Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. The magnitude of the drop in VOC levels was surprising, even to researchers who expected some kind of decrease resulting from California’s longtime efforts to control vehicle pollution. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The findings of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, with colleagues at UC Berkeley, suggest that changing atmospheric NO x levels over the next two decades will likely significantly reduce the effectiveness of stricter new gasoline vehicle emissions standards in reducing concentrations of secondary organic aerosol (SOA).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In California, Big Blue Bus (BBB) will receive $870,000 from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Near Zero Engine Incentive Program. g/bhp-hr optional Near Zero NO x Emissions standards. g/bhp-hr optional Near Zero NO x Emissions standards. ISL G Near-Zero (NZ) 0.02 NO x engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released the draft of their proposed 2017 C lean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update. Updated strategies in the CAAP incorporate local, regional, state and federal standards and regulations, as well as anticipate clean air regulations under development by the California Air Resources Board.

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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. HVIP cuts air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while accelerating the development and commercialization of clean transportation technologies. Winnebago Industries, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2018

The most important finding of this study is that infectious processes of respiratory disease may be influenced by particulate matter pollution at various levels. concentrations above air quality standards. level is lower than places like Los Angeles and New York. Nearly 60% of US children live in counties with PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. FedEx Corp. The hybrid conversions were produced in Charlotte, N.C.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

That push is particularly focused on the trucking routes between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the distribution centers of the Inland Empire – which Ontario lies at the heart of. There’s a big push for zero emission trucks in California right now, in response to California’s new truck regulations.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. The small number of operators who run mixed-fuel fleets (diesel and gasoline, or diesel and natural gas) will understand these tradeoffs better. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard. That’s about to change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. Both pollutants are particularly harmful to children, the elderly and those who have preexisting health problems. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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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. Level 1 charging only requires a standard power. externalities, such as the avoided costs of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Scenario 1.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even by the standards of big-money tech investment, the vision is giddily audacious. 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.” The proposed MOCs must be acceptable to the FAA. A 2020 study published by the U.S.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a summary of its proposed Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) regulation package ( earlier post ), which establishes stringent new emissions standards for light duty vehicles from 2015 through 2025. It is designed to parallel the national greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards rule the U.S.

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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. EPA’s “Phase I” GHG standard will reduce new vehicle emissions by about 4–5% per year from 2014–2018. Earlier post.)

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

In week of driving a 4x4 standard box crew cab version of the truck, the 6.0L Although Chevy emphasizes the benefits of the 2500HD with the bi-fuel option as a full dual fuel vehicle with a combined range of up to some 650 miles, in more than 500 miles of driving over the course of a week, we used mainly only natural gas.

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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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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

California has a Renewable Portfolio Standard that calls for us to be at 20% renewable energy this year, 2010. It’s just another win for the polluting, greenhouse gas producing utilities and their own fat wallets. That 20% goal was made into a law in 2006. Right now we’re at about 12% from renewable sources.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

However, the revocation—if it is legally possible, of which there is some question—reprises a conflict between California and the Bush Administration, which denied California a waiver in 2007 requested to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions ( earlier post ). In 1943, Los Angeles experienced its first major smog event.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Other airports that could see 100 or more daily SST LTOs include Los Angeles, Singapore, San Francisco, New York-JFK, Frankfurt, and Bangkok. The aircraft could double the area around airports exposed to substantial noise pollution compared to existing subsonic aircraft of the same size. degree Celsius climate trajectory.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today, with Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board, led a coalition of 24 state attorneys general and the cities of Los Angeles and New York in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. GM Press Release ). Kwong asked.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. Twenty-three percent describe regional air pollution as a big problem, an 11-point drop since last year (34%) and the smallest percentage since PPIC began asking the question in June 2000.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. One policy is starting to stand out against the crowd: the National Clean Electricity Standard. Standards like this have been used across industries to influence commercial activities (think OSHA to protect workers on the job). Clean electricity standards are not new.

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