Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Once brought to market, the fuel cell technology could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats throughout California including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry, taxi, recreational and other vessels. Supported boat speeds range from a few knots to more than 50 knots.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the land-use permit necessary to reconfigure the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo to produce renewable fuels. Rodeo Renewed also stands to cut criteria pollutant emissions at the site by 50% and water use by 160 million gallons per year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

CHIE participants are exposed to one or several common air pollutants usually for a few hours at concentrations that are not expected to produce adverse responses. The NAAQS process has broad health importance because it regulates the outdoor air concentrations of those pollutants. 2009 to Oct.

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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: $4.6 Partner match: $5.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $20 million in grants to accelerate California’s transition to zero-emission off-road equipment in the freight, agriculture and waterborne mass transit sectors. million; Grant: $772,555; Grantee: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District). million; Grant: $5.3

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board tracked variations in the amount of lead transported across the Pacific over time. The research was supported in large part by the California Air Resources Board. One site was on Mt.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. How does Southern California compare and contrast with the San Francisco Bay Area?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The researchers measured vehicle emissions of NO x , CO, fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), OA and BC in bore 2 of the Caldecott tunnel in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of the pollutants measured, gasoline vehicles showed higher emission factors compared to diesel for CO only. —Dallmann et al. —Dallmann et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Under the best-case scenario, the presence of as few as 2,000 self-driving cars in downtown San Francisco will slow traffic to less than 2 mph, according to Millard-Ball, who uses game theory and a traffic micro-simulation model to generate his predictions. “ They can get around paying for parking by cruising. —Adam Millard-Ball.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2009

The 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour, an annual road rally to demonstrate the advancements in fuel-cell technology, will begin May 26 in San Diego, California and end June 3 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols. Fuel cell technology is on the verge of becoming a practical alternative to burning gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. The clean and compressed syngas then flows to the Compact Plate Reactors. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet are partnering in a project—SF-BREEZE (San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric vessel with Zero Emissions)—to develop a high-speed, hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered passenger ferry and refueling station.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The test plan covered a wide variety of topological, road and ambient conditions as well as traffic densities over three major urban areas along the West coast—San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The researchers acquired two cars from a rental agency and one from a private owner. —Thompson et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Black carbon is part of a group of pollution sources known as Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs), including methane gas and ozone, which are produced on earth. Researchers tested air samples using a combination of real-time techniques, including aerosol mass spectrometry and photoacoustic spectroscopy. —Timothy Onasch. Christopher D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Inventorying criteria air pollutants showed that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 All components appear in the order they are shown in the legend.). Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge. and 800 times larger than vehicle operation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

I live in the city of San Francisco, and for almost a year now, I’ve been able to take rides after 10:30 PM and before 5:00 AM, if it’s not a foggy day—I’ve been able to take rides in a Cruise vehicle with no driver. I think the Level-2 and Level-3 stuff in cars is amazingly good now. The level 5, or even level 4, not so much.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

demonstrated a measurement approach to for urban air pollution mapping at 4–5 orders of magnitude greater spatial precision than possible with current central-site ambient monitoring. Air pollution varies very finely in space, and we can’t capture that variation with other existing measurement techniques. —Apte et al.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2007

The LA Times headline, Mixed messages in the air, The governor's actions often work against his tough talk on pollution tells the story. Schwarzenegger has vetoed bills that would put new taxes on polluters, spur the development of alternative fuels and help clean the air. But he seems to have a sense of what's happening on "I" Street.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And then you start to see how siting these resources trades off against other land use or conservation priorities, and who’s going to bear the impacts and gain benefits—such as local tax revenue and jobs versus seeing wind turbines all around your community. But wind turbines convert wind to power at the wind speed cubed.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Cold starts mean more pollution. The catalytic converter that keeps the ICE from being a gross polluter in conventional cars and hybrids however, isn't kept warm by the continual embrace of an ever-churning engine in a hybrid with all-electric range. It also spreads doubt about the enviro bona fides of plug-ins. What is possible?

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2017

The largest systematic study ever conducted of human volunteers exposed to ozone air pollution has found no evidence of effects on the heart in its healthy, older participants, but did find effects on the volunteers’ ability to breathe, even at low ambient levels. —“HEI Synopsis of Research Report 192, Part 1”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used. This station will make it easier for fleets to switch to less-polluting CNG vehicles, as there are no CNG stations within 25 miles of this location.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the public discussion draft of the required update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan. An overview of the current science of climate change in the draft includes an expanded discussion of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2013

Transportation-related air pollution will need to be reduced by 90-95% below 2010 levels by 2050 if these regions are to meet national health-based air quality standards as required by federal law, and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will need to fall by 85%. Resources.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

But it now looks like the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is about to adopt some new regulations which could put it out of business quickly. Air resources board employees say the new regulations are not designed to squelch technological breakthroughs or bankrupt new businesses. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America last week submitted supplemental information to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) detailing its proposed charging investment in and benefit to underserved, low-income, and disadvantaged communities in the state as part of its court-mandated investment plan. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. All of those efforts have the potential of reducing our pollution by a quite substantial share. Normally we use a passenger car as a depreciating resource. And by the way, also helping to minimize the cost. Oleg: Exactly.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. It is much more than that.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

They are essential for more livable communities and more efficient use of resources, including energy. City of San Francisco San Francisco recently became the first city in the country to mandate plug-in charging stations for all new buildings.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Most Americans commute less than 40 miles daily, so that most days they would consume practically NO combustible fuel, na d not pollute the environment while driving or idling. April 18, 2009 1:03 pm Link Writing from Panama where we could use a few more electric cars to reduce pollution. Give them the choice, and they’ll shift.

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