CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The growth of electric vehicles is fun and exciting to those of us who are interested in the new tech, but the truly important target is to cut gasoline use in order to stop catastrophic climate change (not to mention deadly air pollution). So, more than any stat about EV sales, what’s important is seeing […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

If air pollution emissions continue to rise at the current rate, some 6.6 The largest sources of air pollution are not industry and transport but small domestic fires and agriculture. The largest sources of air pollution are not industry and transport but small domestic fires and agriculture. Credit: Nature, Lelieveld et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2024

More food, less pollution: US firm has a plan to decarbonize refrigeration units for electric trucks with rooftop solar panels. The post Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks With Solar Panels Are Here For Your Food appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

These nanostructures are similar to those present in dusts and vehicle exhausts collected in Paris, as well as to those previously observed in ambient air in the USA, in spider webs in India, and in ice cores, the researchers found. These results suggest that humans are routinely exposed to CNTs. —Lon Wilson.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO 2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to a new open-access study published in S cience Advances by an international team of researchers from Europe and China. —Prof Guan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Charge to Work USA: National Workplace Charging Program. Simultaneous Greenhouse Gas and Criteria Pollutants Emissions Reduction for Off-Road Powertrains. Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. AOI 2: EV Workplace Charging. Eaton Corporation.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 9, 2013

The global phasedown of hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) is about to be kicked into another gear as the USA and China announced they will team up to tackle the production and consumption of the pollutant. It is hoped that by 2050, the amount of HFCs pumped into the atmosphere could be reduced by 90gigatons[.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

There’s a storm brewing in the USA– and its all over the national air quality standards for air pollution released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.’s The SmartWay program is designed to improve fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution from the transportation industry by researching and evaluating new ways to optimize networks. s transportation team, Toyota Logistics Services (TLS), moves approximately 2.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

results indicate that traffic is the dominating source of BC and particulate air pollution in the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto. Soot particles from combustion processes significantly contribute to air pollution because they contain heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are toxic.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

When you think of air pollution, you often think of power stations, industrial plants and traffic fumes, but a new study in the US suggests that commercial cooking is also another major source of air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

MOBI and partners, including, BMW, Bosch, Ford, General Motors, Groupe Renault, ZF, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Services USA and others seek to foster an ecosystem where businesses and consumers have security and sovereignty over their driving data, manage ride-share and car-share transactions, and store vehicle identity and usage information.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 72 million metric tons of carbon pollution, while saving more than 170 million barrels of oil and $24.9 DHL Express USA. billion in fuel costs—equivalent to eliminating annual energy use in over six million homes. Challenger Motor Freight Inc. Convoy Systems LLC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Chevron USA Inc. Higher levels of olefin mean more smog will be formed from tailpipe emissions since hydrocarbons, including olefin, react with sunlight and other pollutants to form smog. has paid $422,500 in penalties for supplying gasoline and diesel fuel in violation of California regulations designed to protect air quality.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USDepartment of Justice (DOJ), and California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a proposed settlement with Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC resolving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and California law associated with emissions cheating.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

CR&R’s Perris anaerobic digester, supplied exclusively in California to CR&R by Eisenmann USA and Greenlane Biogas, uses source-separated organic waste collected in cities’ green collection carts to produce carbon-neutral renewable methane.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Govt of India, Mr Nitin Gadkari said that in order to reduce pollution levels in the country, the Government aims at an INR 2 lakh crore ethanol economy from its present size of INR 20,000 crore as the development of an extensive ethanol industry for biomass and agriculture sector. .

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2023

Unitree ] ORNL researchers study the effects of energy use on waterways and develop solutions to limit water pollution. Happy Peep Consumption Day! Soft Robotics ] Appropriate facial expressions for Ameca in this video are selected by GPT-3. We also tried GPT-4; the processing time with 4 was longer and made Ameca appear less responsive.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 20, 2009

They have only three very reasonable demands: Green Jobs for our generation, A Power Shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, 50% by 2020 carbon pollution reduction targets for Australia. Feel free to dance along as we demand no less for the USA!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

EPA and its industry partners have applied EPA’s patented series hydraulic hybrid vehicle technology to the heavy-duty truck as part of the EPA National Clean Diesel Campaign’s Clean Ports USA program. The trucks spend about half of their time idling and contribute to air pollution generated in ports throughout the world.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Algae.Tec has a globally focused growth path so it is important to be part of the world’s biggest investment facility covering the EU and USA. The technology also captures carbon pollution from power stations and manufacturing facilities which feed into the algae growth system.

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2012

With the news that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to spend $20million on projects aimed at reducing pollution from diesel fleets (see story), the question of whether the US could benefit from further use of clean diesels is once again raised. Tuesday 1 May, 2012. The Green Piece Column. While diesel is often [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

By 2022, Daimler Trucks & Buses plans to include series-produced vehicles with battery-electric drive in its vehicle portfolio in its main sales regions Europe, USA and Japan. By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

MEPs stress the benefits that would flow from Iceland’s joining the Union, which would make the EU an Arctic coastal entity and consolidate its presence in the Arctic Council (AC), a key intergovernmental forum whose members already include the USA and the Russian Federation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We want to create a solution for the typical transport problems that cities face, such as traffic, air and noise pollution, and lack of space, while simultaneously helping them reach their sustainability goals. We started one year ago at TechCrunch in London with the vision of partnering with cities to improve the efficiency on their streets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Based in Bangalore, India, RECC was established in 1994 as a joint venture between the Maini Group India and AEV LLC, California USA, to manufacture environment-friendly and cost-effective electric vehicles. REVA, India’s first zero polluting electric vehicle for city mobility, was commercialized in June 2001.

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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. And prices of battery EVs are seeing significant reductions: According to EVI-USA, “Experts expect that their (EV) prices will be at par with diesel or petrol vehicles between 2025 and 2027.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

These increases in ozone could make it more difficult for the United States to meet Clean Air Act standards for ozone pollution at ground level, according to a new international study. Tropospheric ozone is an important source of the hydroxyl radical, an oxidant that breaks down most pollutants and some greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But energy leaders and experts recognize that as long as producing carbon pollution carries no cost, traditional plants that use fossil fuels will be more cost-effective than plants that use nuclear fuel. That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The new design increases total driving distance and optimizes the use of electric power to achieve 35% pollution reduction and a 20% increase in fuel efficiency, compared to comparable gasoline motorcycle engines. The models will be sold under the co-brand of Angell and ABAT USA.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 3, 2008

A curious story ran in USA Today last week. Here is the headline and the lead: Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution By James R. Healey , USA TODAY The expected introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Actually, the CARB let the polluters tally up their own numbers, so you best double these public numbers if you want to get the honest total. No one does more harm to the health of children and pregnant women than the Chevron polluters who use toy cars to fool kids into thinking they’re the good guys. Southern Calif.

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