Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2023

Faraday Future has delivered its first production EV. Americans don’t think climate change is an issue. And Tesla drops prices on the Model S and Model X—sort of. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With a.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. 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. If Birol were from Maine, he might have simply observed , “You can’t get there from here.”

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Electrek

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Earlier this week, Google announced a series of features across several products aimed at letting you make more sustainable choices. The company is now following that by prohibiting ads or monetization of content that denies climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Kia EV6 ( earlier post )has achieved product carbon footprint certification and ‘ Carbon Measured ’ label from the global climate change and sustainability consultancy the Carbon Trust, becoming the first Korean vehicle manufacturer to achieve the certificate. The EV6 is the first model to be launched under this new strategy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions. Natural gas consumption and production was up over 5%, one of the strongest rates of growth for both demand and output for over 30 years.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

By partnering with local businesses to deliver renewable fuels and products where and when companies need them, we are coming up with creative new tools that allow businesses to support and benefit from renewables even where they are not available. Calculation method complies with the LCFS CA-GREET 3.0.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton is publicly urging automakers to consider continuing internal combustion engine vehicle production over fears of lost jobs and a future in which middle class consumers cannot afford EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Europe and the US. Schematic overview of the processes by which aviation emissions and increased cirrus cloudiness affect the climate system. Aviation accounts for 3.5% —Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Polestar, the premium electric performance car brand founded by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding, has set a goal of creating the first climate-neutral car by 2030. Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The day reminds us of the need to protect our planet and its ecosystems against the worsening climate crisis. The climate crisis is threatening people across the world, as well as every species of animal and plant life. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. The company will also develop further plans for large scale production of electrolyzers. Contract value: £3.12 million (US$4.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Rivian announced a collaboration with a non-profit organization called The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to preserve biodiversity, fight climate change, and keep adventures wild. Rivian’s products have been developed to inspire and enable people to seamlessly connect with the natural world,” said Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. —PCAST letter to the President. The six key components are: 1.

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Teslarati

JULY 4, 2021

Our friends at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Action Fund continue to make remarkable progress in public climate change policies at the local, state, and national levels thanks to the help of its supporters through fund-raising efforts. . At its price of $130,000, the Model S Plaid is pretty much a class of one.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian Oil Corporation, India’s leading energy major, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LanzaJet to explore the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in India. As a rapidly developing country, India’s energy transition will play a pivotal role in global energy markets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

The aviation sector alone contributes 2-3% of global carbon emissions. Sustainable aviation fuels decarbonizing air transport are called for globally by industry and regulators.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. In addition, much like other agriculturally based industries, climate change and disease can severely impact production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

For this reason, lignin waste is typically used by paper mills as a low-grade boiler fuel, rather than as a high-grade fuel or as a raw material for chemical products. In this study, lignin pyrolysis oil was prepared from Kraft lignin using bench-scale fixed-bed batch pyrolysis and then hydrocracked to produce less-viscous liquid products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. Effect of rocket launch and re-entry emissions on global climate forcing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. Fulcrum’s process combines gasification technology with a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel process for the efficient, low-cost production of renewable transportation fuels.

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Waste Carbon Fuel Production 243

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 Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

This finding has the potential to change predictions for climate change, though it is unclear at this juncture if the mismatch will result in more or less carbon dioxide being accounted for in the environment. What we found is that the models of the ecosystem’s response to climate change need updating.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With demand for lithium set to increase over the next decade, Roskill has calculated , using its in-house analysis, that CO 2 emissions from lithium production are set to triple by 2025 versus current levels and to grow by a factor of six by 2030, with the vast majority of this coming from mineral concentrate production, shipping and refining.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That’s why we are always encouraged to learn about and partner with other companies that are identifying innovative ways to fight the growing climate crisis. Today, we’re excited to share our new partnership with Arcadia , a tech company working to stop climate change by breaking the fossil fuel monopoly. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan , which sets the state on an aggressive course to reduce greenhouse gas emissions an additional 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 under SB 32. This will require California to double the rate at which it has been cutting GHGs. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia ( earlier post ), through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The Hydrogenation section saturates any olefins to paraffins and iso-paraffins.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Our ultimate goal is to fight climate change and build a sustainable future. Hyundai Motor views hydrogen as the clean energy solution for commercial vehicles, including vocational trucks that require high amount of energy, due to the convenience in production, transportation, distribution and storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

A new study finds that environmental damage caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. Production-weighted national average human mortality per million tonnes of maize produced, by pollutant and supply chain stage. a, Absolute mortality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2021

Fracking is the most common type of well stimulation treatment (WST), but it is a relatively uncommon completion technique in California, responsible for about 2% of total in-state oil production. California’s production of oil has been steadily dropping since 1985.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Six major automakers will pledge to phase out the production of ICE vehicles worldwide by 2040, said the British government in a statement. Some OEMs have committed to ending fossil fuel vehicle production at the COP26 summit, taking a proactive approach toward mitigating climate change.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 5, 2018

policymakers as climate change. Now, with continuous growth in domestic oil and gas production over that period, you just don't hear energy security discussed as much. Scientists agree that the effects of manmade climate change, on the other hand.

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Climate Change Climate Gas-Electric Oil 67

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

Zen Clean Energy Solutions—the successful bidder in the recent RFP process related to this study—has initiated work and is currently evaluating how green and blue hydrogen production could support the region’s broad energy policy objectives around climate change, economic growth and sustainably developing energy resources.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

Norway-headquartered Vianode, a manufacturer of synthetic graphite for battery anodes, has released the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) of its planned industrial-scale production. A typical EV battery pack contains around 70 kg of graphite, which represents up to 40% of battery cell emissions, based on average present-day production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

It is increasingly clear that climate change will have potentially large impacts on the nation’s highways, railroads, waterways, airports and pipelines. According to the University Center for Atmospheric Research, more than 75% of natural disasters are triggered directly or indirectly by weather and climate.

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