Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

billion investment plan to support the transition to zero-emission transportation. Supported projects range from incentives for cleaner trucks and buses, and mobility options such as bike- and car-sharing, to consumer rebates for clean cars. The bulk of these funds have come from California Climate Investments.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Many global car manufacturing brands have made the commitment to switch to electric vehicles by 2030. This commitment to zero emissions by 2030 highlights the eagerness of car manufacturing brands to do their part in fighting climate change. But in a […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2021

To build a cleaner, more prosperous economy that fights climate change and creates good jobs, the Government of Canada is taking action to cut pollution from all sectors of the economy — including from the transportation sector, which accounts for one-quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. Today, the Minister of […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

Now I want to be clear: I am inspired by the Administration’s commitment to phasing out carbon emissions. We do have a climate crisis that needs to be addressed. The US transportation sector accounts for the largest portion of US greenhouse gas emissions, and I firmly believe it is a human right to breathe clean air.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 5, 2018

Ten years ago, energy security may have been as much a driving force behind electric cars for U.S. policymakers as climate change. Scientists agree that the effects of manmade climate change, on the other hand.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

T&E has commissioned Emissions Analytics to test three of the most popular PHEVs sold in 2019: a BMW X5 (longest EV range PHEV available), a Volvo XC60 and the Mitsubishi Outlander. Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company’s electrification and emissions reduction efforts support the aims of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change and global progress toward carbon neutrality by 2050. The company introduced the world’s first mass-market electric car, the Nissan LEAF, and has sold more than 500,000 of the zero-emission vehicle to date.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 28, 2021

By David Reichmuth and Leslie Aguayo, a Climate Equity Program Manager from The Greenlining Institute Zero-emission vehicle technologies, like battery electric and fuel cell vehicles, are critical to reducing air pollution and climate-changing emissions from transportation.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2017

Electric vehicles shouldn't be considered all-out carbon footprint saviors, but they can legitimately be viewed as the great minimizers. The benefits of electric vehicles over those with internal-combustion engines are vast, but a strange new study is making rounds that claims electric cars are worse for climate-change emissions.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

On the final night of the conference, August 13, a public night was held featuring a forum with Bill Nye the Science Guy, Chelsea Sexton and “Who Killed the Electric Car&# Director, Chris Paine. org Bill Nye the Science Guy Chelsea Sexton Chris Paine greenhouse gas emissions Joe Galliani.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The entire life cycle of the passenger cars is taken into account, including the manufacture of the vehicles and the environmentally relevant emissions from driving. The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. 97.9 - 111.9

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EV Box

MAY 13, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged over the past decade as a key tool in the fight against transport-related emissions—and climate change. Many car manufacturers have also pledged to transition completely to EVs in the next five to ten years ; including Jaguar, Audi, GM, and Mercedes.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2022

Electric cars are only as clean as the grid they plug into, and the emissions from using your EV will keep dropping over the years you use it because the grid keeps getting cleaner.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 1, 2009

But now that I’ve found out they’re still lying and covering up their role in climate change and the size of their own carbon footprint, I’m going to have to get tougher with them. I initially gave Exxon/Mobil till 2020 to get out of Torrance and clean up their toxic mess here in my town.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) mobilized a $135-million climate financing package for VinFast Trading and Production Joint Stock Company (VinFast) for manufacturing Vietnam’s first fully-electric public transport bus fleet and first national electric vehicle (EV) charging network.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2018

As nations, automakers, and utilities contemplate how to tackle climate change in real terms, a perfect storm of competition is brewing that will—ideally—produce positive change for the rest of us.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first I wanted to talk about climate change deniers, and how remarkable it is that they still exist. A few years ago, climate change deniers were annoying, unscientific troll turds, the kind of people who choose their feelings over facts.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 27, 2021

Only 100% battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have the potential to create the deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector that the world needs to avoid catastrophic climate change. BEVs will become more efficacious as the grid gets greener around the globe. Hybrids […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further. As deployment increases, so will the demand for EV battery materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 6, 2022

The road to zero emissions from road traffic is becoming very clear now. That the solution is battery electric vehicles (BEV) is now accepted even at most legacy carmakers. Only Toyota and friends still believe in a main role for hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) technology. A few others, like Renault, are looking for corner cases […].

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The California Air Resources Board approved a $663-million low-carbon transportation plan to increase the use of clean cars, heavy-duty trucks, buses and freight equipment. In 1998, California identified diesel particulate matter as a toxic air contaminant based on its potential to cause cancer, premature death, and other health problems.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Electric cars are coming. According to a new report by the UN International Panel on Climate Change earlier in October, coastal cities and coral reefs will begin experiencing "devastating effects" by 2040 from climate change if emissions of global-warming carbon-dioxide continue.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Fossil fuel car emissions contribute to greenhouse gas emissions around the globe. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, assuming the fuel economy of the cars is about 22.0 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, assuming the fuel economy of the cars is about 22.0 During the gathering, Volvo, Ford Motor Co.,

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 25, 2018

Today, we interviewed BMW's electric-car powertrain head, looked at tire swaps for Chevy Bolt EVs, covered some state news on emission limits and charging stations, and offered a PSA on climate change. All this and more on Green Car Reports. One Chevy Bolt EV.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Electrifying our transportation system is essential for mitigating emissions that cause climate change and adverse health impacts. Recovering these materials from retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries is an alternative source to mining.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 25, 2017

When that movement involves most people's second most-expensive purchase, and plays a role in reducing manmade carbon emissions to alleviate the worst effects of climate change, things can get heated. Any movement produces passionate advocates and angry detractors, even as the vast mass of people pay it little or no attention.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A 20% increase in UK-generated electricity would be required to charge the current 252.5 billion miles to be driven by UK cars. Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is developing a Clean Fuel Standard that will cut emissions by 30 million tonnes in 2030.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2021

By Eoin Bannon Official new data from the EU’s environmental watchdog (EEA) shows that the CO2 emissions of new cars decreased by 12% in 2020 to 107.8 Transport & Environment (T&E) said the sharp drop showed that ambitious EU car CO2 targets do spur carmakers to reduce their […]. grams of CO2 per km.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 18, 2023

Six years ago I said, "6 Of 10 Big Electric Car Companies Are In China." What has changed since then?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. This is a win-win-win situation for drivers, citizens and the planet.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 11, 2017

However, modern engineering has been able to change this notion by introducing the fastest electric cars. Why make electric cars? Electric cars in the long run can be cheaper. Instead of being dependent on gas, cars make use of electricity that can power your vehicle. Chevy Volt.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

million zero emission vehicles on the roads in their states by 2025, along with the refueling infrastructure required to support those vehicles. This multi-state effort is intended to expand consumer awareness and demand for zero-emission vehicles. Collectively, the eight signatory states represent more than 23% of the US car market.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The researchers’ study leveraged publicly available datasets to analyze a “natural experiment” occurring in California as residents transitioned to electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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