Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Organizations representing auto manufacturers, electric utilities and the electric drive industry are calling on President Obama to establish a new National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $2.4

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. billion competitive grant program for US battery makers. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Providing a toolkit for climate resilience. Energy Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. President Obama. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

USGS is announcing the latest awardees for grants it issues through its John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. US Geological Survey – Big Data for Earth System Science. million in support for a focused research group of statisticians and. transform teaching and learning.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

President Obama has laid out a plan for building a “21st Century Clean Transportation System”, the investment for which would be funded by a new $10 per barrel fee on oil paid by oil companies, which would be gradually phased in over five years.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2009

New York Times reports the expected change in federal policy will happen Monday.the centerpiece of Monday’s East Room announcement is Mr. Obama’s directive to the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately begin work on granting the so-called California waiver, which allows the state, a longtime leader in air quality matters, to set its own standards (..)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels. This is a very aggressive directive from the President.”

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 23, 2009

Tags: EV Economics Inside Track Obama Energy Ford Nissan Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

On 13 October 2010, EPA granted the first partial waiver for E15 for use in MY2007 and newer light-duty motor vehicles. On 21 January 2011, EPA granted the second partial waiver for E15 for use in MY2001-2006 light-duty motor vehicles. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Over the past three years, the Department has invested $170 million in research grants at more than 70 universities, supporting R&D into a full spectrum of technologies, from advanced reactor concepts to enhanced safety design.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

The new program builds on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a new interagency collaboration launched by President Obama in June 2009, between the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

Volkswagen Group of America issued a statement by Tony Cervone, Executive Vice President, Communications saying that it does not endorse the CAFE program for model years 2017-2025 announced on Friday by President Obama ( earlier post ). Passenger cars would be required to achieve 5% annual improvements, and light trucks 3.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Now that they’ve proven unworthy of any bipartisanship I’m looking forward to watching President Obama, and the vast majority of Americans who support him, beat these bad guys like a boogie woogie piano man playing eight to the bar.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

The Obama administration has set a goal of installing 10,000 flexible fuel pumps nationwide within 5 years. In addition to flexible fuel pumps being eligible for funding under REAP, Vilsack noted that: Grants are available for audits of energy improvements and studies to determine the feasibility of renewable energy systems; and.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Earlier, the Obama Administration outlined the “round-the-clock” scientific support from the Department of Energy and National Labs to help inform strategies to stop the BP oil spill.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

billion investment the Obama Administration already devoted to a national high-speed rail system—including $8 billion of Recovery Act funds and $2.5 This long-term commitment builds on the $10.5-billion billion from the 2010 budget.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Novozymes said it has allocated unprecedented resources to the project, and the company has also received development grants totaling US$29.3 Novozymes welcomed the recent support from the Obama Administration in the form of the RFS2 rules from the EPA ( earlier post ), saying it will reignite investments in new biorefineries across the US.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

In one of his first official acts in office in January, President Obama requested a final order for federal fuel economy standards for only model year 2011, with further consideration and analysis to occur prior to issuing rules for subsequent model years. million metric tons during that period. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Last month, members of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce pressured Senator Byrd as well as US Senator Jay Rockefeller to refuse to vote on health care legislation until the Obama Administration addressed concerns about coal policy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Steven Chu wrote that, between the $8-billion in conditional loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades ( earlier post ), and the new authority granted by the president’s 2011 budget request, the Department of Energy will be able to support between six and nine new reactors in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

President Barack Obama last week ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the EPA’s earlier denial of the waiver to California to implement its greenhouse gas reduction standards for vehicles sold in the state. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Earlier post.). Advanced Technologies R&D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

The eStar all-electric truck transitioned from concept to reality in August 2009, when President Barack Obama visited Navistar’s manufacturing plant in Indiana to announce a $39.2 million federal stimulus grant to build electric trucks. and Modec Limited of the UK. Earlier post.). e-Star Quick Specs. 80 kWh Li-ion pack.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

President Obama announced the awards for the $2.4B Modec is being granted full N2 EC Type Approval, allowing it to sell its electric vehicles in all EU member states without the need for individual national approval. in funding at Navistar in front of a Navistar Modec prototype. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

The award, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was announced by President Barack Obama during a visit to Indiana in August. In addition to the DOE award, Delphi has been offered support from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation through performance-based tax credits and training grants. With an $89.3

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Fully funded, the ChargePoint America program would cost $37 million, with some of the shortfall for the actual station installations being addressed, the organizers hope, through state and local grants.&#. A $2,000 value!).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2016

Eisenhower in 1960, Bill Clinton in 1999, and now Barack Obama, yesterday. Only three U.S. presidents in history have visited the Detroit Auto Show in its century-plus of existence: Dwight D.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

The research is part of the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2011. This research was supported by the DOD-ONR (Grants No. N00014-09-1-0921) and the NSF (Grant No. —Hart et al. We’re looking at the properties of ‘expensium’ and trying to develop ‘cheapium’. —Stefano Curtarolo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Through the new US-China Clean Energy Research Center, the two countries are launching a program of technical cooperation to bring teams of US and Chinese scientists and engineers together in developing clean coal and CCS technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

In addition, the Department of Energy announced $777 million in grants to establish 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers. ARPA-E is a new Department of Energy organization modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high. The California waiver is still being reexamined by EPA.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

“As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler. As the race to produce mass market EVs heats up, Chrysler has pulled out of the contest. by Kevin Krolicki, for Reuters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The Obama Administration has made a goal of developing cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with an objective of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under President Obama’s national fuel policy ( earlier post ), the EPA and the Department of Transportation’s NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are jointly developing a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.

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