Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

CP operates a 21,000-km (13,000-mile) rail network across Canada and the USthat serves deep-water ports on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This project further expands our addressable market to include electrification of the freight rail sector representing a major global opportunity for the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Global clean energy investment was $67.8 Looking at the third-quarter global investment figures by type, asset finance of utility-scale renewable energy projects came to $49.3 The three biggest renewable energy asset financings in the quarter were the 860MW Triton Knoll project in UK waters at an investment cost of $2.6

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The new diesel engine, Ford’s second in North America, has already been applied in the global Ford Ranger truck sold in world markets (3.2 Also included is a water-cooled high-performance electric-controlled exhaust gas recirculation valve that is better able to withstand coolant pressure drops. liter Power Stroke five-cylinder diesel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2014

Since 2012, voestalpine has invested more than €100 million (US$140 million) in new plants in China, Germany, Romania, South Africa, and the US. With our new materials, we have managed to produce components that have absolutely unique selling points on a global level. —Wolfgang Eder, CEO of voestalpine AG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. The first is those countries that currently depend heavily on natural gas imports but that also have significant shale gas resources. A hat-tip to John! ). World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The IPCC’s global assessment of mitigation options for the transport sector places the greatest emphasis on the mitigation potential of improving carbon efficiencies for private vehicles and fuels. million deaths annually are due to physical inactivity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Russia-based RUSAL, a global aluminum producer, opened the first phase of its low-carbon aluminum production plant, Taishet Aluminum Smelter (TaAZ), in Taishet, Siberia. of global production of aluminum and 6.5% In 2020, RUSAL accounted for about 5.8% of alumina production; 44% of RUSAL’s production accounts for value-added products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels. This area of research is known as tribology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. Onshore, conventional hydroelectric generators convert this high-pressure water into electrical energy. Dr Ronan Doherty, Chief Technical Officer of Aquamarine Power , developer of the Oyster.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

Satellite data over a shipping lane in the south Atlantic show that the ships modify clouds to block an additional 2 Watts of solar energy, on average, from reaching each square meter of ocean surface near the shipping lane. However, if this small change occurred worldwide, it would be enough to affect global temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. Because of this slow start, global carbon intensity now needs to be cut by an average of 5.1% Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2009

Commercial acceptance and deployment of hydrogen separation membranes utilizing Group VB and VIIIB metals could potentially have global economic and environmental impacts. Global deposits of PGMs are quite limited with the largest quantities located in South Africa and Russia.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. This would prevent the release of more than 700,000 tonnes of CO 2 per annum—the equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from South Africa’s roads.

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EV Central

APRIL 4, 2025

Hop in, IM, the water’s very warm. They’ve done so in South Africa, South America and India. Globally, as we launch these brands, theyre all doing really well in every market. Chery has been the number one export seller from China to global markets for 21 years straight.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. The nature of the fermentation process dictates that fermentation products are dilute, comprised primarily of water.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

As evil and damaging as racism is to individuals and our society overall, the Climate LiarDeniers’s evil far exceeds the scope of race haters because the damage is done to everyone at a global level of catastrophe that no racial supremacist ever dreamed of. . It’s as obvious as water is wet. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

In 2015, farms in Limpopo Province of South Africa, from which the biofuel for the flights was sourced, achieved certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), one of the strongest sustainability standards in the world. All agronomic inputs needed, such as, fertilizer, water, crop protection etc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2 Additional highlights of the 9 th annual Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2015 report include: China saw by far the biggest renewable energy investments in 2014—a record $83.3 billion) and South Africa ($5.5

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This guest article is adapted from the author’s new book From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech , published by MIT Press. In 2023, 499 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa, an increase of more than 10 percent from 2022. What makes AI “good,” though?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The automotive catalytic converter, developed in the early 1970s primarily by General Motors and BASF/Engelhard and first deployed in 1975, changes exhaust pollutants into CO 2 , water vapor and nitrogen. In addition to the potential for cost reduction, other benefits of SDC’s technology include: Improvements in global air quality.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2014

Trees play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. The international effort to sequence and analyze the genome of Eucalyptus grandis engaged more than 80 researchers from 30 institutions, representing 18 countries. —Alexander Myburg. —Alexander Myburg.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2025

South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, according to the World Bank, a reality on display almost anywhere you travel across this vast nation of more than 60 million people. The dozens of other passengers were white mostly foreigners, but also a handful of South Africans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4 ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JULY 8, 2024

Overview REGULAR readers of these pages will be familiar with the fact BMW is currently touring its iX5 FCEV (fuel cell electric vehicle) Hydrogen prototype on something of a global fact-finding mission. The only emissions are water vapour and heat, the latter captured to warm the battery or cabin as required.

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Baua Electric

JULY 8, 2024

Overview REGULAR readers of these pages will be familiar with the fact BMW is currently touring its iX5 FCEV (fuel cell electric vehicle) Hydrogen prototype on something of a global fact-finding mission. The only emissions are water vapour and heat, the latter captured to warm the battery or cabin as required.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Jump to: Credit… Miriam Martincic A recent Booking.com global survey of 31,000 travelers found that 71 percent of respondents want to leave the places they visit better than when they arrived. Telos Group offers tours of South Africa, the U.S. Eighty-three percent said that sustainable travel is important to them.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

Other environmental concerns have pushed ahead of climate change on a global average basis. Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Although there is no scarcity of reserves for these energy transition minerals, global capabilities for mining and refining them are limited. Supporting policies will allow developing countries realise new business opportunities and could improve resilience while keeping the global decarbonisation agenda on course.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. The 197 signatory nations agreed to hold the increase in the average global temperature to no more than 2 °C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 1, 2025

Known for blending deep mechanical knowledge with authentic community passion, Jamie is not only a global ambassador for the VW brand but also the driving force behind the celebrated L'oe Show , a premier gathering of air-cooled and water-cooled Volkswagen cars.

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