Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

Non-petroleum liquids resources from both OPEC and non-OPEC sources grow on average by 3.7% The largest components of future non-petroleum liquid fuels production are biofuels in Brazil and the United States, at 0.7 Almost 80% of the projected increase in renewable electricity generation is fueled by hydropower and wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. In the United States, emissions of HFCs are expected to nearly triple by 2030, and double from current levels of 1.5% Since 1990, methane emissions in the United States have decreased by 8%. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

These figures raise the pressing question of whether scarce government funds might be better allocated to move the United States towards a low-carbon economy. billion—are attributable to corn-based ethanol, the climate effects of which are disputed. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. Adeyeye et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The report is not a comprehensive scientific assessment, the authors note; one such is slated to be forthcoming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013–14 in its Fifth Assessment Report. The report authors acknowledge that uncertainties remain in projecting the extent of both climate change and its impacts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Lead author Kharecha and colleagues note that current climate science indicates that atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, already at 387 ppm in 2009 and rising, need to be reduced to no more than 350 ppm. Hansen and Edward Mazria (2010) Options for Near-Term Phaseout of CO 2 Emissions from Coal Use in the United States.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

They also found that even in the most carbon-intensive regions of the United States, electric delivery vehicles resulted in fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline or diesel counterparts. Our evaluation strategy leads to two main recommendations for companies investing in fleets of electric vehicles. Craig, Geoffrey M.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 108

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh grew up on a 10-hectare farm his family has owned for more than six centuries in Shahpur Charki, a 560-person village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is responsible for securing government funding to carry out the company’s R&D work in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

United States light duty vehicle use, greenhouse gas emissions and selected characteristics of density and roadway extent. Strategies considered included fuel and vehicle options; low-carbon and renewable power; travel demand management; and land use changes. Credit: ACS, Mashayekh et al. Click to enlarge. MacLean, and H.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 31, 2022

In October the organization surveyed 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Wind, solar, and microgrids will provide reliable power while providing [a] means to limit [the] impact of climate change.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. But, there is a downside to this wave of EVs, especially in the United States. EV fleets could play a part in overloading the grid, or could wind up unable to charge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

savings stimulated by high oil prices led to a decrease of 3% in CO 2 emissions in the European Union and of 2% in both the United States and Japan. The United States remain one of the largest emitters of CO2, with 17.3 the United States (16%). tonnes per capita and in the United States from 19.7

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The 2020 fire season in the United States was the worst in at least 70 years, with some 4 million hectares burned on the west coast alone. However, the frequency of these inspections has changed little over the years, even though climate change is causing drier and hotter weather conditions that lead up to more intense wildfires.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

That might require historical and environmental analysis for commercial mushroom picking, or the deployment of law enforcement to manage large crowds that can lead to closures if there aren’t enough resources. In the United States, few deaths occur annually from deadly mushrooms although dozens of people do become ill and recover each year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

Aviation and marine transportation combined are responsible for approximately 5% of total GHG emissions in the United States and 3% globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. liquefied natural gas and marine diesel oil) or to other renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Power plants accounted for 32% (2,064 million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent) of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2012, according to the EPA. the remainder from other sources, including wind and solar. Climate Change Emissions Policy Power Generation' billion kWh).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2020

Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new low-carbon energy devices and infrastructure. Their paper is published in Science. —Sovacool et al. Sovacool et al. Benjamin K.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal. With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. In the United States, for example, renewable energy now accounts for more than one-eighth of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The US moves steadily towards meeting all of its energy needs from domestic resources by 2035. Together, these changes represent a re-orientation of energy trade from the Atlantic basin to the Asia-Pacific region, according to the report’s scenario. Africa today is home to nearly half of the 1.3 —WEO-2013. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Future increased deployment of some energy technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration, could lead to increases in the energy system’s water intensity, whereas deployment of other technologies, such as wind and solar photovoltaics, could lower it. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Utility commissioners and their staffs are now dealing with “rising workloads with limited staff, limited resources, and growing gaps in internal expertise due to the increasingly specialized needs of today’s energy system,” states the Rocky Mountain Institute. Currently, permitting takes up to ten years in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Conclusions. References.

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EV Connect

MAY 16, 2022

Fossil fuels are a finite resource. That’s to say nothing of pollution and climate change. The World Resources Institute, cited above, shows that the rate of EV adoption is increasing every year, following something known as an S-curve. Some estimates mark us as running dry by 2060 … less than 40 years away.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2012

Sea-level rise off the west coast of the United States is influenced by a variety of local factors; therefore, sea-level projections for California, Oregon, and Washington differ from global projections. The study was sponsored by the states of California, Washington, and Oregon; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; U.S.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. They surely see that EVs still make up fewer than 4 percent of new-car sales in the United States. For all the media clamor, it seems clear that many buyers are perfectly content with their ICE cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. Just think they may have a rapid charging option today. — Tony 11. April 17, 2009 3:47 pm Link 1. I miss my EV1.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Aren’t we just exchanging one nonrenewable resource for another? Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Imagine you're a farmer in the northern United States. DeepMC works by training an AI to precisely find the error between the local weather forecast and the micro-climate weather conditions. At the same time, Kumar acknowledges that it takes time, money, and resources to implement the system, though he couldn't provide the cost.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The lake is highly stratified and depends on wind to churn the waters and send nutrients from the depths toward the surface as food for algae, which supports the entire food web of the lake. This resource is likely threatened by the lake’s unprecedented warming since the late 19 th century and the associated loss of lake productivity.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

They are essential for more livable communities and more efficient use of resources, including energy. China has opened up high-speed rail lines while the United States fiddles. Yet simultaneously, China has overtaken the United States in the number of automobiles sold annually.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Larry 4.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

But the political and financial winds are moving in the wrong direction for the industry, raising more “above ground” problems at a time that they can ill-afford it. First, the attorney general in New York announced an investigation into ExxonMobil, for what it sees as evidence that the company lied about the dangers of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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