complete a syngas reaction.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 3, 2011

It appears that the US is gradually winning its battle against greenhouse gas emissions after the US Energy Information Administration reported that there were 6,576million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent in 2009 – that’s a 5.8 The fall is a significant breakthrough after US greenhouse gas emissions [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2010

The National Research Council has suggested the US needs a measurable domestic greenhouse gas emissions budget target in the range of 170-220gigatons of CO2 for the period 2012-2050.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

A liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) version of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter will enter production this month. Known as the Sprinter 316 LGT (Liquefied Gas Technology) it has virtually no particulate emissions while emissions of hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide are also greatly reduced.

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If the G can go electric,” Mercedes marketing vice president Bettina Fetzer told Green Car Reports and other journalists in late April prior to our drive, “any car can go electric.” inches of ground clearance, it’s up a few tenths on the gas G—and offers a competitive breakover angle of 20.3 With at least 9.8

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Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2009

According to the findings, the six key greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydroflurocarbons (HFCs), perflurocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) - threaten the welfare of both current and future generations.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just how big a problem is black carbon from vehicle emissions? According to a new study appearing in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, it seems we may have significantly underestimated the black carbon pollution levels.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2009

Currently around 38 per cent of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in California come from burning petroleum and diesel in cars. Tags: Green cars Latest news California California Energy Commission Green Transportation Plan.

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2009

The particular areas of interest would be: the implications of extreme engine downsizing and increased specific power; tolerance to increasing volumes of exhaust gas recirculation; advanced component designs and new material applications; a drive towards thinner, lower viscosity lubricants; and the chemical impacts of lubricants on biofuel dilution.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

However, instead of injecting gas selectively into the cylinders it injects it into the central air take allowing the delivery of the quantities of gas for the performance even in the event of strong fluctuating gas quality. Tags: Green cars Latest news Mercedes CNG demonstrator Mercedes Benz SLK Mercedes-Benz.

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Green Cars News

MAY 27, 2010

According to a new study by a team at the Dalton Research Institute in the UK, carbon dioxide and other gases from air traffic are expected to double or triple by 2050.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 17, 2009

English universities face cuts or caps to their funding from 2011 if they fail to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under Government proposals, and they may also be expected to take the lead amongst UK institutions on emissions cuts into the longer-term future. For more information on Aixam Mega visit www.mega-vehicles.com.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2009

Describing himself as anti-tax but pro-carbon tax, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk risked the backlash of US motorists by declaring that petrol should probably cost $10 a gallon. With the US auto industry in disarray, Tesla’s focus on premium green cars has emerged as a bright spark.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2009

In the United States, the effectiveness of fuel cell technology has been openly questioned as the country bids to bridge the gap with Japanese and European car makers in the green car race. Our verdict on fuel cell cars. Tags: Honda The Green Piece FCX Clarity green piece. So do they have a future at all?

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A study published by the National Grid in the UK is suggesting that Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) could achieve carbon dioxide (CO2) savings of up to 90 per cent compared with fossil fuel alternatives.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS for short, or ‘cash for clunkers’ as it is more commonly known) was the US’s answer to the scrappage schemes in Germany and the UK which appeared to have revitalised their respective automotive sectors. So is this scheme green at all? Our verdict – green shoots should not be ignored.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

Envia Systems is developing large capacity pouch cells based on a novel high-voltage Manganese rich (HCMR) layered-layered Li 2 MnO 3 ·LiMO 2 composite cathode with a Si-carbon anode and proprietary electrolyte. Envia’s highest capacity silicon-carbon anode. high amount of manganese in the structure translates to.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2011

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has revealed the UK Government’s Fourth Carbon Budget – a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted from 2023-2027. Taking advice from the independent Committee on Climate Change, the budget is 1950 MtCO2e for the period – a 50 per cent reduction compared [.].

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

With scientists convinced that global warming is a serious issue, there is a need to not only halt the growth of greenhouse gas emissions but to bring them down too. There is an argument that in the long term a low carbon economy will be cheaper than the current one, but with time of the essence richer countries will need to pay billions now.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Motorists should be hit with a £3,300 green tax on new cars, an independent green think tank has concluded. The recommendations published today, say that the Government should refocus taxes around green incentives, increasing the levee against polluting activities such as buying gas-guzzlers.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Local communities could be kitted out with a range of low carbon technologies including electric car charging points as part of a new fund opened for applicants today. The Government has today launched a search for local authorities, charities and social enterprises to share in a £10 million fund to invest in green technologies.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2009

If you thought that the surge of green car innovations and the economic crisis would help to drive down emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane last year, then think again. This means that for every million molecules of air, an additional 2.1 parts per million increases in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In a recent interview with Green Car Congress , Mark Oberle Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Celanese, noted that while the industrial ethanol market is a smaller market than fuel ethanol on a global basis, it is very close to what the company does today. Earlier post.). Celanese continues to enhance this core technology.

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