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California Air Resources Board issues nearly $1M in fines for failures to report GHG emission

Green Car Congress

The California Air Resources Board announced nearly $1 million in penalties against 3 companies for late or inaccurate reporting of their greenhouse gas emissions for 2011. This action marks the second time the Air Resources Board has issued fines for violations of California’s Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting regulation.

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An Extreme Real World EV Driving (Charging) Test

Clean Fleet Report

Gasoline fueled vehicles require tune-ups, oil, transmission servicing and other typical maintenance and costs. On the other side, on a trip like this you may need to make a few more stops and take a little more time than you might with a gas vehicle, but again the difference is not great. miles/kWh North Las Vegas-to-St.

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Hyundai brings electric excavators, AI, and see-thru steel to CES 2024

Baua Electric

The concept excavator boasts “fully electric” operation – which is to say that it has both electric drive and makes use of electric motors and actuators to operate the boom arm, rather than hydraulic oil – and is the first of three such concepts to debut. HD Hyundai / Doosan autonomous construction drawings from 2020; courtesy HD Hyundai.

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Mayors Join Drive

Plug In Partners

Conference of Mayors Join Drive for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles LAS VEGAS—June 5, 2006— The U.S. Conference of Mayors today unanimously endorsed a resolution encouraging the use of plug-in hybrid vehicles as an important step in reducing this country’s reliance on foreign oil and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”. Walk the walk why don’t you?

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Partner Update and Announcement

Plug In Partners

Ø The US House passed a bill that would extend a series of tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency and pay for them by eliminating or scaling back oil and natural gas industry tax breaks. The bill (H.R.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Green Car Congress

gas into a liquid transportation fuel by combining fuel cell. utility of geographically isolated gas reserves. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. Gas Technology.

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