Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This is the first tailored urban delivery solution to address growing traffic congestion in Seattle’s downtown corridor, and is part of UPS’ Cycle Logistics Solutions that help reduce carbon emissions, noise, and traffic.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

Our conversations with end users suggest the market for battery grade lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate remains very tight. We are also actively marketing the company to new and existing institutional shareholders with recent meetings in Asia, United States, London, Europe and Canada from which we have had much positive feedback.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

Air Products heralded the successful operation of a US Department of Energy (DOE) demonstration project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from hydrogen production for use in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Now, researchers at Imperial College London have shown that bioethanol production from bamboo in China is both technically and economically feasible, as well as cost-competitive with gasoline. In 2009, the number of private cars owned in China exceeded the United States, resulting in it being the world’s largest auto market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The existing emissions trading system in Europe has not worked well, Paltsev says, partly because its price on carbon is quite low, and partly because it does not encompass enough different emissions-producing sectors of the economy. —Sergey Paltsev. —Sergey Paltsev.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That was rather dramatic climate change, but presumably that had nothing to do with mankind’s carbon dioxide emissions.” I must admit that I had not heard of rolling coal until very recently, but it has – at least in the unlighted United States – been a thing since 2014, apparently.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Smith, professor of global environmental health at UC Berkeley and principal investigator in the United States for the overall research effort. Each study in the series examines the health implications in both high- and low-income countries of actions designed to reduce the release of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers. —Goldthau et al.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 19, 2007

And I agree with the Prime Minister, as I have stated publicly, this is a serious issue, and the United States takes it seriously, just like we take energy security seriously. Harlan Watson, President Bush's chief climate negotiator, rejected any caps on US emissions or participation in carbon trading.

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Cars That Think

MAY 16, 2024

In late April, the Miami-based rail company Brightline Trains broke ground on a project that the company promises will give the United States its first dedicated, high-speed passenger rail service. The 350 kilometer (218 mile) corridor, which the company calls Brightline West , will connect Las Vegas to the the suburbs of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Speaking at the launch of the IEA report in London, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that “ An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2022

Speculation early in the week indicated President Biden was considering using the Defense Production Act for the second time in his presidency to help domestic companies source materials for EVs within the United States. “We cannot achieve a low carbon future without new nickel, cobalt, and lithium mines.

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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. As commercialisation increases, costs will decrease and fuel cells can help reduce our carbon footprint. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

As proposed, the EU ETS provisions would regulate an entire flight from across the United States to the EU, even though the flight would be in EU airspace for only a tiny fraction of the journey. From before the aircraft begins to taxi from the gate in San Francisco, the EU emissions rules apply.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

More specifically, only one third of the studies define an alternative land use reference system and calculate the carbon stock. allocation rules of impacts on co-products, N 2 O emission rates, land use carbon stock, technology progress, etc). Very few studies take into account land use impacts driven by biofuel crop production.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Michael Leiters , who was Ferrari’s chief technology officer (he recently left the company), says there’s no denying that electrification in the car industry is largely being driven by the need to comply with strict emissions regulations, including for carbon dioxide. A jaw-dropping weight-to-power ratio of 1.57 And don’t forget sound.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Second, the United States Department of Energy explains that maintenance costs are lower for EVs because they have fewer fluids (oil and transmission fluid) that need to be changed and far fewer moving parts that need maintenance or replacing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Specifically, Jervois will use SMP to refine concentrate from ICO, and return cobalt metal to the United States. Niquelandia provided the SMP Refinery with nickel carbonate. purity, exceeding the base specification required by the London Metal Exchange (LME). Nickel and cobalt products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

The two busiest airports, Dubai and London Heathrow, could each see more than 300 operations per day. This equals about one-fifth of a proportional carbon budget afforded international aviation under a 1.5 The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6 gigatonnes of CO 2 over the aircrafts’ 25-year lifetime.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

But in the United States, domestic and international airfares are expected to move in opposite directions. International airfare departing from the United States is up 10 percent for 2024 compared with 2023, according to Kayak , a travel search engine. Jump to: Credit… Chanelle Nibbelink A record 4.7

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In the United States, for example, there are more than 49,000 public charging stations , and it is now possible to drive an EV from New York to California using public charging networks. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does.

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