Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to a greater incidence of high blood pressure, according to the largest study to investigate the effects of both air pollution and traffic noise by following more than 41,000 people in five different countries for five to nine years. less than or equal to 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

In “Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above ATS Recommended Standards, 2011-2013,” published online in the August edition of Annals of the American Thoracic Society , researchers report on the annual health benefits of meeting more protective standards recommended by the ATS for O 3 and PM 2.5.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

A new study from North Carolina State University finds that while shared e-scooters may be greener than most cars, they can be less green than several other options, including, in some cases, buses. The performance results were similar for all four types of pollution. Johnson (2019) “Are E-Scooters Polluters?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Boxes represent pollution reading locations during that window. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. Nikzad et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

In a study on the effect of exhaust particles from aircraft turbine engines on human lung cells, Swiss researchers have found that cells reacted most strongly to particles emitted during ground idling. The study also showed that the cytotoxic effect is only to some extent comparable to that of particles from gasoline and diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

The study found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 This is the first study to report an association between PAH exposure and IQ, and it should serve as a warning bell to us all. In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs. Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. In their study, Bishop et al. —Bishop et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. Around the world, the average person is responsible for about 4.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They are not only used for personal commuting, but they are also being used in agriculture, public transportation, last-mile operation and even in firefighting. EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. fine particulate matter pollution).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Emerging contaminants, such as wastewater polluted with medications and personal care products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have compared the emissions resulting from the production, use, and end-of-life of electric and internal combustion engine vehicles (EVs and ICEVs) in a full life-cycle analysis (LCA). This has led to a general perception of EVs as an environmentally benign technology.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Similar studies by the partners are being done in Beijing and Shanghai. Data gathering for the Beijing study was completed in 2008. Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. Tianjin is the third-largest city in China, behind Beijing and Shanghai.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

other consumers, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. Our study challenges the romanticized view of access understood as a form of. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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Teslarati

JULY 15, 2022

” “The universe is about 13.8 This suggests that–it’s odd that there’s not–if the universe is this old, if the solar system is this old, it’s odd that only now very recently has life evolved that can talk and write and communicate ideas in a sophisticated way.” billion years old.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study published in the Journal of Transport Geography has alleged that “car harm” cannot be undone by the world pivoting to all-electric vehicles.& The issue, as framed in the study, isn’t that EVs still pose a problem. The motivation for the study came out of a simple need, Miner said.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

If you needed another reason why we should reduce fossil fuel-related pollution, then this may be it. According to a new study, pregnant women exposed to air pollutants tend to give birth to lower IQ babies. In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs and harmful air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

Equipped with this capability, an engine should be able personalize its calibration for each driver—i.e., Malikopoulos has run a number of simulation studies (using the enDYNA high fidelity simulation model) showing up to 10% fuel economy improvement using his proposed method compared to a standard baseline engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The traffic-smoothing project, dubbed CIRCLES, or Congestion Impact Reduction via CAV-in-the-loop Lagrangian Energy Smoothing, is led by Berkeley Lab researcher Alexandre Bayen, who is also is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2024

Studies have found that the appeal of the disappearing can be a powerful motivator. Above all, we like it because it shows people the universe of the high mountains,” said Mr. Ravanello, who added that such an accessible glacial ski descent “is almost unique in the world.” How much pollution? How much petrol? How much concrete?”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The introduction of the low emission zone (LEZ) in London, UK, has only contributed to modest reductions in exposure to NO x from diesel vehicles, and these improvements appear to have little effect on the lung health of children, according to an open-access observational study published in the journal The Lancet Public Health.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

If just 14 percent of journeys in central London were cycled, emissions there of the greatest vehicle pollutant, NO x , would fall by almost a third and over the years literally thousands of lives could be saved. It means more seats on the Tube, less competition for a parking place and fewer cars in front of yours at the lights.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The study’s findings highlight the importance of considering exposures—especially the proximity of emissions to people—when evaluating environmental health impacts for EVs, the team said. note that the focus of their study was motivated in part by the unprecedented rise in popularity of electric two-wheelers in China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. A second study led by UC Santa Barbara was released simultaneously.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Dr. Heywood recently co-authored a study called “On The Road in 2035—Reducing Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions.”. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. The university students reversed the roles by combining a more powerful electric motor that went 50 miles without using any gasoline. A typical hybrid has a big gasoline engine and a tiny electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

emissions (kg CO 2 person -1 yr -1 ) for a global sample of countries (2007) with a wide range of per capita incomes. Per capita transport CO 2 emissions are decomposed into the product of two terms: per capita LDV use (horizontal axis, veh-km person -1 yr -1 ) and propulsion carbon intensity (vertical axis, g CO 2 veh-km -1 ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The details of that specific situation may result in an electric vehicle parc somewhat different than in Western countries, other speakers noted, and may indeed—given the obvious scale of the China market—herald a major transformation in transportation, including the type and role of personal vehicles, others suggested.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Additional funds will come from the Motor Vehicle Account, the Air Pollution Control Fund and the Vehicle Inspection Repair Fund. CARB chose the site near the University of California, Riverside, in March 2016 and completed environmental studies in June 2017. Congressman Mark Takano, U.S. Congressman Ken Calvert, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). What those colors mean for people’s wellbeing has always been unclear.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

SAIC Motor beat out eight world-renowned auto design studios for the honor with an innovative public transit solution aimed at alleviating urban problems such as air pollution and traffic congestion. The judges of the 10 th annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge named SAIC Motor the winner of the 2013 competition.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although technological yield gains had offset the losses, the study established a clear and simple correlation between increasing temperatures and crop yields. July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Paul plant, and direct the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to study the environmental impacts of purchasing PHEVs for the state-owned vehicle fleet and various other levels of penetration among the public.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2010

Basic elements of the plan, which was published in the Strüngmann Forum Report , Linkages of Sustainability , include: Two universally accessible but completely independent transportation networks: one for LLMs, the other for FHVs. Thus, two universally accessible, but separate networks are needed. Mark Delucchi.

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