Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

Obama

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

At the Fifth Summit of the Americas held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in April, 2009, US President Obama announced the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA).

Canada

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Just when it seemed the overhyped promise of biofuels was diminishing, it may prove to have a second life under Obama. Praise for the nomination ranges from Greenpeace to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Obama

Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2013

"Cleaner cars need cleaner fuels"--that's the message from a group of automakers in support of new EPA rules to clean up gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency will today move ahead with rules requiring cleaner gasoline nationwide, with huge potential environmental benefits.

Gasoline

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Under the framework agreements, gasoline and diesel cars and light trucks will get cleaner through 2026 at about the same rate as the former Obama-era program.

California

Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.

Grant

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

The funds were provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed by President Obama on 17 February, and can be used to support clean diesel projects and loan programs to address the nation’s existing fleet of more than 11 million diesel engines.

District of Columbia

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Board’s action is the third and final step California committed to as part of an agreement with automobile manufacturers and two federal agencies announced last May by President Obama in the Rose Garden to establish the harmonized national GHG standard.

California

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

President Barack Obama announced that the US General Services Administration (GSA) will spend $285 million provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to buy about 17,600 new, fuel-efficient vehicles produced by US auto companies by 1 June.

Purchase

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We know that Secretary of Energy Moniz recently admitted that the Obama administration’s ambitious and encouraging goal of one million EVs on American roads by 2015 is unattainable. Federal and state commitment to cleaner fleets by purchasing EVs and PHEVs. As a market, we are not where some predicted we would be. This should be a U.S.

America

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Proposing the new standards on the same timeframe—by 1 September 2011—signals continued collaboration that could lead to an extension of the current National Clean Car Program, providing automakers certainty as they work to build the next generation of cleaner, more fuel efficient cars. The EPA standard would be equivalent to 35.5

Fuel Economy

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The two Presidents pledged to promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, including large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects. A new US-China Renewable Energy Forum will be held annually, rotating between the two countries. 21 st Century Coal.

China

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

This is why, since President Obama took office, the Department of Energy has invested more than $6 billion to clean coal technologies—particularly in carbon capture, utilization, and storage – helping to ensure that fossil energy use is cleaner, safer, and more sustainable. —Secretary Moniz.

Energy

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high.

EPA

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer. The goal is to accelerate a transition already in process and to make sure it succeeds.

Cleaning

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

There are no EPA mileage measures for these trucks; however, because newer models are cleaner than older models, the age requirement ensures that the trade will improve environmental quality. There will be a finite number of these vouchers, based on this vehicle class’s market share.

Scrappage

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership.

Mexico

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

In December 2009, within the framework of the Copenhagen Summit, the Obama Administration said it would commit $5 million towards international cooperation to quantify emissions and impacts of black carbon from fossil fuel and biomass burning and to reduce black carbon emissions and the associated warming effects in and around the Arctic.

EPA

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

It is cleaner, quieter, and friendlier to operate with a fuel cell power plant enabling mobility via renewable energy. Fuel Cell-Battery Electric Hybrid for Utility or Municipal MD or HD Bucket Trucks (H2BT) The fuel cell bucket truck has no emission and saves 1,400 gallons of diesel fuel per year. 148,393.82. 149,999.70. 150,000.00.

Li-ion

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Part of the shift away from skeuomorphism was purely functional; as devices added more applications and features, designers needed a cleaner display to organize information. Megan Smith , a product design lead at General Magic, later becomes chief technology officer in the Obama administration.

Future

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It will be launched today by Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary, and Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, with the aim of kickstarting the market for cleaner road vehicles and slashing the UKs CO2 emisisons. Barack Obama releases Bush administration torture memos 5. The new breed of electric car.

Environment

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

President Obama has issued an Executive Order establishing an interagency working group to coordinate Administration policy efforts to support “safe and responsible” development of unconventional domestic natural gas and associated infrastructure. This would include coordination of policies on fracking.

Obama

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

Oil

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.

Plug-in

Plug in America

AUGUST 25, 2021

It is no longer 2012 when the Obama Administration standards came out. This change in the American automotive landscape needs to be more fully recognized. Times have changed, and this proposal should more closely reflect today’s realities, rather than continuing a trend from nearly ten years ago.

EPA

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures.

Gas

Green Cars News

MAY 24, 2009

President Barack Obama’s national fuel efficiency standards in the USA have come in for criticism in The Wall Street Journal where a columnist points out that there could be severe costs in terms of urban air pollution and human life. Most people know about the positive effects of developing greener, lighter cars.

Obama

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Beware of businessmen trying to make a fortune with the wish to shift to cleaner propulsion! million investment into fuel cell technology Tohe on Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. million investment into fuel cell technology Tohe on Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. Analyse their business models thoroughly!

Charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Tree Planting as Carbon Offsets – Does Latitude Ma. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA SZ (1) 6753.T

Grid

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

each year through model year 2026, as compared with the standards issued under the Obama administration in 2012, which would have required about 5% annual increases. Under the framework, gasoline and diesel cars and light trucks will get cleaner through 2026 at about the same rate as the current program. Earlier post.).

Fuel Economy

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 16, 2024

There was a brief period during the Obama administration where California and federal rules were harmonized but industry lobbying and the meddling of an ignorant reality TV host resulted in a shattering of that harmony, giving companies a more difficult regulatory environment.

Cleaning

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The investors said that the agreement between the states and automakers provides the best available opportunity to address those needs while also positioning the company for competitive success in a global marketplace that is pivoting to cleaner vehicles.

Standards

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. In order to comply with the Obama standards, auto makers need to sell many more electric vehicles. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler. Environmental impact.

Fuel Economy

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Brendan Bell, COO of Aligned Climate Capital , who formerly led the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, told Electrek : My partner Peter and I led the DOE Loan Program Office under President Obama. We supported the first utility-scale solar and storage projects, as well as early EV investments – including the first loan to Tesla.

Cleaning

Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

Walz helped make EVs cheaper, cars cleaner On EVs, Minnesota passed a $2,500 rebate for new EVs, or $600 for used ones , under Walz’s tenure as governor. In 2012, state standards had finally been harmonized with the EPA by the Obama-Biden administration, leading to more regulatory certainty for automakers.

Climate

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. However, this can’t be done with the stroke of a pen.

EPA