Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2018

A study by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of São Paulo revealed that a beltway constructed to divert heavy-duty diesel vehicles traffic in the Brazilian city of São Paulo improved air quality and public health in the city. —NUS Associate Professor Alberto Salvo, study leader.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2021

The site extension is planned to be fully operational by late 2022 and will be the first lithium battery recycling plant in the Netherlands, complimenting the two other TES lithium battery recycling facilities in Grenoble (France) and Singapore.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

However, the use of scrubbers has recently come under intense scrutiny and is undergoing regulatory review due to concerns about both the reliability of these systems to deliver consistent air pollution compliance and because of the water pollution produced by open-loop operations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

Geiger and Alberto Salvo, formerly with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and now an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, is the first real-world trial looking at the effects of human behavior at the pump on urban air pollution. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. Ship air pollution effects are greatest in areas where heavily travelled ship routes exist in, and next to, densely populated communities. Some key regions include China, Singapore, Panama, Brazil and coastlines of Asia, Africa and South America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Geiger and Alberto Salvo, an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, led the study—their second with São Paulo big data. This lockstep movement illustrates a very tight correlation between fuel choice and nanoparticles in the air. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

Energy consumption, pollution, and cost are also significantly reduced in the production of Biocement, since the microorganisms responsible for production are abundant in nature and can be easily reproduced. With the availability of this option, dependence on cement and sand is greatly reduced.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The study also confirms that emissions of other local pollutants, such as sulfur oxides (SO x ), nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM), are close to zero when using LNG compared with current conventional oil-based marine fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

A new research collaboration between A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Sembcorp Marine Ltd, University of Glasgow and University of Glasgow Singapore (UGS) aims to improve make a ship’s hydrodynamics and energy efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Shanghai Port, surpassing Singapore Port, has become the world’s largest container shipping port for five consecutive years (2010−2014). This may have caused substantial atmospheric pollution and worsened the current air-pollution situation in megacity Shanghai. When wind speed is less than 0.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

The result, he says, is that the Indian Ocean has had less time than the Atlantic and Pacific to dissipate lead pollution. In analyzing their samples, the researchers also came upon an odd measurement: In samples taken off the coast of Singapore, they found a type of lead they did not expect in this region of the world.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Ports will be much quieter, much less polluted, much less of a greenhouse gas emitter, and much more efficient. Everyone will be better off at the end of this process. Well, except for the people who invested heavily in hydrogen for energy.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Last February, the European Union approved a law that would ban the sale of combustion engine cars in its member states from 2035 — joining several US states , Canada , Japan , Singapore, India, New Zealand, and a number of other nations with similar bans already on the books (see chart, below ). Ethiopia, however, isn’t waiting for 2035.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

The restrictions can be in the form of a pollution tax (London), a ban on pre-Euro VI diesel vehicles (Stuttgart), or as a temporary blanket ban (Oslo). Seoul and Singapore have or will have restrictions on diesel vehicles, but have not formally signaled their intention for a blanket ban.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The new ICCT study combines global ship operations (AIS) data with detailed vessel characteristics for more than half a million ships to estimate GHG emissions and air pollution from shipping at high resolution (1° x 1°) on an hourly basis for the years 2013 to 2015. —ICCT report. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Singapore and Stockholm employ similar models. Economists and environmentalists agree that congestion pricing effectively reduces congestion and pollution, but it’s a politically fraught strategy because it raises the ire of commuters. In London, motorists pay a flat fee of £11.50 (about $15) to enter the city center.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Cities have long been at the forefront of sustainable, multimodal mobility due to the transportation demands placed on a city by a large, densely located population, as well as the negative effects of congestion and pollution caused by choking traffic. These services have quickly become big businesses and are poised for further growth.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In addition, other countries in Southeast Asia, besides Thailand, are in the midst of similar changes as the world’s fifth largest economy with a consumer market of 660 million people, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia together sold only 13,000 new energy vehicles in the first half of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Asian cities show the most divergence, with Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore in the top ten and Manila, Mumbai, Wuhan and New Delhi forming four of the bottom five cites. The German cities of Frankfurt and Berlin lead the way in the Planet sub-ranking, scoring well for waste management and low levels of air pollution in particular.

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

No air pollution thanks to the electric propulsion system. In the future, Volocopter plans to deploy one of the world’s first eVTOL urban air taxi services in Singapore within the next three years. There are several reasons eVTOLs are viewed to be the most feasible mode of short-distance air travel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2009

Singapore-based Ecospec Global Technology Pte Ltd, earlier this year unveiled CSNOx, a single system it claims can reduce NO x , SO 2 , CO 2 and PM emissions from ships. efficiency for scrubbing SO 2 , NO x and CO 2 respectively.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The monocopter we're looking at here, called F-SAM, comes from the Singapore University of Technology & Design, and we've written about some of their flying robots in the past, including this transformable hovering rotorcraft.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November.

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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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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems, which was founded by MIT grad Qichao Hu, is focused on new battery chemistry to reduce the size of the batteries while increasing an EV’s range. – March 12, via Associated Press.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

There are also a few large Asian providers, such as SI Imaging Services in South Korea and Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology in Singapore. This design poses environmental concerns because of the sooty air pollution it generates , and such kilns have also been associated with human-rights abuses.

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