Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reinstated California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to implement its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards and zero emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Photo by RAZE Solar on Unsplash President Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for low-income households to go solar, and expanding his administration’s US Climate Corps. The Act, as a whole, commits hundreds of billions of dollars to climate and energy related programs.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Photo: Highland Fleets Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced nearly $1 billion in grants to replace gas heavy-duty vehicles and school buses with electric vehicles. The grant program is funded through the Inflation Reduction Act under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda. “In

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The highly competitive five-year grant, awarded through the DOE’s Gas Phase Chemical Physics program, recognizes rising stars in science. The grant supports researchers who show great promise and will be instrumental in meeting big scientific challenges.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The California Energy Commission approved an $8-million grant to Equilon Enterprises—a fully owned subsidiary of Shell Oil—to develop a high-capacity hydrogen fueling station to service and promote the expansion of zero-emission fuel cell electric Class 8 drayage trucks at the Port of Long Beach. s second-busiest container port.

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EV Life

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The grant will fund the development of a fintech platform to empower EV buyers to save up to $200/month on electric vehicle loans. EV Life, a car site dedicated exclusively to electric vehicles, announced that it was 1 of 28 companies to win a CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC). About EV Life.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. With our new concept, we will convert directly natural gas into materials made of carbon nanotubes. —Matteo Pasquali.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

The first credit line is expected to be granted by the Climate Fund, a BNDES program designed to provide financing to support businesses and projects that help mitigate climate change and reduce carbon emissions, with urban mobility as one of its nine sub-programs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

CARB is tasked with developing new grant criteria for clean vehicle programs to encourage manufacturers to produce clean, affordable cars and propose new strategies to increase demand in the primary and secondary markets for zero emission vehicles. Medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks make up only four percent of the 28.2 Executive order.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

MAN Cryo, the wholly owned subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions, has—in close cooperation with Fjord1 and Multi Maritime in Norway— developed a marine fuel-gas system for liquefied hydrogen. Once liquefied, hydrogen is reduced to 1/800 th of its volume compared to that of its gas phase, facilitating a more-efficient distribution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2020

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel have found that considerable quantities of the greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water from abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea. On the basis of investigations directly on the seafloor it was possible to determine the amount of escaping gas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 21, 2023

Most are watching the gradual shift from gas-powered to electric vehicles through the mirrors of the environment, climate or automotive industry. That shift has introduced a different issue, and a new challenge, for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cody Stolle and his colleagues at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. Transportation accounts for only 27 percent of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S.; Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At COP26 in Glasgow, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the US Aviation Climate Action Plan , published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which sets out to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the US aviation sector by 2050. Source: US Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. In addition, this year’s call sought to promote submissions on two particular themes: natural gas monetization and materials for energy. A total of more than $1.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

has reached agreement with trucking firms to lease or purchase more than 250 new heavy-duty trucks, fueled by its Redeem RNG (renewable natural gas). RNG reduces climate pollutants such as greenhouse gas, which takes carbon emissions completely out of trucking. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

million) grant under the EU Horizon 2020 Research Programme to increase the scale of its CO 2 -to-methanol technology, marketed under the trademark Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL). Compression: Reaction gas is prepared by mixing H 2 and CO 2. Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million million (US$2.0-million)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, elevates combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance. stoichiometric) air-fuel ratio, the company explains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2021

The SAFE-1 action withdrew the 2013 Clean Air Act (CAA) waiver that had allowed California to enforce its greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for cars and light-duty trucks and its zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate. Earlier post.). SAFE-1 also interpreted the CAA as not allowing other states to adopt California’s GHG emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

The hydrogen strategies recently adopted by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as those of the German Federal Government and the European Union underline the importance of hydrogen for a climate-neutral society. At its core, our climate transformation is based on the use of hydrogen. It is important to plan ahead.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Union Pacific published its first comprehensive Climate Action Plan in December 2021, outlining its efforts to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within its operations. As it works toward its goals, Union Pacific is collaborating with community partners.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( NPRM ) for states and municipalities to track and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A Discretionary Grant Program for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure will provide $2.5 BIL also includes $7.2

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Renewell aims to seal these wells to prevent oil and gas leakage, then install systems that lift a weight to store power and drops the weight to send it out back out into the grid. Not really.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

Funding is from the California Climate Investments (CCI), the state’s cap-and-trade program. In addition to the grant amount, the project partners— GreenPower, San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Management District, and Southern California Edison—will contribute more than $7 million in a combination of cash and in-kind matching funds.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally granted a California Air Resources Board (CARB) request for a waiver of preemption for its Advanced Clean Car (ACC) regulations. The large majority of comments urged EPA to grant the waiver. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. The first call for large-scale projects awarded grants of €1.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

million grant awarded to BNSF and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District from the Zero- and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) project by the California Air Resource Board to pilot several emissions-reducing technologies in and around railyards. The battery-electric locomotive pilot program is part of a $22.6-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) approved four regional planning grants to prepare for electric vehicles. These areas of the state are expected to experience heavy electric vehicle use within the next ten years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All of these concepts rely on hydrogen as a primary power source—an option which Airbus believes holds exceptional promise as a clean aviation fuel and is likely to be a solution for aerospace and many other industries to meet their climate-neutral targets. —Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO. Now just think.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

In January 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced the availability of VW Settlement Trust-funded open grant programs aimed at reducing emissions of nitrogen oxide and greenhouse gas across Massachusetts, while supporting electrification of the state’s transportation network.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Direct thermal cracking of methane and other hydrocarbons is a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas without direct CO 2 emissions. There are huge quantities of natural gas worldwide and it can be used in a climate-neutral way. —Professor Thomas Wetzel of KIT’s Institute of Thermal Process Engineering. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It helps solidify the state as a national climate leader. Additionally, the state will offer new grant funding for heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs), allocating $70 million in unobligated Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) auction proceeds toward lowering consumer upfront costs for medium- and heavy-duty EV adoption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. —Mark Zoback.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

Funded in part by a $5-million zero-emissions grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the electric buses replace the aging compressed natural gas bus fleet that has been operating at SJC since 2008. tons over a 10-year period—the equivalent of 50 gas-powered passenger vehicles taken off the roads.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in Delaware. million grant program to expand Delaware’s electric charging network. DNREC Secretary Shawn M. The DNREC Clean Vehicle Rebate Program currently offers rebates up to $2,500 within 90 days of a vehicle purchase or lease before June 30, 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

The 84-passenger e-ferry is currently under construction at the Bay Ship & Yacht shipyard in Alameda, CA using private funding from SW/TCH and a $3-million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District), the administrator of the grant.

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