Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Tags: Climate Change Climate models.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

Jasper Alternate Fuels division was created in the early 1990s to help commercial customers combine power and energy needs with cleaner burning fuels. Tags: Brief. Headquartered outside of Detroit in New Hudson, Mich., Icom North America is the US. affiliate of Italy’s Icom S.p.A.,

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Alternative Fuels Engine North America Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2010

A study by a team of researchers from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami found that the acceleration of upward vertical motion of the rocky margins of Greenland indicates that accelerated ice loss in western Greenland started in the late 1990s. Tags: Brief. Yan Jiang, Timothy H.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

Noticing a declining market share in the 1990s, Subaru elected to re-target the niche markets that offered it secure footing upon its regional launch. Subaru also didn’t turn away male customers, even courting them through its involvement with motorsport, with Subaru’s North American volumes absolutely exploding after the 1990s.

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Aston Martin Cars Volvo Kia 78

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Input fluxes of all organochlorines increased in the 1950s, peaked in the 1960s-1970s, and decreased again to low levels in the 1980s-1990s. The input of synthetic musks remained at a high level in the 1950s-1990s, which is consistent with their relatively constant production throughout the second half of the 20 th century.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 7, 2009

Toyota pushed its innovative "21st century" car development into full gear in the early 1990s under company chairman Eiji Toyoda. Tags: toyota hybrid battery electric car. Developing a commercial electric vehicle at that time posed a slew of challenges," the official said. That is the case even today.".a That is the case even today.".a

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Toyota Japan Green Cars Hybrid 100

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

The Earth’s atmospheric concentrations of CO2 reached 320 ppm in the mid-1960s, and 360ppm in the mid-1990s. Tags: Brief. The joint statement will be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ahead of December's climate policy negotiations in Copenhagen. Jack Rosebro.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

Noticing a declining market share in the 1990s, Subaru elected to re-target the niche markets that offered it secure footing upon its regional launch. Subaru also didn’t turn away male customers, even courting them through its involvement with motorsport, with Subaru’s North American volumes absolutely exploding after the 1990s.

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Aston Martin Cars Volvo Kia 79

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

It is clear from these results that mass loss from Greenland has been accelerating since the late 1990s and the underlying causes suggest this trend is likely to continue in the near future. Tags: Brief. mm of global sea level rise per year. Science 326, 984. doi: 10.1126/science.1178176.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Through its wholly-owned US subsidiary, Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), ECOtality has been involved in every major North American electric vehicle initiative since the 1990s. Tags: Brief. Charge station installation will accompany the deployment of 4,700 Nissan LEAFs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

Published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , the study is the latest to come from the Southern California Children’s Health Study, a project pioneered by the Air Resources Board in the early 1990s. Tags: Brief. Asthma Onset and Exacerbation in Children Exposed to Traffic-Related Air Pollution.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 28, 2009

In another bit of coincidence, Stempel headed GM’s EV1 electric car program in the early 1990s. Tags: Production News Bob Stempel Stan Ovshinsky. More details in the Detroit Free Press article: Panels may brighten job market. by Carol Cain. The company dropped the program as demand for sport-utility vehicles took center stage.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The build tag tells us that this car was assembled at Ford's Kansas City plant on July 14, 1964 (the day Jaxques Anquetil won the Tour de France ). This dusty sticker on the dash is a piece of obscure 1990s Denver history. This began in 1955, with the Australians grabbing the name for use on a separate model in 1959.

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Ford Colorado Denver Dodge 84

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2010

Millions of this type of injector have been used since the mid 1990s by Navistar, Ford, Caterpillar, and Isuzu.). Tags: Brief. —James McCandless, Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc. McCandless is one of the original developers of oil-powered, intensified fuel injectors.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Isuzu Oil 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

PNNL’s collaborations with China date back to the early 1990s when it helped found the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center. Tags: Brief. Third, the team will improve the overall efficiency and economics of converting synthetic gas into natural gas using advance computational simulations and through developing new catalyst materials.

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Coal Chinese Conversion Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Orion began development and production of hybrid buses in the mid 1990s with pilot vehicles first deployed in New York City Transit. Tags: Brief. These will be produced and delivered in 2010. Series production began in the early 2000s. In 2008, Daimler deployed lithium-ion energy storage technology for buses in volume production.

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Puerto Rico North America New York City Hybrid 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

Tags: Brief. Diesel technology remains the major focus of the conference, but DEER 2009 will now delve deeper into many other technologies, including gasoline engines, renewable and alternative fuels, homogenous charge compression ignition, and thermoelectrics for vehicle applications. Gurpreet Singh, Conference Chair.

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Diesel 2009 Alternative Fuels Cleaner 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Late last month, China announced that it would reduce its carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 40-45% by 2020 against a reference year of 2005, rather than the widely recognized 1990 reference year, but would not set overall greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Tags: Brief. The drought situation in China in early February 2009.

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Climate China Climate Change 2007 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

The APS drove developments that require new approaches today, but which could not be anticipated in the 1990s. Tags: Brief. Optimized and expanded capabilities.

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Batteries Battery Energy Environment 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2009

GE Aviation used composites in the fan blade of the GE90 jet engine, which was commercialized in the mid 1990s and have since expanded the use to the fan case for the GEnx. Tags: Brief. GE researchers are applying carbon composite technology to wind turbine blades, which could ultimately result in weight savings of 30%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

We understand electric vehicle technology as well as anyone ,” Ito said, referencing the development of the EV Plus electric vehicle in the 1990s and its leasing to individual customers in California. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Hydrogen Vehicle Manufacturers. President Ito.

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Commuter Cars Honda Fuel Los Angeles 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The study also found that global CO 2 emissions from deforestation have decreased by over 25% since 2000 compared to the 1990s, mainly because of reduced CO 2 emissions from tropical deforestation. Tags: Brief. Marland, J. Hackler, T. Conway, J. Canadell, M. Raupach, P. Le Quéré (2010) Update on CO 2 emissions.

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2010 Global Emissions CO2 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

TIC has been involved with the development of charging systems for electric vehicles such as charging stands and onboard chargers since the 1990s. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Plug-ins Vehicle Systems. Toyota Industries recharger on a stand. Click to enlarge. TIC launched its current EVSE stands in July 2009. Earlier post.).

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Solar Toyota Industrial Industry 316

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

In the mid-late 1990s, AFT designed a DME fuel system for the DOE’s PNGV program (the 80 mpg car). Tags: DME Heavy-duty Hybrids. Converting bus diesel engines to use bio-DME made from non-food crops, industrial CO 2 and other biomass could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in addition to the elimination of PM.

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Stimulus Hybrid Low Cost Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Tesoro, which originally was an E&P company (exploration and production), exited the E&P business in the late 1990s to focus on refining and marketing in the Western US. Tags: Brief. In 1998, it purchased the Anacortes Refinery from Shell. Shell operates another refinery in Anacortes today.). compared with Europe’s at 6.5.

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Washington Alaska Seattle Oil 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

However, the drop in oil prices throughout the 1980s and 1990s made it uneconomic for the Brazilian government to continue its ethanol program. Both production and consumption of ethanol were basically flat for much of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003.

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Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric 317

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Doolan led BMW NA and Volvo Cars NA to record sales in the 1990s and 2000s. Tags: Brief. The number puts the carmaker close to its goal of having 40 locations across the country by the end of June 2009. Fisker Board member Vic Doolan has been instrumental in guiding development of the company’s retail network.

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Fisker Europe Karma Aston Martin 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

million km 2 river basin points to a 0.33 °C temperature rise during the 1990s. Tags: Brief. Other steps involve promoting Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM), switching to more flexible cropping systems, and reducing human impact on fragile ecosystems. Data collected from 147 monitoring stations across the 1.8

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD stastion wagon. Tags: plug-in prius zev mandate Bob Lutz lexus power of h. How to spin a false green consciousness around a gasoline burning luxury automobile. Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi builds on this technology, pioneered in the 1990s. Tags: Batteries Rail. The GTR flywheel technology was introduced nearly 20 years ago and tested in major rail and subway systems in New York, London and Lyon. KTSi backers include Loudwater Trust, Rustic Canyon Partners and DTE Energy Ventures.

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Energy Storage Energy DC London 249

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

During the 1990s however, efficiency gains dropped to less than one percent annually. Tags: Aviation Fuel Efficiency. On average, fuel efficiency has remained flat on a seat-km basis and improved only 0.29% annually on a ton-km basis since 2000. That figure will grow to 19% in 2050, according to International Energy Agency projections.

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Standards Commercial CO2 2008 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Ford researchers began collaborating with Flame-Spray Industries and other suppliers in the 1990s to transfer this efficient, lightweight aerospace technology to a low-cost, high-volume application suitable for the auto industry. Tags: Engines.

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2009 Ford Engine Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Delphi’s history in power electronics dates back to the early 1990s and the development of GM’ss ground-breaking EV1. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Power Electronics. Since 2000, Delphi has been issued more than 100 patents in power electronics and advanced energy systems.

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Manufacturer Indiana Power Powered 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

between 2000 and 2008, compared with 1% per year in the 1990s. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Other main findings of the study include: CO 2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased at an average annual rate of 3.4% Le Quéré C et al. 2009) Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Global carbon budget 2008.

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2008 Emissions Carbon Climate Change 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A first wave occurred in the 1990s, followed by a spate of current schemes to stimulate domestic auto industries in the face of the economic crisis. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Earlier post.). Vehicle scrappage schemes have been implemented in a number of countries in Europe and the US.

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Cash For Clunkers Fuel Economy Scrappage Economy 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

The results for the period suggest a total groundwater extraction rate of about 70% larger than estimates for the mid-1990s. Tags: Brief. This dramatic increase shows the dynamic nature of this increasingly critical situation, ” they write in their paper. Northern India and its surroundings are home to roughly 600 million people.

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Water India Bangladesh Nepal 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

Captain Will was at the controls of the Boeing 737 NG, which carried as a passenger GE Aviation Systems Technical Fellow for Air Traffic Management, Steve Fulton, a long-time champion of RNP who developed the world’s first RNP flight paths in the mid 1990s. Tags: Brief. Animation of the RNP airport approach at Bradley Airport.

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