Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A detailed discussion of the issues related to the comparison of the energy intensities of flying and driving is presented in a recent report.) The main findings of this analysis are that the energy intensity of flying in the United States doubled from 2019 to 2020, and in 2020 it substantially exceeded the energy intensity of driving. ?.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and National Renewable Energy labs, and the University of Tennessee, have published a comprehensive analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for 12 sizes of vehicles ranging from compact sedans up to Class 8 tractors with sleeper cabs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

E-commerce sales in the United States in 2019 amounted to 11.0% In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

However, aerosols have a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than the gases responsible for global warming, resulting in an atmospheric distribution that varies by region, especially in comparison to carbon dioxide. For example, aerosols from India cool their country of origin 20 times more than they cool the planet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In comparison, the change between 2008 and 2017 (from 4.59 million cars and light trucks sold in the United States in 2017 accounted for only 6.9% Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2022

Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. million metric tons of tire wear particles flow into the environment each year in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Analyzing health data and pollution monitoring information from 1,561 counties across the United States between 2005 and 2010, researchers found the yearly average for fine air pollution ranged from 7.2 pollution may be a factor in creating the so-called “stroke belt” in the southern United States. —Longjian Liu.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. over 2018 emissions. That compares to 2.1% growth a year earlier and 1.5% growth in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

The goal would be to replace 30% of the petroleum consumed in the United States with biofuels. South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007. Earlier post.). The partnership was funded by the US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

We are deeply sorry to our customers NASA, University of Alabama, the University of Mexico and the University of California Berkeley,” said Astra Space Director of Product Management Carolina Grossman. In comparison, for a dedicated Electron launch, Rocket Lab charges about $7.5M About Astra. for 300 kg (660 lb) to LEO.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 21, 2022

It also comes as the United States embarks on an effort to grow advanced chipmaking capacity. Both of the latter companies have announced plans for new cutting edge fabs in the United States, and the government plans to incentivize domestic production with $52-billion in incentives. region, that were also passed over.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. However, residential uses and exports of natural gas were not considered in those comparisons.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). RPS programs, which require that a certain percentage of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources, currently cover 64 percent of the electricity sold in the United States.

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EV Match

JANUARY 11, 2021

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. For this comparison, we use the price of regular. For cost comparisons, we use an oil-change window of 7,500 miles. This article is courtesy of Chris Johnston with EVPubs.com. for premium.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical instruments, as described in the Publications of the National Academy of Scientists by a group led by Khachatur Manukyan, a research associate professor at the Nuclear Science Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame. This feature, common in today’s U.S.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tesla’s high-powered V3 Supercharger offers 250 kW for comparison. A study from the University of California Berkley that found that only 72.5% Additionally, the United States has funneled billions to expanding the electric vehicle charging infrastructure, looking to build at least 500,000 additional EV chargers in the U.S.

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2022

Out of the 75,000 radiosondes launched every year in the United States, only 20 percent are found and returned, according to the National Weather Service. The scholarship is administered on behalf of IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Also, there’s a lot of waste.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto boasts the highest adoption rate of EVs in the United States: In 2020, one in six of the town’s 25,000 households owned an EV. This situation is not true universally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The 75 ppb level over eight hours is the threshold that is considered unhealthy by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., The functional unit was defined to be 120,000 miles (193,000 km) evenly delivered over a 10-year period. The system boundary for the LCA. Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Reide Corbett of the Department of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University, Orson van de Plassche of Vrije Universiteit, W. Parnell of University College Dublin.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Foundational steps toward such alignment would include a common set of test cycles and test payload weights, which would serve to define universal measures of vehicle performance. Differing test methods do not preclude program alignment but may reduce the validity of cross-region comparisons. Test cycles. Stringency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. —Adam Brandt, lead author of the Bakken study and a professor at Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2014

Researchers from Michigan State University and Ford Motor Company''s Research and Advanced Engineering Group recently tested 12 potential biofuel compounds containing oxygen in different functional groups in mixtures with three diesel fuels and one jet fuel to determine the effects of the functional groups on low-temperature fuel properties.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The gas fields we studied for this paper produced about 20% of the natural gas in the United States, and more than half the shale gas, so this moves us closer to understanding methane leaks from US natural gas production. CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. —lead author Jeff Peischl.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

But it paled in comparison to the destruction about to be unleashed. Modern building codes in earthquake-prone regions in Japan, the United States, Italy, and elsewhere often require SGSVs, although various constituents have fought against the mandate. Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum The estimated 7.9-magnitude

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

Key to our Phase 2 evaluations of different structural options is a life cycle assessment of each system based on the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) GHG Materials Comparison Model. —Jody Shaw, Chairman, FSV Program and manager of Technical Marketing and Product Research at United States Steel Corporation.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It Patient data is protected by law in the United States and elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) at the wellhead for conventional crude oil, or for crude product prior to refining for oil shale. A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) for refined fuel produced from conventional crude oil and from oil shale. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nvidia’s A100 , for comparison, is capable of over 600 teraflops and matches the 600 Gbps interconnect speed. Most chip trade and chip production in China is unimpacted,” says Christopher Miller , a historian who studies the semiconductor trade at Tufts University. Most of all, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The compressor will also help to save and expand a compressor manufacturing and technology base in the United States, creating economic opportunity and jobs. A secondary benefit is to show that this technology has a reduced footprint in comparison to competing baseline technologies. Large Pilot-Scale Post-Combustion Capture.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. Clarens et al. Clarens, Eleazer P.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Comparison of land surface temperature trends, as analyzed by HadCRUT, NCDC/NOAA, and GISS/NASA climate data models, using land, ocean, and satellite-based records. Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Source: WMO. Click to enlarge.

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