Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

A new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not in the foreseeable future. annually. “We

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Plug-in hybrids pollute up to three times more than advertised, even when fully charged, and emit five to seven times as much CO2 when the engine is running, according to a new study commissioned by Belgian NGO Transport & Environment and conducted by the University of Technology in Graz, Austria.

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InsideEVs

JULY 11, 2022

The Hummer EV's CO2 emissions stem from the fact that 60% of electricity in the United States is generated by burning fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

That study showed a clear positive impact of the use of HVO/HCK blends (at different blending ratios) on pollutant emissions. In their latest study, the team used a four-cylinder Euro 5 automotive engine, making transient tests on both MVEG-B (NEDC) and ARTEMIS cycles. —Napolitano et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Aggregated damage costs by pollutant. Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

Reducing emissions in communities heavily burdened by pollution and environmental stressors. When our research is better focused to benefit the most vulnerable among us it will lead to policies and programs that better protect all Californians from the harmful effects of air pollution and climate change. Transportation trends.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, transportation is responsible for the highest amount of air pollution in America. Every day, vehicles emit gaseous pollutants throughout their life cycle, from the manufacturing stage to operation such as particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), air toxics, and greenhouse gases (GHGs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

New RNG production facilities using the commercial technologies outlined in the analysis could reduce criteria pollutants by approximately 99% compared to existing operational biomass power plants and produce a very low carbon fuel in the base case and below zero in the case including carbon sequestration technologies. Source: GTI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

By utilizing this technology, port operators like our own Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) can utilize a zero-emissions and scalable solution for CO2 reductions, which will contribute to cleaner air at the port and the surrounding communities where TLS operates. This is an important milestone in Toyota’s drive toward carbon neutrality.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The study was published online 24 May in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The study by Michael Replogle, ITDP, and Lewis M. The study found that the High Shift scenario could save more than $100 trillion in public and private capital and operating costs of urban transportation between now and 2050 compared to the baseline scenario. Further, an estimated 1.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Extending, not shortening, the lifetime of a vehicle helps to reduce life-cycle CO 2 emissions throughout the supply chain, according to a new study based on a case study of Japanese vehicle use during the 1990-2000 period published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Kagawa et al. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The carbon pollution from electricity varies based on local energy production methods. For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Some studies suggest the upstream CO 2 of electricity is greater than for gasoline, but the relative efficiency calculations here implicitly assume they are equal. Existing technology is more than capable of bringing European cities within compliance, the primary polluters being vehicles with older internal combustion engine technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A 2025 CO 2 target of an average 70 g/km for new cars in the EU could be met with very little electrification and with an average payback period of less than 4 years, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Peter Mock, Managing Director of ICCT Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said that the ambitious target is grounded in analysis of cost-effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on a trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide reductions on the order of 80% by 2050. The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A collaborative, six-year study of CO 2 levels in Beijing and surrounding provinces suggests that combustion efficiency, a component of overall energy efficiency, is improving in the region. and postdoctoral studies at Harvard (EPS and SEAS). —co-author J. She completed her Ph.D. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

Their study will be published online 13 March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. In the absence of strong policy, atmospheric CO2 will reach 550 ppm in several decades. The study was designed determine the impact of this acidification on coral reefs. Aragonite saturation at different atmospheric CO 2 concentrations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Although large emissions cuts are urgently needed to achieve global climate goals, it may take decades before we can measure the effect of the reductions on global temperature evolution, according to a new study by researchers at Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research. According to the new study, the answer is no.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Controlling soot from fossil fuels and solid biofuels may be a faster method of reducing Arctic ice loss and global warming than other options, including controlling CH 4 or CO 2 , although all controls are needed, according to a new study by Dr. Mark Z. The study will be published this week in Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

A joint study by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) into 48V diesel mild hybrid technology verified a 9% reduction of NO x in raw engine-out emissions, while retaining the fuel economy and CO 2 benefits of diesel engine technology. —Paul Bloore.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Among the results of their study: Home charging occurs near peak system load, smart charging near minimum system load, and work charging occurs both near peak system load (at the same time as home charging) and earlier in the day when most vehicles are arriving at work. NO x is reduced in both RTOs, but SO 2 increases unless a cap binds.A $50/tonne

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

While the existence of higher CO 2 levels overs cities—CO 2 domes—has been known for more than a decade, their effects on local air pollution has up to now not been explored. His study estimates that local CO 2 emissions may increase premature mortality by 50-100 and 300-1,000/year in California and the US, respectively. Mark Jacobson.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The carbon intensity of both biodiesel and ethanol is derived by adding ILUC values (the Globiom EC study) to the direct carbon intensity of different feedstocks. —T&E study. We would not design regulations to combine different environmental issues and keep CO 2 and air pollution regulations separate.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

the “carbon footprint” of electricity production and use), according to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Most studies indicate that the key factor when comparing PEVs and gasoline vehicles is the magnitude of emissions associated with electricity production. Credit: ACS, Tamayao et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

used global composition-climate modelling to examine the integrated impacts of adopting stringent European on-road vehicle-emission standards for non-CO 2 pollutants in 2015 in many developing countries. To date, most studies have looked at the health, agricultural, or climate impacts of emissions in isolation. Shindell et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 If we reduce black carbon emissions worldwide by 50 percent by fully deploying all available emissions-control technologies, we could delay the warming effects of CO 2 by one to two decades and at the same time greatly improve the health of those living in heavily polluted regions. Ramanathan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

A recent study by an international team calculated that shipping causes a net cooling of climate across all parametrizations of the indirect aerosol effect (IAE) and scenarios throughout the period 1900? A recent study commissioned by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimated total emissions of 1046 Tg CO 2 yr ?1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Veron of the Center for Marine Studies, University of Queensland. In addition to temperature-induced bleaching, coral reefs in many parts of the world are under stress from overfishing, destructive fishing, coastal pollution, and sedimentation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Studies have shown that despite a global drop in rainfall over land in the past 50 years, runoff has actually increased. Other studies have shown that increasing CO 2 is changing how plant pores, or stomata, discharge water. The amount of water that plants give up depends on how much carbon dioxide is present in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

Accordingly, herein we report the finding that molybdate absorbs not just one but two equivalents of CO 2 (the second, reversibly) together with complete characterization including single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of the resulting mono- and dicarbonate complexes. Until now, no one had studied its interactions with carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The study by Nadine Unger, Drew Shindell and James Wang will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Atmospheric Environment. The study applied the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) model for Physical Understanding of Composition-Climate INteractions and Impacts (G-PUCCINI). Click to enlarge. Unger et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

Manufacturers would have to produce, in addition to older, heavier or polluting models, a sufficient number of cleaner—or more fuel efficient—models to achieve a balance of 147g in 2020, or face penalties. Super credits assign a favorable weighting to vans that emit less than 50 g/km of CO 2. vans in 2014, falling to 1.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

The third win—carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) pollution and oil imports would be reduced. The study shows that this actually depends on how the revenue from the tax is used. Carbon tax revenue allows (1) cuts in other taxes, (2) benefits the economy, and (3) reduces CO2 emissions and oil imports. —Rausch and Reilly (2012).

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Tax MIT Carbon Emissions 312

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

The study assumes a reduction to a uniform limit of 80 km/h which is strictly enforced. Lower speed limits would also improve air pollution, noise nuisance, possibly congestion and traffic safety. A follow-up study on the social costs and benefits would enable calculation of ‘optimal’ speed limits, the researchers suggest.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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