Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2022
The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. The space industry is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2011
A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours.
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2022
One hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) equipped with a PFI engine was also used. Carbon-balance weighted fuel economy showed a statistically significant reduction of 1% for E15 compared to E10 across the fleet of 20 vehicles. The vehicle test matrix had provisions for five vehicles on each emissions standards category (i.e.,
Baua Electric
MAY 6, 2024
times more likely than a white person to live in a community with a failing grade on all three of the report’s measures for air pollution—short-term particle pollution, long-term particle pollution, and ozone. ” But the organization is now pushing for stricter national limits on ozone pollution as well.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2015
In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2023
Emissions from automobile exhaust systems have decreased in recent years due to the introduction of cleaner fuels and new control technologies on internal combustion engines, as well as increases in numbers of hybrid and electric vehicles.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2017
CARB also adopted a new plan to curb destructive “super pollutants” including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. For passenger vehicles, the State SIP Strategy includes actions to increase the penetration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and ZEVs, including battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
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