Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests. For this study, Fonken and colleagues in Ohio State’s Department of Neuroscience collaborated with researchers in the university’s Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The locomotive will show the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce transportation air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The funds will be used to retire a Tier 0 diesel locomotive and to replace it with a zero-emission switching locomotive using advanced hydrogen technology.

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JULY 22, 2010

In a new report released by the California Air Resources Board, scientists from the University of California at Davis and Berkeley estimate that rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins. Our study reveals that climate change and regional air pollution are intertwined problems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The approved 2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for about 40% of California''s carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

Results from a new study by researchers at the University of California Irvine support a growing body of scientific literature indicating that sensitive populations, including children, certain ethnic groups and people of lower socioeconomic status, are more vulnerable to the effects of high exposures to traffic-related air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., Cash for Clunkers”) program could maximize greenhouse gas emissions savings by using fuel-economy based eligibility requirements rather than age-based requirements. Earlier post.). The one exception is the US CARS program.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

Transportation is the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases in California – accounting for over one third of the state’s overall emissions. To reach our emissions reduction goals, we need to be strategic as we deploy new vehicles and new transportation modes. —Senator Skinner.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Awardees represent the top one to two percent of environmentally-responsible SmartWay carriers that conduct freight operations with lower emissions and less energy. Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 72 million metric tons of carbon pollution, while saving more than 170 million barrels of oil and $24.9

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The anaerobic digester system that will be used was developed as a pilot project at the University of California, Davis. The University of California, Davis, will receive $2,770,072 to research the comparative value, benefits and drawbacks of all types of alternative fuels in California. EdeniQ is based in Visalia, Tulare County.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many pollution control and renewable-energy applications require precious metals that are limited—there isn’t enough platinum to supply the millions and millions of automobiles driven in the world. Mullite is not only easier to produce than platinum, but also better at reducing pollution in diesel engines. Kyeongjae Cho.

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APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Environmental considerations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Black carbon is part of a group of pollution sources known as Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs), including methane gas and ozone, which are produced on earth. Cappa, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Davis, and Timothy B. Earlier post.). Led by principal investigators Christopher D.

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APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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MAY 17, 2012

The study claims mechanical damage and suggests degraded engine performance, emissions and durability on conventional vehicles from the use of E15 or E20 fuel. CRC research programs are managed by five technical committees (Advanced/Vehicle/Fuel/Lubricants, Atmospheric Impacts, Emissions, Performance, and Aviation.). Background.

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MARCH 29, 2022

The funding of this zero-emission private hire fleet follows the successful pay-per-mile funding of taxis that Zeti previously delivered in London using MEEF funds. —Jeff Davis, Director of Breathe. Breathe analytics technology provides the intelligence to manage its operations proactively.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2016

Current ozone levels in the San Joaquin Valley are predominantly caused by local emissions, but as air quality standards become lower, any contribution from global ozone levels needs to be understood. An ozonesonde is a balloon which measures ozone from the surface to more than 10 kilometers above the ground.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted the expert review reports of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) technical analysis. Instead don’t we want to know what percentage of the on-road fleet are ZEVs in 2050, as this will help determine the GHG emissions? 2009 Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Review.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. Two recent studies explore different aspects of the use, potential impact and valuation of PHEVs. Increasing the percentage of PHEVs in the vehicle.

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JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. clip) Despite some concerns that plugging in might stress the electric grid, or actually increase carbon dioxide emissions by relying on coal-fired power plants, Kramer is not worried.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

At the same time, we’ve been able to take old, polluting cars off the road and help consumers purchase fuel efficient vehicles.”. The scheme has not been without controversy though; one UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel criticized the scheme as a costly way to reduce carbon emissions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Heres our three-paragaph summary and a link to the first of several postings on the subject at CalCars-News : July 2007 EPRI-NRDC Definitive Study: PHEVs Will Reduce Emissions If Broadly Adopted The EPRI-NRDC studies finally give an environmental stamp of approval to PHEVs. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 These environmental impacts are not fully documented, according to Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis. Data on agricultural nitrogen pollution are limited, and some nitrogen pollution forms are difficult to monitor.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. gigatons of carbon dioxide annually—a 40% reduction of urban passenger transport emissions—by 2050. Further, an estimated 1.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The California Air Resources Board commissioned the studies to further investigate the connection between fine particulate pollution and public health impacts in California. We’ve long known particulate matter is a major component of California’s air pollution problem. Particle Pollution (PM 2.5 ) in California Using a.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

Nichols met with officials of China’s leading automakers and battery manufacturers in an effort to expand cooperation and accelerate deployment of zero-emission cars, trucks and buses. Discussions with the companies centered on plans for developing new models of zero-emission vehicles and support needed to enter the US market.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2019

The team used a combination of climate, air quality, and epidemiological models to assess future air pollution deaths in a changing climate under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP W/m 2 before 2100 without overshoot by employment of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.). Hong et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

PG&E ’s proposal is aimed at accelerating widespread EV adoption and combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions related to transportation. million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2025, and zero-emission vehicle infrastructure able to support 1 million vehicles by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

In California, mobile sources of diesel emissions, such as trucks and construction equipment, are one of the largest sources of fine particulates. Estes will pay $35,000 to the University of California Davis Extension to implement a state-approved training program for out-of-state trucking firms on compliance with the rule.

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JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2010

Finally, the proposal delineates a land use and transportation infrastructure layout that enhances efficiency and community, while minimizing energy use, water pollution, and nonrenewable resource consumption. LLMs reduce total energy use for transportation, and thus reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, Delucchi notes.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2022

“At Breathe our mission is to provide large scale Electric-Vehicles-as-a-Service offerings and we are excited to be starting with sustainable, flexible and affordable vehicle subscription options for London’s private hire market,” commented Jeff Davis, Director of Breathe. “We Electrified Fleets vs Air Pollution Deaths.

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