Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

New clean fuel regulations in California and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies substantially reduce air pollution caused by near-shore ships, according to a new NOAA-led study published online in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. grams of emissions per kg of fuel to 0.39

Pollution 199

Pollution Fuel California Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Reduce the number of polluting vehicles on city streets. Collaborate with suppliers, fleet operators and businesses to accelerate the shift to zero emissions vehicles and reduce vehicle miles in cities. In London, the new T-Charge toll on the most polluting vehicles (pre-Euro 4 / IV) went into effect today. Earlier post.).

Emissions 236

Emissions Los Angeles Aspen Climate Change 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. Click to enlarge.

2005 246

2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

New RNG production facilities using the commercial technologies outlined in the analysis could reduce criteria pollutants by approximately 99% compared to existing operational biomass power plants and produce a very low carbon fuel in the base case and below zero in the case including carbon sequestration technologies.

Waste 281

Waste Carbon Gas Renewable 281

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Level 2 chargers provide 240 volts, offering up to 20 miles of range for every hour a vehicle is plugged in. DC fast chargers provide 480 volts, offering 180 miles or more per hour of charging. Those chargers are in operation and Con Edison is monitoring their usage. SmartCharge Registrations on the Rise.

New York City 334

New York City Charging New York Gasoline-Electric 334

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The environment committee of the European Parliament approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 gCO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015. The draft also sets indicative targets for post-2020 CO 2 emissions in the range of 68-78 g/km (109-126 g/mile) from 2025.

CO2 225

CO2 Climate Change Cars 2020 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

It also assesses the strengths and weaknesses of EVs and CNGVs from a perspective of climate change and environmental impact. Although EVs have a greater GHG reduction benefit than CNGVs, they may increase life-cycle emissions of criteria pollutants, simply because coal is heavily involved. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

Coal 231

Coal Pollution China Gas 231

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Land development patterns strongly influence the number of vehicle miles traveled, and therefore, the GHG emissions from local passenger transport. Smart growth has been shown to reduce household vehicle miles traveled by 20-40% compared with conventional development practices. encouraging smart growth.

Emissions 257

Emissions EPA Climate Change 2006 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. To develop the ranking, UCS averaged the per-mile emissions for each light-duty vehicle sold by each automaker. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' Source: UCS. Click to enlarge.

2013 299

2013 Kia Hyundai Sale 299

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

GoinGreen was founded in 2002 with the mission to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. GoinGreen has accumulated more than 60 million miles of electric vehicle user experience. GoinGreen adds to our Liberty business in the UK, and positions us as the UK’s primary EV retailer.

G-Wiz 236

G-Wiz Green Europe Companies 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. Life durability requirements are increased from 120,000 miles to. 150,000 miles. The combined ROG+NO x.

Cleaning 265

Cleaning Clean California Cars 265

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds.

Emissions 223

Emissions Pollution 2003 Mariner 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. areas of inquiry: The potential impact of climate change policies on global fleet composition, fuel consumption, fuel prices, and economic output.

Future 269

Future MIT Climate Change Alternative Fuels 269

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later. CO 2 , Compared to the Proposal and 2012 and 2020 Rules, grams/mile, 2021-2026. By MY2026 the final emissions targets are 47 grams of CO 2 /mile lower than the standards they replace.

EPA 243

EPA Standards Gas Pollution 243

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Since 1993 my wife and I have lived in Torrance California, just a half mile from the beautiful beach and the Pacific Ocean. What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A.

Climate Change 170

Climate Change Los Angeles Climate Water 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015. They fell 23% from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8

2004 225

2004 2016 Emissions California 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Contributions of regions to total life cycle emissions for three fuels (µg per vehicle-mile traveled per km 2 land area). For example, our approach uses existing chemical speciation factors to describe pollutant emissions by chemical group. The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ). Credit: ACS, Tessum et al.

Gasoline 236

Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Assuming 12,000 as the average miles driven per year and using the average mpg of the retired vehicles (15.8 per gallon for CO 2 and criteria pollutant costs (Jason Hill et al. 2009) Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline. Using an estimated cost of $0.71 Abrams, Burton A. 0812835106.

Cash For Clunkers 236

Cash For Clunkers Delaware MPG 2009 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Beyond 2025, ARB notes, the driving force for lowering emissions in California will thus be climate change. Advanced Clean Car (ACC) package, the ZEV regulation along with new LEV III smog-forming pollutant and GHG standards can be the catalyst to that transformative process. As the technology. —ARB staff.

Light 225

Light Emissions Cleaning Clean 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a policy paper by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report.

Pollution 150

Pollution Economy Production Climate Change 150

Green Energy Consumers

JULY 8, 2024

greatly understates the value that electric vehicles bring to us in terms of reducing pollution causing both global warming and severe health problems. Much of the article is about how we need to support public transportation and reduce the total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by individual cars. We agree heartily on that point.

Climate 114

Climate Pollution Boston Electric Cars 114

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

Oil 283

Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

In addition, EPA announced plans to update air pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles. For Model Year 2026, this results in an EPA-projected fleet-wide CO 2 emissions standard of 171 grams per mile—approximately 52 mpg US, which in turn corresponds to a real-world label value of 38.2 Between $3.6

EPA 170

EPA Standards Light Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

The California Energy Commission has established an Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to develop and deploy advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Earlier post.) The CE-CERT laboratories will also guide these evaluations.

Los Angeles 240

Los Angeles Industry Industrial Hybrid 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Unger et al.

Climate 150

Climate Emissions Transportation Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives, largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

Cleaning 218

Cleaning Clean Transportation Pollution 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields. million and 116 million hectares (144,788 to 447,879 square miles). The corresponding range of CO 2 offsets is 0.55–2.0

Brazil 150

Brazil Emissions Global Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

These upgrades range from a fuel economy improvement of 5-9 miles per gallon (MPG) in the US CARS program to 120 g CO 2 e per km (roughly 46 MPG) minimum in Italy’s scrappage program. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. The one exception is the US CARS program.

Cash For Clunkers 186

Cash For Clunkers Fuel Economy Economy Scrappage 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Under the proposed standards, the average GHG emission performance of the 2016 Canadian fleet of new cars and light trucks would match the average level of 155 g CO 2 /km (250 gCO 2 /mile) that has been projected for the US. Bob Oliver, Executive Director of Canadian environmental NGO Pollution Probe. Earlier post.) Minister Prentice.

Canada 236

Canada Emissions Light Gas 236

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Now mindful of the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf, the bill allows coastal states to opt-out of drilling up to 75 miles from their shores.

Gas-Electric 210

Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Ratings of how a model compares to all others for smog emissions and emissions of pollution that contribute to climate change. An estimate of how much fuel or electricity it takes to drive 100 miles. Miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent converts kilowatt-hours of electricity into gallons of gasoline (based on 33.7

Fuel Economy 225

Fuel Economy Economy EPA Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Two possible futures: One in which no climate policies are implemented (red), and one with strong action to mitigate emissions (blue). The study explicitly takes into account the uncertainties related to modeling climate change. Nature Reports Climate Change , doi: 10.1038/climate.2009.38. Resources. .

Climate Change 150

Climate Change Global Climate Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

medical and climate change costs), the net present benefit would be $5,700 per seat. Health concerns arise because diesel buses release particulate matter and other harmful pollutants, and these emissions can be disproportionately higher within the cabin of the bus compared to ambient pollution levels.

Fleet 210

Fleet Electric Electrical Climate Change 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

The grant is part of the state’s effort to use proceeds from the climate change cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases, including a widespread effort to promote low carbon transit such as hydrogen-powered or electric buses throughout California, with a special focus on serving disadvantaged communities. million riders.

Power 170

Power Powered Hydrogen Grant 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

These are expected to result in a combined MY 2016 average vehicle emission level of 250 g CO 2 /mile (equivalent to 35.5 EPA is also setting standards to cap tailpipe nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and methane (CH 4 ) emissions at 0.010 and 0.030 grams per mile, respectively. mpg if all improvements came from fuel economy) and 34.1

EPA 236

EPA Standards Light PHEV 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Report: City of London One of the Most Polluted Places in Europe. The Guardian reports that The City of London has been found to be one of the most polluted places in Europe after monitoring equipment recorded dangerous levels of minute particles for the 36 th time this year. Earlier post.).

i-MiEV 199

i-MiEV London Fleet Transportation 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Especially promising are upcoming models from carmakers including Chevrolet, Nissan, Tesla and others that will exceed 200 miles on a charge and cost around $35,000 (with incentives). —PEV Collaborative Executive Director Christine Kehoe.

California 150

California Electric Vehicles Vehicles Plug-in 150