Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Demonstrate that methodological treatments can significantly influence the overall comparisons (e.g. When considering the impact of diverting secondary feedstocks (wastes and residues) from an existing use in another sector (e.g. The implementation of LCA modeling choices (e.g. avoided emissions from manure storage).

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Sustainable Transportation Fuel Renewable Climate 221

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2023

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Tires Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Dear EarthTalk : What happens to all the rubber waste that wears off tires as cars and trucks roll down the road? Is it bad for the environment? — Jack C., In total, more than 1.5 micrometers in size (PM2.5)

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Exhaust Pollution Environment Emissions 79

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis. Colosi (2010) Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks. The large environmental footprint of algae cultivation is driven predominantly by upstream impacts, such as the demand for CO 2 and fertilizer, they found.

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Water Waste Energy Emissions 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

In comparison to 2018 prices, the cost of batteries will be lowered by 75% in 2026, and 45% in 2030 to enhance the affordability and practicality of EVs. In the mid- to long-term, the Group will additionally establish a system to recycle waste batteries and recycle raw materials to protect the environment and secure sustainable raw materials.

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Universal Hyundai Motor Motors 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The report, “ Clear the Air for Children ”, uses satellite imagery to show that some 2 billion children live in areas where outdoor air pollution, caused by factors such as vehicle emissions, heavy use of fossil fuels, dust and burning of waste, exceeds WHO minimum air quality guidelines. Sayer, and D. Technol doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05833.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

The positive impact on our environment is one of the biggest and best, especially if you have a business that runs a fleet of vehicles. Are electric cars better for the environment? This is cleaner and better for the environment than producing petrol and diesel. In short, yes.

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Electric Cars Cars Electric Electrical 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. That was a bit of an effort, too, but that’s what it’s all about. —Thomas Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Pollution 220

Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The more collection we do, the better for the environment. That lowers our costs and lowers our waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. Yet none have been able to compete with the traditional process in terms of cost and yield.

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Carbon Fiber Renewable Carbon Eaton 191

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Launched in 2021, the company has designed a lead-cooled reactor that aims to produce its own fuel by recycling the by-products of conventional reactors, “offering a circular solution to nuclear waste,” he says.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

They found that, on a life cycle basis in comparison to gasoline, the direct to ethanol technology can provide a 67% to 87% reduction in carbon footprint on an energy equivalent basis for initial ethanol concentrations (given in weight percent) ranging from 0.5% MJ/MJEtOH down to 0.20 g CO 2 e/MJEtOH down to 12.3 wt % to 5 wt %.

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Carbon Gasoline Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 246

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Additionally, lower viscosity transmission fluid is used resulting in improved transmission efficiency and fuel economy improvements especially during cold environments or vehicle start-up. With fewer open shift elements, drag losses due to multiple parts rotating relative to one another, are reduced.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000.

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In combination with dry separation, this also benefits the environment. Five‑percent less waste (paint sludge) is created for each car that is painted. This comparison helps to prevent possible production flaws in the electronic quality process, with support from an electronic quality inspection.

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Audi Water Energy CO2 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Comparison of relative contributions from various sources to total BC emissions between China and other countries/regions including India, North America, and Africa. Earlier post.). —Wang et al.

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2007 Carbon China Emissions 271

Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment. That is the only comparison that matters. Windmills can harm migrating birds, and solar cells require toxic substances to be manufactured.

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Renewable Energy Fuel New York City 98

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The more collection we do, the better for the environment. That lowers our costs and lowers our waste streams.

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Building Batteries Battery Charging 52

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it. These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient.

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Miroslav Havránek, Charles University Environment Center.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

So when you open the exhaust valve to dump expanded gas out to the environment, you lose all of that energy stored in the high-pressure exhaust gases and you create a lot of noise. Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. —Timothy Shedd. —Tim Shedd.

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Engine Diesel Standards Exhaust 186

Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Standardization: Being Nice To the Environment. According to a recent analysis, the number of electric vehicles sold in 2017 will generate 250,000 metric tonnes of battery waste. How standardization helps the environment. Standardization helps the environment. Standardization helps the environment.

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India Standards Batteries Battery 40

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

Forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.); Urban wood wastes; Oilseed crops; Animal waste; and. Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that will be considered include: Agricultural residues; Energy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow, etc.);

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Conversion Waste Renewable Production 199

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Just be careful to conserve your water consumption because if you leave your hose running and spray water for hours on end, you’ll waste so much water that you’ll have a net loss on your going green efforts. Choosing eco-friendly biodegradable soaps is an essential step if you want to take care of the environment.

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Green Cars Maintenance Gas-Electric 77

Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Now the question is to be asked, Are they that eco-friendly or that environmental promise is just a marketing strategy or are we overlooking important factors which good affect the environment in a really bad way? Now let us look at some of the reasons why the production of electric vehicles put such a large dent in the environment.

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Supplies Pollution Gasoline-Electric Emissions 52

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Moreover, I’m concerned about the environment and eco-friendly transportation. Electric motors have higher efficiency rates compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a significant amount of energy as heat. This comparison accounts only for electricity from coal-based power plants.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. It is predicted that by 2030, the global demand for freshwater will exceed supply by 40%.

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Climate Change Water Climate Global 310

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment. Energy Environ. Huang and Zhang. Click to enlarge.

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Virginia Fuel Hydrogen Gas-Electric 246

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depending on choices made over the full well- to-wheel life cycle.

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Hydrogen Energy Emissions Carbon 221

EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Fossil fuel cars make ‘hundreds of times’ more waste than electric cars – Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery electric equivalents, according to a study that adds to evidence that the move away from petrol and diesel cars will bring large net environmental benefits.

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Volvo All-Electric Tax Credit Fisker 95

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Hydrogen Fuel San Francisco All-Electric 89

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

100% reduction in solid waste. The study provides an in-depth comparison of the cradle-to-gate impacts of producing metals from land ores and polymetallic nodules, both sources of the nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese required to build one billion EV batteries. 94% less stored carbon at risk. 94% less land use.

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Batteries Battery Tonga Water 269

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Reducing current anthropogenic sources is therefore vital to reduce the amount of mercury that is cycling in the environment. Source: UNEP.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

The comparison lubricant used as a baseline for demonstration/justification of the 2% fuel efficiency improvement should be commercially available, state-of-the-art technology for the intended application, e.g., GF-5 oil for gasoline engine applications or CJ-4 oil for diesel engine applications.

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Li-ion Fuel Vehicles Lithium Ion 240

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta are collaborating on a project for the microbial remediation of oil sands tailings—the waste byproducts of oil sands surface mining that are collected in large manufactured settling basins called tailing ponds. Source: Golby et al. Click to enlarge. —Raymond Turner, U.

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Oil-Sands Oil Environment Water 244

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts.

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Green Conversion Power Powered 104

Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off. And that’s a concern. So when you say you allow for for a human review, I can’t help but think of this analogy.

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