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

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. Click to enlarge. —Fatih Birol, IEA Chief Economist.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

What's more, we are changing. 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 about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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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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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Making hydrocarbons out of CO 2 must overcome two challenges—chemical stability of the CO 2 molecule and a cheap and renewable hydrogen source. This study has been supported by both the Climate Change-Response Tech Development Project and Mid-Career Researcher Program by Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The draft report identifies six key drivers of transformation in the region: technical progress; capital accumulation; demographics and the labor force; the emerging middle class; climate change mitigation and the competition for resources; and the communications revolution.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You also wanted to know how semiconductors will play a part in combating climate change. Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination Peter Adams We worry more and more about the carbon footprint of semiconductor manufacturing, but this story was actually a win for the climate.

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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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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2023

” “This is about making EVs more affordable and more accessible to all Queenslanders to slash emissions and act on climate change with cleaner technology. This abundant, cheap solar energy makes Queensland an ideal location for EV adoption. Last year, 722,000 Queensland homes had rooftop solar, generating 3.5

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) who took part in the event.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Other projects are cooking up climate-friendlier recipes for cements.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. Transcript. Kelly Wanser : Thank you, Eliza.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials. The eventual replacement of oil with fuels generated from sustainable and carbon-neutral sources is necessary if we are to avoid harmful climate change due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

The bill, SB-233 , aims to advance grid resilience and protect the climate by using EVs as “batteries on wheels,” tapping their stored energy to balance electricity supply and demand rather than bringing high-polluting peak generators online. California, the EV adoption and clean energy leader in the U.S.,

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Plug in America

MARCH 13, 2023

Eliminating vehicle emissions results in improved air quality, which means better health outcomes and a slowing of climate change. The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow. (Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 29, 2024

From Automotive News : The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021 resulted in an ambitious pledge — six major automakers and 30 national governments promised to halt the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles in "leading markets" by 2035 and globally by 2040.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. They have committed to planting five million trees, setting money aside for environmental protection and partnering with others for climate change initiatives. They have been carbon-neutral since 2016. They are committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2024

To further reduce energy consumption and enable the system to run on intermittent renewable energy sources, Captura engineered the electrodialysis to run for shorter periods of time, such as during periods of the day when electricity is cheap, or when the sun is shining. Says Chu: Theres enough carbon for everyone.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 7, 2024

Amid the hype of solar, wind is not getting enough attention, even though it provides cheap electricity and complements solar.” At the UN’s COP28 climate change conference in December, countries reached an agreement to triple global renewables capacity by 2030. goal within reach.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2016

The company cited a variety of factors, including lower-than-expected demand for coal, and increased production of cheap natural gas obtained through "fracking" in the U.S. Peabody Energy—the world's largest private coal company—filed for bankruptcy this week. Peabody is also saddled with debt from its $5.2

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Geo-engineering technologies were found to be very likely to be technically possible and some were considered to be potentially useful to augment the continuing efforts to mitigate climate change by reducing emissions. Geo-engineering and its consequences are the price we may have to pay for failure to act on climate change.”.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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