Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2% per year on average during the 2005-2020 period to 2.3-2.8%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) and US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) issued a joint statement criticizing the cuts in the hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle program in the Obama Administration’s FY 2010 budget request for the US Department of Energy. Earlier post.). The budget request includes a 59.6%

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. On the Grid. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy New York City.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. Right now the dock workers and the people who live near the ports are choking on the worst air pollution anywhere in the area. A school teacher owns this car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

President Barack Obamas New Energy For America program calls for deployment of 1 million plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2015, and on March 19, 2009, he announced programs directing $2.4 Todays hybrids have small battery packs and cannot be recharged from the utility grid system. billion to electric vehicle development.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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