Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Figure of person provided for scale. Locomotive 3463, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1937, is the largest locomotive of its type left in the world and features the largest wheels of any engine in North America. Locomotive 3463. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

Transportation in the Monterey Bay Area is dominated by use of the personal automobile, AMBAG said, noting that a large mode shift to biking or transit, is not expected to occur even as gas prices increase.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hydrogen or natural gas-based steelmaking requires ores with the highest iron content at 67% or above, making the cost and ore supply challenge even more acute for these processes. The 50-person company recently opened a new office in Boston, MA to help expand its roster of engineers, scientists, and professional support staff.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). These incentives can offset the extra cost for some drivers, depending on their electricity rate.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report highlights the importance of near-term action to ensure the long-term sustainability of personal mobility. Understanding the future of personal mobility requires an integrated analysis of technology, infrastructure, consumer choice, and government policy. —MITEI Director Robert C. From Insights into Future Mobility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

One label design prominently features a letter grade (ranging from A+ to D) to communicate the vehicle’s overall fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions performance. Fuel Cost: Estimated annual costs of fueling the vehicle. This tool would allow consumers to personalize the information about a vehicle’s performance.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The Methane Observation Networks with Innovative Technology to Obtain Reductions (MONITOR) program will help the oil and gas sector reduce methane emissions. The program implementation focus is on “oil and gas systems” from the wellhead to the end-user. of the global warming impact from domestic human activity. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Across OECD nations, the Outlook assumes the implied cost of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will reach about $80 per tonne in 2040.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In November 2021, Forth was awarded two grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) funding opportunity for the creation of solutions that reduce vehicle emissions and accelerate the expansion of EV infrastructure and charging (DE-FOA-0002475, earlier post ).

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Plug in America

APRIL 23, 2025

One popular disinformation theme is that there is a federal mandate requiring everyone to ditch their gas burner and switch to an EV. Automakers can meet the goals by manufacturing hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel-efficient gas cars, or any other viable technology that reduces tailpipe pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The Vehicle Cost Calculator, an easy-to-use tool that allows users to compare emissions and lifetime operating costs of specific vehicle models, including conventional cars and trucks, as well as vehicles running on alternative fuels such as electricity, ethanol, natural gas, or biodiesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

An alternate storyline might highlight the elevated upfront opportunity costs of reducing energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions via electric cars as opposed to advanced internal combustion engine vehicles and hybrids. greater impact on widening the cost of ownership gap in favor of fuel cars. environmental costs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

“Without decisive fiscal and investment policies on a global scale, private road transport’s absolute volume and share of greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise.” ” —Trend Tracker report. Interacting EV market driver variables will include installed production capacity (currently about 0.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Continued growth of on-road travel increases energy use later in the projection period because current fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards require no additional efficiency increases for new light-duty vehicles after 2025 and for new heavy-duty vehicles after 2027. trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5 Other findings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill also calls for the harmonization of Federal and California motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards. These applications may be jointly sponsored by electric utilities, automobile manufacturers, technology providers, car sharing companies or organizations, or 2 other persons or entities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that the per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric autonomous taxi in 2030 would be 63-82% lower than a projected 2030 hybrid vehicle driven as a privately owned car and 90% lower than a 2014 gasoline-powered private vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Three factors—technology, regulatory mandates, and consumer cost of ownership—will shape the changeover, which BCG expects to play out over three phases and about a dozen years: Phase 1. The low cost of gasoline in the US will yield similar results.

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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. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion in 2005.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

But people who engaged in more energy-conserving behaviors were actually less accurate—possibly a reflection of unrealistic optimism about the actions they personally were choosing to take.

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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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Teslarati

JULY 8, 2022

” However, the survey of 8,027 Americans nationwide also found that people were surprisingly naive regarding the costs of EV ownership, the capabilities of the newest EVs, and even government incentives. Compared to a Texas poll that we covered previously in Teslarati , Consumer Reports ‘ poll showed a lower level of interest.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

An advantage of this flexibility is the ability to keep a module under 60 V (14 cells) since modules with higher voltages must be handled by special trained persons. Due to integration along the value chain, battery systems with an energy density of 250 Wh/kg are anticipated to be manufactured at costs of €250/kWh (US$330/kWh) by 2018.

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Plug N Drive

JANUARY 14, 2021

This interactive website is the first of its kind in Canada that allows users to compare gas and electric cars and, based on their driving habits and budget, find the electric vehicle (EV) model that works best for their lifestyle. The “Find Your EV Match” tool is an extension of Plug’n Drive’s existing resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

The analysis in the paper relies on a network externality model focusing on relative prices, operating costs, and the network effects of battery switching stations. The high rate of adoption is driven by the low purchase price and operating costs of electric cars with switchable batteries. By 2020, 700,000 (26%) of the 2.7

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The operating costs associated with electric vehicles are roughly one-third those of their gas-powered counterparts. 4 Without safety drivers, Tesla has suggested that, at scale, its robotaxi rides will cost consumers only $0.30-0.40 cents per mile, 5 slightly higher than ARKs estimate of ~$0.25

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

At the same time, energy efficiency gains and increased use of renewable energy sources and lower carbon fuels, such as natural gas, are expected to help reduce by half the carbon intensity of the global economy. The company forecasts modest gains for plug-in electric cars, with cost and functionality remaining barriers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. Cement production is the largest producer of CO 2 of any current manufacturing process, generating 5–6% of the global anthropogenic emissions of this greenhouse gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

The transportation sector thus represents a significant fraction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions both globally and in the US—light-duty vehicles (LDVs) are responsible for 17.5% Currently, petroleum almost exclusively fuels the United States (US) transportation system. of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the US.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Jessika Trancik, an associate professor of energy studies in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, will examine and identify cost-reducing and emissions-saving mechanisms for hydrogen-fueled mobility services.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. From these scenarios, the authors derice a set of lessons: The falling costs of technology will deliver a low-carbon world. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. Tcf in the High Oil and Gas Resource case.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The upfront cost of an EV is the biggest barrier to EV adoption, with the average cost of a new EV being 52 percent more than a gas vehicle. With the average American family having just over $5,000 in the bank, they don’t have the ability to use their EV incentives to lower the upfront cost of their EV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2012

One of the biggest barriers to electric vehicle uptake by private individuals is that of cost, particularly high upfront purchase costs. Questions for further research in this area include: What is the net impact of alternative forms of car access on greenhouse gas emissions? One-way car rental is of particular interest.).

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2025

They found it would be a younger person or older Millennial that is looking for a vehicle that is engaging, youthful and sporty with superb handling characteristics. Because of this we dont address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Photos by John Faulkner and Cadillac. [

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

But while you’ll see plenty of people espousing the supposed advantages of electric bikes, it’s important to keep in mind some of the hidden costs of owning and using these two-wheeled electric vehicles. It’s more than just a few bucks of gas money you could be saving. of electricity. If you’re not careful, that could be you.

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