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The consortium has been formed in parallel to a draft European Directive to promote the development of alternativefuels such as electricity and hydrogen, which is currently being considered by the European Parliament and the European Council. The results will be published in late 2013. To join the consortium, contact AFHyPaC.
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million in funding support from MTC, which offset the incremental cost of the EVs and charging infrastructure. The addition brings the County’s alternativefuel fleet vehicle total to more than 300, representing more than 30% of the agencies’ cars, vans, and light duty trucks.
Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Natural Gas.
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million in Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding for research that would reduce emissions and lower the costs of CTL fuel production technologies to enable CTL fuel to be a competitive alternative energy resource. Aviation Climate Change Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Emissions Fuels'
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billion worldwide—by 2050, this may not be achievable through improvements to the traditional internal combustion engine or alternativefuels: the traditional combustion engine is expected to improve by 30%, so achieving full decarbonisation is not possible through efficiency alone. Wind : Nordex.
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Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. right-sizing,” where the size of the taxi deployed is tailored to each trip’s occupancy needs); and (3) higher annual vehicle-miles travelled (VMT), increasing high-efficiency (especially battery-electric) vehicle cost-effectiveness.
Calls for also went out for proposals in health; food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology; information and communication technologies; nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies; energy; environment (including climate change); socio-economic sciences and humanities; space; and security.
alternativefuel vehicle community partner projects, which are new competitively-awarded projects to build strategically-placed, high-impact, community-scale demonstrations of alternativefuel vehicles. In addition, the program is working to reduce the cost of hydrogen from renewable resources to less than $4.00/gge—dispensed
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