Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. In urban areas, waste cooking oil from restaurants could be the raw material. Click to enlarge.

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Gas San Francisco Cleaning Clean 220

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Inventorying criteria air pollutants showed that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 Peak urban diesel buses showed the best overall energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Light Emissions Energy Boston 150

Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2007

The governor and his people are contradicting each other and the recently "fired" are releasing documents and voice mails to prove their good intentions and reveal the governor's meddling in CARB's attempts to regulate diesel exhaust and greenhouse gases. New rules contemplated by CARB are angering the construction industry.

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Green San Jose San Francisco Pollution 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. 505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. million gallons of diesel fuel each year. Electric vehicles components. Earlier post.)

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Gas-Electric San Jose Gas California 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The first phase of this $32-million refinery is slated to be operating within a year of funding, producing 5 million gallons a year of biodiesel made from waste vegetable oils obtained from restaurants and commercial food producers, and animal fats obtained from rendering operations. CNG is much less polluting than conventional diesel.

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Alternative Fuels California Fuel Energy 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. It is reminiscent of the early 1900’s, when steam, electric, diesel, biomass, and gasoline power options competed on a level playing field for consumers’ attention.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy! Carbon trading vs t. Its better solar transfer/storage than a battery.

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

For only the second time since PPIC began asking the question in 2003, more Californians support expanding oil drilling off the coast than oppose it (51% favor, 43% oppose), the same as last year (51% favor, 45% oppose). Energy sources and automobile efficiency. Commercial and industrial activities (75% yes, 21% no).

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Economy Los Angeles Climate Change 2008 170