Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 —President Obama. Total cost of the new units is currently projected to be approximately $14 billion. The project is scheduled to be the first US nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades.

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MARCH 7, 2012

US President Barack Obama announced a new $1-billion National Community Deployment Challenge to spur deployment of advanced alternative fuel vehicles in communities around the country.

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JULY 20, 2010

This marks the first new deepwater production since the Obama Administration halted drilling after the Deepwater Horizon accident. At a final development cost of less than $900 million, the initial stage of development is expected to produce 35 million of the estimated 60 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) net resource.

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MAY 5, 2009

US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels. This is a very aggressive directive from the President.”

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MARCH 31, 2009

This alone could cut the number of batteries required by as much as half and reduce the cost of each vehicle by thousands of dollars. Plug In America's legislative director Jay Friedland further noted that the existing $7,500 Federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles would further reduce the Volt’s cost. Chelsea Sexton.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Were a more stringent fuel economy standard to be implemented, 63% said it was likely the cost of vehicles will increase too much. If President Obama were to implement a 60 mpg by 2025 rule, 28% of respondents would feel more favorable toward him, while 14% would feel less favorable.

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MAY 29, 2008

Pandering politicians have ensured the true cost of gas remains shrouded in tax policy and the defense budget. Obama was not blown away by his opposition to the gas holiday. Barack Obama had the courage to tell voters that the McCain-Clinton summer gas-giveaway plan was a fraud. One cornerstone of the policy is cheap gas.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

President Obama announced more than $1 billion in Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives to advance clean energy technologies. As part of the President’s Clean Power Plan, DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is making up to $1 billion dollars in loan guarantees available to support commercial-scale distributed energy projects.

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APRIL 1, 2011

On Friday, President Obama announced the National Clean Fleets Partnership, with AT&T, FedEx, PepsiCo, UPS and Verizon as charter members. In light of President Obama’s announcement of The National Clean Fleets Partnership, we applaud the public-private partnership model inherent in this partnership.

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MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

President Obama has proposed a credit equivalent of 50 percent of the extra cost of purchasing a natural gas-powered truck compared with one that runs on diesel or gasoline. Quantum says its composite tanks are the lightest in the industry, requiring less structure for mounting support, thereby increasing available payload.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2010, AT&T and other large US fleet operators joined in the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities’ National Clean Fleets Partnership as part of a national challenge launched by President Obama to cut America’s petroleum imports by one-third by 2025.

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JULY 21, 2016

A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Advances in enzyme technology reduce the dose by up to 50%, resulting in a use cost of as low as $0.50/gallon. Advances in enzyme development have enabled the reduction of the enzyme dose by up to 50%, resulting in an enzyme use cost of as low as $0.50 Source: Novozymes. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

On Friday, President Obama announced the National Clean Fleets Partnership, with AT&T, FedEx, PepsiCo, UPS and Verizon as charter members. In light of President Obama’s announcement of The National Clean Fleets Partnership, we applaud the public-private partnership model inherent in this partnership.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In the lowest-cost scenario, algae harvested using OriginOil’s Algae Appliance is blended with waste feedstocks and converted onsite to achieve a modeled production cost of $2.28 This cost roughly doubles to $5.44/gallon per gallon for gasoline or diesel. gallon ($1.44/Liter) Liter) when using pure algae feedstocks.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. kW/kg to 1.4

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

President Obama announced both new programs during a speech on Thursday at the University of Miami. Low-pressure approaches inherently reduce the burden (cost) of home refueling.). Innovative low-cost high-performance compressor technology for high-pressure approaches. Natural gas vehicles.

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MAY 7, 2009

The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) and US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) issued a joint statement criticizing the cuts in the hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle program in the Obama Administration’s FY 2010 budget request for the US Department of Energy. Earlier post.). The budget request includes a 59.6%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The report comes shortly before an anticipated announcement from the Obama Administration on a plan to set national standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for heavy- and medium-duty trucks. UCS found that net cost savings from more efficient trucks would total $24 billion in 2030 at fuel prices of about $3.50

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

The report comes as oil majors like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, and other companies, are developing at least a couple dozen oil shale and CTL projects, including 12 CTL facilities projected to produce 170 million barrels of liquid fuels per year at a cost of $2 billion to $7 billion per plant. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 30, 2019

The study found that the cost of abating carbon emissions through an RPS policy is more than $130 per metric ton of CO 2 abated, and as much as $460 per metric ton. This is several times higher than conventional estimates of the benefits of reducing a metric ton of CO 2 emissions, a measure known as the social cost of carbon (SCC).

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

The award, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was announced by President Barack Obama during a visit to Indiana in August. million to advance the development of low-cost manufacturing of electric drive vehicles (EDV) in the United States. With an $89.3

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JULY 26, 2012

The new selections announced today are part of a two-phase effort to evaluate and develop advanced oxy-combustion projects that yield cost-competitive options for CCUS. These projects will aim to achieve at least 90% carbon dioxide removal while delivering carbon dioxide at a capture cost of less than $25 per ton.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2011

In May 2010, President Obama announced that EPA, DOT and California would begin working together to assess the performance and costs of a variety of technologies that could be available in model years 2017-2025 as the first step in possibly extending the current national emission and fuel economy standards. mpg US (6.6

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. The cost of making fuel cell vehicles has recently dropped dramatically. Recent advances in fuel cell manufacturing and catalyst performance have led to a dramatic decrease in the cost of fuel cell production.

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MARCH 10, 2016

The expanded regulatory scope comes in support of the newly announced commitment by President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to new actions to reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, the largest industrial source of methane. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy New York City. That represents only 1.43

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AUGUST 13, 2012

These projects support the Materials Genome Initiative ( earlier post ), an effort announced by President Obama to double the speed and cut the cost of discovering, developing, and deploying new high-tech materials in the United States. DOE’s investments are leveraging an additional $11 million from the private sector.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Using wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)s for power electronics can improve efficiency and thereby reduce the high cost of battery packs, according to a new report from Lux Research. kW/kg), and cost ( $182 / 100,000) while maintaining 15-year reliability metrics. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under President Obama’s national fuel policy ( earlier post ), the EPA and the Department of Transportation’s NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are jointly developing a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 30, 2025

Then, in 2009, during efforts to mitigate the financial crisis, newly elected President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. HITECHs Broken Promises and Unforeseen Consequences A few years later, policymakers in the Obama administration thought it was unrealistic to prioritize interoperability.

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JULY 19, 2009

And the same people who lapped that stuff up like the mindless minions they are, today use words like “socialist&# to describe President Obama and they nod along like bobble heads to every word of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. “…his company estimates that the average cost of saving a kilowatt-hour through efficiency is 1.7

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AUGUST 9, 2013

In a June speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama said that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would only be built if the project “ does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” ( Earlier post.). —IHS CERA Insight.

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