Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region. The Government of Canada coordinated the development of the monitoring plan in collaboration with provincial, territorial and academic scientists and will work with the Province of Alberta on implementation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

Background Canada has over 27,000 public chargers and is on track to greatly expand on that as governments, car manufacturers and various charging network providers build out the public charging network. In Q3 2023, the market share of new ZEV registrations in Canada surged to a new all-time high of 12% according to Stats Can.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Moriah Hargrove Anders Francis’s primary technology focus is extreme environment and high-temperature integrated circuits. IEEE Senior Member Tom Murad Director, IEEE Region 7: Canada Siemens Canada Murad is a respected technology leader, award-winning educator, and distinguished speaker on engineering, skills development, and education.

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Plug N Drive

AUGUST 22, 2024

This initiative will serve as an engaging community hub, providing valuable information on the environmental and economic benefits of driving electric in Canada. Since the MEET was first launched in 2020, it has been engaging communities across Canada from British Columbia to New Brunswick.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development formed in 1960 when 18 European countries plus the US and Canada joined forces to create an organization dedicated to global development. Today, the OECD has 34 member countries.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Manicouagan/Baie-Comeau region presents advantageous infrastructure and operating conditions for the joint venture to achieve its objectives, including ample renewable energy (hydro power), greenfield and brownfield locations, a deep-sea international port, and most importantly a welcoming local, regional, and national political and financial environment (..)

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

At present, Mirai is sold in eleven countries: Japan, the United States, and nine countries in Europe. Toyota is working to develop an environment that will allow FCEVs to be sold in more countries and regions in the future. Toyota aims for annual sales of FCEVs to top 30,000 units globally from around that time.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past, there was a push to sell all-season tires which performed at kinda-sorta acceptable levels in a variety of conditions but didn’t truly excel in any particular environment. RoadX backs the RXMotion MX440 with a 60,000-mile/60-month tread life warranty (100,000km/60-month in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

For battery-electric vehicles, the index remains at 55 in the US for the fourth consecutive quarter, while decreasing to 57 from 59 in Canada. The 2020 Q1 study includes insights from the United States and Canada. How do old electric car batteries affect the environment? Frankly, we’re concerned for automakers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

announced positive results from an independent feasibility study conducted on its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario, Canada. 139 million after-tax net present value (NPV) using an 8% discount and 53% after-tax internal rate of return (IRR), representing a payback period of only 1.8 Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These acidic compounds persist in the environment, taking up to 10 years to break down. The number and size of these settling ponds containing lethal amounts of naphthenic acids are growing daily—it is estimated that there is around one billion m 3 of contaminated water in Athabasca, Canada, alone—and is still increasing.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 15, 2023

In a simulated environment, a disembodied skeletal arm powered by artificial intelligence lifted a small toy elephant and rotated it in its hand. In another environment, disembodied skeletal legs used 80 muscles working through 16 joints to kick and flex, engaging in the kind of “ motor babbling ” that toddlers do as they work toward walking.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2023

It’s going to make use of about 200 community as soon as operational, and the web site may have the “opportunity to grow,” mentioned GM Canada President Marissa West. “We Bécancour, halfway between Montreal and Quebec Town, is readily turning into a hub for battery fabrics manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the regulatory authority for international shipping, decided to implement a global sulfur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) (5,000 ppm) on fuel oil starting 1 January 2020 during its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), meeting for its 70 th session in London.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2014

The start of the drilling was launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video teleconference with head of Rosneft Igor Sechin and head of ExxonMobil Russia Glenn Waller who were both present on the drilling platform in the Kara Sea. Russian offshore harsh environment areas. Source: North Atlantic Drilling. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

For the past 20 years, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society has been working to become more welcoming and inclusive for women, members from outside the United States and Canada, students, and young professionals. Seventy percent of the committee is from outside the United States and Canada. Almost 9 percent are women.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Govt of India, Mr Nitin Gadkari said that in order to reduce pollution levels in the country, the Government aims at an INR 2 lakh crore ethanol economy from its present size of INR 20,000 crore as the development of an extensive ethanol industry for biomass and agriculture sector.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

A study by researchers from the US, Mexico and Canada has found that children’s urban air pollution exposures result in systemic and brain inflammation and the early hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study found that clinically healthy children who live in a polluted environment and who also carry a gene—the apolipoprotein ?4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

The air quality does not likely present a human health risk, with the exception of the high pooling areas, where clean-up crews are working with safety equipment. The City of Mayflower recommended that 22 homes be evacuated; all residents evacuated following notifications by the Mayflower Police Department. wt% sulfur content (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Perspective by Chris Hill, Manager, Central Fleet for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and author of Hamilton’s Green Fleet Implementation Plan. [Mr. Hill is currently chair of the Ontario Chapter of NAFA Fleet Management Association, and a Green Party candidate for Canada’s Parliament in the next general election.

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Plug N Drive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Award winners exemplify innovation needed to accelerate EV adoption in Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia | Mi’kma’ki – September 12, 2024. The Electric Vehicle Network was founded in Mississauga, ON, in 2018 by Darryl Croft and Johnny Beckett, who were present in Halifax to receive the award. says Mr. Croft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

How much of the variation in the plant traits are driven by genetics or the environment or the interaction between genes and the environment? The result is a grass that has adapted to a wide variety of environments throughout North America, from the hot and dry landscape of Central Mexico to the snowy climes of Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

These so-called megacities will present a unique challenge to personal mobility, threatening the economy, the environment, and even the health of their residents. Ford also noted that Michigan needs a world-class infrastructure and that its location on the US/Canada border provides Michigan with a unique advantage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2013

The first high pressure direct injection (HPDI) locomotive will be demonstrated in 2014 through a consortium program funded by Sustainable Technology Development Canada in partnership with Canadian National Railway, Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD, a subsidiary of Progress Rail Services, a Caterpillar company), and Gaz Metro.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

Australia-based airline Virgin Australia is partnering with Renewable Oil Corporation (ROC), Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC) to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel that also has benefits for the Australian farming community and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

positive or negative—and magnitude of net climate forcing from BC emissions), currently available scientific and technical information provides a strong foundation for making mitigation decisions to achieve lasting benefits for public health, the environment, and climate. Earlier post.). There is inconsistency among reported.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In the context of the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study ( earlier post ), researchers from Canada, the United States, China and India quantified air pollution levels and attributable health impacts for 188 countries for the period 1990-2013. More than half of deaths occur in two of the world’s fastest growing economies, China and India.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

A sustainable city should meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Cities in the US and Canada perform significantly better on Profit factors than in the other sub-indices, the result of strong performance on GDP per capita and the ease of doing business.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Zenyatta started Phase 1 testing of Albany graphite for fuel cell components in early 2015 with an initial screening by the National Research Council of Canada and Ballard Power Systems. These positive results led Ballard to incorporate Zenyatta material into a fuel cell stack in order to test it under realistic operating environments.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. The results are presented as medians (curves) and semi-interquartile ranges (shaded areas) in (A) and (C) according to a Monte Carlo simulation. Gg/y), and Canada (47.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Bioinformatic analysis reveals two unannotated peroxidase genes present in the genome of R. The team at Warwick has been collaborating with colleagues in Canada at the University of British Columbia who have been working to unravel the structure of the enzyme. —Professor Timothy Bugg, University of Warwick, who led the team.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

As the CEO of Tesla, Musk grapples with a tumultuous global landscape, his eyes are set on a new frontier: India, a market that, at this point, presents both promise and peril for Tesla. Experts also point out that now that Tesla is looking to step outside developed economies like the US, China, Europe, Canada, Japan, etc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

The scenarios take per capita energy demand from the A1F1 scenario, but assume slightly greater population growth and higher carbon intensity; one simulation assumes that fractional primary energy production remains at present day values while the other more extreme scenario assumes that all future energy demand is met by coal.

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