Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to update the toxic air pollution standards for petroleum refineries. The new rules would further reduce toxic pollution from flaring and other processes and includes new monitoring requirements.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

less efficient and more polluting. Vision says that the Tyrano is 35% cheaper to operate than current diesel powered trucks and 50% cheaper than liquefied natural gas. Initial units will be used to complete testing and demonstration of the Tyrano the vehicles in and around the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2012

Air Products and FuelCell Energy, Inc. On-site or local production of hydrogen and electricity eliminates the delivery costs incurred by industrial companies while enhancing security and reliability of supply. DFC power plants are fuel flexible, using readily available fuel sources such as natural gas or renewable biogas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

delivered the first all-electric mobile surgical instrument lab (eMSIL) to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Center. The eMSIL includes all the equipment needed to deliver the same level of performance, productivity and compliance from decontamination through sterilization as a lab located in a building.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

has begun production of all-electric, heavy-duty drayage trucks capable of hauling 30-ton shipping containers in and around the San Pedro Bay, California port complex. The green terminal program will also include the production of five on-road electric trucks. Balqon E30 rolls off the line. Click to enlarge. Balqon Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The two combine in the atmosphere to make either nitric acid or peroxynitrous acid; the so-called branching ratio of these two chemicals is important in models of ozone production. has fully characterized a key chemical reaction that affects the formation of pollutants in smoggy air in urban areas. Credit: Caltech/Mitchio Okumura.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Repurposing oil wells for battery-free energy storage “Our mission is to clean up and convert one million idle oil and gas wells into one million hours of clean energy storage,” said Kemp Gregory, CEO of Renewell Energy , based in Bakersfield, Calif. There are 2.6 million idle wells, Gregory continued, “with an average depth 5000 feet.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The results highlight the early challenges in a nascent sector of climate science and could have implications for regulatory efforts to reduce the production of black carbon, or soot, by curbing the burning of fossil fuels. Cappa, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Davis, and Timothy B.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition’s New Jersey Compressed Natural Gas Refuse Trucks, Shuttle Buses and Infrastructure. Total DOE award: $14,999,658. Total DOE award: $14,997,240.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

In my rear view mirror I watched a Los Angeles Sheriff’s car pull out of the Chevron and turn on both its blue and red flashing lights to pursue me down Ventura Boulevard. It had only been hours since I eased out of the Tesla dealership in West Los Angeles and already I had a date with the police. Complaints?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program. liters for increased power, performance and productivity.). Cummins increased the displacement of the ISB line to 6.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

the potential implications of electric vehicles for electricity consumption, management of electricity demand, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutant emissions. price and carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS)/carbon tax policy, and known information about the historic drivers for consumers in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Implementation dates would be staggered to coincide with the development and commercial production of these advanced technologies. BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 The project will evaluate the potential of several plant materials, and production processes, including installation and testing of equipment. EdeniQ, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The new findings contradict previous research focused on the LA Basin which concluded that gasoline vehicles contributed more to the production of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than exhaust from diesel vehicles. The team used a chemical mass balance model to examine the contributions from each source to reactive gas-phase organic carbon.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

During rush hour, the skies over a large city, such as Dubai or Madrid or Los Angeles, would swarm with hundreds, and eventually thousands, of eVTOL “air taxis.” If it does happen, a few studies have predicted that travel times and greenhouse-gas and pollutant emissions could all be reduced.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. In 2002 when she was just a freshman California Assemblywoman, this former school teacher worked with Bluewater Network (which later merged with Friends of the Earth ) to author the Assembly Bill that made California the first state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

SCAQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The mowers are manufactured in the United States by Mean Green Products based in Hamilton, Ohio, and include riding and walk-behind mowers.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 29, 2022

While battery production for electric cars does produce some emissions , these emissions are dwarfed by the emissions produced by gasoline-powered vehicles. They produce no smog-forming pollution unlike gasoline cars, and they don’t release hazardous pollutants like carbon monoxide and benzene into the air. Lower emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The Advanced Clean Cars package combines four different regulations: light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas limits; the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate; the next phase of the Low Emission Vehicle (LEV-III) program; and a new Clean Fuels Outlet regulation. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For the current fiscal year, 2012-2013, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, with the goals of reducing petroleum dependence, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and improving air quality. Valley Garbage and Rubbish Co.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $17,223,593 for eight projects including alternative fuel production, plug-in truck demonstrations, EV charging station deployment, and infrastructure planning. will receive $6 million to build a commercial biodiesel production facility in Fresno. CALSTART, Inc. Blue Line Transfer, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. In addition, liquefied natural gas could be an important fuel in the shipping sector, which cannot be easily electrified. Next steps.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

“ Really, Los Angeles Times? It sounds like you’re saying that only “some&# scientists think weaning us off coal is the single most crucial thing we must do to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving us to a climate catastrophe. “ Some Scientists?&# That’s your report?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

We’re all under the mandates of the AB32, our groundbreaking Global Warming Solutions law that calls for all of California to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels. Heidi has been working with the South Bay cities in completing the baseline inventories of their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The Green L.A.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Thus, with proper design and coordination, a shore power barge with a hydrogen-fueled PEM fuel cell system for powering container ships at berth could become a commercially viable product. Los Angeles, Calif.; —Pratt and Harris (2013). Oakland, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; Tacoma, Wash.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Wash.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s vice chairman of product development, Robert Lutz, reportedly told Volt enthusiasts at the Web site GM-Volt.com. “We You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. people’s desire for electric over gas cars 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Much of the technology needed is still a distant dream ? but not all of it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. Sure beats Detroit, same old, same old gas buggy, and anothe Purple PLUM, whoops PUMA, two wheel, or is 4wheel, kiddy car. Has GM Ford or Chylser heard about this.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. — Kaare Nilsen 2. — Jeff U 6.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. "The Volt is a case study.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 21, 2014

But this election season in my own South Bay of Los Angeles just keeps getting curious and curiouser – and it’s impossible for your friendly neighborhood Greenius not to note and comment on these curiosities. In fact, he’s just a bit player in this production. But Billy Bloomfield isn’t alone.

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