Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

When life cycle air pollution and greenhouse gas emission externalities are internalized via a Pigovian tax, fleet electrification increases and externalities decrease, suggesting a role for policy. Air pollution is a classic case where free markets fail. —Bruchon et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Not only can electric vehicles help meet our climate goals and reduce air pollution, they might be a strategy to reduce operation costs and enhance resilience. Currently, the city owns or leases 21 all-electric vehicles in its fleet and seeks to replace gasoline and diesel vehicles with EVs as vehicles come up for replacement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Coltura is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner. The paper by Matthew N.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

EVs: They Are Everywhere As we mentioned earlier EVs have a wide range of applications because EVs are much more flexible in case of design and configuration which gasoline vehicles cannot match. Instead, we have to supply hydrogen just like we fill gasoline but the car will be powered by electric motors just like a normal electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Among the many policy and funding details in the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations , produced by Defra and the Department for Transport is the cessation of the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. Gasoline Fluence 16V.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Plug in America

JULY 21, 2023

EVs are Better for the Environment Over the course of their lifetimes , EVs generate less than half of the GHG emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles. EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. In addition, electricity in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

million gallons of gasoline. Organizations offering support for this proposal include the Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce, UC San Diego, Amazon, North County Transit District, Sierra Club, Ace Parking, Sysco and the San Diego Air Pollution Control District.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

million for innovative research and development proposals to accelerate the use of electric vehicles, to reduce the cost of installing and operating charging stations, and to provide recommendations on how they can be used for grid resiliency. Cuomo announced the availability of up to $3.5 million light-duty, 2.5

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself. We need off-grid and on-grid solutions. EPA’s regulatory responsibilities expanded during its first two decades, and many forms of pollution were identified and reduced. Automobiles became more energy-efficient and less polluting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2023

“ It is based on California’s economy, California’s transportation needs, and California’s electrical grid.” state to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035. This new regulation puts us on a fast-track to meet our climate goals. In August, California became the first U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. The report identifies insights about the choice of charging infrastructure in each region that will both maximize benefits to consumers (thus helping to drive EV adoption) and maximize benefits to the grid from greater EV use. —“Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”.

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EV Connect

MARCH 20, 2023

In the case of the former, the myth holds that electric vehicles will result in increased use of fossil fuels to power the electrical grid. Myth 2: EV Charging Is (or Will Be) More Expensive Than Gasoline For a moment, let’s put aside the fact that climate-related health costs in the United States are estimated at around $820 billion.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

The Japanese automaker believes that hybrid automobiles should receive some legislative incentives because they emit significantly less pollution than gasoline vehicles. In a letter to the government, Tata Motors argues that incentives should be provided for EVs over hybrids, noting the latter’s higher pollution levels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

They found that find that gasoline vehicles continue to be most attractive to consumers both countries, and that American respondents have significantly lower relative willingness-to-pay for BEV technology than Chinese respondents. Low-range PHEVs compete most strongly against their gasoline counterparts in both countries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80% by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and other health-harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Insights on the future of the electric grid, affordability, artificial intelligence and more drew readers to the Energy Institute Blog this year. The past is no longer a good guide … Continue Reading Top 10 Energy Institute Blog Posts of 2023

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 18, 2023

Making a car creates a lot of pollution as raw materials have to be extracted, transported and manufactured. A report by CarbonBrief concludes that EVs have a smaller carbon footprint than used gasoline cars after about four years and a smaller carbon footprint than new ones in around two years. They are also more expensive to repair.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Most studies have focused on the vehicle use phase, particularly on the grid mix that powers PHEVs and BEVs as it is a key determinant of emissions and energy use. Cradle-to-gate GHG and criteria pollutant emissions per kWh of Focus BEV battery. The battery pack in the Focus Electric consists of 430 cells with a nominal voltage of 3.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

ZAP, over the last few years has been pursuing the EV fleet market in the US, and developed a custom designed power train for a US delivery fleet with the goal of becoming a supplier for the electric powertrain which will replace the gasoline ones currently being used.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09 per gallon, EV penetration in the US could reach 6% of the light-duty vehicle fleet by 2020, whereas with gasoline at $3.34, the EV share could be 9%. The share is less than 1% now. The US economy has grown by 8.9%

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To begin with, they are much cleaner and more environmentally friendly, emitting far fewer harmful emissions that contribute to air and water pollution, as well as climate change. The Advantages of Electric Vehicles Electric vehicles have several distinct advantages over traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

Essentially, it acts like a translator, taking the language of the grid (AC) and turning it into the language of the EV battery (DC). Additionally, ICE vehicles contribute to environmental concerns, emitting greenhouse gases and contributing to air pollution. This is crucial because EV batteries can only be charged with DC power.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 30, 2024

Essentially, it acts like a translator, taking the language of the grid (AC) and turning it into the language of the EV battery (DC). Additionally, ICE vehicles contribute to environmental concerns, emitting greenhouse gases and contributing to air pollution. This is crucial because EV batteries can only be charged with DC power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. Their results showed that in comparison with gasoline mode, CO emitted in methanol mode decreased 11.2%. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The converted vans will run on electricity only and will charge directly from the power grid. With that AC Propulsion and AutoPort solution, the current USPS LLV design is stripped of the gasoline engine, transmission and other components and refitted with the AC Propulsion AC-150 drive system, an integrated power system that includes an AC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

Two of the largest emitters of these pollutants are vehicles and electricity generating units (EGUs), with some of the most densely populated regions in the US still failing to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards after 30 years of regulation. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author. Tammy M Thompson et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. If necessary, this energy can flow from the gas network back to the power grid at any time.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 13, 2021

By Elliott Negin As electric vehicle (EV) aficionados like to say, the cleaner the grid, the cleaner the EV. Unlike gasoline-fueled vehicles, all-electric vehicles don’t emit tailpipe pollution of any kind, smog-forming or climate change-creating. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists, The Equation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

H2@Scale recognizes and applies hydrogen’s multifaceted utility as a connectivity tool to improve the efficiency and resiliency of the electrical grid and of the transportation sector, and to realize gains in the various industries using or producing hydrogen that can enable cross-sector benefits. Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report 2016.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

The basic question addressed, which appears on the study homepage (epri-reports.org) is this: How would air quality and greenhouse gas emissions be affected if significant numbers of Americans drove cars that were fueled by the power grid? And the grid is getting cleaner and more renewable every year. billion metric tons.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electricity is usually cheaper than gasoline or diesel on a per-mile basis. Here itself there is a little advantage in terms of pollution.

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