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California Energy Commission awards nearly $9M to 3 projects to support local manufacturing of heavy-duty electric vehicles, PHEVs

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The program develops and deploys innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change goals. The Energy Commission also approved the 2015-2016 Investment Plan Update for its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP). Earlier post.).

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Audi aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% over the vehicle lifecycle by 2025

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This year, Audi will launch four more PHEV models, starting with the Audi Q5 55 TFSI e quattro, which has been available since summer. The next step will be the conversion of the car and engine plant in the Hungarian town of Gy?r. Plug-in hybrids are also an essential element of the electrification initiative. 97.9 - 111.9

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Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

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The cost-effectiveness of measures to address climate change is enhanced through a multisector perspective. Tags: Climate Change Electric (Battery) Emissions Hybrids Hydrogen Policy Power Generation. Wallington et al. Wallington et al. The team used a model (Global Energy Transition, GET-RC 6.1)

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Study Highlights the Importance of Considering Climate Effects of Non-CO2 Emissions from Transport in Mitigation Strategies and Policies

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The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. database) from another global inventory for the year 1996.

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EVs “unaffordable and unavailable” due to “Australian policy failures”

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Words from Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy in the new Albanese Government, as he addressed the National EV Summit in Canberra this morning. ” Figures show Australia’s current EV and PHEV uptake is roughly 2 per cent, while the UK was at 15 per cent and Europe as a whole at 17 per cent.

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Natural EV capitalism

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We had a conversation about EVs, and I asked him if the grid would ever be ready for all the EVs that would eventually be on the roads,” Martinson remembered. All these years later, Martinson and his wife both drive Teslas and their daughter drives a Chevrolet Volt PHEV. It just needed a visionary entrepreneur to make it happen.”

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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Arkansans Power Electronics International and its partners the University of Arkansas, ORNL, Toyota, and Cree will receive $3,914,554 to develop and demonstrate a transformational, highly-efficient, ultra-compact silicon carbide PHEV charger. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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