Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2018

There is also money to reduce emissions at freight facilities, marine projects and light-duty vehicle charging. The plan provides: $130 million for to replace eligible Class 4-8 shuttle buses, school and transit buses with new, commercially available, zero-emission technologies. Staff proposes up to $1.35 Background.

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Ozone Vehicles California Emissions 277

Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thanks to initiatives such as cost-cutting measures, Ford, GM, and Stellantis should be able to weather an estimated combined $2.9 The agreement’s 25% wage increase, restoration of cost-of-living allowances, and other benefits will add $850 to $900 to the cost of every car that Ford manufactures, as noted in an Automotive News report.

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GM Ford South Korea Detroit 66

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

FEV Inc, (FEV) a developer of advanced powertrain and vehicle technologies, has completed the first phase of a project under contract to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine manufacturing costs in the development and operation of fuel-efficient, lower-emitting powertrain technologies.

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EPA Cost Of Manufacturer Fuel Economy 186

Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Technology and market readiness resources.

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Fleet Tax Credit Charging Tax 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

These projects support the Materials Genome Initiative ( earlier post ), an effort announced by President Obama to double the speed and cut the cost of discovering, developing, and deploying new high-tech materials in the United States. United States Automotive Materials Partnership. efficiency, Light?duty

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Carbon Fiber Carbon United States Fuel Economy 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The EMN consortia have been established to make unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories more accessible to industry, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development and manufacturing of advanced materials for commercial markets. Topic 2: H2@Scale ( earlier post ).

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Hydrogen Fuel Polymer Concept 231

Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

Nuclear-powered submarines, such as the Virginia - class fast-attack submarine, each cost roughly US $2.8 And that’s just the purchase price; the total life cycle cost for the new Columbia - class ballistic-missile submarine is estimated to exceed $395 billion. Even in the Cold War, when the United States and the U.K.

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United Kingdom United States Power Powered 136

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vintage Name Returns to the United States. The Toyota Crown has been around since 1955 in Japan, and was the first Toyota model exported to the United States in 1957, where it was sold until 1960. The electric power steering was direct, but a bit light when pushing country lane corners in the Platinum Hybrid Max.

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Toyota Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride Fuel Economy 85

Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

The first surprising piece of data is how much the United States lags in interest in electric vehicles. Despite the near-constant messaging from governments, media sites, and automakers alike, the cost of ownership was by far the most significant attractor for consumers. In the U.S.,

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Gas-Electric Purchase Charging Affordable 52

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019. It also proposed multi-pollutant emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and later.

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Fleet Industrial Industry Charging 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Possibilities include dramatic reductions in the cost of EV batteries that lead to more cost- competitive vehicles, greater state or federal incentives, or increasing taxes on fossil fuels. The luxury internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycle market may be growing in both the United States and Europe, as well.

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2014 Global Sale Motorcycles 346

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

The case studies include the proposed CAFE fuel economy requirements and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations for motor vehicles; and energy-efficiency standards for clothes dryers, room air conditioners, and light bulbs. NHTSA CAFE and EPA greenhouse gas standards for vehicles.

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Energy Pollution EPA Fuel 265

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The 21CTP was formed in 2001 to reduce fuel usage and emissions in trucks of Classes 3 through 8. Technologies such as an SCR catalyst on a DPF or others that have the potential to reduce the volume, weight, and cost of the aftertreatment system should be a part of the program to develop a 55% BTE engine.

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MPG Miles 2009 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Furthermore, their results suggest that the incentive is larger for light trucks than for passenger cars, which could increase traffic safety risks. The top twenty automotive firms that sell vehicles in the United States are represented in the. 10 11 –5.17×10 10 11 kg for one year of produced vehicles compared to 4.47×10

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Standards Fuel Economy Vehicles Economy 240

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

DOE also announced up to $35 million to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, including enabling the early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles. Reducing the cost of electric drive systems from $30/kW to $8/kW. less than a baseline structure. less than a baseline structure.

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Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

To create the largest impact, the researchers concluded, emphasis should be placed on the largest producers of vehicles; the five largest producers of automotive vehicles in the United States are General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, and Honda. Under-floor body panels are made using the abaca tree.

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Auto Industry Industrial Industry Auto 252

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

For the past few years, our company has actually been warning that that freedom of mobility is now actually being threatened particularly in light of four megatrends that are affecting the future of transportation. The doubling of the global middle class from 2 billion to 4 billion by 2030. —Mark Fields.

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Ford Companies London Connect 150

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

The frunk up front The distinctive Mustang exterior design heritage continues onto the Mach-E, including a long hood and three LED tail lights, sequential as turn signals, that look oh-so-classic Mustang. With 1,790 chargers in the United States and more than 45,000 worldwide, Ford owners will have more options to stay charged.

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Extended Range Ford Range All-Electric 91

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 1, 2021

The XC90, as Volvo’s largest SUV, is currently its most popular model in the United States. The engine shuts off when you’re at a traffic light to save fuel. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. The XC90 Recharge is an example of the second group.

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Recharge Volvo PHEV MPG 79

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I think there’s lots of signal to still be exploited in video: We have not been able to build foundation models yet for video because of compute bandwidth and the cost of processing video, as opposed to tokenized text. Or to quickly bring your attention to the one class among 100 classes where it would benefit you to collect more data.

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Building Google Manufacturer Engine 145

Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

The story, instead, goes back to a time when I and other researchers in computer graphics scattered around the United States began to see the technology as allowing a new art form: the creation of digitally animated movies. It would be a sin to let this world-class group disperse. Let's start a company to give them a home."

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GM San Francisco New York Financing 145

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

This work is intended to enable market introduction of various electric vehicle technologies by lowering the cost of battery packs, batteries, and electric propulsion systems for EDVs through high-volume manufacturing. The award recipient cost share is required to be 50% or higher of the total allowable costs of the project.

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PHEV Batteries Battery Vehicles 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates across all vehicle classes, V2G capability can help manage system load and provide power back to the grid during times of need, thereby strengthening the resiliency of the US electric grid.

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Grid Vehicles Energy Storage Tax Credit 345

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. There’s just so much that is contingent and unknowable.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 94

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Toyota Crown Hybrid Max AWD Platinum Vintage Name Returns to the United States The Toyota Crown has been around since 1955 in Japan, and was the first Toyota model exported in 1957 to the United States, where it was sold until 1960. Our road tests are based on this one-week drive of a new vehicle.

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Toyota Hybrid Fuel Economy Nickel Metal Hydride 79

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Today, hundreds of researchers in Europe, Asia, and the United States are working on applying RIS to produce programmable and smart wireless environments. This emerging class of materials exhibits properties beyond (from the Greek meta ) those of natural materials, such as anomalous reflection or refraction.

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Environment Power Powered Asia 78

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

A review of 20 years of technical literature on natural gas (NG) emissions in the United States and Canada comprising more than 200 papers has concluded that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH 4 emissions due to leakage from the natural gas system. US, United States; Can, Canada; SC, South Central; Petrol.

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Climate Transportation Fuel Coal 247

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. no rare earth materials, but is light, compact, and potentially. efficiency at less cost. that substantially reduce costs of the motor.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program.

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Green Conversion Power Powered 103

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A big benefit that is included in the purchase of a 2023 ID4 is three years of unlimited 30-minute fast charging with Electrify America (another VW company) at any of its 1,800 charge stations in the United States or Canada. with all models that will be sold in the United States and Canada are now being made in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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All-Electric Miles Charging Batteries 87

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is rare when we post a review of a car that is only available in one of the 50 United States, but such is the case with the 2022 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which is only sold in California. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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Toyota Hydrogen Lexus Gasoline-Electric 82

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 2, 2023

The ID.Buzz was first released in Europe in two-row passenger and a cargo configurations, but the United States will be getting the three-row ID.Buzz that comes either with rear-wheel (RWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD). VW announced that the total first year production run of all types for the whole world will be 100,000 units.

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Dealers All-Electric Aura Miles 83

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There's also a £160-million scheme mimicking the United States' defunct Cash-4-Clunkers designed to pay people to destroy their old cars to buy new ULEZ compliant models (which admittedly sounds like it's just going to create more pollution). Upper classes can easily afford the kind of fines London has been spinning up.

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Emissions London New York City New York 116

Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It certainly required a lot of capital and recruiting a world-class team here in Silicon Valley to be able to bite off something that big, but if you’re trying to penetrate a new electrification industry, range is certainly going to be the top metric that you’re weighed against. We’ve got to make them very robust.

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Batteries Battery Charging Fleet 118

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. The grid then becomes more efficient, thus reducing the cost of delivered electricity to everyone. (In To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Installation of CCS charging stations has already begun in Europe and the United States. lb), corresponding to customer fuel costs of roughly €4 (as of October 2015). Another example is the cleantech company Electrochea in Copenhagen, which aims to bring biological methanation into the megawatt class.

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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150