Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

By converting this low-value, aluminum scrap into high purity aluminum, the ASTRAEA process enables manufacturers to blend with lower-purity scrap, significantly increasing the pool of post-consumer scrap that can be used as a raw material once more.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2012

launched the Nissan Zero Emission Fund, a new fund for individual Nissan electric vehicle (EV) owners in Japan which converts the amount of CO 2 emissions that are offset by driving the 100% electric Nissan LEAF to generate credits. Flows for the Zero Emission Fund. Click to enlarge. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. The third catalyst in the system, which is typically incompatible with the first catalyst, then converts this ester to methanol.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. Why all the hype about hydrogen? All are quite energy intensive.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 5, 2023

By a margin of five to one, Kiwis say they are concerned about climate change and want the government to help people convert to less polluting vehicles. Finding sites to install charging stations is a challenge, and it can be prohibitive to connect to the network under current settings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Mainspring calls its machine a linear generator, because it converts linear motion into electricity. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

medical and climate change costs), the net present benefit would be $5,700 per seat. The hypothetical cost of installing the EPiC 150 is approximately $30,000, assuming it was included in the design and construction stage of the bus. Then, each sum was converted into the net present value, using a discount rate of 3%.

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Fleet Electric Electrical Climate Change 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative and renewable fuels to help attain the state's climate change policies. Earlier post.) million to 5 million gallons a year.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech. In California, regulators separated generation from distribution and sold 40 percent of installed capacity to newly created independent power producers that specialized in peaking power.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

New solar techniques such as thin-film layers that integrate solar arrays into windows may lead to even steeper reductions in the price of renewables, especially as they could help reduce installation costs, a significant part of the solar price tag.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

MW of Solar PV installed, additional 2 MW planned. will receive the Energy Commission’s award of $220,554 to purchase and install eight dual RWE Level 2 eStation Smart Systems, providing 16 charging outlets, and to install and assess the performance of three publicly accessible RWE DC fast chargers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Existing steel pipeline used for carrying natural gas is costly to convert to hydrogen delivery due to the high labor costs associated with joining steel pipes, which are currently transported in 20" lengths and must be welded. Applicants should focus on dual-purpose actions that address both of those goals together, where possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. Using existing technology, we can convert many of them into plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Each of the winding packs will be built and tested, then integrated into toroidal field coils and moved to a final-assembly hall, where the 18 identical coils and surrounding structures will be consolidated and then installed around the tokamak. Among them is a means to extract heat from the device for generating electrical power.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Who’s going to get converted by a guy who has no inverter? And I think that means I’m going to have to learn to install my solar panels myself. “We work with a huge variety of consumers and so many of them initially believed that this technology is too difficult and complicated to install themselves.

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Los Angeles Tax Credit Solar Tax 150

Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. You can get very lean containers that is just basically the program and the install. It distributes its own thing.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2023

To lessen these emissions and their contribution to global climate change, the automobile industry is ramping up the production of electric-powered cars and trucks. Challenges with DC Link Capacitor Design for Vehicle Inverters Capacitors are widely available components that are installed in countless electronic devices.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

This higher SO 2 value is the result of the lithium-ion batteries installed on the e-Golf. It creates financial value for the carbon stored in forests by offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from (converting) forested lands. TSI, at 31.3 REDD focuses on protecting highly-threatened yet critical forest areas.

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Carbon Personal Store Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

Siemens will supply the SISHIP BlueDrive integrated energy and propulsion system into which PowerCell will install its fuel cell modules. If commercial shipping is to meet the IMO target, and seriously take on the challenge that the climate change poses, large sections of it has to convert to much more sustainable solutions.

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Mariner Fuel Sweden Climate Change 186

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Disparities in border technology and the adaptability of migrants and their traffickers are among the reasons Europe decided to convert Frontex into a full agency and triple its budget and staff: “Frontex seeks to create cross-border collaboration in a situation which might otherwise result in a spending arms race on border control between E.U.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

In addition to BMW Group, the consortium includes Scottish and Southern Energy, responsible for providing the infrastructure in and around Oxford and the South-East of England by installing the private and public charging points. The performance of the vehicles will be tested to UN-ECE regulation 101.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The award recipients are: Buster Biofuels, LLC, based in the San Diego area, will receive $2,641,723 to convert a 7,300 square foot industrial warehouse building into a biodiesel manufacturing and fueling facility. Currently, these powertrains are primarily installed in shuttle buses and delivery trucks.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The integration of EVs aligns with the global imperative to mitigate climate change and reduce the environmental footprint of urban transportation. The electric drivetrain is highly efficient in converting stored energy from batteries into motion, minimizing energy waste.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 98

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The terms of the MoU anticipate that Scatec Solar ASA will become preferred supplier and operator of photovoltaic power installations for Joule plants, with an initial deployment goal of up to 25,000 acres (~10,000 hectares) and a power requirement of 2 gigawatts. —Paul Snaith, President and CEO of Joule.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The ORegen technology qualified for partial government funding through the Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. ORegen is the largest organic rankine cycle single unit available in the market for gas turbines waste heat recovery.

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Waste North Dakota Gas-Electric Iowa 255

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. So that's what it takes.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. So that's what it takes.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 90

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a policy paper by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report.

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Pollution Economy Production Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The statute, amended by Assembly Bill 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008), authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help achieve the state's climate change policies. The eight projects are: Electric Vehicle manufacturing. $1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. Expanding hydrogen fueling stations in California. Linde, LLC, will receive $4.5 Hydrogen Frontier, Inc.,

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. First of all he’s already gone where I want to go by installing solar, back in 2007.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It also produces contrails, which are being studied for their impact on climate change. Its fuel stores about 43 megajoules of energy per kilogram, and a current-model engine can convert that stored energy into thrust with an efficiency of around 40 percent. With increased air mobility comes more impact on the planet.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This can be accomplished by building upon the above EV and ICE vehicle policy recommendations, coupled with 100 percent methane capture, retiring all coal-fired electric generation as well as converting the US electric grid with 80 percent clean energy by 2030. For instance, California’s Energy Commission (CEC) projects the state will need 1.2

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