Green Car Congress

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

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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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. The agencies expect, however, that a portion of these improvements will be made through.

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Green Car Congress

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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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the US, President Obama declared an American goal of putting one million EVs on the road by 2015. Furthest along with electricity market deregulation, the US can serve as a model for how to design market rules to reduce the cost of integrating EVs on the grid. Denmark has a goal of 200,000 EVs by 2020, recently reduced from 400,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

An ever-expanding backlog of investment needs is the price of our failure to maintain funding levels—and the cost of these investments grows as we delay. Total combined highway and transit spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) has fallen by about 25% in the same period to 1.5% of GDP today.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized. —John D.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

The more the merrier, the market for these is going to explode soon with Obama’s stimulation plan, and its tax of $7,500 to $15,000 for electric trucks. Note: modified 3/6/09 to add approximate cost of battery lease.). Costs would depend on the number of batteries needed to meet a customer’s needs, the spokesman said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. “ Bretton Woods plus Yalta, multiplied by Reykjavik. United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The Advanced Clean Cars program combines the control of soot, smog-causing pollutants (LEV III) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into a single coordinated package of requirements for model years 2017 through 2025. This will reduce the monthly cost of a new car by $12, even when considering the higher cost of the loan or lease.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

I’m not against that and we should be exploring it but there are a lot of challenges—the primary one being the cost of these vehicles and there are infrastructure issues as well ,” cautioned Heywood. Even without the operational issues there is still the matter of scale. Cars (vehicles/1000 people). Public transit (trips/year).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. On the other hand, the cost of a used transportation battery will be set by the next cheapest form of scalable dispatchable storage such as air pressure storage less the battery recycle value. — AH2 14.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed updates to its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ). In addition, the proposal would update the Air Quality Index (AQI) for particle pollution. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge. million, to $5.9 and one in Philadelphia, PA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In response to a court order, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ), including soot, setting the annual health (primary) standard at 12 µg/m 3. The outgoing annual standard is 15 µg/m 3 , which has been in place since 1997.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consumer Reports sent letters and a consumer petition to the leaders of General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi, calling on the companies to drop their legal attack against America’s Clean Air Act, and instead support Clean Car standards that help drivers save money on fuel and reduce air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The fuel economy standards move the calculation to regulators and require that manufacturers improve fuel economy across their product lines using technologies that may cost a little more but save consumers much more on fuel in the long run. She said it led automakers to produce bigger, faster, and more polluting cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). The Obama Administration doesnt understand that. " President Obamas auto task force doesnt see it that way.

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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. INTRODUCTION.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.). Comments should be identified by Docket ID No.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

But he has also claimed that he is “all for electric cars” and during his 2020 campaign, he tried to take credit for incentives put in place during the Obama administration. Everyone agrees that burning fossil fuels is extremely polluting. He went as far as calling them a “hoax”.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

Updated guidance from the EPA has resulted in the most aggressive vehicle pollution standards the United States has seen so far. But the AAI is arguing that the EPA’s terms "cannot be met without substantially increasing the cost of all vehicles, reducing consumer choice and disadvantaging major portions of the U.S.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. The Clean Air Act allows the EPA to address pollutants coming out of the tailpipe of a car.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The obvious goal is to roll back the stringent mandates put in place by the Obama administration and subsequent advancement by the Biden administration that prioritize all-electric vehicles. Duffy has directed the NHTSA to review fuel economy standards after the 2022 model year. But the keystone issue is pricing.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and would subsidize polluting gas vehicles. The puck is going to be in EV vehicles, and that is irrefutable.”

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