Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

The locomotive will show the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce transportation air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The demonstration will facilitate the improvement of local air quality, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, noise and odor.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

(Credit: peekaystudio/Instagram ) Tesla is said to use lubricating oils, brake fluids, lead acid batteries, aerosols, antifreeze, cleaning fluids, propane, paint, acetone, liquefied petroleum gas, adhesives, and diesel fuel at its Fremont Factory in Northern California. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced Vision Industries’ fuel cell plug-in hybrid Class 8 short haul truck, Tyrano, at the State Capitol building in Sacramento on 20 October. less efficient and more polluting. Earlier post.). 2009 Tyrano Freightliner. Click to enlarge. The 80,000 GVW tractor offers either 16.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $15.4 Partner match: $5.8 Partner match: $6.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Excess air ingestion in turn causes an increase in storage tank headspace pressure (overpressure) by enhancing gasoline evaporation, which results in the release of gasoline vapor to the atmosphere through gas station vent lines and fugitive leak sources. The existing regulations specify vehicle fill pipe dimensions and test procedures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The grants were awarded to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG); the Ventura County Air Quality Management District; the Bay Area Air Quality Management District; and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. 200,000 to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee ( EJAC ) is launching a series of statewide meetings to provide residents with the opportunity to meet with local advocates and state officials to share concerns and to provide input on addressing air pollution and how to help California meet its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 and 2035 associated with passenger vehicle travel in the state’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Sacramento Region: 7% and 16%. Earlier post.). Bay Area Region: 7% and 15%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

By transitioning to renewable diesel, we’re significantly reducing the pollution caused by city vehicles that serve the public on a daily basis. An analysis by the California Air Resources Board determined that renewable diesel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80% compared to petroleum diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Expanding a network of community air-quality monitors operated by Casa Familiar in San Ysidro, one of 28 community-based organizations and tribes statewide receiving grants to engage residents in efforts to reduce local air pollution. Additionally, 16% of investments benefit and are located in low-income communities. Planting more than 3.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Dispensed from Chevron terminals in Sacramento and San Jose, the fuel did not contain adequate amounts of ethanol. Higher levels of olefin mean more smog will be formed from tailpipe emissions since hydrocarbons, including olefin, react with sunlight and other pollutants to form smog. Chevron paid $192,500 for supplying more than 15.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition, the engine will emit 10% less CO 2 than the 2027 federal greenhouse gas requirement. California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District also are investing in the project.

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EV Life

APRIL 14, 2023

It’s no secret that motor vehicle emissions are one of the main sources of pollution in the state of California and one of the leading causes of climate change in the country. Californians collectively drive over a billion miles every day, releasing tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) and pollutants into the air. air pollution in the state.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 3, 2022

Driving a Mustang Mach-E, and with sponsorship from Electrify America , the two women are planning a bon voyage event on June 6 in Fairfield, Connecticut, and a ‘checkered flag waving’ at their ‘finish line,’ the California Auto Museum in Sacramento, California on June 27. and Death Valley.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

The CEC formally approved the award at its monthly Business Meeting yesterday in Sacramento. This project is a building block to statewide production of rDME from California’s methane, removing this greenhouse gas from waste streams and converting it to an ultra-low carbon or carbon-negative transportation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

DME is non-toxic and non-carcinogenic and can be produced from natural gas (NG), coal, biomass, or even directly from carbon dioxide. There are over half a million vehicles currently using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Australia, all of which could be powered using DME. —Prof. Suresh Bhargava RMIT.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The funding is from California Climate Investments , a statewide program that invests billions of cap-and-trade dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen the economy and improve public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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EV Life

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s no secret that the average sticker price on an EV is a whopping 33% more than a comparable gas-powered vehicle, which can be a significant deterrent for many potential car buyers. So, if you have an old gas guzzler that qualifies under the program, the state of California will pay you to swap it for a new Tesla Model Y or Model 3.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) endorsed the state’s cap-and-trade regulation. By the end of the program in 2020 there will be a 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to today, reaching the same level of emissions as the state experienced in 1990, as required under AB 32.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The draft assessment identifies the status of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technology that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions from Class 2b through Class 8 vehicles (gross vehicle weight of 8,501 pounds and up).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

Funding comes from DOE’s Clean Cities Program, designed to assist the development of alternative fuel technologies, leading to decreased greenhouse gas emissions and reduced petroleum use in the transportation sector. Only about 5% have considered such issues because of limited staff resources and lack of public demand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The state is aggressively working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, decrease petroleum fuel use to 15% below 2003 levels by 2020, and increase alternative fuel use to 20% by 2020. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution. Vice Chair James Boyd. 2 million for propane vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Still, scientists agree that black carbon in the atmosphere has a significant effect on global and regional climate, with earlier studies ranking the warming effects of black carbon particles second only to carbon dioxide gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

The focus of the ZEV regulation should be shifted to address GHG emission reductions as well as criteria pollutants emission reductions. No regulatory changes will be made at this time. Their emission benefits are appropriately considered in next summer’s revision to the LEV GHG emission standards (Pavley 2).

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Emissions California Climate Change Vehicles 210

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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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.)

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. The small number of operators who run mixed-fuel fleets (diesel and gasoline, or diesel and natural gas) will understand these tradeoffs better.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The California Air Resources Board released its proposed greenhouse gas cap-and-trade regulation. The release begins a public comment period culminating in a 16 December public hearing in Sacramento, California, at which the Board will consider adopting the proposed program. Linkage to Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The award recipients are: Clean World Partners, LLC , will receive $6 million to increase the Sacramento BioRefinery’s capacity from 25 tons to 100 tons a day. 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

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

A board meeting is scheduled for December 9-10 in Sacramento with the objective to receive feedback on staff’s preliminary assessment and to provide the board with views on how a revised zero emission vehicle programme could complement the revisions to the low emission vehicle programme that is expected to be proposed late next summer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The ICT is part of a statewide effort to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and 80-90% of smog-forming pollutants. They operate largely in urban centers, where pollution and noise are of greater concern.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay is defined by the LAX Airport to the north and the Port of Los Angeles to the south - two of the biggest polluters in Southern California. That starts with gathering consumption data from electricity, gas and vehicle fleet records and digging through the cities 1990 utilities bills. They’re kind of funny that way.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The South Coast air district is teaming up with air districts in the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego and San Joaquin Valley to make the project a statewide demonstration of 43 zero-emission battery electric and plug-in hybrid drayage trucks built by the four manufacturers serving major California ports.

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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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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. These include Pacific Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Light and Edison Electric Institute , the trade association for IOUs (see quote below). New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public hearing on 15 November in Sacramento to consider adopting amendments to the Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV III) greenhouse gas emissions standards, and additional minor revisions to the LEV III criteria pollutant and Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulations, approved by the.

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