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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The results of the joint study, released by German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), suggest that incentives to promote a higher share of electric driving would increase the potential for plug-in hybrid vehicles to reduce emissions.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Source: University of Leicester.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The report, which is based on recent results from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) and latest statistics for energy use and other activities, shows large national differences between industrialised countries.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5

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APRIL 4, 2012

In this plot, a red star under the boxes means that the mean values for hardwood and mixed fuel tests are statistically different for that stove technology class (at the 95% confidence level, p. They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The report includes a summary of results and feedback from leading oceanographic and atmospheric scientists who attended a three-day workshop held in March 2011 as part of the project. Evaluation of the Use of Hindcast Model Data for OSRA in a Period of Rapidly Changing Conditions; Final Workshop Report (OCS Study BOEMRE 2011-032).

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JULY 9, 2020

Although large emissions cuts are urgently needed to achieve global climate goals, it may take decades before we can measure the effect of the reductions on global temperature evolution, according to a new study by researchers at Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research. Samset, Jan S. Fuglestvedt and Marianne T.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

tonnes of carbon per capita per year, according to a new paper published by an international team of 31 scientists in Nature Geoscience. A quarter of the growth in CO2 emissions in developing countries can be accounted for by an increase in international trade of goods and services.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Fuel Efficiency Improvement Technologies for Conventional Stoichiometric Gasoline Direct Injection Multi-Cylinder Internal Combustion Engine. Only statistically valid fuel economy improvements (95% confidence level) will be considered for Phase II funding consideration. Wide-Range High-Boost Turbocharging System.

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MARCH 31, 2011

—“Destination Sustainability” The report identifies seven challenges to achieving more–environmentally sustainable freight transportation in North America: Lack of internalization of external costs of freight transportation. Inadequate coordination among North American transportation agencies. Supply Chain Management.

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JULY 11, 2013

The PE International study suggests that the embodied impacts of the vehicles themselves will become more of a focus for further decarbonization in future. Future grid mix intensities in this study were estimated using information from EU statistics, the EC Roadmap, the UK Carbon Plan and the UK 2012 Draft Energy Bill.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The study was commissioned by EUROBAT, representing Europe’s automotive battery industry; the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA); the automobile manufacturers’ associations of Japan (JAMA) and South Korea (KAMA); and the International Lead Association (ILA). More than 93% of a lead-based battery is available for recycling.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments. Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern. MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

The hybrids were part of UPS’ first cohort of 50 (prototype) hybrid electric vans. Using a t-test, researchers found neither difference to be statistically significant. The Eaton hybrid system was developed in part under a previous $7.5 Eaton hybrid system components on UPS undercarriage. Source: Lammert 2009.

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JULY 9, 2012

Crossroads and junctions are the most complex part of the modern traffic environment. Accidents involving wild animals are a major international traffic problem. However, these official accident statistics do not reveal the entire picture. Click to enlarge. Automatic braking at intersections. In the US 21.5% Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The gap between official and real-world fuel-economy figures in Europe has risen to about 38%, according to a new report published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Unintended flexibilities that are currently part of the NEDC should not be accounted for when transitioning to WLTP. Source: ICCT.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Seventeen measurement stations near Hawaii’s Honolulu International Airport on the island of Oahu collected data at 1-second intervals over the course of a year. The data set is of great interest to utilities, developers of large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, forecasters, system operators, laboratories and universities.

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MAY 5, 2010

The Net-Zero Neighborhood is based on local generation using renewables; distributed energy storage in proportion to the population; electric transportation as an integral part of energy storage; energy becoming a consumer commodity that is bought and sold in a local marketplace; and a new jobs base in the form of local energy service providers.

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MARCH 31, 2009

The newly developed BMI technology uses EEG, which measures changes in electrical potential on the scalp, and NIRS, which measures changes in cerebral blood flow, with a newly developed information extraction technology which enables statistical processing of the complex information from these two types of sensors. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Battelle staff developed the new Grid Command Distribution software internally as part of its work over the past two years as part of an ongoing smart grid demonstration project in Ohio: AEP Ohio’s gridSMART program, sponsored by the DOE. the addition of solar panels, batteries, volt/VAR. Earlier post.)

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The NXP engineers described the process at the IEEE International Test Conference in San Diego last week. In that process, chips are tested in groups and are all subjected to the complete battery, even if some parts fail some of the tests along the way. The NXP algorithm then discovered which tests fail together.

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MAY 24, 2017

In a speech made at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ 2017 International Petroleum Summit, Johnston laid out his concerns for the future of oil. This is due in large part to an oil investment drought marked by two year of consecutive decline, a statistic that has no precedent in the oil industry.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. —Jesse Schneider.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

The durability of wetted fuel system parts was probed in the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) Report Number 662. That work concludes that E20 fuels do negatively impact a subset of fuel-wetted parts, while other fuel-wetted parts showed no effect in screening.

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MAY 23, 2018

Most existing lane-change algorithms for autonomous cars have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they’re so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Parametrix (Auburn, Washington) will apply advanced probabilistic statistical methods to integrate oceanographic, ecological, human use data, stakeholder input, and cumulative impacts for the purpose of evaluating ocean renewable energy siting proposals.

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JULY 30, 2019

Eni has released the 18 th edition of the World Oil, Gas and Renewables Review , the annual statistics report on oil, natural gas and renewables sources. The US also broke into the international crude trade, doubling export volumes and entering that top ten ranking. Source: Eni World Oil Review 2019.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

As an integrated, international cooperation, NEDO is funding the DRIVEtheARC corridor as part of its mission to improve energy conservation and promote new energy technologies, as well as to help facilitate government relations and research and information exchange between the US and Japan.

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It is not surprising that internal combustion engine cars have a tendency to combust externally too,” Musk wrote in a post on Twitter. The CEO was commenting on a study which revealed that EVs catch fire far less frequently than internal combustion and hybrid cars. .

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Carbon emissions associated with increased exports from China (left), as part of a more systematic view of increased national emissions (right), 2002 to 2005. Using data from national statistical offices, they found that China’s export-related industrial production rose by an average of 26% per year from 2002 to 2007. by Jack Rosebro.

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MAY 24, 2016

A paper covering this research was presented at the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Stockholm, 16-21 May. However, by merging statistical physics with control theory, and utilizing leading-edge computation, we can create a new perspective, a new framework, for control of autonomous systems.

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JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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These lead to higher purchase prices than for conventional cars (with only an internal combustion engine) but have lower running costs as they use less and/or cheaper fuels like electricity and hydrogen. The vehicles powertrains considered were: Conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Non-plug-in hybrids.

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Demand for electricity dropped last year in nearly all countries, according to the International Energy Association. student in statistics at the Laboratory of Probability, Statistics, and Modeling , in Paris. Among the many industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic were electric utilities. De Vilmarest is a Ph.D.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have provided new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the US by using an empirical approach that combines visual interpretation with statistical analysis. A commuter flow-based regionalization of the United States. Nelson et al. Click to enlarge. …

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of global greenhouse gas emissions, or about as much carbon as the country of Argentina produces annually, according to the International Energy Agency. Realizing that less attention has been paid to the potential footprint of autonomous vehicles, the MIT researchers built a statistical model to study the problem.

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