Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. NASDAQ:TSLA) a run for its money thanks to its 2016 acquisition of battery company Saft.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

CO 2 emissions from coal fell by 14.6%, the largest annual percentage drop in any fuel’s CO 2 emissions in EIA’s annual CO 2 data series dating back to 1973. The United States now emits less CO 2 from coal than from motor gasoline. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review.

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2019 CO2 Energy 2017 273

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. That’s why the shift away from coal is so important for EVs. Jeremy Michalek.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Solar and wind generation grew at double-digit pace, with solar alone increasing by 31%. Still, that was not fast enough to meet higher electricity demand around the world that also drove up coal use. Coal use in power generation alone surpassed 10 Gt, accounting for a third of the total increase. to 33 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It will require China to deploy an additional 800-1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero emission generation capacity by 2030—more than all the coal-fired power plants that exist in China today and close to total current electricity generation capacity in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) through 2016, when domestic production comes close to the historical high of 9.6 Natural gas overtakes coal as the largest fuel for US electricity generation. In some areas, natural gas-fired generation replaces power formerly supplied by coal and nuclear plants. MMbbl/d achieved in 1970.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

BEVs charged with electricity generated from coal currently have higher life-cycle emissions than ICEVs, whereas the life-cycle emissions of a BEV could be almost 90% lower than an equivalent ICEV using electricity generated from wind power. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The project should be running in late-2016. TransAlta believes that the wide-scale deployment of lithium-ion batteries will encourage more wind and solar power to be installed in Alberta, further improving the sustainability of Alberta’s overall renewable energy supply. AI-EES received more than 50 proposals.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The most straightforward way to get cleaner electricity is to switch to a less-polluting source like natural gas--or better yet, renewable sources like wind and solar. DON''T MISS: EPA''s Coal-Plant Emissions Rules.'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Units 3 and 4 are expected to begin commercial operation in 2016 and 2017, respectively. a manufacturer of cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels; Nordic Windpower, USA, a maker of two-blade, one megawatt wind turbines; Beacon Power, an energy storage company; and Red River Environmental Products, an activated carbon manufacturing plant.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The global energy mix is the most diverse the world has ever seen by 2040, with oil, gas, coal and non-fossil fuels each contributing around a quarter. Natural gas demand grows strongly and overtakes coal as the second largest source of energy. Natural gas demand grows strongly and overtakes coal as the second largest source of energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

mpg by 2016. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. Two are geographically constrained (hydro and geothermal), placing wind and solar as the front running mass renewable energy choices.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

In fact, the Air Force is aiming to get half of its domestic jet fuel from alternative sources by 2016. And just last week, our Air Force used an advanced biofuel blend to fly an F-22 Raptor faster than the speed of sound. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

Renewables need to account for the majority of power generation in 2050, based on continued rapid growth especially for solar and wind power in combination with enabling grids and new operating practices. trillion in energy sector investments would be required on average each year between 2016 and 2050, compared to US$1.8 Around US$3.5

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Renewable Climate Climate Change Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Electricity generation from natural gas increases over time in both scenarios, whereas generation from existing coal plants declines. Electricity generation from other technologies including wind and solar are similar between the BAU and OPT scenarios, with these two renewable technologies contributing about 9% of generation in 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Wind/weather and GPS-based cruise control and intelligent routing. Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. Reduction of accessory loads and auxiliary power requirements. Clean Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

Global energy demand will increase 25% between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil forecasts in the 2016 edition of its annual The Outlook for Energy. The share of the world’s electricity generated by coal is expected to fall to about 30% in 2040 from approximately 40% in 2014.

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2014 Carbon Energy Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Other transportation-related findings include: As of the end of 2016, about half of all zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) ever sold in the US were bought in California. Other highlights of this year’s Green Innovation Index include: In 2016, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the US were 12.5% below their 2006 levels. from 2014.

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California Emissions Light Climate 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

electricity generation pathways have both the smallest (wind) and largest (hydropower) impact on water resources. Coal or biomass-based gasification in central facilities is expected to consume a similar amount of water as the SMR-based H 2 pathway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

Or they maintain coal-fueled backup generators that can be fired up quickly. If, one day, a power provider expects strong but erratic winds, it might want to privilege quick charging, in order to capture the output of its wind turbines. Dahleh (2016) “ Battery Capacity of Deferrable Energy Demand ”.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. In the U.K.,

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. And do you wind up offering your customers some kind of assistance in filing the rebate form? THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced in sustainable ways, using solar or wind-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The plant will replace an existing coal-fired plant and generate hydrogen—which can be used in fuel cells—using solar photovoltaics. According to the International Energy Agency, only.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” – Carlos Ghosn “We will not stop until every car on the road is electric” – Elon Musk “As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven’t gone bankrupt is a grand total of two. ” – George Clooney “Electric cars are coal powered cars. Fort and Tesla.”

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Electric Vehicles Electric Cars Vehicles Electrical 98

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They couldn’t tell the difference between a bright day at the beach and being in a coal mine in Pittsburgh. In 2016, a USC professor even raised the possibility of color vision. I never have any regrets about doing this.” Jeroen Perk. These people were completely in the dark,” he says. Other Argus II patients.

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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. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The wind blowing in from the Taiwan Strait regularly blasts across Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. On this expanse of reclaimed land outside Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, 80 wind turbines, a pair of gas-fired power plants, and 4.3 That’s a big reason why Taiwan’s government is going big on solar and offshore wind power.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Under its plan, a manufacturer would receive a credit for 0 grams of carbon dioxide emission only for the first 200,000 electric vehicles it produces by 2016. If the power plants are going to be fueled by coal we’re going to be worse off than if we fuel them by gas,&# said Zupan.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Energy experts have been warning that electricity is likely to get more expensive and less reliable unless renewable power that waxes and wanes under inconstant sunlight and wind is backed up by generators that can run whenever needed. Chris Philpot Then, a decade ago, private-sector startups generated another flurry of media attention.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze.

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Power Grid Grid Powered Power 115

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In July, Trump reportedly asked oil and gas CEOs for a $1 billion campaign donation in exchange for scrapping EV policies, halting wind energy expansion, and derailing other clean-energy policies that the industry opposes. Climate change: Drill, baby, drill Trump made climate-change denial a core 2016 facet of many policy decisions.

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