Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. Air pollution caused twice as many deaths from CVD as from respiratory diseases. The researchers found that air pollution caused an estimated 8.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

A new report by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport in the UK rose by 6% from 1990 to 2017. The increase—albeit lower than the increase in road traffic—highlights the significant challenge in reducing emissions from road transport, the report says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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MAY 23, 2014

Deaths from outdoor air pollution by region in 2005 and 2010. Outdoor air pollution kills some 3.5 This pollution is costing advanced economies plus China and India an estimated US$3.5 The effects of air pollution on people’s health are much higher than previously thought. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Over the five?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. of net CO 2 emission globally relative to data for 2014. Gigatons yr −1. This would displace 3.8–13.7%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Projects funded to date are achieving the overall goal of California Climate Investments by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 36.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Statistical analysis was carried out on the data, in order to calculate peak and high ozone levels and to interpret trends and changes in the data. TOAR has created a large publicly available database which also includes a complete set of statistics and graphical downloads. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Despite the economic effects of the global financial crisis (GFC), carbon dioxide emissions from human activities rose 2% in 2008 to an all-time high of 1.3 Other main findings of the study include: CO 2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased at an average annual rate of 3.4% over the previous seven years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The RCPs were chosen to represent a broad range of climate outcomes, based on a literature review. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The editorial addresses important issues in the current politically charged discussions of global warming and climate-change alarm. … It is very likely that highly efficient “fully flexible” engines with hybridized solutions will be a big part of sought-after efficiency improvements, as well as emission/GHG reductions. Reitz et al.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

The Biden Administration dropped a new rule limiting tailpipe emissions from passenger vehicles yesterday, and you know what that means. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line. Yes, it's lying season! I want to focus on one particular egregious lie. It very much is not.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The growth of global industrialization, increasing demand on energy resources and rising carbon emissions are deepening the need for energy infrastructure that is increasingly green, distributed, flexible, and resilient. Renewable UK, Wind Energy Statistics Explained, available at: [link] , accessed 12 November, 2020. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

This potential leap in destructiveness and pollution—mainly from an increase in wildfire frequency—is forecast by computer models calculating impacts of moderate global warming on western US wildfire patterns and atmospheric chemistry. The increase is due mainly to the simulated rise in wildfire frequency in the future, warmer climate.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Effects of changes in the average lifespan of ordinary passenger cars newly registered between 1990-2000 on total induced CO 2 emissions in 2000. Conversely, encouraging shortened vehicle lifetime via vehicle replacement schemes can result in higher total-induced greenhouse gas emissions, the authors found. Credit: ACS, Kagawa et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. We analyzed data for more than 1.1 —Peter Mock.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Attitudes towards measures to reduce car emissions. The report for the Department for Transport is based on a survey module included in the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions (Omnibus) survey which has been carried out each August since 2006. The vast majority of adults believed that the world and UK climate was being affected.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Although large emissions cuts are urgently needed to achieve global climate goals, it may take decades before we can measure the effect of the reductions on global temperature evolution, according to a new study by researchers at Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research. —Bjørn Samset.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

We catalogued dozens of unique electric vehicle actions and found statistically significant relationships between the electric vehicle share of new light-duty vehicle sales and model availability, consumer incentives, public charging infrastructure, workplace charging, HOV lane access, and city promotion actions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The findings, published in the 21 September issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , are generally consistent with official Chinese government statistics and could bolster their credibility as international negotiations proceed on commitments of China and other nations to combat climate change. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A statistical regression revealed that the total monetary benefit to consumers from state incentives significantly positively correlates with BEV sales when all 50 states and the District of Columbia are included. The ICCT team first monetized the direct incentives by evaluating the effective benefit available to consumers—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

The US National Academy of Sciences estimates that fossil fuel subsidies cost the United States $120 billion in pollution and related health care costs every year. Overall, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 4.7% But these hidden costs (externalities) are not reflected in fossil fuel prices. in 2020 and 5.8%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Stone et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Impact pathway approach for modeling policy interventions in (a) air quality and (b) climate impacts. However, CNG conversion was apparently detrimental from a climate change perspective, as CH 4 emissions increased. vehicle emissions standards, phasing out of leaded petrol, etc.), Credit: ACS, Zia and Tanzila.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The complexity of new and future vehicles—driven by the need for increasing fuel efficiency and decreasing emissions with ever-changing drive-cycle demands and environmental conditions—is adding unprecedented flexibility in design and driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers, observed Dr. Robert M.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Divergence of real-world CO 2 emissions from manufacturers’ type-approval CO 2 emissions for various on-road data sources, including an average estimate for private and company cars as well as all data sources. In total, these sources furnish fuel consumption and CO 2 emission data from more than half a million vehicles.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035, requiring all new cars sold in the state after that year to be 100 percent free of fossil fuel emissions. 35 percent of new passenger vehicle sales in California must be of zero-emissions vehicles by 2026. Colorado is the most recent state to adopt CARB’s emissions standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money. through 2026.

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