Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year ( earlier post ) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020. Tags: Fuels Policy Sustainability.

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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. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

Based on detailed model-level data for US light-duty vehicles from 1980 to 2006, a recent analysis by a UC Davis researcher found that if weight, horsepower and torque had been held at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50% from 1980 to 2006. Tags: Fuel Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

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. This is a higher share than transport. ”. Tags: Brief. Mitloehner says there is no doubt that livestock are major producers of methane, one of the greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., An earlier, separate study by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel concluded that the US scrappage program paid nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario to reduce GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

EAA), Greater Sacramento Chapter, and a Davis-based EV group, marks the beginnings of “ California’s electric highway ,” says Plug In America board member Jay Friedland, and includes the first public Tesla charger, according to Tesla spokeswoman Rachel Konrad. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

A study by Dr. Caroline Rodier at UC Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies reviewed international modeling literature on land use, transit, and auto pricing policies to suggest a range of VMT and GHG reduction that regions might achieve if such policies were implemented. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

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. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins. Charlie Duncheon, President and CEO of EIG America, Inc. Burke, Andrew F. Burke, Andrew F.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

Sean Davis and Todd Sanford, NOAA/ESRL and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado; and Gian-Kasper Plattner, University of Bern, Switzerland. Tags: Climate Change Climate models. Science Express doi: 10.1126/science.1182488.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2010

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a trio of bacterial enzymes that can catalyze key steps in the conversion of plant sugars into hydrocarbon compounds for the production of renewable transportation fuels. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Biotech. Harry Beller. Keasling (2010).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Dr Geoff Davis, MIRA’s Business Development Director. The Agency has already invested more than £22 million in a range of low carbon vehicle projects, including: a pioneering intelligent transport systems test facility (innovITS ADVANCE) and the national ultra low carbon vehicle trial (known in the West Midlands as CABLED).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2010

Higher alcohols, especially those with 3-8 carbon atoms, are useful as chemical feedstocks and transportation fuels. Tags: Biotech Fuels. Earlier post.). The efficient biosynthesis of these alcohols directly from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or indirectly from carbohydrates would reduce net carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2009

customers rely on the transportation and logistics industry as part of their supply chains. For that reason, we advocate full disclosure (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) for the entire transportation and logistics industry. UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. —UPS UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. However, Scope 3 emissions rose to 2.2

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Davis, personal communication, February 20, 2010). The report was sponsored by The University of Michigan and by the research consortium Sustainable Worldwide Transportation. Tags: Brazil China Europe India Japan Other Asia Policy Russia Sustainability. The governments, the energy companies, and the. evolutionary thinking.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

The two cross-functional groups will seek to break down critical barriers to the commercialization of algae-based and biomass-based advanced renewable transportation fuels. University of California, Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University. Tags: Algal Fuels Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

While technical development of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is proceeding—driven by an industry than sees their potential as the future of personal transport—market success will rely on a number of infrastructural improvements and early agreement on standards and protocols, the report says. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting.

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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. We are pleased as a public university to be partnering with BMW to find solutions to our urgent public problems of transportation energy supply and environmental impacts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. In this study, Lemoine treats the purchase of a PHEV as the purchase of a strip (or bundle) of European call options on the price of transportation. 2010.02.004.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Two important energy issues are largely ignored in these reports: 1) energy security and oil dependence and, 2) sustainable energy for transportation. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Hydrogen Policy. Earlier post.). —David Greene. 2009 Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Review.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

Of course any upward momentum is to be welcomed and Congress has now approved a further $2billion as an emergency top-up for the programme (see article ). However, its overall merits are open for debate after a study by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel questioned the implied costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. by Bill Cooke.

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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). This project relies on microbes that use hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into liquid transportation fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

Mark Delucchi at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis is proposing a novel urban plan designed on two universally accessible but completely independent transportation networks: one for low-speed, lightweight modes (LLMs) of transportation and one for fast, heavy vehicles (FHVs). Mark Delucchi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

From Davis et al. This development is a significant step toward using ammonia borane as a possible energy carrier for transportation purposes. Davis et al. Davis et al. Davis, David A. Tags: Hydrogen Storage. Demonstrated off-board regeneration scheme for spent ammonia borane. Click to enlarge. Benjamin L.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Even at 100 miles, BEVs as a primary mode of transportation do not yet offer what most consumers see as true mobility. Toyota enlisted the University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis to test different aspects of consumer acceptance and market dynamics of fuel cell vehicles.

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APRIL 21, 2009

"Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., said in a statement. They have an agenda.".And

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