Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Overall, since currently about two-thirds of new cars are sold in the OECD, the 50% GFEI target still appears appropriate and achievable on a world-wide basis. The report addressed seven broad topics: Factors explaining current cross-country differences in average new car vehicle fuel economy. Cross-country flows of used cars.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Urban density is one of the most important determinants of car use and transport-related energy consumption in cities. Public/rapid transport and safe cycling and walking are the prototype of a transport system that is good for health; it so happens that these are good for climate too. Source: WHO report. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 17, 2014

A major new report published at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s Annual Conference shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. In the early 2000s, the UK car industry was in a state of decline. Value of low carbon investments by year and cumulative.

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MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Yet other developers may be motivated by the climate crisis itself, wanting to play their part in fostering a habitable planet for the coming generations. Software may be eating the world , but it is also heating it.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016.

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APRIL 26, 2022

And if that isn’t enough, he is working to combat impending food shortages by developing imaging technology to determine how to grow plants in inhabitable environments. I grew up in a healthy environment and had the opportunity to pursue the career I wanted. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

Within that, projects for the European Green Cars Inititative are to receive an indicative (i.e., million) for the European Green Cars Initiative topics, and the remaining €12 million for the rest of the topics. Specific topics outside of the Green Cars Initiative are: AAT.2010.7-17. Socio-economic incentives and barriers.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

It also analyzed the role IEEE should take based on the identified potential futures and discussed next steps in IEEE’s major areas of focus, including conferences, education, publications, standards, membership, sustainability, and governance. What is IEEE’s role in this new environment? Molding the IEEE of the future.

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MARCH 20, 2024

And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Good to be here.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Mexico City has committed to cleaner vehicle standards, including a move to soot-free buses and a ban on private diesel cars by 2025. Major sources of air pollution from particulate matter include the inefficient use of energy by households, industry, the agriculture and transport sectors, and coal-fired power plants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

In a special presentation yesterday at the “ Beyond Lithium Ion: Computational Perspectives ” conference held at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN).

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JULY 16, 2021

In this work, we propose a novel bug algorithm named ‘Sniffy Bug’, which allows a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters to localize a gas source in an unknown, cluttered and GPS-denied environments. A follow the-leader strategy with a suitable gait and stance is presented and implemented on a hexapod robot. Thanks, Fan!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Toyota, at the Bloomberg Cars & Fuels conference 1 Dec. This first-generation lithium battery has undergone more than three years of coordinated field testing in Japan, North America and Europe in a wide variety of climatic environments and driving conditions. ” —Bill Reinert, National Mgr.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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JUNE 28, 2023

“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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MAY 23, 2009

Holiday greetings from teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy California, where we’ve had a couple of unnerving earthquakes, a historic election and a disappointing Lakers’ home loss in the NBA Western Conference Finals since last I posted. Solar Homes Tour A Big Hit. Tough Talk in Torrance Town.

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JANUARY 17, 2009

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. It looks like Mrs Greenius has found her next car! But now change has come to America, the people are more than ready, and the cars are here. You could too.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Young Americans rank car rides second only to book lending as things they are most open to sharing.

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APRIL 28, 2023

According to the committee’s research, IEEE’s current structure, areas of interest, programs and services, and sources of funding are not likely to align well with the potential futures of the global environment. But, “the younger generation is interested in solving grand challenges such as climate change, and our papers don’t address them.”

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Right now, video conferences and teleworking will dominate, while public transportation will take longer to return. That means that climate-conscious commuters will pursue other eco-friendly travel methods and speed up the inevitable transition to electric vehicles. That includes the way workers commute, when they commute at all.

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MARCH 24, 2022

IEEE is a place for setting intellectual standards for publications, and it creates a place for a lot of open dialogue through conferences.”. The Impact Fellowship s program supports doctoral students doing summer externships with public-interest companies working in criminal justice reform, climate change, public health, and similar arenas.

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JUNE 11, 2008

more ) M eanwhile, in the United States, the political environment to support plug ins continues to grow. "On On June 11 and 12, the Brookings Institution and Google.org will host a conference entitled “ Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington ?” Event Summary Oil prices are at record highs.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: “This legislation is another important step for the EU in combating climate change and reaffirms the EU’s commitment and leadership ahead of the Copenhagen conference. Vanmakers would pay a penalty for every gram of CO2 over the limit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

Gasoline prices are unpredictable, and their volatility may confer value on the ability to select which fuel to use. A European call option confers the right, but not the obligation, to buy a predefined asset at a particular price at a predefined time. —Axsen and Kurani.

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JUNE 27, 2006

A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars. but it has grown far beyond this point.

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JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. Marilyn Lyon of the SBESC with your Creative Greenius at the PV Street Fair June 7.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program. The answer is a resounding yes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The UK Centre for Low Carbon Futures published a multi-partner research report— Liquid Air in the energy and transport systems: Opportunities for industry and innovation in the UK —and presented the results at a a conference at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. Heat hybrid. Refrigerated food transport.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I’m your host Stephen Cass , a senior editor at Spectrum, and before Before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics by signing up for one of our free newsletters. How do I replicate the environment?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. A single 2,000-acre commercial Algenol module is the equivalent of planting 40 million trees or removing 36,000 cars from the road.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Genome Project-write (GP-write) conference. And to aid the fight against climate change, users could design microorganisms that ingest and lock up carbon, thus reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide (the main driver of global warming).

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APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Raising money to bring a PHEV to market.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

To arrest the accelerating pace of a changing climate, the world needs a lot more clean energy to electrify heating, transportation, and industry and to displace fossil-fuel generation. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says. Peter Fairley This rush to deep water is a global phenomenon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The two-wheeler is meant to address the mounting problems of urban car transportation, according to the two companies that plan to unveil the vehicle at an auto show in New York. Now several compies aremaking electric cars. Secondly, the seating position of this is similar to a car whereas the seating position on a bike is.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t.

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