Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

This report attributes the downward trend primarily to the decrease in demand for transportation fuels associated with the record high costs of these fuels that occurred in 2008. Tg CO 2 the year before—the largest annual change in either absolute or percentage terms recorded between 1990 and 2008. Tg CO 2 Eq). to 1,785.3 to 1,785.3

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2008 Emissions EPA Transportation 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

Although it may be appropriate to criticize the media for not presenting the case for climate change more strongly and for not presenting the implications of individual behavior more clearly , scientists share at least some of the responsibility for the current state of affairs. Attari et al. Attari, Michael L. DeKay, Cliff I.

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Energy Climate Change Climate Universal 308

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Customer interest is growing quickly in Con Edison’s PowerReady program, which offers incentives covering up to 100% of the infrastructure costs of installing new chargers. As its gasoline-powered vehicles are retired, the company plans to reach 80% electrification of its light-duty fleet by 2030 and 100% by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

mpg) and the newly purchased vehicles (25.0), they calculated that the program cut gasoline consumption by some 280 gallons per year per vehicle. Assuming the average clunker would have lasted 3 more years (at which time a new, higher mpg vehicle would have been purchased), the gasoline savings works out to 804 gallons per vehicle on average.

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Cash For Clunkers Delaware MPG 2009 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The study is the first to estimate the economic costs to human health and well-being from gasoline, corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol made from biomass. Our work highlights the need to expand the biofuels debate beyond its current focus on climate change to include a wider range of effects such as their impacts on air quality.

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Minnesota Gasoline Universal Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Natural gas costs significantly less than gasoline or diesel per GGE. per gallon in February, whereas the average cost of gasoline in California was $3.24 per gallon, and the average cost of diesel was $3.73 Under the program, fuels that help lower GHG emissions, such as natural gas, generate LCFS credits.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Mehdi Namazian, Vice President of Altex.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Contribution of gasoline and diesel exhaust to SOA over 0% to 50% diesel fuel use. The new findings contradict previous research focused on the LA Basin which concluded that gasoline vehicles contributed more to the production of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than exhaust from diesel vehicles. Gentner et al. Click to enlarge.

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Diesel Los Angeles Exhaust Gasoline 281

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 13, 2024

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need to switch from gasoline and diesel to electric vehicles powered by clean electricity as soon as possible. While driving an electric vehicle (EV) can save drivers on fuel and maintenance, the upfront cost of electric cars and trucks can be.

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Climate Change Gasoline-Electric Maintenance Climate 136

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2011

Engine performance is equivalent to that of the existing gasoline-fueled I6. Awareness of the climate change issue and its importance to consumers has seen Ford deliver a range of product actions in recent years, which have introduced sustainable technologies that are conscious of both the environment and our customers.

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Australia Engine Ford Fuel 270

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

This study evaluates the incremental life cycle air emissions (GHG and CAC) impact benefits and life cycle ownership costs of non-plug-in (CV and HEV) and plug-in (BEV) vehicles using natural gas as a common primary energy source. Base case life cycle (a) GHG climate change impacts, (b) CAC health impacts, and (c) ownership costs.

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Climate Change Energy Gas-Electric Plug-in 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case. —Morrow et al. Similar results hold for other macroeconomic indicators.

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Tax Credit Tax Emissions Fuel 220

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Their analysis of the economics of a co-electrolysis-based synthetic fuel production process, including CO 2 air capture ( earlier post ) and Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis, determined that the price of electricity needed to produce competitive synthetic gasoline (at $2/gal wholesale) is $0.02 - $0.03 Solid State Ionics In press. 2010.06.014.

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Fuel CO2 Production Conversion 255

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

We congratulate the auto industry in Brazil for its vision and the boldness shown when it chose to invest heavily in Flex technology, to the point that many of these industries do not even produce vehicles powered exclusively by gasoline any more.

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Brazil Global Fuel Climate Change 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The ranges of the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided carbon are narrower for the future technology pathways, reflecting the expected economic competitiveness of these alternative vehicles and fuels. Fuels or energy carriers in the study included gasoline, ethanol, diesel, CNG, LPG, hydrogen, and electricity.

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Industrial Industry Gasoline-Electric PHEV 223

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

This becomes evident in Case 1, where despite the promise of eventual long-term economic benefits, a substantial penalty— in fact possibly worse than gasoline—in the first few decades may render the near term cost of the carbon debt difficult to overcome. —Statement from the RFA. Felzer, Xiaodong Wang, Andrei P.

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Emissions Carbon Climate Change Climate 285

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. Future of Mobility Roadmap.

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Transportation Emissions Universal Climate Change 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

Survey participants remain very concerned about the high cost of gasoline, with nearly 90% saying they expect prices at the pump to rise during the next six months, an expectation that is particularly strong among Republican voters. Support for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge edges out opposition, 38% to 32%.

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Austin Renewable Gas Climate Change 191

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. These incentives help to pay the difference between the cost of alternative-fuel vehicles and conventional vehicles. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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Green Vehicles California 2014 2013 295

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Other technologies—such as efficiency improvements in gasoline engines as well as the rollout of hybrid electric power trains—offer more compelling and cost-effective pathways to reducing CO 2 emissions from European passenger cars, the ICCT says. —The ICCT.

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Diesel CO2 Standards Emissions 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The technology pathways are intended to show the different cost impacts of achieving different levels of stringency, if the industry were to place more or less emphasis on hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric vehicles as compared to advanced gasoline technologies and vehicle mass reduction. hybrids, and electric vehicles.

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Fuel Economy EPA 2017 Economy 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The editorial addresses important issues in the current politically charged discussions of global warming and climate-change alarm. … The authors assert that “zero emissions” BEVs will not replace IC engines in commercial transport to any significant degree because of the weight, size and cost of the batteries required.

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International Engine Exhaust Emissions 312

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The 2012-2013 plan update allocates $100 million to encourage investments in the following areas: $20 million to help develop and produce biofuels, including gasoline and diesel substitutes, and biomethane. million for E85 fuel (85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline) and $1.5 11 million for hydrogen cell fueling stations.

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2012 2013 Green Vehicles California 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In contrast, a consensus among the agencies drives the current effort in which a coordinated statewide approach is key in balancing climate change mitigation, renewable power generation and the use of advanced technologies with grid reliability and reduced costs to consumers. Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation ( earlier post ).

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Plug-in California 2020 Transportation 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

At least 10 major energy proposals that would provide incentives for energy efficiency, reduce gasoline usage and support alternative energy have the support of more than two-thirds of Americans, according to a new survey, “The Energy Learning Curve” released by Public Agenda, an opinion research and citizen engagement organization.

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Energy Climate Change Oil Tax 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Beyond 2025, ARB notes, the driving force for lowering emissions in California will thus be climate change. ARB staff proposes that many of the technologies that reduce climate change emissions will also reduce the operating costs of light-duty vehicles. Advanced Clean Cars Summary.

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Light Emissions Cleaning Clean 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

If ARB does not withdraw the rule to fix these deficiencies, OAL must return the rule to ARB—as was done to the Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline regulations after OAL determined ARB had failed to respond to comments. The NERA papers suggested that ARB examine an additional method (social cost of carbon) for accounting for emissions over time.

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Carbon California Standards Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that the per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric autonomous taxi in 2030 would be 63-82% lower than a projected 2030 hybrid vehicle driven as a privately owned car and 90% lower than a 2014 gasoline-powered private vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The costs of most clean energy technologies fell more rapidly than anticipated. Climate Change Electric (Battery) Engines Fuel Efficiency Hybrids Plug-ins Policy Vehicle Systems' Solar photovoltaic systems continued to be installed at a record pace, contrary to many expectations. Tracking Clean Energy Progress.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

They also found that abundant natural gas can, however, help reduce the costs of achieving GHG reduction goals. Most evidence indicates that natural gas as a substitute for coal in electricity production, gasoline in transport, and electricity in buildings decreases greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

ICEs will continue to play a major but changing role in the industry, as most electrified vehicles over time will be hybrids, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The low cost of gasoline in the US will yield similar results. The third relevant area of technology is electric power generation.

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Boston Consulting Group Hybrid Market Global 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

In this paper, we investigate variation in life cycle cost and emission benefits of hybrid and plug-in vehicles under a range of driving conditions with a sensitivity analysis to critical factors such as gasoline prices, vehicle costs and electricity grid mix. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. —Karabasoglu and Michalek.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

gasoline in cars) to electricity in order to achieve the GHG reduction target. essential for reducing the cost of electrification, by raising. Net mitigation cost to California came in at 1.3% The transportation sector bore the highest share of these costs, reflecting the cost of fleet electrification. appliances.

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Climate California Fuel Emissions 262

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.),

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Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

When fully implemented, annual fuel costs to operate a car will be reduced by an average of 25%, with an overall cumulative savings of $22 billion by 2025, according to ARB calculations. This will reduce the monthly cost of a new car by $12, even when considering the higher cost of the loan or lease. Certification fuels.

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