Green Car Congress
AUGUST 18, 2020
A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 28, 2023
“Electric cars will not save the climate. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. Nevertheless, for EVs themselves to become true zero emission vehicles, everything in their supply chain from mining to electricity production must be nearly net-zero emission as well.
Cars That Think
MAY 5, 2022
The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change? Why should members care about climate change?
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Mining giant Rio Tinto will invest around $1 billion over the next five years to support the delivery of its new climate change targets and a company objective for net zero emissions from operations by 2050. Rio Tinto’s new 2030 climate targets are linked to executive remuneration.
Baua Electric
MARCH 23, 2024
In today’s world, climate change is a reality we have to contend with and among the various measures undertaken to combat it, carbon credits can prove to be an effective solution. Weaving a new framework in the climate space, carbon credits incentivize sustainable practices by assigning a financial value to reductions in GHG emissions.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Closing the mitigation gap solely with EVs would require more than 350 million on-road EVs (90% of the fleet), half of national electricity demand and excessive amounts of critical materials to be deployed in 2050—a scenario considered unrealistic. The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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