Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2025

A humans well-being and socioeconomic progress are deeply connected to the environment. Peoples livelihoods, businesses, industries, and biodiversity depend on a stable and healthy environment. It contributes to a sustainable environment in several ways: Digital transformation.

Engine

The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2025

Climate controls and light switches stayed put for 1971, but the light switch lost its wood tone. Seating types were standardized across Eldorado to one: a bench seat. The seat backs were more reclined in 1971, likely to give the feeling of more headroom and thus a more comfortable environment.

Cadillac

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 25, 2025

By John Higham, EVA Board Member Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability has just released a critical policy brief analyzing the real-world effects of the Trump administration’s policy changes on electric vehicle adoption.

Sustainable Transportation

EV Central

MARCH 8, 2025

The road is rougher, coarser, but more than acceptable by Australias awful standards. Its heavier and running on lower profile tyres than the single motor standard range Earth and that shows up in a jittery burr through the tyres and chassis to the driver. The EV5 Earth feels connected without being nasty. But its almost subliminal.

Kia

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 12, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back all sorts of regulations aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change, including regulations aimed at the automotive industry. The Trump administration has incorrectly called this an EV "mandate" even though automakers were free to find other technologies to use to meet the standards.

Climate Change

InsideEVs

JULY 30, 2025

Heres What It Means For Your Next Car The EPA wants to undo greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and trucks. Since it’s now come under the authority of the Trump administration, it now sees the fight against climate change and greenhouse gases as a partisan at best, or fake news at worst.

EPA

The Truth About Cars

JULY 30, 2025

With Trump back in office, the White House has resumed efforts to try and scale back subsidies for all-electric vehicles and create less aggressive emission standards. That's because those gases contribute to climate change, which harms human health. being electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030.

EPA

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

The European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted this week, with 46 votes in favor, 40 against and two abstentions, a position on proposed rules to revise the CO 2 emission performance standards for new cars and vans in line with the EU’s increased climate ambition.

Emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The European Parliament and the Council have reached provisional agreement on a regulation setting, for the first time in the EU, strict CO 2 emission standards for trucks. The deal follows an agreement reached in December on new CO 2 emission standards for cars and light vans in the EU for the period after 2020. —Erik Jonnaert.

Standards

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Daimler AG has received top marks for disclosure of its climate protection measures aimed at combating climate change, receiving the maximum 100 points in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP’s) “Climate Disclosure Leadership Index” and an “A” rating in the “Climate Performance Leadership Index”.

Climate

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. New car emissions were increasing as recently as two years ago, but the sharp drop last year shows that carmakers respond to CO2 standards.

2020

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. —GM CEO Mary Barra.

Climate Change

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. Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change.

Climate Change

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. Because it guarantees efficient fuel supply and injection, it is a critical element in ensuring the engine complies with the China VI emissions standard. liters displacement. liters displacement.

Diesel

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

A new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) projects that by 2050, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) could be responsible for emissions equivalent to 3.5 The contribution of HFCs to climate forcing is currently less than 1% of all greenhouse gases. Climate and the Ozone Layer. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

Climate

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Among the many climate-related vulnerabilities that can impact its mission, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites a likely increase in tropospheric ozone pollution as potentially making it more difficult to attain National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS ) in many areas with existing ozone problems.

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

Ministers in their declaration also called for development as appropriate of international standards for implementing new technologies alongside agreed safety and privacy protocols. In this way, transport is itself defining new landscapes of opportunity for a greener and more inclusive economy and society.

Transportation

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

With its services, the center will also support international cooperation to set standards and offer small and medium-sized companies a development environment in which to prepare for international competition. Hydrogen is the chance to make large parts of mobility and the economy climate-neutral. Source: BMDV.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Solid bars represent low ambient temperature measurements whereas open, dashed bars represent standard temperature measurements. Black carbon has a negative impact on the environment and on human health. For their study, the Environment Canada/MECA team used two midsize sedans and two compact vehicles. Credit: ACS, Chan et al.

Environment

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Introduced in the strengthened climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy, and reaffirmed in Budget 2021, the fund grows the domestic clean fuels market, supports the implementation of the Clean Fuels Standard and delivers on early actions outlined in the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada. Seamus O’Regan Jr.,

Canada

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2012

Policies incentivizing the private sector to push to develop innovative “clean” technologies are likely to play a key role in achieving climate stabilization. emissions standards and public R&D support, respectively). Yet policymakers also seldom set targets they don’t have evidence that industry can meet. —Taylor 2012.

Climate

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

A schematic model showing the links between climate events and outcomes of national security concern, highlighting the roles of exposure and vulnerability. The National Research Council of the US has released a report examining the potential for climate change to pose or to alter security risks for the United States over the next ten years.

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

While transportation is responsible for a quarter of global emissions, buses and diesel buses in particular play an outsized role in producing emissions that negatively impact the climate and environment. As people movers, they present these problems daily and up close to places where populations are most concentrated.

Supplies

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2017

Nicolas Hulot, France’s new minister responsible for environment and energy, presented the country’s new climate plan at a press conference at the Ministry. France also intends to initiate an ambitious (“ ambitieuse ”) Euro 7 standard at the European level.

France

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

It will feature advanced equipment, including pressure testers, explosion-rated climate chambers and a custom multi-axis shaker table (MAST), which is designed to test the integrity of vehicle components in some of the roughest conditions they might face on the road. —Jason Swager, the Director of Electrical Development.

Engine

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

and Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Strengthening fuel and truck efficiency standards and supporting green freight initiatives.

Mexico

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Their analysis also found that current renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are insufficient to meet emission reduction targets by 2030 without new policy. Additional policy action throughout Western North America will be required to meet climate targets, Kammen said. —Daniel Kammen.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

Mexico

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Audi unveiled the eighth generation of its successful A6 full-size sedan; all engines feature Audi’s 48V mild-hybrid (MHEV) system ( earlier post ) as standard equipment. TFSI is coupled as standard with a seven-speed S tronic. The new A6 with new and refined driver assistance systems sets new standards in its luxury class.

Audi

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. These effects redistribute heat and moisture in the atmosphere, impacting climate. —David Keith.

Wind

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

To fight against climate change, the transport sector needs true decarbonization. Even though we are in unprecedented times, due to the ongoing pandemic, we have to make sure that climate protection and sustainability efforts remain at the forefront. —Tim Scharwath, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight.

Carbon

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Every 14 October, the international community celebrates World Standards Day , which recognizes the importance of global standards and honors the individuals and organizations engaged in advancing technological innovation through standards. Why are standards important?

Standards

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 16, 2013

This was five years before the Clean Air Act of 1970, before any kind of regulations on car and truck emissions or fuel standards or burning your garbage. Filed under: carbon producers , climate change , environment , fossil fuels , national parks Tagged: #BAD2013 , #humanrights , 350.org

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

According to a paper by Delphi engineers investigating another refrigerant (R152a), R134a was chosen for its combination of refrigerating properties and safety characteristics, despite indications that its global warming potential (GWP) and resulting climate impact could one day become a concern.). transition to a new refrigerant is not easy.

Future

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The proposal would also aid the creation of one million jobs across the continent and help the EU meet its climate goals, according to the groups. Otherwise, even the current reduction targets in fighting climate change are at risk. —Oliver Zipse, ACEA president and CEO of BMW.

Re-Charge

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. —Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS Markit and author of The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

Price

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2018

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) reports that the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a resolution codifying an initial greenhouse gas (GHG) strategy for international shipping.

International