Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2015

Sperling is a professor of civil engineering, and environmental science and policy at UC Davis and is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Under the partnership, and staring November 1, Uber drivers would be able to rent Teslas from Hertz in its Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. “Climate change is an urgent global challenge we must all tackle together, and now is the time to drive a green recovery from the pandemic. locations.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Even if Washington hadn’t buckled to outside pressure, the U.S. However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 to a level still well below 20 percent.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The National Academy of Sciences is hosting an intensive two-day Sackler Colloquium 21-22 May in Washington, DC, to survey state-of-the-art research on science communication and to consider its implications for governance, policy, and public engagement. The Arthur M.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

AI isn’t the TTC’s only concern; It handles a wide variety of trade-related issues, including security, international standards, data governance, and supply chains. But right at its inception, the TTC stated its intention to establish AI standards. They see China as a common threat,” says Castro.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Finance structures would be created and funded by developed countries, encouraging developing countries and emerging economies to minimize future emissions and adapt to future effects of climate change. by Jack Rosebro. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Our results suggest that gas-aerosol interactions play an important role in methane’s GWP, and hence our larger value would allow better optimization of climate change mitigation policies. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry. Shindell et al.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington Dec. Tension mounted as the negotiator and activists attempted to convince the Chamber to “put down the coal, step away from the climate talks, and set the world free.”. Activists are calling on President Obama to show leadership and shed the influence of lobbyists.

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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. Unlike internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs emit no direct emissions when running on electricity. mph” in the United States.

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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. and Group14 Technologies in Woodinville, Washington. What to do? Two words: heat pumps. The startups included OneD Battery Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif., Sila Nanotechnologies in Alameda, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

The settlement, a consent decree lodged in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, includes provisions that resolves ongoing Clean Air Act violations at refineries in Kenai, Alaska; Martinez, California; Kapolei, Hawaii; Mandan, North Dakota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Anacortes, Washington. Of the $10.45-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

A new study from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs finds that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will be a much bigger challenge than many assume, and will require substantially higher fuel prices combined with more stringent regulations. Source: Morrow et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. —Jin et al. electric vehicle incentives ”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. Chris Malins of the International Council on Clean Transportation. —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The National Research Council of the US has released a report examining the potential for climate change to pose or to alter security risks for the United States over the next ten years. It also emphasizes climate-driven security risks that call for action within the coming decade either to anticipate or to respond to security threats.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

The primary goal is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and, ultimately, contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change on the planet. Sounds simple, but it’s more complicated than just replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). What is the potential for reducing emissions?

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Eads, Charles River Associates, was presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington DC on 25 January 2011. The GFEI, launched in early 2009, is a partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), International Energy Agency (IEA), International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. By Judith Burns.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

These changes reduce or remove the carbon sink capacity of the peatland system by: lowering of the peat water table, which ensures continuous aerobic decomposition of organic matter (plant litter and peat), resulting in high peat surface CO 2 emissions; and. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass. Southeast Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2012

Projected sea-level rise off California, Oregon, and Washington for 2030 (blue), 2050 (green), and 2100 (pink), relative to 2000, as a function of latitude. Sea levels off Washington, Oregon, and northern California will likely rise less, about 60 centimeters over the same period of time.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. C in this century. They cannot give you the answer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

The agency will hold a public hearing on 9 June 2009 at the Dupont Hotel in Washington DC. EISA made three primary changes to the volume requirements of the older RFS program: It substantially increases the required volumes and extends the timeframe over which the volumes ramp up through at least 2022. EISA and RFS2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Automotive manufacturers: Avera Electric Vehicles; BYD Auto; Etrio Automobiles Private Limited; Ford Motor Company; Gayam Motor Works; General Motors; Jaguar Land Rover; Mercedes-Benz; MOBI; Quantum Motors; Volvo Cars.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

Methane and black carbon (soot) are the second- and third-most powerful climate-warming agents after carbon dioxide. Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, co-authored the paper with colleagues from the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.;

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

It all started with President Barack Obama and as DEED begins, we’re taking the opportunity to briefly revisit the tale, with a related nod to the mother of climate change policy, as former Sen. Gavin Newsom (then San Francisco’s mayor), Washington Gov. But how did NDEW come about? Fran Pavley is well known.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As we confront the enormous challenge of climate change, we should take inspiration from even the most unlikely sources. Solar climate intervention is. As the effects of climate change intensify and tipping points are reached, we may need options to prevent the most catastrophic consequences to ecosystems and human life.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. This will be easier said than done.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

To accelerate EV uptake, the Zero Emission Transportation Association , a lobbying group formed by Tesla, Lucid and Rivian along with some EV charging suppliers, asserts that sales of new internal combustion vehicles must be banned by 2030 and diesel trucks by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Washington Gov. Some therefore believe that this could be the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine in the United States. Thirteen other states, including Oregon, New York and Colorado, typically follow California’s auto emissions standards, which are already the most stringent in the country.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. And if the cap-and-trade legislation ever gets passed and we have to internalize the costs associated with GHG emission, then the all-electric capability of the Volt might be even more beneficial.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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