Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. Aerosol particles in the atmosphere affect global climate, human health and ecosystems. Equivalent black carbon (eBC) represented 10% of the total particulate matter (PM).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2017

The demonstration truck project is funded by $9 million from the State’s climate change-fighting cap-and-trade program and another $10.2 The project demonstrates 23 battery-electric 80,000-pound (GCVWR) Class 8 yard trucks and four 16,100-pound (GVWR) Class 5 service trucks. million in cash and in-kind matching funds.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The “second peak” for Lake Oberaar supports the hypothesis of pollutant release from melting. Melting glaciers in the Alps may cause severe environmental damage due to the release of pollutants which have been frozen in ice for decades, according to research by Swiss scientists. Credit: ACS, Bogdal et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

The projects are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities. million; Cap-and-Trade grant: $6.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

In this plot, a red star under the boxes means that the mean values for hardwood and mixed fuel tests are statistically different for that stove technology class (at the 95% confidence level, p. Within the ND class, only microgasification stoves were effective in reducing BC. Abhishek Kar, Ibrahim H. Rehman, Jennifer Burney, S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The California Air Resource Board (CARB) is awarding $7 million to CALSTART to develop a Class 8 truck that will achieve a 90% reduction in NO x along with a 15-20% fuel efficiency improvement. The Achates engine model destined for the Class 8 demonstration is related to the 9.8-liter We’re aiming at the heart of the Class 8 market.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it. There is no limit to the amount of pollution they are willing to cause. They know full well what the climate models predict based on a continued burning of their product. . I’m talking about heroes like climate scientist Michael E.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced that California Climate Investments in zero-emission vehicles have reached $599 million since 2013, putting hundreds of thousands of ultra-clean cars, and entire fleets of zero-emission trucks and buses on California roads and highways.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. And the climate benefits of the reductions in black carbon emissions are also a great step forward.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The study, which is also testing Ford PHEVs on the streets of London and Valencia, Spain, aims to better analyse and show the real-world benefits of such vehicles for the environment and for commercial vehicle owners and operators. Geofencing creates a virtual geographic boundary defined by GPS technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Among the other findings were: PEV Pioneers tend to have higher engagement in technology- or environment- oriented lifestyles, and express higher levels of environmental concern than Mainstream buyers (NVOS respondents). Motivations for PEV interest included driving flexibility (for PHEVs), fuel savings, and pollution reduction.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

The 17 Global Goals include abolishing poverty and hunger; providing good healthcare and education; raising peoples’ quality of life; and cleaning up the environment, while promoting economic growth. It is now becoming clear that cooling will be critical to achieving almost all the UN’s Global Goals. —Professor Peters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The fully electric van—based on the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter—combines a variety of innovative solutions designed to improve the quality of life in cities; to conserve resources and protect the climate; and to better the health and safety of the driver and other road users. This reduces energy use accordingly.

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Cars That Think

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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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Acura has improved interior quietness with Active Sound Control, which they say “cancels exterior sounds from polluting the interior ambiance.” HVAC vents, power ports and cup holders complete the rear seating environment. All controls are in easy reach, including those for the dual-zone automatic climate system. cubic feet.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Brian Stone Jr.,

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. Transcript. Kelly Wanser : Thank you, Eliza.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The M 256 is produced at the Untertürkheim plant; it launches next year in the new S-Class. The new V8 will launch with this technology next year in the new S-Class. In 2015, the production process was changed and made even more environment-friendly. Most powerful passenger-car diesel engine: OM 656.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The University of Houston seeks to create a class of battery that uses magnesium anodes instead of lithium and organic materials in place of transition metal-based cathodes. UC Berkeley’s proposed technology has the potential to greatly reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions while reducing noise pollution at airports across the country.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

SOAs are tiny particles that are formed in air and make up typically 40% to 60% of the aerosol mass in urban environments. Organic aerosol (OA) in the atmosphere is detrimental to human health and represents a highly uncertain forcing of climate change. —Gentner et al. —Gentner et al.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

What a world class collection of whining, wailing, tantum-throwing, self-centered clueless babies they are. They sold out our climate so they could line their pockets and they’ve still got their hands out of their limo windows. “A nightmare scenario for automakers,&# the Bird Cage Liner calls it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

The potential and realized emissions of pollutants, including greenhouse gases and mercury, are also contentious. With similar properties to PAHs, the sulfur-containing dibenzothiophenes (DBTs) are a related class of aromatic compounds. Source: Kurek et al. Click to enlarge. Coincident with increased PAH deposition after the ?1960s

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The positive results including costs, need to be properly published and distributed, creating and accelerating the demand for all classes of PHEVs from small cars to full-size trucks and buses. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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