Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Universal Hydrogen closed a $62-million new funding round; the oversubscribed round was completed less than six months after the company’s Series A ( earlier post ), bringing total raised to $85 million. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2024

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have performed the world’s first life cycle assessment (LCA) of an existing, two-seater, [continued] The post Electric Aircraft Offer Major Climate Benefits appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2022

The LA Department of Transportation (LADOT) launched its Universal Basic Mobility (UBM) Pilot in South Los Angeles—one of the largest programs of its kind in the country, increasing access to transportation options for thousands of Angelenos. The Pilot is currently supported by $17.8 million in state and city funding.

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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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Innovation News Network

APRIL 12, 2024

A University of Southampton study has found that despite extreme weather conditions, food security has remained robust in the US. The post Food security in developed countries resilient to climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Global renewable energy investment increased between 2013 and 2018, reaching its peak at US$351 billion in 2017, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). The 2020 edition of Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance highlights however, that while a cumulative US$1.8

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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. Results show that in more aggressive scenarios—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies analyzed four scenarios to understand how COVID-19 and other political, economic, social and technological drivers may impact transportation activity and global oil demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2020

For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth’s warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has proved elusive. Absorption by black carbon strongly affects regional and global climate. If you have larger absorption, it contributes to warming and has greater climate impact.

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have outlined the importance of considering climate change in marine planning. The post Marine planning must consider climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

A climate-neutral alternative to petroleum-based fuels, they also offer the potential for significantly reduced overall emissions, allowing Tenneco’s Clean Air experts to better manage any remaining pollutants through the aftertreatment process. We are excited to be an active part in the development of this type of technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

earlier post ), a new study by a team at Environmental Defense Fund finds that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world and over time, with some facilities emitting more greenhouse gases than those burning fossil fuels. They also estimated emissions caused by flooding the reservoir.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mining giant Rio Tinto will invest around $1 billion over the next five years to support the delivery of its new climate change targets and a company objective for net zero emissions from operations by 2050. Enhance resilience to physical climate risks. Rio Tinto’s new 2030 climate targets are linked to executive remuneration.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 22, 2022

Projects that lead to a low-carbon society and limit climate change will have more and greater benefits for health than previously realized. Courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI). From designing cities for walking and biking to preserving ecosystems. By Ann Grauvogl Those are […].

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Studies by Oregon State University have found that climate change will damage trees' ability to cool leaves and pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The post Climate change could have devastating effects on forests’ carbon uptake appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Some of the world’s leading automotive industry suppliers, including SSAB steel, Hydro renewable energy, ZF electric powertrains, ZKW control systems and Autoliv safety equipment, are joining forces with intent to collaborate on the Polestar 0 Project, which aims to develop a truly climate-neutral car by 2030 ( earlier post ).

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Innovation News Network

JULY 11, 2022

A research team, including PhD student Carola Martens, from Senckenberg and South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, has investigated how climate change could pose a threat to Africa’s biodiversity. The post Climate change: A threat to Africa’s biodiversity appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K. The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

We do have a climate crisis that needs to be addressed. Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. That has a significant impact on safety for all road users. Electric vehicles powered from a clean grid are an essential step in the right direction.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

To significantly cut pollution and climate-disrupting CO2 emissions via the new Infrastructure Law, we need to spend the money wisely. If we spend it poorly, we could actually add to pollution and climate-disrupting CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The creation and adoption of these technical protocols will help build and harmonize the hydrogen market, contextualize climate solutions, advance transparency and support global trade in low-carbon hydrogen.

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Dr Thomas Shahady, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lynchburg, details how space activity could impact climate change. The post Are activities in space contributing to climate change? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. Rahman: Its charter is to develop a cross-IEEE strategy to synchronize and guide the organization’s response to changes in the global climate. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Other elements of the executive order include: State Investments: California has an investment portfolio of more than $700 billion through CalPERS, CalSTRs, and the University of California Retirement System.

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Teslarati

JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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Innovation News Network

JULY 8, 2022

Dr Thomas Shahady, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lynchburg, discusses the potential impact that water pollution has on climate change. The post Water pollution: A critical driver of climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network. It involves sediment, nutrients and […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

and China’s top climate official, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua, signed an agreement on climate change—the first between the NDRC and a subnational entity. The NDRC oversees China’s efforts to address climate change and much of the government’s economic strategy.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2021

Volkswagen Auto Group CEO Herbert Diess is voicing his distaste for using hydrogen to solve global climate issues. ” The Handelsblatt report that Diess cited shows that a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has concluded that hydrogen cars are not the way to achieve climate neutrality.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 25, 2022

Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds have developed an innovative new method for measuring ozone layer depletion. The post University of Cambridge designs new method to measure ozone depletion appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Innovation News Network

JUNE 24, 2022

A research team from Simon Fraser University has investigated the negative impacts of climate change on bees and their populations. The post Refuting the negative impacts of climate change on bees appeared first on Innovation News Network. This study has […]. This study has […].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

However, while greenhouse gases cause warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere, some aerosols can have a cooling effect on the climate because the aerosol particles cause more of the sun’s light to be reflected away from the planet. In many cases, the strongest climate effects of aerosols are felt far from where the aerosols are emitted.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 14, 2022

The University of Michigan Chemical Sciences and Engineering team, led by Professor Nicholas Kotov, has developed a “new biologically inspired battery membrane” with recycled Kevlar fibers that could quintuple electric vehicle ranges and have a lifespan of 1,000 cycles. ” Credit: University of Michigan.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2019

After a year of record fires in California and floods in Texas and on the East Coast, more Americans are taking climate change seriously—and significant portions are willing to take financial steps to combat it. The first poll, from the University of Chicago Energy.

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