Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

GE Aviation, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI), has created the GE Aviation Research Center at the company’s world headquarters in Evendale, Ohio. The scope of this agreement marks a first in Ohio between a leading aerospace company and a leading university research institute.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Hawaii have provided direct experimental evidence for the validity of a proposed mechanism for the first step in the process that transforms gas-phase molecules into solid particles such as soot and other carbon-based compounds.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Diesel-powered commuter trains may expose their passengers to elevated levels of certain black carbon and ultrafine particles, especially in the coach directly behind the locomotive, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto. A paper on the study is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Using additive manufacturing (3D printing) to produce aircraft’s metal parts could save a significant amount of fuel, materials and other resources, according to a new study by researchers from Northwestern University, Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India. In this regard, this study highlights the need for repeated tests to confirm statistical significance of mitigation potential. —Kar et al. —Kar et al. Abhishek Kar, Ibrahim H.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

The team chose to conduct the study at the provincial level because using national average data might severely underestimate or overestimate results for technologies that primarily operate in designated cities—i.e., Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A collaborative, six-year study of CO 2 levels in Beijing and surrounding provinces suggests that combustion efficiency, a component of overall energy efficiency, is improving in the region. and postdoctoral studies at Harvard (EPS and SEAS). —co-author J. She completed her Ph.D.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Not only do vehicle and truck emissions harm the environment, but they also harm human health. According to a Harvard University study, there is a striking association between long-term exposure to harmful fine particulate matter and COVID-19 mortality in the United States. in societal costs to our health and the environment. #3.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. As cleaner technologies are developed over time, they will help to further reduce the GHG emissions of the Tucson FCEV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The study was published online 24 May in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

ENSTA PARISTECH : university training engineers with a comprehensive scientific knowledge. IFP NEW ENERGIES : a public-sector research and training center, aimed at developing the technologies and materials of the future in fields of energy, transport and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

A study of hybrid excavators and dozers in use in public and private fleets found that while the use of hybrid equipment could decrease fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by up to 28%, depending upon the type of work being done, NO x emissions could increase by up to 21%. Click to enlarge. Among the overall findings were: Dozer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The report reviewed more than 300 studies on health outcomes from different types of land transport systems in a “scoping exercise” designed to identify those mitigation measures most closely associated with specific health co-benefits or risks. Carlos Dora of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. million people annually.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

But that ability to localize generally requires the robot to have powerful sensors and a map of its environment. We ran into this problem when we wanted to deploy our Kuri mobile social robot in the halls of our building for a user study. Studying how robots should interact with and engage bystanders. Robotic Wandering.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

The next generation of cars will be cleaner and greener than ever—but a lot of the manufacturing processes that go into them are still pretty dirty. These particulates have serious health impacts if not controlled in the factory environment. by Craig Widtfeldt, RoboVent. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Terry Hazen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Accordingly, there have been a number of recent studies working to assess the impact of non-exhaust emissions from EVs and suggesting a regulatory or policy response (e.g., A 2014 study by Weinbruch et al. Compared to earlier studies, Weinbruch et al. earlier post ). Background. The pan-European team of van der Gon et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Among the awards is support for a Syracuse University (with BorgWarner of Ithaca) project to prepare, inject and combust supercritical (SC) diesel fuel. The investments will support demonstration projects, new product development and feasibility studies. Earlier post.). The NYSERDA funding will leverage $7.5 NYSERDA funding: $270,000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2014

As well, a Perspective on the problem and the methodology developed by the Sandia and Argonne team appears in the journal, written by Dr. Michael Pilling at the University of Leeds. A paper (Jasper et al. Better models will improve understanding of climate change and boost efforts to address it. —Stephen Klippenstein.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. Belkhir and Elmeligi (2018) Click to enlarge. It’s the energy consumption we don’t see. —Lotfi Belkhir.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

or 27,000 ppm S)—according to a new study by researchers from the US and Germany, led by Dr. James Winebrake at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The study is published in the current issue of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% and (c) Global 0.5. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Some of the world’s cities suffer disproportionate economic losses because of the health consequences of in-car air pollution, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). The international study assessed economic losses by measuring a city’s death rate caused by PM 2.5

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Mining any mineral from earth has an impact on the environment. Social Media Lithium FUD When it comes to Lithium Mining, The FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt propagated by Random Youtubers, WhatsApp university and Oil funded media is so easy to debunk, it’s not even funny. No EV owner denies this.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

New ideas create huge opportunities, and the Dearman Hubbard partnership is a chance to create a cost-effective, cleaner and more sustainable environment. —Professor Toby Peters, Chair in Power and Cold Economy, University of Birmingham and CEO of Dearman. —Pat Maughan, Managing Director of Hubbard Products.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

I was in Carson California last month at their City Council meeting to speak on behalf of the resolution I asked them to pass to approve participating in a feasibility study on community choice aggregation (CCA). . Carson was the sixth city to have our resolution on their agenda, the five others having already passed it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

The study was published 8 June in the open access IOP journal Environmental Research Letters. This study creates a framework for comprehensive environmental inventorying of several modes and future assessment of non-conventional fuels and vehicles can follow this methodology in creating technology-specific results. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Car users from the world’s least affluent cities are exposed to a disproportionate amount of in-car air pollution because they rely heavily on opening their windows for ventilation, according to a new global study led by researchers at the University of Surrey. Science of the Total Environment , 141395 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141395.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2012

Authors of the new study include Prof. Zhanqing Li (lead author), Feng Niu and Yanni Ding of the University of Maryland; Jiwen Fan of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Yangang Liu of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And the stratosphere is relatively uniform environment compared to the lower atmosphere, so scientists have also been able to do what they think is more reliable modeling of what might happen. Strickland: And can you talk a little bit about where those studies are in terms of real-world experiments. So it’s been observed before.

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Cars That Think

MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. A 2019 study found that among 22 mood-tracking apps, the median user-retention rate was just 6.1 Over the years, she noticed a pattern: How well she plays depends on her mood.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

NREL studies show that these batteries—with as much as 70% of their initial capacity—potentially can continue to operate for another 10 years in second use as energy storage for utilities, translating into a total service life of up to 25 years. Laboratories, Universities, Future Repurposers, and other Third Parties.

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EV Connect

MAY 22, 2023

Whether you’re trying to do your part for the environment or save more at the pump, purchasing an electric vehicle is a big step forward. And it allows them to ensure that their car is not only cleaner but also powered by renewable energy. For the driver concerned with moving toward clean energy, solar represents the logical next step.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Chen of Colorado State University; Soltex; and Hybrid Coating Technologies. Renmatix’s technological innovation, the use of water-based chemistry instead of enzymes, and/or acids, provides a cleaner, faster, and lower-cost method for deconstructing biomass into cellulosic sugars. Chen of Colorado State University, for Academic.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we do not prepare ourselves, we risk becoming the dumping ground for the world’s dirtiest right hand drive vehicles, instead of a quick adopter of better, cleaner technologies. . Copenhagen) it’s possible for cycling/active transport modes to make up half or more of commuter trips in urban environments. .

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