Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Plug-in electric vehicles—plug-in hybrids and full battery-powered—will represent nearly 20% of the global market for light vehicles in 2030, according to findings in a study on the business case for Plugged-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) by automotive industry analysts at IHS Global Insight. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The two firms will conduct joint studies on the performance and safety of the new battery system in the hope of using it in some models. The Nikkei report notes that this may become the first case of a Japanese automaker producing electric cars incorporating lithium-ion batteries made overseas. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines. Combustor Compressor. Displacement. Squish height.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP. Credit: ACS, Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The case study will make it easier to study and optimize other biogas facilities. The plant we have studied is fairly representative of an average biogas plant that processes waste and manure. The plant we have studied is fairly representative of an average biogas plant that processes waste and manure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Transforming agricultural residues into next-generation ethanol and biochemicals could create up to one million jobs in the EU27 by 2020, while theoretically replacing up to 62% of the EU’s forecast fossil-based gasoline consumption, according to a new study released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance with the support of Novozymes and DSM.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. Of the fossil fuel subsidies, $70.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The studies use case studies to demonstrate the co-benefits of tackling climate change in four sectors: electricity generation, household energy use, transportation, and food and agriculture. The study followed 352,000 people in 66 US cities and was conducted by a team of US and Canadian researchers led by Jerrett and Smith.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

will start studies on joint development of a quick charging system for electric vehicles (EV) using Showa Shell’s next-generation CIS solar panels and Nissan’s advanced lithium ion batteries for automotive use. With lithium-ion batteries, power will be able to be supplied in case of power outage in a disaster.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

Specifically, the study finds that with China’s help the global community may be—under the most optimistic scenario—able to limit warming to 2 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels. Even in this best-case scenario, reducing emissions comes with a steep price tag. Without China, we miss that mark by about 1 °C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve asked us for it for a while now, and we’ve been studying the market to make sure we can make a business case for it across North America. Tags: Brief. Mazda had previously announced that the car also will be sold in Canada, beginning at about the same time. The MAZDA2. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

In many cases, it will include the cost of home installation. To study electric vehicle usage, the programs will collect data such as average charge time, energy usage and the starting and ending time of the charging process. Tags: Brief. or Coulomb Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

The study assumes fresh water and non-potable salt water are equal. The base case assumes algae farmers will purchase CO 2 and fertilizer, yet such an approach is so prohibitively expensive it would never happen in reality. Tags: Brief. > Assumptions about water use. Assumptions about purchase of CO 2 and fertilizer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

program is paying nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario, according to an analysis of the implied cost of carbon dioxide reductions under the program by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel. It was funded by the Energy Institute and the Institute of Transportation Studies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Although co-production plants are much more costly than liquids-only configurations in terms of capital cost, Hari Mantripragadaa1 and Edward Rubin found, because of the high electricity revenues the cost of liquid product is lower than that of the liquids-only case, at market prices of electricity. Source: Mantripragada and Rubin.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2023

Alas, none of these methods has proven absolutely effective, and in any case they are not used consistently. We also pass the `tag: true` option to the ‘AES.encrypt’ method to request the authentication tag, and then pass the tag to the ‘AES.decrypt’ method to verify the integrity of the decrypted data.

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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. Yan Jiang, Timothy H.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Tags: Canada Hybrids Policy. Ambarish Chandra. for every liter (US$1.50/gallon)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

In the case of swine manure, an estimated 5.3 In the case of swine manure, an estimated 5.3 Their study showed that the yield of the liquefaction products was significantly influenced by the reaction temperature. Tags: Brief. Million Barrels (MB) of petroleum-based fuels (USDA, 2005). American J.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

In addition to studying the important issues at the nexus of the air quality and climate change problems, the goal of CalNex 2010 is also to provide scientific information regarding the trade-offs faced by decision makers when addressing these two inter-related issues. 2010 CalNex Science and Implementation Plan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Annual sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the US could reach 2% – 3% with fleet penetration of around 1% by 2015, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Fleet penetration would be less than 1% in ten years, the study finds. Sullivan, J.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Barber was one of the lead investigators on the 2002-2007 Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study ( CASES ), which brought together 400 scientists from 11 countries to study causes and effects of thinning and disappearing sea ice in the Arctic. Tags: Brief. Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

CO 2 emissions from transportation sector by scenario in the study. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case. “ Surprising results ” occur under the performance-based tax credits and the combined policy case, the researchers noted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

However, they can also contribute to mitigating global warming, say researchers studying the little-understood but growing phenomenon. The number of cases in Arizona and California almost quadrupled in the decade to 2006.Scientists Tags: Brief. Photos of the Sydney Opera House, taken about 6 hours apart last week.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2009

Limits for the practical cases examined in their report ranged from 4,900 to 6,500 gal·ac -1 ·yr -1 (46,300-60,500 L·ha -1 ·yr -1 ) of unrefined oil. The practical case therefore represents what may be possible with system optimization. Practical maximum yield by site, with different cell oil content. Weyer et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

EPA is continuously collecting data and conducting emissions studies to assess the air quality impacts of on-road vehicles. Another improvement is the ability to express output as either total mass (in tons, pounds, kilograms, or grams) or as emissions factors (grams-per-mile, and in some cases, grams-per-vehicle).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A study of isopentanol—a five-carbon, long-chain alcohol (C 5 H 12 O)—by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories as a fuel for homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines found that isopentanol has superior physiochemical properties compared to ethanol and very similar HCCI combustion properties to gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., The study presents a program framework that, at a minimum, ensures a program that offsets GHG emissions attributable to vehicle manufacturing and end-of-life disposal with use-phase emissions reductions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Net life cycle GHG emissions of five CO 2 -EOR projects used as case studies. The CMU Study. In their study, Paulina Jaramillo, W. The study boundary also excludes any emissions associated with the construction of the physical infrastructure needed for these projects. Credit: ACS, Jaramillo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Just looking in depth at the sectors the UNFCCC did study, we estimate adaptation costs to be 2-3 higher, and when you include the sectors the UNFCCC left out the true cost is probably much greater. The new report’s key findings include: Agriculture : The present study concludes that the UNFCCC estimate of $11.3–12.6 Professor Parry.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 5, 2010

The 25 vehicles will be driven under normal traffic conditions in Cologne, where Ford’s European division is based, said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at Germany’s University of Duisburg-Essen, which is overseeing the 15 million-euro ($22 million) study.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

An international team of researchers from Stanford University, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is proposing the use of single nanostructure devices as a powerful new diagnostic tool for Li-ion batteries. Tags: Batteries Nanotech. O 4 (d) 0, (e) 3, and (f) 9 h; ?-MnO

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

According to Harris Interactive’s 2010 AutoTECHCAST study, conducted between 6-26 April 2010, there is currently greater demand among US vehicle owners for technologies that deliver improved fuel economy of existing gasoline-driven engines at a lower initial cost, rather than for higher-priced alternative-fueled engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

However, cooling to about 3 °C dehumidifies the air for the rare case of windscreen misting. Tags: Emissions Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems. This load on the refrigerant circuit must be taken into account when calculating annual fleet emissions, which EEMAC does. —Weilenmann et al. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903654t.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

has the best theoretical CO 2 chemisorption capacity per gram of ceramic among the lithium ceramics and because of the results obtained, Li 5 AlO 4 may become an important case of study as a CO 2 captor. Tags: Brief. Therefore, because Li 5 AlO 4. Ávalos-Rendón et al. A , 113 (25), pp 6919–6923 doi: 10.1021/jp902501v.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2010

A single massive storm in 2005 felled an estimated 441-663 million trees across the Amazon basin, according to a new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). In many cases, the stricken trees took down some of their neighbors when they fell. Robinson I.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

The scope of Nissan’s study of hybrid architectures. and CVT case, the CVT + 1Motor-2Clutch and 2Motor-2Clutch systems outperformed the power split systems in terms of fuel consumption and acceleration. CVT case, the CVT+1Motor-2Clutch and 2Motor-2Clutch systems outperformed all the others in the terms of fuel consumption.

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