Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. The mothers wore personal air monitors during pregnancy to measure exposure to PAHs and they responded to questionnaires. In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They are not only used for personal commuting, but they are also being used in agriculture, public transportation, last-mile operation and even in firefighting. EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. fine particulate matter pollution).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

With wind and even solar power increasingly competitive with coal and natural gas without subsidies, with many utilities needing to meet renewable portfolio standards, and with new EPA rules forcing coal plant retirements, the impact of lower oil prices on renewable energy in the US is expected to be insignificant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2012

EVs offer advantages in terms of powertrain efficiency, maintenance requirements, and zero tailpipe emissions, the last of which contributes to reducing urban air pollution relative to conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). This has led to a general perception of EVs as an environmentally benign technology. Hawkins et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

million tons of coal equivalent (tce), which resulted in serious air pollution. Chinese government has implemented several transport policies to deal with this challenge and to encourage residents to change their travel behaviors to mitigate severe air pollution. China’s passenger-kilometers (pkm) has risen from 1746.67

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

We'll be interested in how much carbon-based fuels such as coal and natural gas went into the electrical energy that charged our batteries. This environmental info might even take into account the pollution that came from building the solar arrays or wind farms that supplied renewable energy. To perhaps 0.04

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Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

A catalytic converter , for example, uses palladium, rhodium, and platinum to convert pollutants like carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide into water and carbon dioxide. We have various electronic communication networks (the autocatalytic system) and some early personal computers (the catalyst).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

If you needed another reason why we should reduce fossil fuel-related pollution, then this may be it. According to a new study, pregnant women exposed to air pollutants tend to give birth to lower IQ babies. In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs and harmful air pollution. air pollution intelligence PAH.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Trucks Haul Coal Navajo Mine by U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants to control 90% of their carbon emissions or shut down. Coal plants that intend to stay online beyond 2039 will have to cut or capture 90% of their CO2 emissions by 2032.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But there are serious questions , as well, such as: If electric cars rely on power from coal- or oil-burning plants, are they really reducing fossil fuel use? His work covers operations, marketing, sustainable business and personal finance, as well as many of his personal passions, including coffee, music and social issues.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

With the current fuel mix of the US power sector (about half coal, about 30% “carbon-free”), CO 2 emissions for HEVs and EVs are similar. pollution, noise) to allow less energy-intensive building and community design. —Deutch and Moniz. low cost is only achieved in large-volume, highly automated factories.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. It’s the 2nd biggest product Exxon/Mobil and their pals in the oil, coal and gas industries pump out. And yes every single person in that movement is a hapless dupe.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

The average person who drives 40 miles per day or less wouldn't use any gasoline at all ," he says. While an average person might fill the tank with gasoline about 35 times a year, a plug-in would require perhaps six times. The only time would be on weekend trips and vacations across country."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

90% is from coal. Most electricity generating units (EGUs) in China lack advanced pollution controls. Emission factors for EVs and CVs (g person-km ?1 1 ), for four pollutants. Well-to-station emissions represent a larger proportion of total emissions for CVs relative to EVs for many pollutants. in most cities.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

So let me get this straight - while those of us who are trying to lead greener lives, have been cutting our carbon footprints and working with our cities, states and the rest of the USA to help them do likewise, Killer Coal has been playing us for chumps and wiping out all our efforts every single second of every day.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

An example would be if a company uses electricity from a coal-burning power plant. Employee commuting is considered part of your business’s Scope 3 emissions, because employees are traveling to work using personal (or public) transportation. Fewer employees driving ICE vehicles means fewer emissions polluting the environment.

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

By Team PluginIndia Now that Electric Vehicles are an increasingly attractive and attainable option for personal vehicle buyers , governments around the world have issued various petrol vehicle bans which will be implemented over the coming years. Only electric vehicles offers zero local emissions.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” _ Elon Musk “Electric cars aren’t pollution free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.” ” – George Clooney “Electric cars are coal powered cars. Fort and Tesla.” ” – Alexandra Paul “In order to have clean air in cities, you have to go electric.”

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Industrialised countries such as the US and the UK currently emit by far the most carbon per person, with emissions from the likes of China and India also rising sharply, although these are generally accepted because of these countries’ need for economic growth. Who are the key players?

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EV Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In Vermont, they actually passed a law demanding that an motor vehicle must be accompanied by a person walking in front of it at all times, waving a red flag. This was to give unhappy horse owners and pedestrians a chance to get out of the way of the evil, noisy, dust-devilling machines.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

Why We Tongans Are The Canary In The Coal Mine. When you read about ocean acidification, the destruction of coral habitats, dead zones and ocean pollution you’re reading about the big problems right in the backyard of my fellow Tongans.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

TVA also recognizes the criticism from some environmentalists who say that converting from gasoline to electric-powered cars just moves the pollution point from a vehicles tailpipe to the smokestacks of the power plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal. You must fill out the comment body in order to submit a comment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

And personally I like better simple solutions. I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china. yay same plug!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” But the real story is yet to be told.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. You could even call it Personal On-demand Driving.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume. You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume. You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

But the commuters in poorer nations usually travel in a haze of pollution created by petroleum-powered trains and buses. To continue to rely on petroleum is to accept as inevitable the immense political power of the world’s wealthiest corporations and the resultant pollution, climate change, and war.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. So why don’t journalist ever write the full story? — Kaare Nilsen 2. — Jared 9.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Electric cars are part of the electrification of the citys transit system -- along with trackless trolleys, streetcars and light rail -- helping lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce pollution, Mayor Greg Nickels said. If we do things the wrong way, thats going to mean building more power plants, more dirty coal plants," he said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And my personal experience working with certain Democrats at the local level helped convince me that they weren’t worthy of my loyalty or support any longer. They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. They probably never were.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And my personal experience working with certain Democrats at the local level helped convince me that they weren’t worthy of my loyalty or support any longer. They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. They probably never were.

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