Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2012

Pollution warms the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study by a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Maryland published in Geophysical Research Letters. —Fan et al. —Jiwen Fan.

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The Driven EV News

MARCH 26, 2024

Despite the scaremongering and fear tactics that commonly seek to question and undermine the “clean” credentials of electric vehicles, new research has again demonstrated that EVs continue to have lower… The post EVs are clearly less polluting than petrol cars, even when their grids are dirty appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2023

General Motors and Ford have joined a pilot project to use EVs as an alternative energy source for the electricity grid, helping to cut pollution from fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

We have just 13 years to deliver a net-zero electricity grid for the UK. The cracker and MMT, if successful, will allow the green hydrogen to be recovered and delivered as high-purity hydrogen at the point of use, with a focus on mobility and off-grid power applications. Source: CSIRO. Time is running out and we can’t do this alone.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It offers a view of the energy structures of the future, which will integrate systems to maximize energy use, generator profitability and grid reliability all while minimizing carbon emissions. This is a game-changer for both nuclear energy and carbon-free hydrogen production for numerous industries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A report published by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), shows California investments to clean up old, polluting school buses have already exceeded $1.2 The Legislature has appropriated an additional $1.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Battery manufacturers can also serve the accelerating stationary energy storage market, which uses batteries to support the power grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

NITI Aayog, the Government of India’s official think tank, with support from RMI and RMI India, has launched a campaign to transform last-mile deliveries and eliminate pollution through consumer engagement. We will promote awareness about health, environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles through the Shoonya campaign.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Quantifies the production of pollutant ozone (? Although the EV had a much greater impact on emissions during its production phase than the gasoline or diesel versions, the initial deficit was more than overcome during the use phase, even using electricity at the current grid configuration.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Phase one of the project consists of eleven electric school buses, four of which were funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), two by the California Energy Commission and an additional five by San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Funding of $4.94

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

billion Fiscal Year 2021-22 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives is targeted to benefit lower income communities and those disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution. The remainder comes from the Air Pollution Control Fund and the Air Quality Improvement Program. Over half of the $1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Typical daily grid demand. “ Why do you need energy storage on the grid, when the grid is full of power plants that generate all the energy that is needed? ” It would seem like a good question to ask and applies the same logic has been used for the past fifty years in determining grid strategy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. Framework of Electric Mobility - Infrastructure - Charging - Grid Nexus. In areas with high concentrations of PEVs, the distribution system is likely to be the first part of the grid to require upgrades and management as a result of PEV growth. Distributed Energy Resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The CellPack Stationary can also be adapted to other demands such as electric vehicle charging or power supply for low-quality- or off-grid installations. On the market for smaller gensets, we can make a significant difference now bringing down CO 2 emissions and air pollution. So, this is where we start, one generator at a time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Through a collaboration agreement, the two parties have agreed to work together to develop solutions which can help tackle the city’s air pollution challenges. However, the resulting environmental impact, particularly air pollution, has become a priority for the Chinese government and a matter of global importance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

EarthSense Systems—a joint venture between the University of Leicester and aerial mapping company BlueSky—has published MappAir, the first high resolution nationwide map of air pollution. Using the British National Grid, EarthSense divided the UK into 100 meter squares. ultrafine pollution particles smaller than 2.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In the study’s future 2018 grid scenarios that account for predicted coal plant retirements, PEVs would produce air emissions damages comparable to or slightly lower than HEVs. Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. Source: Weis et al. Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) awarded funding to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) to deploy 15 Proterra Catalyst buses; 11 Proterra depot-chargers; and 4 Proterra fast-chargers. We expect this program will eliminate 1.592 tons per year of weighted criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2023

The solar project may also be expanded at the option of Terra-Gen to include a co-located battery energy storage system to increase the delivery of renewable energy to the grid during times when more costly—and often more polluting—peaking power plants may be used to meet customer needs.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2024

EV factories in the Southeast may inadvertently be creating more pollution for all ratepayers. Road-trip fast-chargers for EVs are growing at a record pace. And saving seconds with soap may have initiated an in-person recall of thousands of Cybertrucks. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. “Trapped” accelerator pedals are.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

The rise of electric vehicles running on increasingly renewable power will bring big environmental benefits to New York, reducing air pollution locally and carbon emissions that feed global climate change. Managed well, EV charging could bring many benefits for the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

To settle this case, the company agreed to pay $253,300 to the Air Pollution Control Fund to support efforts to improve air quality, and to comply with all applicable CARB regulations. The original At-Berth Regulation, adopted in 2007, requires vessel fleets to reduce their diesel engine power generation while docked.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

A large scale roll-out of electric cars on European roads would result in significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower levels of certain air pollutants, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment. This would also lower the benefits of using electric vehicles in these countries. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Power reduction requirements have been phased in over time and fleets can accomplish this by turning off their diesel engines and connecting to grid-based shore power, or by using alternative technologies to achieve equivalent emission reductions while in port. To resolve these violations, Del Monte agreed to pay a settlement of $1,990,650.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Bucket trucks are a critical tool for building and maintaining the electric grid, which is set for major investment and expansion as the country shifts toward cleaner sources of energy. Con Edison owns more than 300 such trucks. Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Not only can electric vehicles help meet our climate goals and reduce air pollution, they might be a strategy to reduce operation costs and enhance resilience. Also, Green Mountain Power has now become the first utility to use stored energy from an electric vehicle’s battery to help reduce peak demand on the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The solution will lower the cost of hydrogen by being able to run off grid, opening up more and better wind sites. Replacing this current polluting consumption would require 820 GW of wind generating capacity, 26% more than the current global installed wind capacity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Under the decision, 70% of the funds will go towards charging for medium-and heavy-duty vehicles, which are responsible for a disproportionate share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other air pollutants from the transportation sector, and 30% will go towards light-duty charging at or near multi-unit dwellings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. If necessary, this energy can flow from the gas network back to the power grid at any time.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

The potential use of a co-located battery energy storage system at the facility would add to Electrify America’s ongoing effort of deploying more than 30 MW of co-located behind-the-meter energy storage systems at charging stations across the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

These investments will focus on planning and deploying a range of charging options to support communities, including grid-friendly high-power fast chargers and at-home charging. billion for zero-emission trucks, buses, and off-road equipment and fueling infrastructure; and $400 million to enable port electrification.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2021

The main purpose of the project co-financed by the EU is to reduce pollutant emissions in the centre of the city. For example, in the case of a power grid outage they will be able to safely exit an intersection. The models ordered by Brasov will be equipped with a 240 kW electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said that the ambitious target is grounded in analysis of cost-effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on a trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide reductions on the order of 80% by 2050. The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Charging electric vehicles at night not only saves electric vehicle owners money on their electric bill, it also helps utilities better manage the grid and benefits the entire grid system and reliability for all customers.

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