Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill is structured into four primary titles: Title I: Clean Energy; Title II: Energy Efficiency; Title III: Reducing Global Warming Pollution (the cap-and-trade bill); and Title IV: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (which also includes a section on adapting to climate change). Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

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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. Vehicle scrappage schemes have been implemented in a number of countries in Europe and the US. Specific requirements can vary greatly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

This started to change with the establishment of a more active, collaborative industrial policy driven by the need to cut carbon emissions from the sector and protect against climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.

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Teslarati

JULY 11, 2024

Even as our competitors invest heavily in electric vehicles, these grants ensure that our automotive industry stays competitive — and does it in the communities and with the workforce that have supported the auto industry for generations,” Granholm noted.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA. Background.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. This is not a technical assessment, it is a move to demolish the nation’s clean car program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

While last year it appeared that the auto industry as a whole would shift to R-1234yf, in September 2012, Daimler said that internal testing had identified safety (flammability) issues under certain conditions, and that it would not use R-1234yf in its products. With a GWP (Global Warming Potential) value of 1, R744 is 99.3%

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Feb 17, 2006 SYNOPSIS: Lewis Booth acknowledged the importance of climate change and the responsibility to take action, calling for greater support for a more holistic approach to the challenges raised by sustainable mobility. This is a major announcement from a major manufacturer.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

The auto industry has now grudgingly accepted that battery-electric cars will make up some portion of the world's new vehicles in years to come. But a milestone in that trend may have come today, in news from China.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We are creating the new Hertz and charting a dynamic, new course for the future of travel, mobility and the auto industry,” Fields said. “Climate change is an urgent global challenge we must all tackle together, and now is the time to drive a green recovery from the pandemic.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 28, 2007

One of the most immediate actions we can take to fight climate change is to dramatically reduce our oil consumption by pushing electric vehicles into the marketplace,” said Obama. “We auto industry regain its competitive edge.”. Producing electric vehicles and energy efficient technology could help the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Data on the cost of low carbon vehicle technologies was largely been sourced from the auto industry itself, with the study supported by a core working group including Nissan, GE, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA), and the European Storage Battery Manufacturers Association (Eurobat).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals. Earlier post.) mpg in 2016. Sue Cischke.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

Throughout his research and reporting, Bob focused on the EV transition “at scale”: What needs to happen in order for electric vehicles to displace internal-combustion-engine vehicles and have a measurable impact on climate change by midcentury? Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Scott Miller, the CEO of research firm Synovate, also noted that while “ things don’t look so good ” for the auto industry right now, hybrids and plug-in hybrids are still favored by consumers against other advanced fuel-saving technologies. “.the Start talking about more than just climate change.

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Teslarati

JULY 8, 2022

As the auto industry splinters over the switch to electric vehicles, Volvo Cars AB is the second major manufacturer to leave Europe’s auto lobby. On Friday, the company says the ACEA lobby’s attempts to address climate change aren’t aggressive enough.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There have been and continue to be a number of market drivers forcing this evolution: concerns over health effects, congestion, consumption of petroleum-based fuels, climate change, an ever more rapidly increasing population and what appears to be an inexorable movement toward large-scale urbanization.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Below is an interview with Director Chris Paine and Journalist Robert Steadman with UK-based Blue and Green Tomorrow : ROB: Was it difficult to gain behind the scenes access to the auto industry after the first film? We knew we were vulnerable to car industry PR efforts and they knew they couldn't control what we did editorially.

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Teslarati

MAY 16, 2022

. “We are creating the new Hertz and charting a dynamic, new course for the future of travel, mobility, and the auto industry.” Climate change is an urgent global challenge we must all tackle together, and now is the time to drive a green recovery from the pandemic,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 10, 2024

While many members of the local auto industry want the exemption – which applies to vehicles priced under the luxury car tax purchased on a novated lease to be extended, it now seems a forlorn hope. The exemption will continue on for EVs indefinitely, but the April1 2025 cut-off for PHEVs seems destined to stay in place.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. smog and particulates. the manufacturing can be profitable and also very competitive.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 22, 2024

But their application has been controversial, because it is thought of as a way to maintain current auto industry practices rather than quickly reforming the whole auto industry around electrification.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Known as ‘Option B’, it is significantly tougher than the auto industry itself proposed via its representative body, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), has higher fines for breaching emissions limits and rejects aids known as ‘Super Credits’. The Impact Analysis estimates Option B would produce $96.46

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll. And don't let those who have an anti-EV agenda lie to you.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition. Indeed, the report makes cheerful reading—for anyone who doesn’t believe in climate change, and thinks EVs are a passing fad.

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Baua Electric

JULY 16, 2024

Some folks fear that the transition to EVs will lead to major job losses in the auto industry—and not without reason, as EVs require different (and fewer) components than legacy ICE vehicles. To these ends, the US Department of Energy has established the Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

“The auto industry is aligned, the public is aligned, even the president is aligned. Energy security, the politics and marketing of oil and concerns about climate change are creating an unprecedented global push toward electric vehicles. . “I have never before felt that we were at this point,&# Duvall said.

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EV Match

JUNE 16, 2022

At a conference earlier this month, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the global auto industry will be facing a major EV price war in the coming years as costs fall and multiple automakers begin to sell EVs priced around $25,000 — in a move he says will “democratize EVs.”. EV Price War.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Toyota has routinely ranked at the bottom of InfluenceMap’s climate policy engagement rankings, and this year is no different. InfluenceMap routinely ranks automakers and auto industry associations based on how much they lobby to stop climate policy goals.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The government will issue a discussion paper on emissions strategy for auto industry comment and response this month. With the introduction of the climate change bill, Australia will have more certainty, more transparency, and a clearer path to emissions reduction,” said Head of Polestar Australia, Samantha Johnson.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 5, 2023

While Volkswagen Group plans to go all electric by 2033 in the EU, some German drivers and BMW would like to keep their tailpipe polluters. After agreeing to the EU regulation to ban internal combustion light vehicles by 2035, the FDP, the smallest member of the German governing coalition, is walking back its agreement to […]

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G. The main barrier to V2G in the early 2000s, it turns out, was that the battery EV would have to be massively scaled up before it could serve as a practical energy-storage resource.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

California is expected to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could seriously affect the effort to fight climate change and accelerate the global transition toward electric vehicles (EVs). Many auto industry watchers were intrigued by Agassi's novel concept.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Not only has Tesla already met the targets (despite its CEO losing his way on climate change ), but so has Volvo (despite its recent misguided EV backtrack ) – showing that both a new(ish) startup and a company with an established, decades-old gas car business can both exceed these targets, and do so by a longshot.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Albanese succeeded a string of right-wing Liberal prime ministers, including most recently Scott Morrison, who was criticized for, among other things, taking a vacation to Hawaii while his country was on fire due to a climate change-exacerbated brush fire. The other threat is possible future Chinese dominance in the auto industry.

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