Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. Natural gas generation made up much of the gap last year, as it has consistently in recent years, due to extremely cheap gas prices.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

A skyrocketing nickel price would have major repercussions on the climate ambitions of countries around the world, and will ultimately hamper the adoption of EVs. Geopolitical issues such as the Russia-Ukraine situation disturb the fine balance of battery metal supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

The world is undergoing an energy transition to reduce CO 2 emissions and mitigate climate change. The hydrogen is liquefied where electricity is cheap. An open-access paper on the work is published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Also, SAHL can lower energy consumption for hydrogen liquefaction by 25 to 50%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2022

It suggests that the economics will be as cheap as cars, but a lot faster, and time has value. . There was a real knee in the curve at 40% that led to much even more value for smaller aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. While providing a boost to renewables, such a slowdown would increase import bills, heighten energy security concerns and make it harder and more expensive to combat climate change. —WEO 2011. World transportation oil demand by mode in the New Policies Scenario.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

—Grey hydrogen gas, in other words—not a big win for the climate or the environment. We’re using cheap raw materials and don't need precious metals or other expensive components. Add another twenty panels, and you can drive an electric car for an entire year. —KU Leuven researcher Jan Rongé. —Johan Martens.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. The three nexuses are linked by climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2018

In order to optimally reduce energy use in the vehicle, it will feature a climate comfort system with a CO? Hydrogen is stored in composite tanks on the roof; the mass of the tanks will be reduced by about 20% compared to previous models. heat pump; the system will allow to use waste heat from the fuel cell.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The dispute has contributed to a significant split among the primary bloc of developing countries, and has highlighted an increased focus on climate adaptation strategies, in addition to emissions reductions, during the talks. ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. The result is a win–win for climate and security. Big green deal. ?This Geopolitical friction is low. Business as usual.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2022

With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void. A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

With a viable, convenient and comparatively cheap fuel already onboard, it makes sense to use a fraction of the cargo to power the vessel with an important, side-benefit being its positive, environmental performance. MAN Energy Solutions expects strong demand for the ME-LGIP engine from VLGCs and coastal vessels.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has edited out some of its stricter emissions requirements from corporate climate risk rules. The disclosure requirement was included with the SEC’s initial draft of the corporate climate risk rules, which were published in March 2022. What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Climate change is a great example. Jason Jacobs , the founder of the fitness app Runkeeper , has created an entire media business called My Climate Journey to find and help recruit tech folks to address climate change. What's more, we are changing. What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists across the globe engineer more than 6,000 new types of MOF particles per year, looking for the right combinations of structure and chemistry for particular tasks, such as increasing the storage capacity of gas tanks or capturing and burying CO 2 from smokestacks to combat climate change. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.

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Teslarati

MARCH 27, 2024

In addition, the United States has an under-supply of affordable EVs and cheap batteries for electric vehicles. The current political climate between the United States and China discourages Chinese battery suppliers like CATL from distributing their oversupply of batteries to the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run. levels below 450 parts per million.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2022

Long-range all-electric trucks like the Tesla Semi will not come cheap. The bill allocates $369 billion for programs that help fight climate change and preserve the environment, and it also includes a number of revamped EV tax credits. I really expect Tesla to raise prices on the Semi, its too cheap at this point.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

At the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris this week, Nissan announced the development of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which will allow drivers to operate as individual energy hubs with the ability to store, use or return electricity to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

Geographic climate contrasts result in marked differences in water use efficiency among sites, varying by 3 orders of magnitude across the US. They note that freshwater is cheap but in very limited supply in many areas. —Venteris et al. Venteris and colleagues weighed the pluses and minuses of the various water sources.

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Electrek

MAY 16, 2022

With a combination of more cities focusing on walkability/bikeability as well as an increasingly alarming outlook on climate change , a larger discussion on switching to smaller vehicles couldn’t come soon enough. May is National Bike Month in the United States. Here’s why.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. Maybe you missed their headline yesterday that read: Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates. A piece so filled with lies and disinformation it was eviscerated by climate expert Joe Romm in his piece “ Is George Will the Most Ignorant National Columinst?

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Elon Musk is claiming that Tesla Robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, which “won’t be needed” when it “rolls out unsupervised full self-driving.” This weekend, Musk responded to a misleading claim that electric buses don’t work in colder climates. Does the math work? Teslas can operate well even above the Arctic Circle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

An increase in Saudi oil production could also be incentivized by expectations that restrictions on burning of fossil fuel will intensify in the future, as importing states impose policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Climate risk could also weigh into a decision to raise output.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

That is why he would like to see “ in Europe in particular, a climate where new technologies are not eyed with suspicion right from the outset ”, but rather a climate “ where innovations are truly welcome. ” Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. The CO 2 limits apply irrespective of fuel prices.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The Committee for Climate Change suggests that at least 5% of the car fleet in Scotland should be electric by 2020 in order to reach “critical mass” for a larger roll out. Part of the reason for installing public charge points is to help drivers overcome their fear of range anxiety but this does not come cheap. EV targets in Scotland.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It keeps claiming hydrogen buses have been a success and are cheap, but cities keep canceling their plans for them as. For several months I’ve been digging through what’s going on with a Canadian transit ‘think’ tank, CUTRIC, and why it’s pushing hydrogen buses into city plans across the country.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

If the United States decided for oil security and climate stabilisation reasons to replace its entire fleet of passenger vehicles with super-efficient gas-electric hybrids over the next 10 years, gasoline use could easily be cut in half. We have not only an inexhaustible alternative to dwindling reserves of oil, but an incredibly cheap one."

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Concurrently, rising sea levels caused by climate change will swamp many coastal cities throughout the world, forcing them to rebuild parts of themselves on higher ground. A large proportion of the people who now live in rural areas will move to cities , just as happened over the last century in North America.

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