Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. The open-access paper on the study is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Palmer et al.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. What was to be a protest rally and action suddenly turned into a green victory celebration. Garcetti was ready for clean power NOW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Polestar is welcoming twelve new partners to the Polestar 0 project to develop a climate-neutral car. The transport sector is the fastest-growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector, expected to reach a share of more than 30% of total GHG emissions in the future, according to the United Nation’s Environment Programme. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has outlined its road map for climate neutrality: Net Zero@Power Systems. By 2030, the Rolls-Royce business unit is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% compared to its 2019 level through the use of new net zero and zero carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Arising from AK Motor’s project CANU (Canadian Automotive New Utilities), Maple Majestic is intended to excel in difficult environments. According to AK Motor, many electric vehicles still remain woefully ill-prepared for harsh climates. as friendly to the environment as it will be friendly to drive in difficult environments.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

CO 2 emissions from private jets in Europe increased by nearly a third (31%) between 2005 and 2019, rising faster than commercial aviation emissions, according to a new report from environmental campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E). Flying on a private jet is probably the worst thing you can do for the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. Uber’s CEO tells us they ‘do the right thing, period.’ That’s the right thing to do, full stop.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Projected extreme temperatures under climate change are predicted to reduce average yields for several of the United States’ major crops. The extent of these regional changes in agricultural productivity and how they influence future cropping decisions is a central question for the risks of climate change for agriculture and food security.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortescue, will be a key enabler of this target through the development of green electricity, green hydrogen and green ammonia projects in Australia. We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change. —Elizabeth Gaines, Fortescue CEO.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) finds that, taken together with public transport, walking and cycling for short city journeys provide the greatest benefits for both human health and the environment in urban areas. If it replaces a motorcycle or a car trip, the environment and health effects are positive.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The release of this enormous investment comes in the midst of the company’s transformation, in what is also for all concerned an extremely challenging environment. We are thus underlining our claim to make a significant and, above all, rapid contribution to the green transformation—also where steel is concerned.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

HyIron, with the support of the state of Lower Saxony, has commissioned what it says is the world’s largest direct reduction plant for green iron on the site of RWE’s Emsland gas-fired power plant. At the plant, iron ore will be reduced solely with the aid of green hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

The findings revealed unevenness between built-up areas expansion (BUAE), which reflects the pace of infrastructure development, and urban population growth among the cities; and a widening gap between rapid urban population growth and slow urban greening, represented by features including new parks, green spaces and green roofs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For this reason, Bosch and Weichai aim to steadily refine this technology with an eye to protecting the climate and environment. Electric vehicles are climate-neutral if the charging power and hydrogen are sourced from renewables. Bosch and Weichai launched their joint development project in September 2018. liters displacement.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. This builds on current mandatory energy efficiency requirements to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Our Rail Decarbonization Action Plan sets out to make our passenger railways emissions free by 2035, but to maximise our climate change ambitions, there is also a requirement to look at what we do with retired stock. If we can bring those back into use in a carbon-neutral way, there are huge climate gains to be made.

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. Now hes in the midst of what looks like his most technologically ambitious mission yet: to fly around the planet in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Santa Ana, California hydrogen station, which went live Friday, was jointly developed by Trillium, Air Products, the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), Ballard Fuel Systems and New Flyer. Trillium has completed construction of the largest hydrogen transit refueling station in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Olaf Lies presented the funding notification of €2.375 million for Uniper’s planned hydrogen pilot project at the Krummhoern natural gas storage site. The climate crisis and the war against Ukraine are forcing us to push ahead with the energy transition at top speed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg N-eq.]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg P-eq.]. Land occupation in an urban environment [m 2 / year].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

The shift to electric mobility is in line with ongoing efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. It has also contributed to environment degradation, landscape damage and soil contamination, groundwater depletion and pollution.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2024

Steel made with green hydrogen and electric arc furnaces, or produced from scrap, can reduce the CO2 emissions of producing cars in Europe by 6.9 continued] The post Green Steel Can Cut Climate Impact of Car Production for Just €57 a Vehicle appeared first on CleanTechnica. Mt in 2030, new analysis shows.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 10, 2024

Green group Transport & Environment (T&E) said the law — agreed in negotiations between MEPs. continued] The post MEPs Sign Off On Climate Targets For Heavy-Duty Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.” A 20% increase in UK-generated electricity would be required to charge the current 252.5 billion miles to be driven by UK cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2021

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published its provisional data about the CO 2 emissions of newly registered passenger cars and vans in Europe in 2020. For cars, the data show a 12% decrease in average cO 2 emissions, compared with 2019. Average van emissions decreased slightly, by about 1.5 %.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The goal is to speed up the transition towards a green, climate neutral and digital Europe, and to make European industry more resilient and competitive. Clean Aviation: This partnership puts aviation en route to climate neutrality, by accelerating the development and deployment of disruptive research and innovation solutions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Two hydrogen mobility projects led by Air Liquide—Hype and HyAMMED—were selected in January 2020 by ADEME (French Environment & Energy Management Agency) as part of the second closing of its “Hydrogen Mobility Ecosystems” call for proposals. Hype is developing the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered taxis.

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Electrek

JUNE 19, 2025

Advertisement - scroll for more content Green, an infamous Tesla hacker who often reveals upcoming features by sifting through the code in new Tesla software updates, made the discovery and commented : “The much-rumored 6-seater Model Y made an appearance in the firmware.” Electrek’s Take This is interesting. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The number of battery-electric buses ordered in Europe more than doubled in 2017 compared to 2016, reaching 1,031 vehicles, according to a new analysis by environmental NGO Transport & Environment. T&E estimates this to be equivalent to around 9% market share of new registrations in 2018. VDL: 500 units. Solaris: 330 units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

This project is sponsored by a grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and is supported by the California Climate Investments (CCI) program. The FCEBCC project is managed by the non-profit Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

More frequent boom-bust cycles will harm consumers and producers recovering from COVID, set back UN Climate and Sustainable Development goals and threaten global security. Pressure on governments and industry for a green recovery is further constraining availability of capital, it says. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

The ZANZEFF project is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When driven by green hydrogen, these powertrains are virtually climate-neutral. Construction machinery is frequently used in stationary, high-load applications, and this is the exact environment in which hydrogen engines can shine with their high efficiency and robustness.

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