article thumbnail

Roskill: CO2 emissions from lithium production set to triple by 2025

Green Car Congress

Roskill’s new Sustainability Monitor, and subsequent White Paper, analyze the energy consumption and CO 2 emissions of the lithium supply chain. This analysis, based on a bottom-up calculation of energy use by source, accounts for all scope 1 and 2 emissions within the production chain, measured on an operation by operation basis.

Emissions 459
article thumbnail

MIT Energy Initiative Publishes Report on Reducing CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal Plants

Green Car Congress

Consideration should be given to including a component for research on CO2 capture from natural gas power plants. Symposium participants were provided three commissioned white papers on key issues in advance. Summary of symposium report.

Coal 150
article thumbnail

Volvo Car Corporation challenges EU’s goals and tactics on cutting CO2 emissions; CEO says electrified vehicles will struggle to pass 1% market share by 2020

Green Car Congress

Jacoby also raised concerns about the viability of the European Commission’s White Paper on Transport, which states that greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector will have to be cut by at least 60% by 2050 to achieve the EU’s climate change goals. —Stefan Jacoby.

Volvo 225
article thumbnail

GM Quantifies CO2 and Fuel Consumption Reductions Via E-REVs And PHEVs, As Compared To Conventional Hybrids

Green Car Congress

General Motors has released a white paper that evaluates the CO 2 reduction potential of extended-range electric vehicles (E-REVs) as well as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), in combination with multiple vehicle charging scenarios, as compared to conventional hybrids. Adapted from Tate et al. Click to enlarge.

PHEV 150
article thumbnail

Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

Green Car Congress

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. A bridging option is to use methanol derived from natural gas, with a CO2 intensity that is no worse than conventional fuels.

article thumbnail

New carbon strategy to cut UK emissions by 14 per cent

Green Cars News

Today’s strategy sets out how an additional 85 million tonnes of CO2 from domestic transport can be saved from 2018-2022 by: supporting a shift to new technologies and fuels; promoting lower carbon choices; and using market mechanisms to encourage the shift to lower carbon transport.

Carbon 39
article thumbnail

European Commission outlines comprehensive Transport 2050 plan to increase mobility while cutting transport CO2 emissions 60%; phasing out conventionally-fueled (non-hybrid) cars in cities by 2050

Green Car Congress

Achieving this will require a transformation in Europe’s current transport system, the white paper notes. The Transport 2050 roadmap to a Single European Transport Area (Links to white paper and supporting documents). By 2050, key goals will include no more conventionally-fuelled cars—i.e.,