Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Google is the current technology leader in this arena, according to a report from industry analysts IHS Automotive: “Google Self-Driving Car Strategy and Implications”. IHS estimates suggest Google has invested nearly $60 million so far in autonomous vehicle research and development, at a run rate of nearly $30 million per year.

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JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

The new application links ARB’s database of the state’s largest sources of greenhouse gases with Google’s mapping technology, including satellite photography that shows details of each facility. The results are independently verified by greenhouse gas emissions verifiers, trained and accredited by ARB.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

The CAFE Foundation announced that Google will sponsor the NASA Centennial Challenge flight competition known as the Green Flight Challenge (GFC). The aircraft in the Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google represent a diverse mix of singular prototypes created expressly for the competition by some of the world’s top designers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Landsat images via Google Earth. Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. Google Earth, as analyzed by Carnegie Landsat Analysis System. Sources: USGS. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

Initial funding of the VP3 effort was made possible by General Motors and Google Nest. VP3 includes founding members Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker. To achieve this, VP3 will work to: Catalog, research, and communicate VPP benefits.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine with VTEC variable valve lift technology has been updated with additional refinement and improved emissions performance. The top-line Touring features Honda’s first integration of Google built-in. Under the hood of the LX and EX, Accord’s 1.5-liter liter turbo has been updated to reduce noise.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69 What Is Green Software Engineering?

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 22, 2024

He ran us through how Kia and other automakers handle the challenges of the regulatory environment, especially with ever shifting fuel-economy and tailpipe-emission rules. You can find our podcasts at these links:& Spotify , Apple , Google , Amazon , and iHeart Radio. As well as here. Thanks for listening!

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 31, 2017

Now, a Google Street View car has allowed researchers to pinpoint and quantify the severity of natural-gas leaks in five different. Natural gas is growing as a part of the world's grid mix, because its carbon per kilowatt-hour is much lower.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

TAE’s safe, non-radioactive approach avoids carbon and particulate emissions, mitigating any impact on the environment or climate change. Google continues to be an exceptional computational AI and machine learning partner for TAE. Goldman Sachs served as the exclusive financial advisor in connection with the Series G-2 financing round.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

New analysis commissioned by Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization working with investors and companies, suggests that national fuel economy and emissions standards can help increase the viability and international competitiveness of domestic automakers and suppliers. Even so, current auto sales and profits remain strong.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 21, 2021

Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris Tesla is the world’s largest automaker by market cap, by far the world’s biggest seller of EVs, and surely the most talked-about and argued-over automaker in recent memory.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Cummins, in conjunction with European Hydrogen Week , shared new research showing that more than half of the United Kingdom (UK) commuters would be willing to travel to work on a train or bus powered by hydrogen to lower their carbon footprint and reduce emissions. This research was conducted through Google Surveys in October 2020.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Volkswagen presented its latest technologies for reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions—which includes the first 10-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG)—in an Innovation Workshop for the media at the Ehra-Lessien test track facility near Wolfsburg. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.) Integration of consumer electronics.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

and global CO 2 -equivalent emissions). Google, DARPA, NASA), that has advanced LENR-relevant state-of-the-art capabilities and methodologies. For energy applications, LENR could potentially contribute to decarbonizing sectors such as industrial heat and transportation (~50% of U.S.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Because of the long distances typically involved in flying, your next airline trip will likely contribute a substantial amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Obviously, to minimize the emissions, taking a nonstop flight is the way to go because that will result in the shortest distance flown. by Michael Sivak.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The program to develop enabling technologies set forth an ambitious target: To reduce the energy consumption of the Prius Prime by 20% without making changes to the powertrain and without compromising emissions, safety or drivability. We knew these tools had the potential for making a big impact on fuel efficiency.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 17, 2023

Self driving electric vehicle drastically reduces environmental pollution (zero noise, zero-emission) Another notable advantage of electric vehicle autonomous driving would be something like below. Waymo – Autonomous driving project of Google Google started autonomous car projects in 2009.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2017

Today, uncertainty over EPA emission testing, GM's electric-car goal, concern over the fate of more capable start-stop systems, and a 5-minute battery recharge? All this and more on Green Car Reports. Romania has doubled its electric-car purchase incentives; they're now more than $10,000 for a new car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The new product offers environmentally conscious consumers and corporate customers a sustainable and easy solution for reducing traffic-borne emissions. 100% Neste Renewable Diesel is used in California, where it helps cities and counties to reduce traffic-related greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Due to the SCR catalytic converter, the Touareg 4MOTION V6 TDI BlueMotion Technology meets the EU6 emissions standard. These will include a Point-of-Interest (POI) Search via Google; map display provided by the Google Earth mapping service; the Google Street View function; and Online Traffic Information.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

Google is dominating the foundation model race Foundation models are big multipurpose models—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the foundation model that enable ChatGPT users to write code or Shakespearean sonnets. Google released the most in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Neste MY Renewable Diesel—classified as Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)—is a low-carbon drop-in renewable diesel fuel enabling up to 80% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional petroleum diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, CO 2 emissions have been cut by up to 17 g/km, and all engines comply with the EU6 emissions standard. With this feature, Volkswagen enables integration and use of a wide range of smartphone apps from the Google and Apple Stores. There is also the option of adding Media Control.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Cool Planet’s biofuel has already been successfully tested internally at its headquarters in Camarillo, CA and through a field trial by Google Inc. Additionally, both the test car and the control car were virtually identical in emissions testing. earlier post ). —Howard Janzen, President and CEO at Cool Planet Energy Systems.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "throughout the electronics value chain," according to SEMI. But it also includes some fabless companies such as AMD, Google, and Microsoft. The founding members have all affirmed support for the Paris Agreement , which is aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will support the building of 13 battery-electric school buses as part of the Sacramento Regional Zero-Emission School Bus Deployment Project. The 13 buses will go to Elk Grove Unified School District and Twin Rivers Unified School District.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis competition the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE , a competition to address CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels. Carbon is a unique challenge in that as we move toward a low to zero-emission future, we’ll need to continue using fossil fuels to meet current energy demands.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2021

Diess said (via Google Translate): “The hydrogen car is proven NOT to be the solution. Instead, scientists who performed the study indicate that battery electric cars (BEVs) are more sustainable and can be a more environmentally-conscious option for those who are concerned about their car’s emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

l/100 km (56 mpg US) and CO 2 emissions of 109 g/km. l/100 km less fuel consumption and a 25 g/km improvement in CO 2 emissions. In both gearbox versions, the new Golf GTD conforms to the Euro-6 emissions standard that takes effect in 2014. Equipped with a new 2.0L l/100 km (52.3 l/100 km (52.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

The product enables up to 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional fossil diesel. The fuel ensures a clean combustion as well as reduces noise and local emissions. At Porvoo Refinery, Neste turns the ham fat into renewable diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

The Renault-Nissan Alliance will open a research office later this month in Mountain View, California, directly across from the Google campus. Renault, one of the largest carmakers in Europe, will be launching a broad range of affordable, zero-emission cars for overseas markets.

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