Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

The challenge of meeting Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 “will be short-circuited and remain out of reach” unless significant new copper supply comes online in a timely way, according to a new study by S&P Global that examines the growing mismatch between available copper supply and future demand resulting from the energy transition.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Photo credit: mpohodzhay / Shutterstock.com A recent study by the Keck School of Medicine of USC provides new insights into the potential benefits of electric vehicle (EV) adoption. This study marks a significant step in understanding the impact of electric cars on public health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

million by 2030 if the UK is to achieve its climate change targets. The study examines three different scenarios—Business as usual (BAU); Extended; and Stretch—based on low, medium and high levels of EV uptake. The use of biofuels for the passenger car segment should not be considered a high priority, the study says.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. Interest in developing genomic resources for P.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Black carbon (BC) is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this pollutant’s climate impact.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

This DEMO 2000 project is another stepping stone for reaching our ambitious climate targets and it is also aligned with our recently published hydrogen strategy. Wärtsilä, as part of its development work on future fuels, has studied the use of ammonia as a future carbon-free fuel through the ZEEDS initiative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The 100-year global warming potentials (GWPs) for methane, CO, and NO x (per Tg N) as given in the AR4 and in this study when including no aerosol response; the direct radiative effect of aerosol responses; and the direct+indirect radiative effects of aerosol responses. It’s a seemingly minor change, but it makes a difference to the climate.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This is why I studied mechatronics, and finished my studies with battery management systems for electric vehicles. How can you get insights about the life and the performance of batteries? And then we do our analytics on this field data and then give back insights like the state of health of the battery in the field.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The Rotor Sails deliver auxiliary wind propulsion to the vessel—which has operated in conditions ranging from tropical climate to arctic conditions in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia—thereby optimizing energy efficiency and reducing fuel consumption. The Rotor Sails were installed onboard Maersk Pelican in August 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2012

While several recent studies have suggested that much of the world is likely to experience freshwater shortages as the population increases and temperatures rise, determining the relative impact of each has been difficult. At that time, it was unusual to integrate population, climate and water data into one model.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads. Aramco Americas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Southern switchgrass, for example, do well in heat and can fight off fungal diseases that thrive in warm, wet climates. With larger plantings of switchgrass in the future, diseases will become much more intense. The scientists also will conduct a genome wide association study to identify genes involved in disease resistance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The base results from a study by a team at the Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory indicate that shale gas life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 6% lower than conventional natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline, and 33% lower than coal. Expansion bars show the components of fuel production. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The study uses five different recognized methods for measuring the daily or seasonally highest ozone levels. The international scientists who compiled and analyzed the global ozone pollution database hope it will give scientists and public health managers better insight on trends and patterns of human health exposure around the world.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

By extending a 3-D reservoir model to include methods of sediment deposits, compaction, pressure development, and methane creation, the project will provide valuable insights on the formation of massive hydrate accumulations, the role of free gas in their persistence, and locations where these massive accumulations might be possible. ?DOE

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

Laboratory studies indicate that the CO 2 molecules will replace the methane molecules within the solid hydrate lattice, resulting in the simultaneous sequestration of CO 2 in a solid hydrate structure and production of methane gas.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

A threat by the Netherlands’ largest company ASML to quit the country if it cannot grow there has laid bare wider corporate concerns that the nation’s business climate is deteriorating. “You’d need two hands to count them.” ” Chip equipment supplier ASM International recently expanded in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

The study to be carried out by Ricardo Strategic Consulting and Kevin J. Although they are extremely diverse, it is unlikely that any of these factors will diminish in their influence on the energy market within the 10-20 year time horizon of the study. Kevin J Lindemer LLC is an affiliation of independent energy industry experts.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 1, 2022

What you do now can have a significant impact on future success. In addition to these factors, employees care about a sustainable future now more than ever. A recent study by Unily showed that 83% of employees feel that their company is not making enough effort to fight climate change. Think again!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

With the current supply of PEVs in Canada (7 models), the future PEV new market share is not likely to exceed 4—5% by 2030, according to the report; increasing supply (to 56 models) could increase market share to over 20% by 2030. Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. —Suzanne Goldberg. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change. Back to top. Back to top.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Advanced methods like computational toxicology, remote sensing, and high throughput chemical screening have given us new insights into the linkages between environmental, economic, and social systems and a new awareness of widespread global challenges. Communication must be an essential part of scientific work.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and/or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta’s oil sands. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Lifecycle analysis Oil sands. Global Forest Watch Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

For the past few years, our company has actually been warning that that freedom of mobility is now actually being threatened particularly in light of four megatrends that are affecting the future of transportation. Bike riders could get insights on best routes or real-time information on areas to avoid. —Mark Fields.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Considering ongoing global warming and accelerated massive glacier melting predicted for the future, our study indicates the potential for dire environmental impacts due to pollutants delivered into pristine mountainous areas. Tags: Climate Change. —Bogdal et al. —Bogdal et al. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es901628x.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

By studying E-Golf use across multiple geographical regions, Volkswagen will monitor the effect of climate conditions, driving patterns, and energy performance; the data and insights gained during the scheme will be used in the final development of future EV technology applications. E-Golf test.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

The MTC project demonstrates the benefits of placing simulation directly into the hands of today’s industrial workforce and shows how simulation could help shape the future of manufacturing. The MTC is based in the historic English industrial city of Coventry (Figure 2), but its focus is solely on the future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

Worden of MBARI and published in the 10 April edition of the journal Science , offers insights into ecological differentiation and the dynamic nature of early plant evolution with relevance for work on climate change and cellular processes related to algae-derived biofuels being pursued by DOE scientists. Alexandra Worden.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palo Alto’s government has set a very aggressive Sustainability and Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 level by the year 2030. In comparison, the state’s goal is to achieve this amount by 2050. How many can really support a rapid influx of thousands of new EVs? Phoenix, Ariz.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

A team at the University of Münster has reviewed 53 studies that provide time- or technology-specific cost estimates for lithium-ion, solid-state, lithium–sulfur and lithium–air batteries among more than 2,000 publications related to the topic. —Mauler et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

DNS is a tool for fundamental studies of the micro-physics of turbulent reacting flows and provides full access to time-resolved fields and physical insight into chemistry turbulence. Low emission, low temperature engine concepts of the future operate in regimes where combustion is poorly understood. Wagner and Pannala.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Life cycle inventories have typically been presented at global, national, or regional levels—sufficient for understanding global processes such as climate change and fossil fuel depletion, but insufficient for the analysis of local processes such as air pollution, according to the researchers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

NextGen Climate America. The partnership will also work to enhance workplace charging efforts at public power utilities, study the impacts of EVs in public power communities, and share insights regarding infrastructure installation and EV interaction with the modern grid. Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

A study led by researchers at UC Berkeley has found that diesel exhaust forms about seven times more secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than gasoline exhaust for the same mass of unburned fuel emissions and, given emission factors, can be expected to form 15 times more SOA than gasoline per liter of fuel burned. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

According to a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) completed in 2020, Ioneer will produce enough lithium carbonate to produce batteries for 400,000 EVs per year. Ioneer’s ongoing conservation efforts for Tiehm’s buckwheat are aimed at addressing current and future threats to the species, including climate-related threats. (A

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