Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. The open-access paper is published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at MIT have determined that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change.

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Innovation News Network

JANUARY 22, 2024

Future innovations in climate tech and climate research can help us reach net zero and combat climate change. The post Turning climate research into climate impact appeared first on Innovation News Network. Discover more here.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 24, 2022

That’s according to research commissioned by Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro, a company specialised in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2022

The California Air Resources Board will launch a new pilot program that aims to help small trucking fleets make the transition to zero-emission technologies. The Innovative Small e-Fleet pilot will focus on privately owned and nonprofit trucking fleets with 20 or fewer trucks and less than $15 million in annual revenue.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

a startup developing innovative solid-state battery systems for use in future electric vehicles (EVs) that would fully charge in minutes, announced the grant of an exclusive technology license by Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and a seed round financing of $5.15 Adden Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Toyota’s next generation fuel cell electric technology is now powering a new set of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. These new prototypes not only use production-intent hardware, they will also allow us to start looking beyond drayage into broader applications of this proven technology. Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

The Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity totaling $3 million to support projects between US industry and DOE national laboratories related to improving materials in severe or complex environments through the new High Performance Computing for Materials in Applied Energy Technologies ( HPC4Mtls ) Program. Earlier post.).

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Innovation News Network

JANUARY 13, 2023

Climate induced-natural hazards can be better tracked by combining satellite technology with Machine Learning. The post Monitoring climate-induced natural hazards with Machine Learning appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

Keysight Technologies announced the Scienlab SL1700A Series, the next-generation battery pack test system for high voltage battery packs—up to 1500 V for automotive and industrial application. Synchronized control of all components in the test environment, including climate chamber, conditioning of the device under test (DUT) and BMS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a company developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has hit a number of key milestones through multiple partnerships with customers, manufacturers, and fuel providers. ClearFlame expects to achieve commercialization of its engine modification technology by the end of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A research team in Korea has synthesized metal nanoparticles that can significantly improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts by using the semiconductor manufacturing technology. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). Metal nanoparticles have been studied in various fields over the past few decades.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2023

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave Bill Gates one piece of advice in his fight against climate change, and to many fans of the tech CEO, it will be pretty familiar. Evidently, Musk still uses that point as a major reason as to why Gates could be more effective in his fight against climate change. ” Musk wasn’t interested.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. and its environs. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, suggests that carbon capture technologies are inefficient and increase air pollution. While the standard estimate for the efficiency of carbon capture technologies is 85-90%, neither of these plants met that expectation. A study by Mark Z.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Daphne Technology, a Swiss startup that has developed multi-pollutant reduction technology—a “green converter”—targeting the maritime industry, has secured strategic investments from Shell Ventures, Trafigura, AET and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures. —Margaux Moore, Head of Energy Transition Research at Trafigura.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 22, 2023

Find out more about the role of carbon capture technology in the UK's transition to clean and renewable energy. The post Carbon capture technology and its role in the fight against climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by up to 39%, according to a study commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro , a company specializing in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid-state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

After achieving temperatures greater than 75 million degrees Celsius and demonstrating unmatched real-time control of plasma with its fifth-generation fusion research reactor, Norman, TAE Technologies has secured strategic and institutional investments to fund the construction of its next research reactor, the sixth-generation Copernicus.

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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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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. ” – this means that mega-polluting, constantly climate-killing, fossil fuel Chevron must go too.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

In the statement, METI, ENER, and DOE asserted a shared strong interest in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies which could bring significant benefits to the energy sector, the economy and to the environment. The organizations recognize the importance of reducing the cost of hydrogen for its affordability as well as reliability.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

SAKOR Technologies Inc., To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first system capable of simulating dynamic cam shaft torque pulsing in real time and in a clean lab environment. This enables engineers to simulate temperatures encountered by those starting engines in all climates. —Randal Beattie, president of SAKOR.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its starkest warning ever. At the same time, it noted, there is still a window in which humans can alter Earth's climate path. The actions we take to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases can impact the future climate, the report emphasizes.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. Alcoa would use a combination of processes and technologies that are under development, including mechanical vapor recompression and electric calcination to develop this future-focused design. Alcoa Corp. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Going forward, Volkswagen aims to look at emerging battery technologies and get an early understanding of how new concepts and prototypes can withstand the company’s rigid specifications. With the BEL, Volkswagen is adding more highly-qualified jobs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2012

Patenting activity in the four indicator technologies peaked during traditional environmental regulation and declined during CTP trading to nadirs comparable to levels observed before the start of national SO 2. This is where R&D that can lead to the development of innovative technologies over the longer term is essential. Taylor 2012.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyzer for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research and development project. Total has chosen the most efficient technology available on the market—the modular Sunfire-HyLink 200 system. —Nils Aldag, Managing Director, Sunfire.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A key objective of the project is to create opportunities for the Scottish rail supply chain through skills development and industrialisation of the technology. If we can bring those back into use in a carbon-neutral way, there are huge climate gains to be made. —Transport Secretary Michael Matheson.

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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. New Flyer provided the fuel cell electric buses and Ballard provided the hydrogen fuel cell electric technology that powers the buses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

Volvo Cars and its strategic affiliate Polestar will be the first car makers to bring Google’s HD map technology into cars, starting with the recently unveiled Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3. Polestar 2 owners can now control their car remotely using a compatible Google Assistant-enabled device, with the introduction of remote actions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment is funding the construction of the plant with €3 million. The start-up of the pilot production at the Lingen site is a major milestone for us in bringing the “green iron” product to market maturity and establishing German technology worldwide. Airtight rotary kiln for iron reduction.

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