Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

Results of a study by a team from Georgia Tech and their colleagues at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management show that national CO 2 emissions reductions strategies will play an important role in impacting air quality over the US.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Photo: Thomas Built Buses Thomas Built Buses, founded in 1916, has delivered its 1,000th electric school bus to a school system in Georgia. The company announced today that it’s delivered its 1,000th Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus to Meriwether County School System , Georgia, as part of a larger order.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The US Environmental Protection AGency (EPA) awarded $3.6 Grants were awarded to: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, $899,956. million in four grants to universities to research the relationship between the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) and health effects.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

They are located at: Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. The research will focus on the impacts of air pollution mixtures on people’s health. Each center will receive approximately $8 million over five years. Harvard University, Boston, Mass. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Outgoing versions of the Santa Fe Hybrid were EPA rated at 34 mpg combined, but fuel-economy ratings for the new model haven’t been released yet. The plug-in hybrid boasted 261 hp and 30 miles of EPA-rated electric range. assembled Hyundai EVs —possible in this case at Kia’s Georgia plant, where the related EV9 is made.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2014

Ford C-MAX Energi gets a combined EPA-estimated 108 MPGe city and 92 MPGe highway, for a combined 100 MPGe. and Georgia Tech. After C-MAX Solar Energi Concept is shown at CES, Ford and Georgia Tech will begin testing the vehicle in numerous real-world scenarios. Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the distribution of about $56 million to 10 states under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks. Georgia: $4.9M. New York: $9M. North Carolina: $7.5M. New Jersey: $4.8M. Tennessee: $4.5M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a conditional commitment for a $70-million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. Ensyn Georgia Biorefinery I, LLC (Ensyn) will construct and operate a cellulosic biofuel refinery in Dooly County, Georgia.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

lakh), has an EPA-estimated 304 miles / 486 kilometres of all-electric range on the Light Long Range RWD. at Kia’s manufacturing facility in West Point, Georgia. Following on the heels of the Kia EV6 winning the prestigious accolade last year, the all-new Kia EV9 signifies the first mass-market three row EV SUV in the U.S.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

The EV9’s batteries are still made in South Korea and China, but Kia will begin sourcing from its EV battery plant in Savannah, Georgia. The EV9 is expected to qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit by early 2025. Kia EV9 (Source: Kia) Bell said the facility will have dedicated EV and battery assembly sections.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

l/100 km), beating the car’s official EPA highway fuel consumption figure by 61.37%. Gerdes and Bernius successfully piloted a factory-standard 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid sedan through a 7,899 mile (12,712 km) route across America and achieved an average fuel consumption of 64.55 mpg US (3.64 The Optima Hybrid used just over 5.5

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

SK On is the battery division of South Korea’s SK Innovation, and its SK Battery America plant is in Commerce, Georgia. 4 Standard model, with a 62 kWh battery, an EPA-estimated range of 209 miles, and a starting MSRP of $38,995, would cost $31,495 after the tax credit is applied. VW 2023 and 2024 ID.4s That means that the 2023 ID.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass. However, in the Regulatory Impact Analysis accompanying RFS2, EPA noted that both Range and Cello were delaying or reducing their production plans for this year. Range Fuels, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A 17-day “transportation strategy,” in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Olympic Games involved closing parts of the city to help athletes make it to their events on time, but also greatly decreased air pollution. School absenteeism decreased by 40%, and daily mortality fell by 16% for every 100 ?g/m g/m 3 PM 10 decrease.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC. Vehicles should be of at least $5,800 in value and covered by current EPA Certifications for propane autogas operation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

Fusion Energi and C-Max Energi have EPA-estimated MPG ratings of 44 mpg US city, 41 highway and 43 combined and have an EPA-estimated range of 21 miles (34 km) electric. In 2009, there were 3,000 known public charge stations. Today, there are more than 20,000. GE was the first major company to add C-MAX Energi vehicles to its fleet.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2022

Marking $125M incentive for Rivian plant at Georgia state capitol. EV value The marketplace made clear “Inside EVs” has done a very thorough job rating EVs from the least to the most expensive , and by price per mile of EPA range. Nissan Leaf is ranked as least expensive 2022 EV. Nissan Leaf is ranked as least expensive 2022 EV.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

To accelerate the launch, Rivian will build the R2 at its Normal, Illinois facility rather than its new plant in Georgia. Scaringe announced the R2 was already generating strong interest, with over 68,000 reservations in under 24 hours. Kia has found recent success with its first three-row EV9 electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

Built for Honda by Peterbilt Motors Company, the EPA Smartway-certified Model 386 hybrid truck is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by almost 45 tons per year, as compared to its diesel counterpart. Honda uses Class 8 trucks to transport service parts between its parts centers and dealerships.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

These include the heavy-duty manufacturing regions of the upper Midwest; technology hubs in California and along the Pacific Coast; technology innovators on the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and the Carolinas; and a corridor that runs through, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

—Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. Much of this nitrogen is transported into river and stream networks where it may be converted to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, via the activity of microbes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

The CAFE standard is calculated using a harmonic mean; given the high fuel economy assigned to EVs by the EPA, scenarios with higher EV market share result in a lower required conventional vehicle (CV) fuel economy. A negative value means the case has a lower TCE than the reference case. Credit: ACS, Choi et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

While the engines have yet to receive EPA certification, the 2.4-liter The new Optima will be built at Kia’s plant in West Point, Georgia. Two powerplants carry over from the previous generation, the 2.4-liter liter GDI four-cylinder, available on the LX and EX models, and the 2.0-liter All new for the 2016 model is a 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Stone et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Department of Energy). The awards.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And there are states like Georgia where public interveners don’t have any right to discovery. We’ve been building a separate open-source tool called Power Genome that pulls together all the public data from the Department of Energy, EPA [U.S. Much of the data was made available, but some was redacted for various competitive concerns.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

“Today we’re once again accelerating the transition to electric and low-emission school buses in America, helping to secure a healthier future where all our children can breathe cleaner air,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. The EPA plans to make more funds available for clean school buses in additional rounds of funding.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

With the larger pack, the EV9 goes up to 304 miles, while the base version with the smaller pack gets a 223-mile EPA range rating. built EV9s that will come from Kia’s assembly plant in West Point, Georgia. Base Light versions can be had with a smaller 76.1-kwh kwh pack, while the rest of the EV9 lineup gets a 99.8-kwh

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The company will make the announcement at the North American Commercial Vehicle show (NACV) in Atlanta, Georgia, at which Eaton will display a suite of technologies. While other technologies can be combined to reduce both CO 2 and NO x emissions, Eaton says that its CDA is the only single technology that can simultaneously reduce both.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

The study, by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Georgia, Aerodyne Research, California Air Resources Board (ARB), Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The EPA GHG program is aimed at reducing tailpipe CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Following the launch of the Soul EV ( earlier post ) late last year in California, along with sales beginning in Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii earlier this year, Kia Motors America (KMA) is expanding availability of its fully charged urban runabout into four new states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Indeed, in today’s US market, an entry-level, all-electric Volvo SUV with 265 or 275 miles of EPA-rated battery range, starting under $40,000, is a compelling proposition.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Indeed, in today’s US market, an entry-level, all-electric Volvo SUV with 265 or 275 miles of EPA-rated battery range, starting under $40,000, is a compelling proposition.

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