Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Philippsburg, an old fortress town in Germany just forty kilometers from the French border, once hosted a nuclear power plant with two towers just like them. says Darragh Conway , a climate policy expert at Climate Focus in Amsterdam. The obvious answer might be solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. This source of energy, generated in a climate-friendly manner, can be used to power fuel-cell vehicles in the medium-term.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. It is clean and flexible.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Or an RPS program that is non-voluntary with a common goal and timing objective such as those found in China, Germany or France?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Here, cuts in solar feed-in tariffs range from 15% in Germany to 70% in the UK. Investors in renewable energy worry that some of the other 100 or so governments supporting clean-energy investments will cut this support as part of austerity measures, the report suggests. —Andreas Spiegel, Swiss Re’s Senior Climate Change Adviser.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Designed in Kia’s Frankfurt, Germany, design studio and built in Sohari, Korea, the Stinger is truly a world car. Clean Fleet Report spent a fun week in the 2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line RWD. Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21 st century. We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. It begins with energy. And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä has issued a report ahead of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow this autumn, describing the environmental and economic opportunities for states that decarbonize rapidly. Major carbon savings can be made in the short term, enabling national climate targets to be achieved.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. The companies say they a vision for a larger role for methanol as a clean and sustainable fuel worldwide. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

Clean cars from a clean factory and an attitude to the environment that aims to change the way of people’s thinking. We have defined consistent CO 2 reduction for the protection of the climate as a binding objective for the group. In Germany, the Volkswagen Group provides 62% of its own power, with more to come, Thomas said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

Renewable energy, which includes wind, solar and other renewables, remains the largest sector in investment terms, achieving a new record of $366 billion committed in 2021, up 6.5% Germany, the U.K. The report also finds that climate-tech corporate finance totaled $165 billion in 2021. from the year prior.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. Clean power generation and electric transport are seeing heavy inflows, but need to see further increases in spending as costs fall. billion (up 67%), with China at $134.8

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 27, 2024

The results are aligned with what's obvious to anyone who has done bottom-up estimates with realistic perspectives on batteries and hydrogen. The post New European Heavy Freight Decarbonization Study Is Much Better Than Most appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

From a presentation given by Faith Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, on hydrogen’s role in tackling energy and climate challenges. Given Italy’s strong renewables endowment, “green hydrogen” from them will break even with “grey hydrogen” from natural gas 5-10 years earlier than in many other countries, including Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

billion of final investment decisions on offshore wind projects in Europe. A continuing sharp decline in technology costs—particularly in solar but also in wind—meant that every dollar invested in renewable energy bought significantly more generating capacity in 2014. billion set in 2011. Additional to China, Brazil ($7.6

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Through a €500 million pan-European effort, an exascale supercomputer called JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research) will be installed sometime in 2023 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich , in Germany. Plans call for it to run on clean energy. The hardware side is just one aspect.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In the end, the laws of thermodynamics will win. Hype doesn’t stand a chance against reality in the long term. The $39 trillion in annual profits is up for grabs, and the fossil fuel industry is fighting hard to keep as much of it as possible, or at least delay its loss as long as possible.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

That's the reason why there's all this tribalism in alternative fuels. There’s $39 trillion in annual profits in the industry up for grabs.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

One day soon, a platform 50 times as large may float in the deep waters of the North Sea, buoying up a massive wind turbine to harvest the steady, strong breezes there. About an hour’s ride up the coast, full-scale 3,000-tonne behemoths already float in Aberdeen Bay, capturing enough wind energy to electrify nearly 35,000 Scottish households.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

In short, it could do anything fossil fuels do now, but with substantially reduced climate impact. Now, after decades of false starts and overly optimistic projections, several factors are giving an unprecedented lift to clean hydrogen. Now, technically, you’ve done it through incentives, but the impact is the same. It sets aside €5.4

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. Well you look at Germany and four companies vie for each roof space. Do you wind up in these areas just increasing the number of panels? We’re turnkey.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The motor and transmission was developed in-house and is made at Volkswagen’s components plant in Kassel, Germany. Like the electric motor and the transmission, the battery was also developed in-house at Volkswagen and is made at the company’s facility in Braunschweig, Germany. Charging the battery. Accessing vehicle data.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In New Zealand’s fight against climate change, e-mobility is a low-hanging fruit, especially given our supply of renewable energy. . Moving to zero emissions vehicles, as the cliche goes, is the low hanging fruit in the fight against climate change. . We also don’t need to ‘reinvent the wheel’. New Zealand receives less than 0.17

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

I’d never driven an EV in Germany before. Its 82 kWh battery is rated for 655 km on the very generous WLTP cycle, and it is one of the longest-range EVs on sale in Germany today. The short version is that the single-motor RWD long range edition I tested is probably the Polestar 2 you want unless you care about speed.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

In California, 20% of our electricity comes from zero CO2 renewables (sun, wind, geothermal), another 20% from zero CO2 hydro, and only 20.1% Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 28, 2009

The results of these same feed-in tariffs have driven Germany and Spain’s hugely successful adoption of solar energy with rates that far exceed our own. Our conditions for producing clean, renewable solar power here in Southern California far exceed those in Germany and Spain. to 20% by next year, 2010.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 26, 2021

The world’s climate has been centerstage the last two days. At the 2015 Paris climate accord, then-President Obama set greenhouse gas reduction at half what Biden has proposed. The post QOTD: Change the World’s Climate by 2030 or Just Talk About It? Will they follow through? appeared first on The Truth About Cars.

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