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Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2022
However, using the same tanks in a variety of types of applications requires meeting different safety standards and adjusting to each environment.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a request for information (RFI) about advances in components, systems, and products that can withstand harsh environments and extended service lifetimes. ( Equipment used in the US energy production, transportation, and industrial sectors regularly operates under conditions that are high-temperature, corrosive, oxidizing, mechanically wearing, embrittling, or that involve thermal cycling. Very high temperature environments.
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 12, 2021
CRDL) have commenced discussions on joint research aimed at accelerating development and implementing advanced technologies in the field of energy and the environment. Carbon neutrality means achieving net-zero CO 2 emissions for the entire life cycle of a product in a recycling-based society—from its production, transportation, and use—followed by ensuring that it is recycled. Developing elemental technologies for the production, transportation, and use of hydrogen.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2020
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted to include CO 2 emissions from the maritime sector in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The European Commission had put forward a proposal to revise the EU system for monitoring, reporting and verifying CO 2 emissions from maritime transport (the “EU MRV Regulation”) and to bring it in line with new obligations under International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to monitor emissions from 2019 and report in 2020.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
In the race at Fuji Speedway, Toyota tried “using" hydrogen; in the race at Autopolis, Toyota tried to expand its options in the area of “producing” hydrogen; in the Suzuka race this time, Toyota is workingon the theme of “transporting” hydrogen. Transporting hydrogen from overseas.
EV Box
MAY 13, 2022
Electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged over the past decade as a key tool in the fight against transport-related emissions—and climate change. As a result, the global EV stock is expected to increase from 11 million in 2020 to over 145 million by 2030. Many car manufacturers have also pledged to transition completely to EVs in the next five to ten years ; including Jaguar, Audi, GM, and Mercedes.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Earlier this month, members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee proposed a higher target (35%) than the European Commission (30%) for new heavy-duty trucks to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, with an intermediate target of 20% by 2025. Environment Committee MEPs also added urban buses to the scope of the proposal, and proposed that 50% of new buses should be electric from 2025 and 75% should be electric by 2030.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Although the presence of microplastics in the environment is raising concerns, the amount of microplastics in air and water is small compared to another polymer that pollutes air and water: micro rubber. 22 kilotonnes of micro rubber have accumulated in the environment in Switzerland. Of the particles released into the environment, almost three-quarters remain on the left and right side of the road in the first five meters, 5% in the remaining soils and almost 20% in water bodies.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 26, 2021
sennder, Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder and Cabot Corporation, a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, transported one of Europe’s first zero-emission cross-border heavy duty loads.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Specifically, to expand options for producing, transporting, and using fuel, the five companies intend to unite and pursue the three initiatives of: Participating in races using carbon-neutral fuels; Exploring the use of hydrogen engines in two-wheeled and other vehicles; and.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Developing safe and cost-effective storage and transportation methods for hydrogen is essential but complicated given the interaction of hydrogen with structural materials.
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2021
The investment will further Venti’s production of AI-enabled autonomous logistics transport, including fulfilling new and existing customer agreements with PSA Corporation, a global ports operator with 60 ports under management; automotive manufacturers including SAIC Volkswagen and SAIC-GM; the world’s largest automotive logistics provider, SAIC Anji Logistics Tech; and Seedland, a top Asian real estate developer and operator.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
Multiple step-change reductions in the environmental/climate footprint of combustion-based transportation systems, while maintaining the fitness for purpose and convenience for the end user, are achievable. The authors identified a number of challenges for new fuels for a low-carbon transportation sector: Fuels tailored to engines with cycle and system advances that increase overall conversion of chemical energy to useful work. 2018) “Future transportation fuels.”
Green Car Reports
JUNE 5, 2020
House of Representatives transportation bill, released Wednesday. The INVEST in America Act (Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation) would allocate $494 billion over five.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 1, 2021
in 2019, according to latest official data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). However, CO 2 emissions from the transport sector continued their increasing trend in 2019. For road transport, the increase was mostly due to higher gasoline consumption in passenger cars.
Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2015
The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the first large controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars. Mcity was designed and developed by U-M’s interdisciplinary Mobility Transformation Center ( MTC ), in partnership with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) finds that, taken together with public transport, walking and cycling for short city journeys provide the greatest benefits for both human health and the environment in urban areas. Increasing transport emissions.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 The government is launching a major electrification project, mainly in the transport sector, but also in those of building heating and industrial activities.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
A new Ford Motor Company-sponsored poll of 6,000 people across Europe found that most Europeans remain committed to car ownership, but have growing concerns about traffic congestion, the cost of driving and the environment. The survey shows 74% use public transport, 37%share cars when making the same journey and 3% use formal car sharing schemes. 52% use public transport less than once a month or never.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2012
A new study by researchers from Stockholm University concludes that automobile tires may be a potential previously unknown source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes—a type of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—to the environment. PAHs primarily occur in complex mixtures; many are classified as carcinogenic/mutagenic environmental toxins with the potential to cause negative long-term effects both in humans and in the aquatic environment.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2021
The Second UN Global Sustainable Transport Conference concluded with a call to accelerate progress towards achieving sustainable transport that would result in major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and in improving the lives of millions of people. Warning that the door on climate action was closing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the decarbonization of all means of transport, in order to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 globally.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding how public transportation ventilation systems may transmit viruses and how exhaled droplets evolve in ventilated spaces. The researchers analyzed what happens when speech droplets are exhaled from a row of sitting passengers in a ventilated space, such as those in public transportation vehicles.
EV Connect
APRIL 6, 2021
The firm performing the work for SSD in-turn, reached out to EV Connect to help navigate the transformation to an all-electric school transportation infrastructure.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 27, 2019
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2017
Most of these diseases and conditions are at least partially caused by the environment, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. The impact of the environment on children’s health , provides a comprehensive overview of the environment’s impact on children’s health, illustrating the scale of the challenge. 200,000 children under 5 years die from unintentional injuries attributable to the environment, such as poisoning, falls, and drowning. In 2015, 5.9
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2019
The California Air Resources Board approved a $533-million plan to fund clean car rebates, zero-emission transit and school buses, clean trucks, and other innovative, clean transportation and mobility pilot projects. CARB uses this funding to accelerate development and early commercial deployment of the cleanest vehicle technologies and to improve access to clean transportation for all Californians. billion for low-carbon transportation projects from the cap-and-trade program.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
The US Tire Manufacturers Association ( USTMA ) is urging congressional leadership to continue working on tire policy and related transportation sustainability initiatives. Stormwater infiltration galleries that utilize TDA allow for cost savings when compared to traditional mined minerals, such as gravel, since the lightweight recycled material costs less to transport.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2014
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a grants notice ( DTFH6114RA00002 ) for the award of $8,991,669 (as a 50% cost-share) to maintain for an additional three years the unique connected vehicle research and testing environment the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) developed in Ann Arbor under the Safety Pilot. DOT has opened up this data-rich environment to industry for use in testing their own devices and applications.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2019
A team of researchers in China suggest that, in the context of promoting the use of clean fuel vehicles and increasing vehicle fuel efficiency, CO 2 emissions of China’s urban passenger transport sector could reach a peak of 225 MtCO 2 in 2030. If the mode share of public transport could further increase, the CO 2 emissions from the urban passenger transport sector in China are possible to peak at around 2020 with the emissions ranging from 171 to 214 MtCO 2.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. The design for everything is not complete, but this will be a low entropy campus, minimizing energy wastage and creating a super environment.
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2019
Transport for London (TfL) has ordered 20 hydrogen double-decker buses as part of its drive to make London’s transport zero-emission. The environment-friendly vehicles will be introduced on routes 245, 7 and N7, with people traveling to Wembley Stadium, or from west London to the West End, able to hop on the new green buses for a smoother and quieter journey. As part of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, TfL is committed to using only the cleanest buses in its fleet.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 6, 2014
As vehicle connectivity and advanced assistance systems become a ubiquitous part of driving, researchers at Volkswagen Group’s Electronics Research Laboratory ( ERL ) are working to create a “perfect driving experience” by enabling more intuitive forms of communications between the driver, the car and the external environment.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2021
A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. —“Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero”.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2021
The chemical composition of atmospheric particles at a given location depends not only on the local environment and sources, but is also influenced by the history of the particles reaching the sampling location. More than half of the eBC (52%) was associated with long-range transport (i.e.,
Electric Auto Association
MARCH 25, 2021
We wanted to be part of an organization that shares the same ideas as we do about electric transportation.” The founders of the first ever campus-based Electric Auto Association chapter start out with go-karts.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2012
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is forming a Center of Excellence for Environment and Energy during FY-2013. The FAA anticipates the COE will attract interest from other organizations such as the airline industry, other industrial groups, airport authorities, and other governmental entities to solve various unique and difficult aviation problems related to environment and energy. The extent to which the applicant has an established air transportation program.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2017
The eighth edition of UN Environment’s Emissions Gap report, released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, finds that national pledges only bring approximately one-third of the reduction in emissions required by 2030 to meet climate targets, with private sector and sub-national action not increasing at a rate that would help close this gap. Transportation. In the current policy scenario, total emissions for transport are 9.7
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2012
A new study has found that pollutant particles carried by these flows prefer to accumulate in specific regions of the urban environment and even form coherent structures, rather than scattering randomly. It was not known if such structures were robust enough to manifest in the environment. The researchers used Lagrangian measures, depicted by finite-time Lyapunov exponents, to characterize transport patterns of inertial pollutant particles formed in urban flows.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2012
The European Parliament Environment Committee by a vote of 30 to 27, with two absentions, adopted a report for lowering motor vehicle noise limits for new vehicles in category M (for passengers) and N (for goods). The European environmental NGO group Transport and Environment had earlier accused Ouzký of allowing Porsche to write the draft noise guidelines, which he denied.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2012
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO) has issued a discussion document expressing a set of working principles intended to guide DOT’s research, demonstration and implementation activities related to a connected vehicle environment. Transportation Safety is the DOT’s top stated priority for the connected vehicle environment.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
To date, eight AGVs are operating outside the production workshops at the Martorell plant to automate the transport of parts. Each outdoor AGV and their carriages make up a 25-meter convoy with a maximum transport capacity of 10 tonnes and cover routes of 3.5
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Our study yielded new insights into the fundamental mechanisms governing hydrocarbon transport within shale nanopores.
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