Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts. Mueller, N.D.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

Yunshi Wang, Jacob Teter and Daniel Sperling from the University of California Davis Institute of Transportation Studies report that the growth rate of China’s vehicle population could reach 13-17% per year—roughly twice the 6-11% widely forecast for annual growth. Wang et al. Wang et al. —Wang et al.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 5, 2021

Published in Nature Energy on April 26th by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, the study found that PHEV buyers in California were abandoning the technology at a rate of […]. Electric vehicles are one way to carbon neutrality.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

Sacramento’s SMUD, the US’ sixth-largest community-owned, not-for-profit, electric service provider, will develop a model for a future Mobility Center that will foster innovation in the clean transportation sector and serve as a catalyst for carbon reduction and inclusive economic development.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Honda marked the opening of Honda Smart Home US, showcasing technologies that enable zero net energy living and transportation, including Honda’s home energy management system (HEMS), a proprietary hardware and software system that monitors, controls and optimizes electrical generation and consumption throughout the home’s microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Mitloehner said that focusing on meat and dairy is not only scientifically inaccurate, but also distracts society from embracing effective solutions to global climate change. Transportation creates an estimated 26% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the US, whereas raising cattle and pigs for food accounts for about 3%, he said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

These findings show that stratospheric water vapor represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change. Over the last century, global average surface temperatures have warmed by about 0.75 °C (0.42 °C), with much of it occuring the last half. —Solomon et al. Science Express doi: 10.1126/science.1182488.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

China is responsible for only a small percentage of the annual pollution in the US, but powerful global winds known as “westerlies” can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants. —Steve Davis, UC Irvine Earth system scientist and co-author.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

trillion) through to 2050 and can help cut the world’s road transport energy use and CO 2 emissions by nearly half in that same time, by improving vehicle fuel economy, according to an opinion paper recently published by the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau (CAB) and sponsored by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI). disaster.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ethylene—a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can be oligomerized into transportation fuels—is the most widely produced petrochemical feedstock globally. Interested companies include those in the business of producing ethylene or transportation fuels, as well as firms that build photobioreactors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs. —Lew Fulton.

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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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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute , EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. Thirty-three countries are signatories of the Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero agreement for heavy- and medium-duty vehicles like tractor-trailers, buses, and box trucks. degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

In a new report released by the California Air Resources Board, scientists from the University of California at Davis and Berkeley estimate that rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins. Kleeman of UC Davis, lead author. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2014

In addition, in December 2013, Honda supplied an Accord Plug-In Hybrid with a bi-directional on-board charger to the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. —Dan Bowermaster, EPRI manager of Electric Transportation. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MAY 15, 2012

It is a scientific partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley Lab and includes the Sandia National Laboratories, the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Different bacterial responses to ionic liquid. Khudyakov, Patrik D’haeseleer, Sharon E.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

California’s global warming legislation requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. These models are not suited for the policy analysis demands in the era of global climate change, she concludes. Box plots of combined policy VMT reductions by time horizon. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

A new report from a team at the University of California, Davis, and the New York-based nonprofit Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) has concluded that shared mobility is a critical enabler for realizing the benefits of electrification and autonomous driving.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The LCVTP involves seven industry and research partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Zytek, Ricardo, MIRA, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick and Coventry University. Dr Geoff Davis, MIRA’s Business Development Director. million (US$64 million).

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level. International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level.

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JUNE 13, 2009

This standard is the required QMS standard for the global automotive supplier base. This certification is key for our focus on the transportation industry. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-09-08. Charlie Duncheon, President and CEO of EIG America, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

is not important as long as all facets of fuel production (feedstock production, feedstock transportation, fuel production, fuel transportation and storage, and ILUC) and fuel use are similarly considered. For LCA analysis, the model used for calculation (CA-GREET, GHGenius, etc.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Global Insight for powertrains/fuels for each country formed the basis for a moderately aggressive model for penetration of alternative powertrains/fuels into each country’s new vehicle fleet from 2010 to 2020. Davis, personal communication, February 20, 2010). Production forecasts from IHS. evolutionary thinking.

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EV Connect

APRIL 12, 2021

is going to make electric vehicles the predominant form of transportation, it cannot do it without all of our cities and communities. A recent report from BlueWeave Consulting forecasts a global compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.6% Davis - Preparing Rural America for the Electric Vehicle Revolution U.S. If the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. Tom Turrentine, director of UC Davis’ PHEV Research Center.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The target liquid fuel is isooctane, which fits well into the existing transportation fuel system in the United States. Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. This project relies on microbes that use hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into liquid transportation fuels.

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JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. Annual investment in the global renewables industry had grown from $16.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Building on LCFS policies already adopted in Europe, British Columbia, and California, the researchers looked at potential costs and benefits of reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. Harmonize global LCFS policies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

2014 has been a year of rapid growth for the fuel cell market with positive progress being made globally, especially in markets such as US, UK, Germany, France and Japan. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California). Utility Global (Houston, Texas).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The United States has also joined the electric transition due to global warming. transportation system contributes nearly 30 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, making electric vehicles critical to lowering America’s carbon footprint. UC Davis research points to a shift in the mindset of EV buyers. The post U.S.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 13, 2022

is one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers. Internationally, the new platform will be tailored to the needs of cities, transportation authorities, and operators in each region, by Alexander Dennis’ concept of offering the best answer for each market demand. The Business Model.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

And were gratified that General Motors recognizes this study as validation of its decision to evolve to the electrification of transportation. This will reduce the transportation sectors use of oil to almost zero -- and cut the United States annual oil needs by 2/3. The GREET 1.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. If PHEVs became the major form of transportation, the use of fossil fuels would be cut dramatically. He holds more than 35 patents (12 of which belong to UC Davis), has published more than 100 papers, and is an internationally recognized subject matter expert. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH is a concept that would address Toyota’s stated strategy to offer a wider variety of conventional hybrid choices to its customers, as it begins to introduce plug-in hybrids (PHVs) and battery electrics (BEVs) in model year 2012, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCHVs) in 2015 in global markets. And then there is range. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. If you are interested in this program, please contact the Electric Transportation Department at EPRI. About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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