Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Indoor and outdoor sources combine to make air pollution the second-largest cause of death in Africa, claiming more lives than tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicle accidents, and drug abuse. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

Globally, annual PM 10 levels are estimated to increase by 6% during the recent three?year Many factors contribute to this increase, including reliance on fossil fuels such as coal-fired power plants, dependence on private transport motor vehicles, inefficient use of energy in buildings, and the use of biomass for cooking and heating.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tesla is one of the world’s 20 fastest-growing companie s for 2022, Fortune reported, adding that last year was a record for growth and recovery across its Top Global 500 list. The electric vehicle company helmed by CEO Elon Musk debuted on the Global 500 last year at No. ” 20 fastest growing companies and $1.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. China has been able to provide a low-cost supply of rare earths using these methods, and therefore, dominates the global market. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2011

Valvoline, a leading independent marketer of motor oil, has introduced its NextGen line of motor oils, featuring the inclusion of 50% recycled base oil. There have been earlier, generally unsuccessful attempts at marketing recycled motor oil; NextGen marks the first entry of such a product delivered by a major motor oil marketer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

PRTM projects that the global EV value chain will likely be greater than US$250 billion by 2020. Driven by four global megatrends—reducing CO 2 emissions, oil concerns, growing congestion, and rapid technology advances—countries worldwide are focusing strongly on vehicle electrification. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

BC emissions from Asia have been identified as a major cause of changing monsoon, the occurrence of the atmospheric brown cloud, and the retreat of Tibetan glaciers, in addition to impacting global temperature rise. In addition, predicted oil consumption for use in motor vehicles between 2008 and 2050 were used to develop the inventory.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

By: Srinjoy Bal | Updated on: 21 Jan 2024, 12:05 PM In a recent letter to the government, Tata Motors has opposed the further tax cuts on hybrids. Meanwhile, Toyota and Maruti Suzuki are of the view for more tax cuts on hybrids. --> In a recent letter to the government, Tata Motors has opposed the further tax cuts on hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. Despite this progress, UCS noted, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler still have higher than average new fleet smog-forming and GHG emissions. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' Source: UCS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

gallon US) without tax for conventional motor fuel. Furthermore, given the limitations on biomass conversion to biosynfuel, the FZK team sees an ongoing role for coal and natural gas derived synthetic fuels, likely combined with BTL in very large integrated XTL complexes. With ±30% estimate error, this is between €0.56 per liter (US$2.72-5.03/gallon

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Electric motors operate with far less noise and vibration levels than conventional internal combustion engines. After calculating the losses of power plants and electric motors, the energy consumption per 100 kilometers is about 7 kg of standard coal. Advantage 2: Less noise, more comfortable. Policy escor.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The other glimmer of reality is a project in Gladstone to build one of the world’s largest electrolyzer-manufacturing plants, which promises to provide a local source of equipment amid ongoing chaos in global supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named General Motors as one of its 2015 ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management. The EPA cited these GM achievements in 2014: Reduced energy intensity by 6 percent globally. Eliminated the use of coal at Wentzville, Mo.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

China is the global leader in methanol use and has recently expanded its methanol production capacity. Similar to how ethanol is currently blended into motor gasoline in the United States, methanol is blended into gasoline in China. Most of China’s methanol supply is from domestic production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

22 kWh pack, 70 kW motor). Renault selected six environmental indicators for the LCA: Global Warming 100yr Potential (kg CO 2 equivalent). in the atmosphere and consequently of global warming potential. water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.)

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

“Globally, China controls most of the market for processing and refining for cobalt, lithium, rare earths, and other critical minerals. Production will begin next year, with capacity to produce enough magnets to power 500,000 EV motors annually. Currently, the U.S. “The U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

That is how we will be making our contribution towards limiting global warming. The conversion of the power station in Wolfsburg from coal to gas will reduce CO 2 emissions by 1.5 Mobile AG recently announced at the Geneva International Motor Show. Earlier post.). million tonnes annually from 2023 onwards. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Hybrids are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040. Without the projected gains in efficiency, global energy demand could have risen by more than 100%. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

The fossil fuels are highly significant in the global economy. Global warming due to the emission of gases (Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, etc.) are a few negative impacts of global warming. An Electric vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion has zero/low tailpipe emission.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In the study, global CO 2 emissions were constrained to achieve stabilization at 400-550 ppm by 2100 at the lowest total system cost (equivalent to perfect CO 2 cap-and-trade regime). Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specifically, AEO2019 projects that: Increases in fuel economy standards temper growth in US motor gasoline consumption, which decreases by 26% between 2018 and 2050. However, US coal shipments, which are primarily via rail, decline slightly. Bus and passenger rail travel increase 11% and 31%, respectively. In the Reference case, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For comparison, if those countries were to have the same motorization rate per capita as the United States of America currently, the number of vehicles would increase by nearly 40 times for India and Nigeria, and 8 times for China. This also does not account for the growth in population over the coming decades. van Donkelaar, A., 5b05833.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Introducing MyEnergi Lifestyle to Chinese consumers is part of Ford’s effort to rethink how we approach global energy consumption. —Mike Tinskey, global director of Vehicle Electrification and Infrastructure, Ford Motor Company. Trina Solar Limited is a global leader in photovoltaic modules, solutions and services.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The World Health Organization now estimates that in 2012 around 7 million people died—one in eight (12.5%) of total global deaths—as a result of air pollution exposure. Estimates of people’s exposure to outdoor air pollution in different parts of the world were formulated through a new global data mapping.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1 the other hand, electric transportation also provides a bridge to the use of conventional coal energy for transportation. times as efficient as the internal combustion engine of the small SUV ICV for highway driving. Campbell et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

The major contributors to the decrease in emissions from 2011-2012 were the decrease in energy consumption across all sectors in the US economy, and the decrease in carbon intensity for electricity generation due to fuel switching from coal to natural gas. Emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel combustion increased at an average annual rate of 0.3%

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

”, starts by stipulating that the automotive industry globally has been a “ runaway success ”, with the current parc of some 800 million units to expand to some 2 billion by the year 2050. However, Wormald notes, “ We are now running into physical limits to the growth of motorized mobility.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

Over the entire lifecycle, the new C-Class shows advantages compared to its predecessor in terms of CO 2 , NO x , NMVOC and CH 4 emissions, as well as in the impact categories of global warming potential, acidification, eutrophication and summer smog. Emissions of sulfur dioxide are on a par with those of the preceding model.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Motor gasoline consumption will be less than previously estimated. An industrial capital expenditure and fuel price adjustment for coal and residual fuel has been applied to reflect risk perception about the use of those fuels relative to natural gas. Domestic oil production will rise to 7.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. Charles Freese, executive director of GM Global Fuel Cell Activities. More importantly, Hawaii is the canary in the coal mine. TGC infrastructure follows the populated core on Oahu.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Most of the United Kingdom’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been attributed to the nation moving away from fossil fuels (mainly coal) in electricity generation. It also reportedly bemoaned Sunak’s decision to approve new North Sea oil and gas drilling.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 11, 2008

by David Welch In recent years, China's upstart carmakers have flocked to major auto expos with low-priced offerings aimed at global markets. for years, if ever, it would be the first plug-in to be commercially available—allowing BYD to steal a march on General Motors ( GM ), which is expecting to launch the Chevrolet Volt in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering Ralstonia eutropha for Production of Isobutanol (IBT) Motor Fuel from Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen & Oxygen. Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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