Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Coltura is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. Four states, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Washington, collectively representing about 15% of the US auto market, have all considered bills effectively requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2020

The plasma confinement technology is an extension of work originally pioneered by the FuZE team at the University of Washington and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy since 1998. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

BP will sell the ARCO retail brand rights and exclusively license those rights from Tesoro for Northern California, Oregon and Washington and continue to produce transportation fuels at its Cherry Point, Washington refinery. —Iain Conn, chief executive of BP’s global refining and marketing business. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). Achakulwisut et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. We also offer gasification technology that would enable a cleaner use of coal and more effective application of CO 2 capture technology; and we produce wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

GE and Shenhua have agreed to form an industrial coal gasification joint venture to advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” technology solutions in China. The agreement was signed today at a ceremony at the Strategic Forum on US-China Clean Energy Cooperation in Washington DC.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Over the last three years, EPA has provided nearly $300 million in grants and rebates to modernize diesel fleets with cleaner heavy-duty trucks and equipment, according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) will accept applications requesting up to $1,000,000 in grant funds. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

Clean Mobility Centers also utilize green design and sustainability practices that promote cleaner transportation in the communities they serve. Propel currently operates stations throughout California and Washington State with more than 200 stations planned for new and existing markets over the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency, through its Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, is awarding nearly $1 billion to 389 school districts spanning 50 states, Washington, DC, and several Tribes and US territories. In May, EPA announced the availability of $500 million for its Clean School Bus Program.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

In 2020, X-energy was selected by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program to deliver a four-unit Xe-100 plant in Washington state, which will make it among the first operational grid-scale advanced reactor plants in North America. Today, Dow is among the top 20 users of clean energy among global corporations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s time for America to recapture the lead in the nuclear energy industry and lay the foundation for a stronger, cleaner, and more competitive economic future. The General Atomics team includes: General Dynamics Electric Boat Division; URS Washington Division; Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute; and Fuji Electric Systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

for Washington, D.C. They will enable us to fly cleaner, foster job growth in a new industry, and can insulate airlines from the volatile price swings of conventional fuel to help make air travel more economical. Two flights will leave Seattle on 9 Nov. and Portland, Oregon. Commercial airplanes are equipped and ready for biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

The E-Golf pilot program will take place in the Detroit Metro, San Francisco, and Washington DC markets, beginning in April. During the year-long evaluation, Volkswagen will measure the environmental impacts from the use of cleaner burning renewable diesel formulas. —Prof. Dr. Jurgen Leohold, Head of Volkswagen Group Research.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

This product will certainly play an important role in the world’s energy future, ultimately improving the performance of a wide variety of energy storage devices—everything from hybrid and electric vehicles, to industrial cranes and forklifts, to a cleaner and more efficient global energy grid. Aaron Feaver.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2012

The LTC model is in review with the journal Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (PECS), with publication pending, according to Mark Musculus of CRF during his presentation at the DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review in Washington this week.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Applicants may request funding to upgrade or replace diesel-powered buses, trucks, marine engines, locomotives and nonroad equipment with newer, cleaner technologies. Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) will accept proposals requesting up to $1,000,000 in grant funds. Background.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Part of that debate has been about the squeeze such a bill would put on oil imports by saving oil through increased development and deployment of cleaner, more efficient vehicles such as plug-in hybrids as well as increasing domestic production. One of the current focuses of Congress is the clean energy and climate bill.

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Plug in America

JUNE 27, 2025

A multi-year transitional period would also provide the opportunity for Americans to continue adopting cleaner vehicles more affordably. Sudden elimination will disrupt the used car market, a backbone of the American economy. Senate to keep EV tax credits appeared first on Plug In America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. —Jim O’Donnell. BMW: relationship between cell and system characteristics for Li-ion for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Researchers from CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering presented their recent findings during a panel discussion at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 27, 2025

Electric bicycle incentive programs have grown considerably over the last few years, and Washington State is one of the most recent to lay the groundwork for yet another program designed to reduce the cost of this alternative transportation for lower-income commuters. via: Seattle Bike Blog FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. A new study led by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Hokkaido University and the University of Washington explains why. The open-access paper on the results is published in Science Advances.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

King County, Washington, Executive Dow Constantine announced that King County Metro Transit will acquire 120 battery-electric buses by 2020. The new buses run cleaner, quieter, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. As part of this commitment, Metro will purchase up to 73 battery buses from Burlingame, Calif.-based based Proterra.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Natural gas is a widely available, cleaner burning fuel across North America, but availability of LNG is limited, as the demand and supply side are waiting for each other, partly held up by logistical problems. Out of 38 LNG-fueled ships currently in operation, DNV is classing 36, including the first ship.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

A new study by researchers from Washington State University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has found that a catalyst using a single or just a few palladium atoms removed 90% of unburned methane from natural gas engine exhaust at low temperatures. The work is published in the journal Nature Catalysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

At the Washington Auto Show in February, for example, GM suggested a partial draft checklist of stakeholders and enablers to help guide cities in making their regions plug-in friendly. In addition, he said, the marginal sources that would handle the upswing from vehicle charging are “ significantly cleaner ” than the national average.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The steps we take today to lower emissions will improve air quality and mitigate climate impacts for generations to come, all while increasing access to cleaner car choices,” said Governor Phil Murphy. It joins California, Vermont, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Connecticut.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Neste suggests that high freeze point renewable jet fuel is a potential game changer; it would be used in lower blends: NEXBTL renewable jet fuel has also been tested on 1,187 scheduled Lufthansa flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg in 2011, and one intercontinental flight between Frankfurt and Washington D.C. at the beginning of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

a bioenergy and biofuels company based in Washington DC. City Hall has been working with British Airways and Solena to drive this project forward to help untap the massive potential to generate cleaner, less polluting energy from waste, otherwise destined for landfill. 3D Isometric cutaway view of the Solena PGV reactor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

NASA is soliciting proposals for studies designed to identify advanced vehicle concepts and enabling technologies for commercial airliners to fly more economically, quieter and cleaner by 2025. This research will support the Integrated Systems Research Program in NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Washington State University. Helping America’s Rural Counties Transition to Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles. University of Washington. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. General Motors LLC. Transportation Energy Partnership. 299,899.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

Kaufman, MD, MPH, of the University of Washington, in an accompanying editorial. We plan to evaluate if the benefits of cleaner air endure by investigating if children with the greatest improvements in air quality continue to have better lung function than their peers in the teen years. Sack, MD, and Joel D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Propane is a cleaner burning fossil fuel, yielding 87% less hydrocarbons and 50% fewer toxins than gasoline, and is more economical compared to petroleum-based options, roughly 40 to 50% less than gasoline/diesel per gallon, although less attractive on a cost per energy equivalent basis due to its lower energy content.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 4, 2025

But the change in administration in Washington, D.C., Of course, at a clean propulsion convention this would seem odd, until Mack said it uses cleaner diesel, has improved fuel economy, lower carbon emissions, including nitrous-oxide, and lower operating costs. Mack Pioneer Electric deliveries are expected sometime in early 2027.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

and Washington, D.C. This unit provides cleaner emissions and utilizes half the amount of precious metals compared with conventional catalysts. Raleigh, N.C. in the United States; and Israel, Portugal, Monaco, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 20, 2021

Putting the brake on regional pollution Also in December, Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C., announced the launch of a groundbreaking program that invests $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices and healthier communities.?

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EV Obssesion

JUNE 27, 2021

Article courtesy of NASA By Brandie Jefferson Washington University in St. Louis Early in the pandemic, it was expected that satellite imagery around the world would show cleaner air as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns. But not all pollutants were taken out of circulation. For tiny airborne-particle pollution, known as PM 2.5,

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