Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

With automotive battery capacity currently scarce, expensive and suffering supply problems, the deployment of this limited resource is critical to maximizing CO 2 reduction, Emissions Analytics says. One of our biggest challenges is fleet turnover, with vehicles staying on the road typically for up to 12 years. km/kWh reduction.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A new report prepared by the World Bank at the request of the G8 identifies ways that the World Bank can do more through its projects to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs): black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and fluorinated gases known as HFCs. —Akbar et al. degrees Celsius.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

illion grant from the California Air Resource Board (CARB) awarded to Wabtec, BNSF and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. A fleet of second-generation FLXdrives will be commercialized and could enter supply chain routes in the next few years. —Eric Gebhardt, Wabtec Chief Technology Officer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollution on the open seas, according to a new study quantifying global ship traffic. The new study is the first to track ship traffic on a global scale, Tournadre said. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Scientists from the University of Birmingham launched a major research project to investigate how “clean cold” could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. It is now becoming clear that cooling will be critical to achieving almost all the UN’s Global Goals. It also accounts for 3.3

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

By electrochemically converting fuel into electricity, SOFCs can potentially produce power with higher efficiency than internal combustion engines running on the same fuelcwithout creating polluting emissions or particulates. The research will therefore have ammonia-based SOFCs as its starting point.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The California Air Resources Board launched a $20 million funding assistance program designed to spur the purchase of hybrid trucks and buses that reduce smog-forming pollution and address climate change. Hybrid vehicle technology can reduce truck and bus emissions by 20 to 50 percent, including gases that contribute to global warming.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. They then modeled the emissions from those power plants, the effects of emissions on air pollution in downwind counties, and the resulting implications for human health and the environment. Source: Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

Cost-effectiveness of the fleet renewal schemes analysed from the perspective of CO 2 and. Car fleet renewal schemes introduced in the US, France and Germany to stimulate consumer spending on cars in the wake of the 2008. million transactions in which old cars were traded for new vehicles under these car fleet renewal schemes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

On 15 June, ASTM revised its jet fuel standard, paving the way for airlines to use Synthesized Iso-Paraffin (SIP) farnesane (generically, Direct Sugar to Hydrocarbon, DSHC) as a jet fuel component in commercial airlines globally. Farnesane can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 80% compared to petroleum fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Environmental considerations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2013

A study by a team from the University of British Columbia and Metro Vancouver suggests that optimized operational control strategies for transit bus fleets ultimately offer transit agencies a way to maximize the benefits of their capital investments in new, cleaner technologies. the contact of pollutants and people in space and time).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

On the first day of a two-day board meeting—the second day of which (Friday 24 March) will consider the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review—the California Air Resources Board (ARB) took a number of climate and air quality actions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

They further agreed to reduce air pollutant emissions by aligning air pollutant emission standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles and corresponding ultra low-sulfur fuel standards by 2018. Short-lived climate pollutants. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

The document outlines a new set of aggressive near-term and long-term strategies for the nation’s busiest harbor complex to further reduce harmful air pollution from all port-related sources, assist the state in meeting aggressive greenhouse gas reduction goals, and ultimately achieve zero emissions for trucks and terminal equipment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The review of lithium-ion battery recycling suggests that, while electric vehicles (EVs) offer a solution for cutting pollution, governments and industry need to act now to develop a robust recycling infrastructure to meet future recycling need. Landfill is clearly not an option for this amount of waste. Sommerville, R., Kendrick, E.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

That’s why part of our plan is to provide new and better incentives that promote rapid, responsible development of these resources. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. We have to find ways to boost our efficiency so that we use less oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2011

Utilizing biofuels as a substitute for heavy fuel oil in the current (2006) global shipping fleet would result in strong reductions in sulfate aerosol of up to about 40-60%, according to a new study by a team from Germany and Hawaii. This clearly has positive consequences for pollution reduction in the vicinity of major harbors.

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My Electric Car

MAY 19, 2019

The legacy of the internal combustion engine includes polluted cities, premature deaths, externalised health costs, oil wars and carbon emissions. The move from an oil based transport fleet to an electrically Australian powered one looks from a policy position to be stuck in neutral.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 29, 2022

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) notes that, globally, transportation accounts for 64% of oil consumption , 27% of energy use and 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Many cities and countries are putting their resources into electric public transportation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

However, the impact of these changes in HDDV exhaust emissions on ambient atmospheric pollutant concentrations and, more importantly, on human health outcomes across Canada have not been evaluated. the 2008-2012 global recession). These changes would likely be well below any possible verification by ambient monitoring.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in gas, electricity and energy services.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 20, 2023

Uber, the global ride-hailing giant, has taken another significant stride towards sustainability with the launch of Uber Green in India. With India being one of the most populous countries globally and facing significant environmental challenges, the need for eco-friendly mobility alternatives has never been more crucial.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Radiative forcing from the global and US ORT and PG sectors. The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The document provides high-level guidance for accelerating progress toward a zero-emission future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. Developing infrastructure plans to support terminal equipment electrification, alternative fuels and other energy resource goals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

is black carbon (BC)—a pollutant with large positive radiative forcing on the climate due to its ability to absorb incoming sunlight and reduce surface albedo on snow. Gray and green lines: fuel economy improvements (“Adjusted Combined”) by replacing a fleet-average 2005 (gray) and 2010 (green) PFI vehicle with a GDI vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

a global leader in LiDAR (Light, Detection and Ranging) technology, announced the completion of a combined $150 million investment from co-investors Ford Motor Company and China’s leading search engine company Baidu, Inc. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., Velodyne’s LiDAR solutions are capable of producing 300,000 (Puck Lite, VLP-16) to 2.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In coming months, the plan notes, the Department of Transportation will work with other agencies to further explore strategies for integrating alternative fuel vessels into the US flag fleet. In President Obama’s first term, the DOE established new minimum efficiency standards for dishwashers, refrigerators, and many other products.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines. —Saliba et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The review found that in the US, average tractor-trailer fuel consumption rates for the entire fleet are approximately 39 L/100 km (6 mpg). A fleet-wide analysis done for the European Commission estimates tractor-trailer fuel consumption at roughly 31 L/100 km (7.6 —Sharpe and Muncrief. Amanda C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

They also found that extending the lifetime of a vehicle contributed to a moderate increase in emissions of criteria pollutants (NO x , HC, and CO) during the use phase of the vehicle. The increased lifetime of cars negatively affects the fuel efficiency average of the fleet, with negative environmental implications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Professor Jacoby is co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas. Russia, the Middle East, and the US have the highest concentration of global gas reserves.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2012

Terrestrial plants are thought to be the dominant global source of atmospheric ethanol.) Acetaldehyde is classified as a hazardous air pollutants (HAP) regulated under Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendments. In the atmosphere, ethanol is a precursor of acetaldehyde (CH 3 CHO) and peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN). Marshall, Hanwant B.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 4, 2024

Think about all the resources that go into making a new car—from mining metals to manufacturing parts and shipping them around the world. A well-maintained engine runs happier and cleaner, emitting fewer pollutants into the air. Changing up old components could be a simple solution to polluting less. Maybe a Tune-Up?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

Such 2030 standards could be achieved mostly with advanced combustion technology, while also initiating the wider launch of plug-in electric vehicles to 13%–23% of the new vehicle fleet. Such standards would shift the new vehicle fleet from 26 miles per gallon in 2016 up to 42–46 miles per gallon by 2030. Lightweighting.

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