Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. The Government intends to introduce legislation to underpin the carbon pricing mechanism into Parliament in the second half of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

finds that private jets are 10 times more carbon-intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains in terms of CO 2 emitted per passenger-km. And yet, super-rich super polluters are flying around like there’s no climate crisis. —Andrew Murphy, Aviation Director at T&E.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What can we learn from California’s pioneering efforts to price carbon at the border? Everybody’s talking about border carbon adjustments. The EU has announced its plan to tax the emissions … Continue Reading The Whac-a-Mole Economics of Border Carbon Adjustments.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

A new study analyzing data from the 29 states and District of Columbia with mandatory RPS policies finds that the policies come at a high cost to consumers and are inefficient in reducing carbon emissions. The paper estimates that this increased renewable generation reduced the carbon intensity (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. However, the slump in the Brent crude price per barrel from $112.36 on 30 June to $61.60

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Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

(SoCalGas) will lower the price of compressed natural gas at all of its 13 public access natural gas vehicle fueling stations by $0.26 For example, the average pump price at utility compressed natural gas stations was $2.37 The transportation sector is responsible for 41% of GHG emissions and 80% of smog forming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. The pandemic has created disruption in the global energy sector, but low gas prices will ultimately stimulate demand growth as the economy recovers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

California Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg proposed a carbon tax on fossil transportation fuels to replace the coming cap and trade mandate on that sector in 2015. Under Steinberg’s proposal, the price of carbon fuel would rise steadily, starting at an estimated 15¢/gallon in the first year. That’s necessary.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Boxes represent pollution reading locations during that window. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. Nikzad et al. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The battery energy storage systems store power when electricity costs are low and supplement power during high points of consumption, minimizing impact on the electrical grid and mitigating demand surges to help Electrify America maintain consistent pricing.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 9, 2021

Range has improved dramatically, prices have dropped, and often performance is even better than with ICE vehicles. But before consumers assign appropriate value to low carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they must make an accurate judgment about the malevolence of this well-known gas. EVs are now advantageous enough to come out on top.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

The California Air Resources Board’s California Clean Fuel Reward program provides an instant price reduction of up to $750 at the point of sale or lease for eligible new plug-in electric vehicles at participating retailers. Since the program launch in November 2020, more than $319 million in rewards have been received by EV buyers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2022

The CFR set increasingly stringent requirements on producers and importers to reduce the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel. million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution in 2030, or roughly the amount of GHGs currently generated by the entire Canadian economy in two weeks. Once fully implemented, the CFR will help cut up to 26.6

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Energy Institute at HAAS

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As new subsidies spur companies to invest in carbon capture and storage, policies need to address associated harms. The path to enacting the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) went through Senator … Continue Reading Carbon Capture’s Role in a Greenhouse Gas-Free Electricity Grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

The UK government has launched a Hydrogen Strategy intended to create a thriving low-carbon hydrogen sector—blue and green—in the UK over the next decade and beyond. The government says that a booming, UK-wide hydrogen economy could be worth (£900) million (US$1.24

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

The human health benefits associated with improvements in air quality related to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions improvements can offset 26–1,050% of the cost of US carbon policies, depending upon the type of policy, according to a new study by a team from MIT. Carbon-reduction policies significantly improve air quality.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Trend in emissions of air pollutants from transport in EEA-32: PM 2.5 , CO, SO x , NMVOC, NO x. Transport in Europe is still responsible for damaging levels of air pollutants and a quarter of EU greenhouse gas emissions, despite some progress in reducing the impacts from transport. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. road fleet in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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District of Columbia DC Transportation Rhode Island 262

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The price of European aluminum has increased by about 15% since the start of 2022, exceeding its historic high of October 2021—an increase of more than 60% compared to January 2021, according to a new analysis by European credit insurance group Credendo. Production mainly dropped because energy prices have risen sharply in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The UK Government is currently consulting on a carbon floor price or tax which would mean that UK electricity companies would have to pay extra for the carbon they emit. Until now power generators have been exempt from the Climate Change Levy, the closest thing that the UK has to a carbon tax. Fankhauser.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It is the first service of its kind with no surge pricing or rides rejected by drivers. Yet with 35 of the top 50 most polluted cities globally, there’s a huge need for low carbon technologies to help make that growth compatible with its climate ambitions. —Anmol Singh Jaggi, co-founder of BluSmart.

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InsideEVs

AUGUST 3, 2022

It also has a retro-style carbon-fiber frame, and a price tag of $7,100.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

Volatile gasoline prices have caused some regulators and carmakers alike to question the cost and effectiveness of current fuel economy standards, with some arguing they are too stringent and others saying they should be even stronger.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

A study by a pair of researchers at Northwestern University found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to 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. 3 , respectively, being 2.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases) added—it is actually evacuated from the process so there is zero combustion inside the rotary reformer. Our process eliminates waste from going into the landfill, and together with HYZON’s fleets will eliminate emissions pollution.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Even in one of the power systems in the country with the highest coal generation, PEVs could reduce transportation health and environmental damages in the near future, long before a zero-carbon electricity mix is achieved, due primarily to substitution of natural gas for coal on the margin.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2020

ZeroAvia’s 600kW hydrogen-electric powertrain is platform-agnostic and will begin to make zero carbon flight over meaningful distances a reality for passengers. Typically, up to 19-seat aircraft such as the Cessna 208 Caravan and the Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter are used in regional aviation and cargo transport worldwide. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Each location is regularly supplied with Neste MY Renewable Diesel, a low-carbon fuel produced from 100% renewable and sustainable raw materials that cuts greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80% compared to petroleum diesel. Neste MY Renewable Diesel is competitively priced and delivers superior value compared to other diesel fuel alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We believe the fastest way to lower greenhouse gases in the transportation sector is to offer drivers lower carbon choices that meet their needs. At every price point and with multiple powertrains, we can put more people in cleaner automobiles across North America to have the greatest near-term impact on total carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015. The carbon intensity of California’s economy has dropped 38% since the 2001 peak and is now one-half the national average.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

This includes the control and prevention of ship-source pollution covered by the MARPOL treaty, including oil, chemicals carried in bulk, sewage, garbage and emissions from ships, including air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Greater reliance on energy taxation is needed to strengthen efforts to tackle the principal source of both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, according to a new OECD report. While the intense debate on carbon taxation has sparked action in some countries, actual carbon tax rates remain low. of emissions.

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Climate Change Climate Tax Energy 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The TCI jurisdictions have conducted economic modeling to evaluate various options for a program that caps and reduces global-warming carbon dioxide emissions from combustion of gasoline and on-road diesel fuel by up to 25% compared to 2022 levels over 10 years. All interested parties are asked to provide their input by 28 February 2020.

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Teslarati

MARCH 5, 2024

The FCAI said in response to Tesla’s submission that wants to continue supporting automakers and their goals to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles. Tesla’s submission also included several claims that the FCAI made false statements that dealt with pricing of its vehicles and had used misleading emissions figures with vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Clean Energy’s Zero Now program makes the cost of leasing or purchasing a new natural gas heavy-duty truck equal to the price or even lower than that of the same truck equipped with a diesel engine. RNG reduces climate pollutants such as greenhouse gas, which takes carbon emissions completely out of trucking. Earlier post.).

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