Remove Batteries Remove Coal Remove International Remove Oil
article thumbnail

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. None of them are innocent bystanders.

Coal 355
article thumbnail

EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050

Green Car Congress

In its International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), EIA projects that strong economic growth, particularly with developing economies in Asia, will drive global increases in energy consumption despite pandemic-related declines and long-term improvements in energy efficiency. —EIA Acting Administrator Stephen Nalley.

Global 259
article thumbnail

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

Green Car Congress

The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year—from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency—the International Energy Agency said in a new report. —Dr Birol.

Global 344
article thumbnail

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

Photo: Tesla Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows. Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s. Get started here. –

Global 52
article thumbnail

Are Synthetic Fuels Really All They're Cracked Up to Be?

The Truth About Cars

German brands, particularly Porsche, have been stressing the importance of “e-fuels” and Subaru recently announced plans to run the 2024 Super Taikyu Series using a WRX converted to run on synthetic fuels “making internal combustion engines more environmentally friendly.” Interest declined as oil production ramped up.

Fuel 105
article thumbnail

EIA: light duty vehicle energy consumption to drop 25% by 2040; increased oil production, vehicle efficiency reduce US oil and liquid imports

Green Car Congress

quadrillion Btu in 2040 in AEO2014 , reflecting the impacts of increased foreign trade on international shipping and higher incomes on recreational boating. Domestic crude oil production increases sharply in the AEO2014 Reference case, with annual growth averaging 0.8 Energy consumption by marine vessels increases from 0.9

Oil 290
article thumbnail

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

Green Car Congress

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015) While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5

Coal 231