Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

Though the Postal Service now says at least 40% of the new delivery vehicles will be electric, the flaws in the USPS environmental analysis remain and need to be addressed, said Woody, a research area specialist at the Center for Sustainable Systems, which is part of the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. 2c02520.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

Air Canada is operating its first flight with biofuel today to highlight the airline's commitment to the environment. The flight is supported by Airbus and is part of an environmental demonstration by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to coincide with the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We are very pleased to announce that we have made strong progress in establishing a framework that would allow us to secure a large part of the critical raw materials required for our initial production facilities. —Tom Einar Jensen, CEO and Co-Founder of FREYR Battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This research is pivotal to the delivery of the next generation of Ford driver assistance technologies and will globally benefit Ford customers, other road users and the environment. This is a chance for them to be part of the future of transportation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Environment Canada recently released a consultation paper on the development of proposed regulations to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles. Proposed regulations are targeted for publication in Canada Gazette Part I early in 2012 for a 60-day comment period. Consultation document.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The findings do not in and of themselves require, or impose any emission reduction requirements but rather allow EPA to finalize the GHG standards proposed earlier this year for new light-duty vehicles as part of the joint rulemaking with the Department of Transportation. Technical Support Document for the Findings. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Various data will be collected, both technical and operational, related to the vehicles, environment, and drivers to assess safety, efficiency, and mobility impacts. The data will be analyzed and documented for future recommendations. More than one truck platoon crossing state lines are targeted.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

This study will help improve our computer modeling and analyses and adds to the growing body of research regarding effects of climate change on the Arctic marine environment. As we make decisions regarding potential energy development in the Arctic, we need the best scientific data available to understand the impact of the changing climate.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The BMW Group is taking an all-encompassing approach to monitoring the vehicle environment. At the BMW Group there are more than 33,000 requirement specification documents containing more than 30 million individual requirements for vehicles, components and characteristics. AI in requirements management.

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Teslarati

APRIL 26, 2021

Recent documents submitted to Shanghai authorities have indicated that Tesla plans to add an EV parts recycling facility to Gigafactory Shanghai. Regulators have also added rules on recycling essential EV parts, which would allow carmakers to save on materials while protecting the environment in the process. .

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

Maximize the coordination and harmonization of the standards and conformance environment domestically and with international partners. EVs have unique safety complexities and risks which must be understood and accounted for as part of the vehicle life cycle. Given the current range limitations of plug?in —Standardization Roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2014

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of West Siberia. An Environmental Impact Assessment, an Oil Spill Response Plan and other pieces of project documentation were developed and approved by regulatory authorities for the project to proceed. Russian offshore harsh environment areas. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The annual status report released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that while EU-27 emissions for three air pollutants are projected to meet the ceilings, nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emissions for the EU-27 as a whole will exceed its ceiling by 17%.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tesla’s pay increase for employees in all of its gigafactories and offices in the US was recently revealed in internal documents. According to internal documents, Tesla increased factory workers’ pay from a minimum of $22 to $39 per hour. Below is a chart from Business Insider depicting each level and region.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. Connectivity is an increasingly important part of the total user experience while driving. User experience.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Engineers from Battelle Memorial Institute, working with the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) as part of the United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Connected Vehicle research program, have developed and are demonstrating a forward-collision-avoidance system for buses. Ann Arbor is the culminating event.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2017

The complaint cited a cooperating witness (CW1)—an Audi employee who works in Audi’s Diesel Engine Development Department—as well as contemporaneous documentation in the Statement of Probable Cause. According to CW1, and as corroborated by contemporaneous documentation, the proposed Audi 3.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,513 adults age 18 and over was conducted between July and November 2008 by the U-M Institute for Social Research as part of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The findings were released at The Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit today.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2015

MEPPI will also lead the development of the relevant licensing documents to enable construction and certification in host countries (for example, as required by 10CFR50 or 10CFR52 in the US). The licensing documentation will include applicable materials for a Safety Analysis Report as appropriate.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As heads of state convened, an abbreviated document was hurriedly produced to minimize sticking points and shopped around among leaders of developed countries. The accord will not become an official United Nations document unless unanimous approval is secured. Emissions Reduction Targets Shuttled To The Side.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

The conference report summarizes the presentations and discussions of the two-day conference and includes a resource list of relevant documents and research reports. Earlier post.) Opportunities for international collaboration. And yet 1 per cent of global GDP is what we are spending on fossil-fuel subsidies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OpenCar SDK: an open development environment including automaker-approved profiles and templates for a wide variety of App categories, including entertainment, music, social, news, traffic, weather, and more. OpenCar’s offerings now include: OpenCar Connect: the next-generation HTML5 application platform and toolset.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

Audi has worked with MIT on other projects as part of a strategy to develop new technology and approaches with leading universities to better understand the conditions that lead to driver stress, and subsequently, to driver enjoyment. Preliminary trials have taken place in the Boston metropolitan area over a 12-month period.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

CLEPA (the European umbrella membership organization representing the interests of the global automotive supply industry) and EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D from the major European passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturers) jointly prepared the document.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

The document, entitled “Low carbon transport: a greener future”, also frames the debate for a longer-term decarbonization of transport to give people and businesses more low-carbon choices about when, where and how to travel or transport goods. million tonnes) by 2020 compared to 2008. Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

Two weeks ago, immediately after returning from Berlin, I sent a letter to the Co-Chairs of Working Group III—Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramon Pichs-Madruga, and Youba Sokona—expressing my disappointment with the government approval process and its outcome in regard to the part of the assessment for which I had primary responsibility, SPM.5.2,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The document tracks progress to implement recommendations made in the roadmap version 1.0, The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released Version 2.0 of the Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles , developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP). —EV Standardization Roadmap v 2.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Environmental groups against the electric vehicle production plant accused Brandenburg’s Office of the Environment of publishing the date of the online sessions too late in October, resulting in the whole process being repeated in November.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

According to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, examples of these vehicles from this time frame whose fires are lit with an old-school key, a part described as a ‘polyfuse’ can fail, particularly when the vehicle is operated in high-temperature environments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. Our engineers at Audi likewise use the ADTF development environment. The key is a large number of ready-to-use modules and an extensive collection of programs and documentation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Human emissions of V to the atmosphere are now likely to exceed background emissions by as much as a factor of 1.7, —Schlesinger et al.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 22, 2025

What we found was surprising: The kinds of tasks coding assistants are good atnamely, busting out lines of codeare actually a very small part of the software engineers job. But were also adapting large language models to perform other parts of software development, like reviewing and optimizing code and generating bug reports.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

Transport 2050 forsees the gradual phasing out of conventionally-fuelled vehicles from the urban environment as making a major contribution to significant reduction of oil dependence, greenhouse gas emissions and local air and noise pollution. Public transport choices are more widely available, as well as the option of walking and cycling.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2013

For the first three topics, the primary objective of each proposed project must be to demonstrate and deploy hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in real-world environments. DOE prefers that an MD truck or eTruck original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and a cargo, package or parcel delivery company be part of the proposed team.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

The bill—which according to Oberstar and Mica has strong bi-partisan support in the House—is designed to achieve specific objectives: Reduce fatalities and injuries on US highways; Reduce congestion; Provide transportation choices for commuters and travelers; Limit the adverse effects of transportation on the environment; and. Source: DOT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2016

The document also sets out actions by members states, the European Commission, and industry. Other partners are TomTom, the city of Amsterdam, de Dutch Road Transport Agency, Rijkswaterstaat and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. to ensure data protection and privacy. Vehicle technology is developing rapidly.

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