Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Small off-road engines are a major source of pollution in California. This will help California meet its required federal clean air standards, clean the air and significantly reduce harmful emissions for those who work all day with these small off-road engines. Honda’s settlement includes a $3.9-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Overall, 60 new clean school buses were delivered to rural school districts throughout the state. Expanding a network of community air-quality monitors operated by Casa Familiar in San Ysidro, one of 28 community-based organizations and tribes statewide receiving grants to engage residents in efforts to reduce local air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The grants were awarded to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG); the Ventura County Air Quality Management District; the Bay Area Air Quality Management District; and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. 200,000 to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

The program, supported by $1 billion in voter-approved Proposition 1B bonds, has already awarded $230 million to clean up heavy-duty trucks over the past 2 years. million in grant funds available); Imperial County Air Pollution Control District ($3 million); Sacramento Metro Air Quality Management District ($9.8 million); and.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) released two reports assessing the readiness of two different areas of California—the San Diego and the Central Valley regions—for the widespread use of electric vehicles. This is in addition to $2,500 from the statewide Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers. Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2015

Companies that are in the business of providing pollution control technology for vehicles must make sure that their products actually do what they say they will do. The company had sold more than 200 in California, with many installed on school buses in the San Diego County region, which should have triggered the required testing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee ( EJAC ) is launching a series of statewide meetings to provide residents with the opportunity to meet with local advocates and state officials to share concerns and to provide input on addressing air pollution and how to help California meet its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Achates Power prefers compression ignition in its OP engines because it enables combustion in the middle of the combustion chamber for clean, efficient combustion and minimal heat loss.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

A diverse set of public interest groups, automakers, labor unions, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) submitted a proposed settlement to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the deployment of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that would support the utility grid in San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Oberon Fuels, a producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel ( earlier post ), has been awarded a grant for $2,876,139 from the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a first-of-its-kind, multi-phase project to produce the first renewable dimethyl ether (rDME), a clean-burning, ultra-low-carbon transportation fuel, in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The California Air Resources Board awarded $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to cut harmful emissions from heavy-duty trucks and other sources in the state’s four busiest trade corridors to clean up air pollution and protect community health. million for Central Valley; and, $31 million for the Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

The American Lung Association released its annual report on air quality, State of the Air 2011 , which includes lists of the nation’s most polluted metropolitan areas. million people—live in areas with levels of ozone and/or particle pollution that are often dangerous to breathe. Bakersfield, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The return on this investment extends far beyond the San Diego campus. The Commission approved a $1.6-million

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Ozone, the main component of smog, is a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. New research shows that ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of wheat, rice, soybean and cotton crops in India in 2005. Surface ozone pollution in India damaged 6 million metric tons (6.7

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

Affordable Clean Energy for All , a coalition of groups that include open NEM 3.0 backers like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, has been particularly active in pushing the idea that NEM 2.0 Affordable Clean Energy for All , a coalition of groups that include open NEM 3.0

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Ettore Musu from the University of Pisa presented a CFD study of concept at the SAE 2010 Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting in San Diego. Pollutant emission behavior vs. engine speed.confirms the validity of the HCPC combustion concept. Emissions are almost independent of the engine speed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The auction was a success and an important milestone for California as a leader in the global clean tech market. By putting a price on carbon, we can break our unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels and move at full speed toward a clean energy future. billion to $22.6 allowance revenues. programs and Direct Access providers. lower-tiers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

While the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases from passenger vehicles, it also helps clean the air in the state by reducing the amount of pollution that creates smog. They call for a percent reduction in per-capita emissions by the years 2020 and 2035: The San Diego Area: 7% and 13%. Sacramento Region: 7% and 16%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2009

The 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour, an annual road rally to demonstrate the advancements in fuel-cell technology, will begin May 26 in San Diego, California and end June 3 in Vancouver, British Columbia. These funds were used to support projects that reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by using alternative fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and Introduction of clean-burning biomass stoves for cooking and heating in developing countries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Engine and aftertreatment system development and performance assessments were conducted at the Achates Power facility in San Diego and the Aramco Research Center-Detroit. Achates Power’s innovative 3-cylinder, 10.6L Rendering of the 10.6-liter liter engine. The three cylinders are in-line, with the opposed pistons moving vertically.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

A paper published at the end of October by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) urging the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) quickly to implement Tier 3 emission and fuel regulations noted that: ultra-fine (UF) particles have recently attracted significant scientific and medical attention.

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EV Match

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The California Energy Commission awarded EVmatch , an EV charging network provider, the BESTFIT Grant to install 120 public EV chargers at multi-family locations in Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego Counties at no cost to the site host. Silicon Valley Clean Energy’s (SVCE) Multi-Family EV Charging Incentive Program.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Editor’s note: A group of the nation’s largest truck-makers have now pledged to comply with California’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule.] megawatt chargers?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

and criteria pollutant (smog) emissions were estimated for the Zero-V based on a complete “well-to-waves” (WTW) analysis. According to Sandia chemist and project lead Lennie Klebanoff, it is impossible to have a polluting hydrogen spill on the water. To reduce weight, the vessel has to be constructed of aluminum. —Sandia report.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The South Coast air district is teaming up with air districts in the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego and San Joaquin Valley to make the project a statewide demonstration of 43 zero-emission battery electric and plug-in hybrid drayage trucks built by the four manufacturers serving major California ports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

5 million for light-duty plug-in electric vehicle rebates to meet high demand for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, administered by the California Air Resources Board. $5 5 million for manufacturing projects, supporting economic development and clean transportation technology. $4 4 million to emerging opportunities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

1 million to TransPower, a clean energy company headquartered in Escondido to study the feasibility of manufacturing large electric-drive trucks in or near San Pedro by 2013. 500,000 to the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System to help it speed the refueling of its growing fleet of compressed natural gas-powered buses.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

Last month, I completed my GRID Alternatives volunteer training in San Diego and this Monday and Tuesday I’ll be in El Cajon, California as one of the volunteers installing a solar PV system on a new Habitat for Humanity home. Free, Clean, Renewable Electricity From The Wind: Visiting PacWind with Dency & J.R.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Several also voiced concern that the council’s usual process for submitting grant applications had not been followed, and that the funds would be contracted to a single recipient, San Diego-based Pearson Fuels. Ethanol is not perfect, he said, but its wider use would reduce dependence on gasoline and remove pollutants from the air.He

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

will receive $3,523,498 to extend and expand the California CLEAN Truck Demonstration Program. These trucks will displace conventional diesel trucks, which consume substantial quantities of petroleum fuel and emit substantial pollutants and greenhouse gases. CNG is much less polluting than conventional diesel. CALSTART, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

By leveraging outside funding, many of these projects also attract additional investment in clean energy technology. The award recipients are: Clean World Partners, LLC , will receive $6 million to increase the Sacramento BioRefinery’s capacity from 25 tons to 100 tons a day. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Combining two very clean, very efficient, and cost effective technologies may well yield a new paradigm in engine design that could help satisfy the challenges of ground mobility for decades. This produced robust ignition with very clean, efficient, and stable combustion within constraints for combustion noise. Fabien Redon.

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