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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

Green Car Congress

At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. The program will fund interdisciplinary research in six key areas: resource development; uses; environmental impacts and climate change; global markets and finance; policy and regulatory reform; and geopolitical impacts.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

Ladies and gentlemen your friendly neighborhood Greenius has hit the wall. My clients included HP, Universal Pictures, Washington Mutual, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Tyco Toys, Tangle Toys, Playmates Toys and others who kept me busy year round. I’ve got National Parks in Oregon and Washington state to see. I am dog tired.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee.

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California announces it will ban the sale of New Gasoline Cars

Setec Powerr

Washington Gov. Meanwhile, Newsom has pledged to spend billions to boost zero-emission vehicle sales by adding chargers in low-income neighborhoods. 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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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. But coal use varies, even within China. An EV operated in Yunnan emits about 60 percent less.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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