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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Sterner is lead author in the UN climate panel’s (IPCC) working group Mitigation of Climate Change. Sterner is also the editor of the new book Fuel Taxes and the Poor, The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy , authored by 35 researchers. —Thomas Sterner.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership is a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to move goods in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible to protect public health and reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change. Arrow Transportation Systems Inc. Bison Transport, Inc. Cargo Transporters.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

The discussions focused primarily on the issues of climate change and global energy security, but also covered global air quality-related emissions standards, improved fuel quality and specifications for renewable fuels. That will serve both our customers and the environment. World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations. (WP

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MAY 9, 2012

The companies deployed and demonstrated a 150 kW fuel cell system near the 17 th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Durban, South Africa in late-2011. COP17 was a high-level summit on climate change.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

continued] The post Moving People In USA Much Harder To Decarbonize Than In Rest Of World appeared first on CleanTechnica. That triggered a lot of discussion, with some of the usual suspects chiming in on subjects they weren’t.

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APRIL 11, 2019

The Driving America Forward Act is supported by 60 organizations, including ABB Inc., ITC Holdings Corp., The Nature Conservancy, Toyota Motor North America, Union of Concerned Scientists, Volkswagen Group of America, and Volta. The Driving America Forward Act is supported by 60 organizations, including ABB Inc., ITC Holdings Corp.,

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APRIL 1, 2014

Fetranspor and Rio Bus, the public transportation companies for the state and city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and BYD launched a BYD battery-electric bus into service this week. This is the first pure-electric bus to launch in Rio and is running now on line 249 (Water-Santa Carioca) operated by Matias, the leader of the Consortium Internorte.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Halla Visteon Climate Control USA. This project will develop and integrate a phase change heating system for vehicles and demonstrate a significant reduction in the energy used for passenger cabin heating in electric vehicles. 2,342,108.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

For close to twenty years, it’s been clear that electrifying everything is a key climate change wedge. Jacobson’s work in the USA and then internationally with his 100% Renewables by 2050 modeling laid much of the groundwork for this.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Alaska is also joining the list of top investors for the company, alongside a fellow Seattle-based Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures. capable of transporting 76 passengers. ZeroAvia will set up a location in the Seattle area to support this initiative.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

China, the USA and the EU remain the top-3 emitters of CO 2 , accounting for respectively 29%, 15% and 11% of the world’s total. in 2013, of which three-thirds was used in the transport sector and the remainder mainly by refineries and the manufacturing and building industries in almost equal shares. Climate Change Emissions'

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continued] The post Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure Hyzon Edition appeared first on CleanTechnica. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining EnergyTech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own.

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continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica. For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The growth of electric vehicles is fun and exciting to those of us who are interested in the new tech, but the truly important target is to cut gasoline use in order to stop catastrophic climate change (not to mention deadly air pollution). So, more than any stat about EV sales, what’s important is seeing […].

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MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. —Cohan and Sengupta (2016).

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

And I’m especially happy and excited about how much this pisses off the worst of bad guys operating in the USA today. For those of you who aren’t boarding the ClueTrain on this issue, just connect the dots between this strategic move on the part of the Obama administration and the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Talks.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The Pledge was announced today at an affiliated event in advance of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Van Hool plant in Morristown (Tennessee, USA) is expected to start building buses from 2022. In 2020, MAN, in cooperation with transport partners from five European countries, will have 15 MAN Lion City E-city buses tested in a day-to-day operation. About 20% of the buses built by Scania are now CNG or biogas buses.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Raízen will distribute biofuels and more than 20 billion litres of other industrial and transport fuels annually through a combined network of nearly 4,500 Shell-branded service stations. Low-carbon, sustainable biofuels will be increasingly important in the global transport fuel mix. —Peter Voser, Shell CEO.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Aside from the direct climate and public health benefits of more electric vehicles replacing gas- and diesel-fueled cars, the uplifting thing about this is that it shows one thing super […].

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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JULY 27, 2013

Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

With a goal of obtaining scientifically rigorous, representative data from multiple producing basins, the study brings together Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the university and nine of the nation’s leading natural gas producers: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group plc, Chevron, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.,

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JANUARY 12, 2009

So let me get this straight - while those of us who are trying to lead greener lives, have been cutting our carbon footprints and working with our cities, states and the rest of the USA to help them do likewise, Killer Coal has been playing us for chumps and wiping out all our efforts every single second of every day.

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JULY 17, 2020

VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. AOI 09: Improving Transportation System Efficiency Through Better Utilization. Clemson University.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Rail transport giant Alstom is investing €14 million (US$15 million), and thus taking a minority stake, in EasyMile, a start-up developing the EZ10 electric driverless shuttle. The EZ10 provides shared driverless transportation for the last mile. EasyMile shuttles transport up to 12 passengers.

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JULY 16, 2015

The temperature of the batteries in a quick ascent / descent in tropical climates was not properly anticipated. The University of Hawaii with the support of the Department of Transportation will host the airplane in its hangar at Kalaeloa airport. The Round-The-World mission will resume early April from Hawaii to the USA West Coast.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

By 2022, Daimler Trucks & Buses plans to include series-produced vehicles with battery-electric drive in its vehicle portfolio in its main sales regions Europe, USA and Japan. At Daimler Trucks & Buses we are clearly committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and thus to the decarbonization of our industry.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

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JUNE 17, 2023

As China, Western Europe, and the USA charge ahead to become majority passenger electric fleets, we have to remember that this will not be good enough unless the rest of the world joins us. Some of the poorest countries in the world are the ones to bear the brunt of climate change fueled disasters — […]

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JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal. For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. And the first plug-in cars mass-produced in the USA in a century will go on sale this fall.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Reviewing worldwide test processes for HGV (heavy goods vehicle) engines, the report says that Euro VI (EPA10 in USA) emissions levels for diesel and gas engines should be broadly indistinguishable (within measurement error) and that levels emitted from both engine types will be very low.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

This is an aggressive goal, but the climate problem compels us to act with fierce urgency. —Dr. Objective is to capture and transport by pipeline approximately 1 million tons per year of CO 2 streams from facilities located in the Bay Area, Calif., DOE Share: $3,014,666). C6 Resources. DOE Share: $3,000,000). DOE Share: $2,723,512).

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APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. 23 ] , [ 24 ].

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The study was conducted for the International Council on Clean Transportation ( ICCT ), which wished to assess the greenhouse gas emissions associated with biodiesel production. This outcome has important implications for European Union policies on climate and renewable energy sources. Jauhiainen, J.

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