Remove Clean Remove Climate Change Remove Grant Remove Sustainable Transportation
article thumbnail

Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

Green Car Congress

The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5 Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world.

article thumbnail

Feature: Wind-Powered Cars: Are They Possible?

Clean Fleet Report

At the moment, the most viable mode of sustainable transportation is an electric vehicle (EV). Right now, electric cars are the best option for someone looking for an eco-friendly car, but unless your home runs on wind or solar energy, you’re still contributing to climate change by utilizing power generated by burning fossil fuels.

Wind 66
article thumbnail

U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University fund 6 energy and biomedical projects; batteries, policy and fuels

Green Car Congress

Integrated energy-economy-environment (3E) modeling for clean vehicle development in China. This project will develop a model to simulate and evaluate the impacts of renewable energy policy on the economy and the environment, and to apply the model to provide policy suggestions for clean vehicle development and deployment in China.

Universal 231
article thumbnail

How to Save Big on a Tesla with Colorado’s New EV Tax Credit

EV Life

With climate change awareness increasing, gas prices continuing to climb, EV charging stations expanding, and tons of new EV options hitting the market each year, it’s no surprise that electric vehicle purchases are skyrocketing. Electric vehicles are becoming more and more common on the roads across the country.

article thumbnail

Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

Green Car Congress

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. Expanding hydrogen fueling stations in California.

article thumbnail

Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

Green Car Congress

Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change. Clean and Safe Water. Supports Categorical Grants with $597 million, a $482-million reduction below 2017 annualized CR levels. Sustainable transportation program activities within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy face a combined 49% cut in funding.

2018 170
article thumbnail

Just after his huge stock grant, Elon Musk commits $45M/month to harm EVs

Baua Electric

Just weeks after winning a shareholder advisory vote to reinstate his stock grant, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has apparently figured out another great way to waste money. One of Trump’s anti-EV actions which we covered extensively on Electrek was over California’s EPA waiver, a provision of the Clean Air Act which Trump’s EPA tried to repeal.

Grant 52