Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? What about the pitfalls with energy modeling?

Clean 88

Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 88

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Cutting particle pollution, nitrogen NO x , and SO x by more than 25% as a co-benefit. The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). EPA is only proposing goals for states with fossil fuel-fired power plants.

2005 210

2005 EPA Power Powered 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. How about a car-mounted wind-generator? And its easier to clean central power plants than millions of vehicles. Lithium-Ion batteries share many characteristics with NiMH.

PHEV 37

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

The latest report by the American Public Transportation Association documents a 3.8 But the commuters in poorer nations usually travel in a haze of pollution created by petroleum-powered trains and buses. While burning all those fuels has caused pollution just as surely as gasoline cars and trucks, we have options.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Fuel Coal Cars 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

Gas 244

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244