Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The draft assessment identifies the status of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technology that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions from Class 2b through Class 8 vehicles (gross vehicle weight of 8,501 pounds and up). Commercially available. ~40 3 models commercially available in US. Number in Service.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support. This project is led by Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, in partnership with Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation, Ballard Power Systems, Hyteon Inc., The newly funded projects are: Low Platinum PEM Fuel Cells. Advanced numerical (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Under the ESPC program, new energy efficient equipment is installed at Federal facilities at no up-front cost to the government. The cost of the improvements is paid for over time with energy costs saved on utility bills, and the private sector contractors guarantee the energy savings. But we can’t wait for Congress to act.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture. Columbia University, and ATS Rheosystems/REOLOGICA. TDA Research, Inc. General Electric Company.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Pasha’s terminal is adjacent to Wilmington, a community recognized by the state as disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution. The total cost of the project is $26.6 The commercial component followed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

As a part of the first cycle of investment, Volkswagen’s “Electrify America” program is earmarked to spend $300 million, with the most focus on the installation of hundreds of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at multi-family residences, workplaces, highway rest-stops, commercial and retail sites, and municipal lots and garages.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

These projects will aim to achieve at least 90% carbon dioxide removal while delivering carbon dioxide at a capture cost of less than $25 per ton. This reactor design and reaction pathway of CDCL process allows for retrofit, repowering or new installations with significant reduction in the cost of oxygen production.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These emissions are approaching a tipping point, and the companies responsible for creating these necessary products are increasingly looking at options to help offset their pollution outputs. Industry-university collaborations have enormous potential to accelerate innovation and deployment of decarbonization technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The estimated cost of implementing the 2017 CAAP ranges from $7 billion to $14 billion. Developing a universal truck reservation system, staging yards, intelligent transportation systems and other efficiency programs to reduce emissions while improving the flow of cargo. The group’s meetings will be open to all who wish to attend.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Having raked in perhaps 30 percent of all the money invested in electrically-powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft so far, Joby is the colossus in an emerging class of startups working on these radical, battery-powered commercial flyers. Laurie Garrow, Georgia Tech And somehow, the cost would be no greater, either.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. hours—at the cost of longer installations, more infrastructure work, and higher charging station costs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized. —John D.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. But there needs to be some infrastructure to support more commercial or public sector uses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

After the initial transition period, revenues go into a Universal Refund that will increase until all revenues not spent to reduce the deficit are refunded directly to consumers. Farmers are exempt from the carbon pollution compliance obligations in the bill. Regulatory Predictability. Natural Gas. Blocking Market Manipulation.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Very broadly, ARB staff is making a number of major recommendation to the Board in reworking the ZEV regulation, including focusing it to address GHG emission reductions as well as criteria pollutants emission reductions. Earlier post.). Are you recommending that scenario 2 is required to meet the 80% reduction goal? —Joan Ogden.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In addition to supporting technologies that are near commercialization, the Climate Innovation Working Group will also emphasize research to bolster and build critical clean energy supply chains in the United States and strengthen American manufacturing.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

times as great as the combined growth in the commercial and industrial sectors. Diesel generators emit harmful pollutants and are expensive to operate, especially in the aftermath of a devastating storm, when fuel is scarce. The average cost of electricity for commercial users in Puerto Rico is about 29 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

billion) over the next 10 years to develop, commercialize and manufacture greener and more efficient technologies for engines of vehicles of the future. Cummins Gen Tech (CGT) and its partners (Castlet Limited; Cummins Engine; Cummins Turbo Tech; Dynex Semiconductor Limited; and University of Nottingham) will receive £4,942,513 (US$8.3

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As a result, there has been an increase in air pollution. They utilise clean energy and help to reduce noise pollution. This type is widely becoming accepted as the universal charger type. Commercial drivers use these chargers. Commercial chargers. Commercial chargers are more costly than residential chargers.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. Some cities, environmental groups and state pollution regulators have joined this " Plug-in Partners " effort. It had gobs of torque," he recalls. Frank, now 72 years old, is getting some traction: A U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. These vehicles are responsible for 70% of transportation emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Prof Cervero acknowledges “ that it is easier to get the pollution, rather than the people, out of the car ” and is a big supporter of car sharing. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. This means the more maintenance-free electrical systems of PHEVs offset the initial higher cost of batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline. —Li et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

They use this data to monitor river pollution and rein in pollution sources. Many wind-farm operators have to hire technicians from out of state at a high cost, which pushes up the overall cost of wind energy. She was also an early employee at Chef Robotics , building robots for repetitive tasks in commercial kitchens.

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Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

Smart EV Charging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Smart EV charging uses intelligence to manage when and how an electric vehicle plugged into a smart charger will receive power for charging based on the cost of electricity, its availability, and the needs of the driver. Smart EV charging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 4, 2021

Solar-powered vehicles, when used on a wide scale, help to reduce both noise pollution and gas emissions. This car was designed for Solar Racing by University of New South Wales students. A few of the hurdles to overcome are, Our commercially operated solar panels have an efficiency of just 20 to 35 % now.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

pollutes the environment. Quantitative analysis of pollution in a city if we replace all the vehicles with EV. #5 You have to use your university login to access all the technical papers. #33 The cost of the charger would be a concern. You may analyze how far it is better than an IC engine vehicle.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

As part of a commercial vehicle push, Stellantis plans a hydrogen fuel-cell Ram heavy-duty truck. Although with many of these companies recast as diversified, greener “energy companies,” the extra pollution might not be the image they’re looking for. Look for the same formula, potentially, in future pickups.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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