Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2021

The technology is already utilized in stationary as well as in mobile fuel cells applications and includes emission-free forklifts and conveyor vehicles. With headquarters and production in Boulder, Colorado as well as sales operations in Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai, the company has so far seen the greatest success in the US and Asian markets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

A new international study has found that laboratory tests of nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel vehicles significantly underestimate the real-world emissions by as much as 50%. Real-world NO x emission factors by vehicle emissions standard in key regions. The team then computed the impacts on health, crops and climate.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

A recent increase in the abundance of particles high in the atmosphere has offset about a third of the current climate warming influence of CO 2 change during the past decade, according to a new study led by NOAA and published in the online edition of Science. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge. —John Daniel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has proposed amending the California Low-Emission Vehicle III Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulation to ensure that cars and light-duty trucks for model years 2022-2025 continue to meet California standards even if Federal standards are frozen. Colorado is also in the process of adopting them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Projected median temperature change in °F (of 112 climate projections) over the Western United States, 2070–2099 relative to 1950–1979. Specific projections include: Projected median percentage precipitation change (of 112 climate projections) over the Western United States, 2070–2099 relative to 1950–1979. Source: DOI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Lightning eMotors signed a new exclusive partnership with Soderholm Bus & Mobility in Hawaii to provide Lightning eMotors’ zero-emission powertrains for their commercial van and bus customers. Elemental Excelerator, a commercialization catalyst for growth-stage climate technology companies, facilitated and contributed funding to the venture.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The new data suggests we have overestimated flaring’s effectiveness and, as a result, underestimated its contribution to methane emissions and climate change. This appears to be a source of methane emissions that seems quite addressable. A paper on the work is published in Science.

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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. The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. Audi was among the first automotive manufacturers to publicly support and align its actions with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

US and Swiss researchers have modeled two climate scenarios with very high carbon emissions—above the A1F1 scenario, currently representing the upper bound of predicted carbon emissions in the IPCC work—to investigate the resulting climate change implications. —Sanderson et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission solutions for commercial fleets, is partnering with the City of Boulder and transit provider Via Mobility Services to repower diesel buses with battery-electric systems. The city and Via staff plan to continue to transition the entire HOP fleet to zero-emission vehicles in the near-term.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Owen Cooper.

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EV Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

With climate change awareness increasing, gas prices continuing to climb, EV charging stations expanding, and tons of new EV options hitting the market each year, it’s no surprise that electric vehicle purchases are skyrocketing. By offsetting purchase costs, these incentives make emissions-free vehicles attainable for more residents.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

The universities receiving the funding through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program include: Colorado State University, to gain insights on how emissions from wildfires and volatile chemical products (for example, personal care products, cleaning agents, and coatings) contribute to the formation of fine particles in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2020

A new study led by Colorado State University predicts significant climate benefits stemming from the use of advanced biofuel technologies. These results affirm the climate mitigation logic of biofuels, consistent with their prominent role in many climate stabilization scenarios. —Field et al. LeBauer, Stephen P.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

The study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70% increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions with resultant significant warming (IPCC Scenario A2 and RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) 8.5.). Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5. The A2 story line is characterized by heterogeneity.

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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. Low-rolling-resistance tires boost electric-car range, but don't do much for handling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Co-author Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, noted that earlier studies on the impact of climate warming and ambient ozone on the state’s ability to grow food have focused on high-volume staple crops such as wheat, soy and rice. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., finds that the sea-level rise is at least partly a result of climate change. degrees Celsius, in the past 50 years, primarily because of human-generated emissions in greenhouses gases.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Organic aerosol (OA) particles affect climate forcing and human health, but their sources and evolution have remained poorly characterized. Scientists have struggled to know where the organic molecules from mobile and stationary source emissions go, and what happens to them once they leave their source. Click to enlarge. Jimenez et al.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Streamlining cooperative vehicle-to-vehicle communications and controls that reduce energy use and emissions. NREL and the state of Colorado continue to lead the development of innovative energy storage and battery technologies that reduce our carbon emissions,” said U.S. Colorado is at the forefront of clean energy innovation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2011

When the new Chevrolet Colorado midsize pickup rolls out in the Asia-Pacific region this fall, it will introduce a new global family of Duramax turbo-diesel engines, available in 2.8L The Colorado made its global debut in Thailand today.). Electronic throttle valve that helps reduce emissions. displacements.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

By including upstream emissions from fuels, GHG emissions from cities exceed those attributed to direct end-use by up to 24% (for Toronto). By including upstream emissions from fuels, the researchers found that GHG emissions attributable to cities exceed those from direct end use by up to 24%. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

SEI is working to support more than 20 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop plans to reduce emissions leading to particulate air pollution. problem, you need to control many different sources, but in many developing countries, certain emission sources dominate. To reduce the PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

GHG emissions for ATP shale (low and high cases) and conventional gasoline in grams of CO 2 e per MJ of final fuel delivered. These emissions are 1.5 times larger than emissions from conventionally produced gasoline. Full-fuel-cycle GHG emissions are estimated to be 129 g CO 2. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. These are ~1.5-1.75

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers Construction Research Lab Commercial truck and locomotive engine maker Cummins , which has pledged to make all its heavy-duty road and rail vehicles zero-emission by 2050, won a $1 million competitive award to build the H2Rescue, which gets its power from a hydrogen fuel cell that charges its lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

We are beginning to get a sense of regional variation in methane emissions from natural gas production. CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. If leak rates are too high, natural gas does not compare favorably with one alternative, coal, in terms of climate impact. 0.41% of production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. The MINER program funds technology research that increases the mineral yield while decreasing the required energy, and subsequent emissions, to mine and extract energy-relevant minerals. Colorado School of Mines.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Some of this is down to how regional climates impact battery ranges or the fact that you really need a garage fitted for vehicle charging if you want to get the most out of owning an EV. Those states are California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and Maryland. However, Elizabeth Krear, J.D.

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EV Life

AUGUST 4, 2023

We’ll also explore the best ways to save money on the purchase of a Bolt EUV by taking advantage of available EV incentives with an EV Climate Loan through EV Life. The CVRP offers rebates of up to $7,500 for the purchase or lease of eligible zero-emission vehicles, including electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

The use of natural gas reduces greenhouse gas emissions six to 11 percent, according to the US Department of Energy. UPS was one of the initial 13 leading companies to take the Obama Administration’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity 20% by 2020. Columbia, S.C.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Colorado State University. Zero Emission Freight Future. Advancing Climate and Innovation Goals of Memphis and Shelby County: Electrification of key fleet vehicles to capture cost savings and climate benefits. AOI 05: Improved Efficiency of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Natural Gas and Propane (LPG) Engines. Clean Fuels Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

National and state regulators primarily use generic emission inventories to assess the climate, air quality, and health impacts of natural gas systems. These inventories rely on limited, incomplete, and sometimes outdated emission factors and activity data, based on few measurements, they found. —Moore et al. Moore et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

The C 300 d is the first diesel model to undercut the ULEV 70 (0.070 NMOG+NO x g/mi) emissions limits, which are among the strictest in the world. The emission control system incorporates a close-coupled electrically heated oxidation catalytic converter and a diesel particulate filter which is located in the area of the bulkhead.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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