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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally granted a California Air Resources Board (CARB) request for a waiver of preemption for its Advanced Clean Car (ACC) regulations. The LEVIII amendments establish more stringent criteria and GHG emission standards starting with the 2015 and 2017 MYs, respectively. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has launched the third year of its Clean Vehicle Rebate Project ( CVRP ) with $15 million in funding. CVRP promotes the purchase of zero-emission or plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles. During the past two years, $11.1

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Brown is also proposing a new eight-year initiative to continue the state’s clean vehicle rebates and spur more infrastructure investments. When plug-in hybrids are added, that brings the total to 337,483 units. fully zero tailpipe emissions vehicles—on its roads. million zero-emission vehicles to California by 2025.

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JULY 21, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) approved up to $40 million for the third year of funding to promote the purchase of next-generation clean cars, trucks and off-road equipment. Unless reauthorized, AB 118 and its programs will sunset in 2015.

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MAY 26, 2017

The Government of Canada is moving forward with provincial and territorial partners, industry and stakeholders, to develop a national strategy to increase the number of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVS)—battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles—on Canadian roads by 2018. Clean growth and clean jobs.

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MARCH 23, 2021

This advanced smart charging initiative is available to all BMW’s battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) drivers in Northern and Central California who are also PG&E residential, electric customers. Through smart charging, EVs act as a flexible grid resource to support the overall reliability of the electric grid.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The CAR study uses the distribution of hybrid sales as the basis to estimate the distribution of plug-in electric vehicle sales. That estimate puts a total of 496,000 plug-in electric vehicles on US roads in 2015, with annual sales of 27,000 for 2011; 77,000 for 2012; 116,000 for 2013; 136,000 for 2014; and 140,000 for 2015.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

GE and Clean Energy Fuels are collaborating to expand the infrastructure for natural gas transportation in the United States. As part of the collaboration, Clean Energy Fuels will initially purchase two MicroLNG plants from GE Oil & Gas. The two GE MicroLNG plants are targeted to begin operation in 2015. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The analysis in the EC roadmap concludes that fleet adoption of grid-electric vehicles (PHEVs and EVs) could lead to a cumulative 200,000 units on the road by 2015. plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEVs and EVs)—highly attractive. Last week, GE announced plans to purchase 25,000 GEVs by 2015. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

is the next generation of ARB’s first Vision scenario planning tool used for ARB’s D raft Vision for Clean Air: A Framework for Air Quality and Climate Planning published in 2012. Prior to the Board meeting, staff will hold a public workshop on 16 October 2015. Vision 2.0 Click to enlarge. Passenger vehicles. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2010

million in rebates for plug-in hybrid and zero emissions vehicles as part of an overall $42.3 battery electric or fuel cell) and plug-in hybrid light-duty vehicles and up to $20,000 for the purchase of ARB-certified or approved zero-emission commercial vehicles on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Plug-in California Emissions Plug 225

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MAY 17, 2023

The collaborative testing builds on the momentum of the ChargeForward smart charging program, which was announced in 2015 and offers PG&E customers who drive a BMW EV, incentives to align vehicle charging with renewable energy to help support the overall sustainability of the electric grid. In California 1.4

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

The vehicles are 2015-2016 models, with battery technology that enables an everyday range of about 80-90 miles—suited for in-town driving, and enough for travel between Davis and Sacramento. Transitioning fleets to electric vehicles helps advance clean energy technologies and reduce emissions from transportation.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Since its introduction around 2015, it has gone on to be South Africa’s all time top-selling fully electric vehicle up to now. The BMW i8 also tops the plug-in hybrid charts. The BMW i3 was the only fully electric vehicle available in South Africa for a very long time. Nissan briefly introduced the first generation […].

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MAY 3, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Sanyo Electric plans to launch mass production of lithium ion batteries for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles by fiscal 2012 as part of a ¥200-billion investment (US$2.126 billion) over the next three years in rechargeable batteries and solar cells.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Plug-in electric vehicles are promising and sales have started, but it will take time to reach very large volumes, and will likely require strong incentives over the coming decade to reach a fully competitive point. The paper estimates PEVs to have a total incremental cost close to $500 billion between 2015?2025.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Toyota has become a new international auto partner for the Germany-based Clean Energy Partnership (CEP). We firmly believe that fuel cell hybrid vehicles will play a major role in reducing emissions and achieving sustainable mobility, alongside petrol and plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 24, 2014

million hydrogen, battery electric, and plug-in electric vehicles on the roadway by 2025. The City of Corona will receive $325,632 to install six Level 2 and three fast electric vehicle chargers throughout the city for plug in electric vehicle (PEV) destination and public access workplace charging.

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Hydrogen San Diego California Energy 354

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The joint authors of California’s Clean Energy Future are the Air Resources Board (ARB), California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO). California’s Clean Energy Future.

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APRIL 23, 2014

One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers. Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. EPIC plans must be approved every three years.

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Alternative Fuels San Diego California Fuel 244

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Advanced Clean Car (ACC) package, the ZEV regulation along with new LEV III smog-forming pollutant and GHG standards can be the catalyst to that transformative process. A Type H advanced technology partial zero emission vehicle (PZEV) allowance will give appropriate credit for BEV-like plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).

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Light Clean Cleaning Emissions 225

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MARCH 27, 2013

announced that the all-new 2015 Audi A3 sedan will arrive in US showrooms in the first quarter of 2014. Audi of America also confirmed that it will offer the A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in gasoline electric hybrid (PHEV) model in the US market later in 2014. TDI clean diesel. Click to enlarge. Audi of America, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The 2011-2012 plan allocates $100 million to encourage this menu of transportation investments: $8 million to increase charging infrastructure and support for full electric and plug-in electric vehicles, which are expected to surpass 20,000 sales in California by 2012.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

At the official opening, Gorden Wagener, Head of Design Daimler AG, presented the Mercedes-Benz G-Code plug-in hybrid crossover show car. In addition to regeneration and plug-in battery technology, the “multi-voltaic silver” paint finish acts like a giant solar cell with excellent efficiency. China Engines Hybrids Hydrogen Plug-ins'

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JUNE 17, 2014

The Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles (MOR-EV) program will provide up to $2,500 for the purchase or lease of plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles (EVs). CSE was selected to administer the MOR-EV program through June 2015 with an initial funding of $1.86 million for rebates on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Massachusetts California Boston Clean 218

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in China—battery-electric and plug-in hybrid—suddenly soared 343% in 2015 to about 331,000 units—more than 3 times the number sold in the US that year. The scale of subsidies in 2015 in China was massive: The central government provided a much as US$8.4 —Wang et al.

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JUNE 29, 2012

ARB will use the majority of those funds for its California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project to provide incentives for the purchase of zero-emission and plug-in hybrid passenger cars. The program is designed to accelerate the number of ultra-clean vehicles sold in California and help establish a sustainable market. Earlier post.)

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California Emissions Hybrid Climate Change 273

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MARCH 21, 2019

It was authored by the International Energy Agency (IEA), in collaboration with International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), and was funded by the FIA Foundation, through GFEI. per year between 2015 and 2017. Overall, global fuel economy has improved by an average of 1.7% in the past two years. L ge /100 km.

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MAY 8, 2017

While Umicore positions NMC as the high-energy platform for choice for battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, it also offers NCA and NMC as high-power solution for conventional hybrid electric vehicles. Umicore says that its materials can be found in more than 15 electrified cars that are on the market today. billion (€ 2.7

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MARCH 23, 2012

(stemming from claims reaching back to Dynegy and the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001) that will mostly be applied to fund the construction of a statewide network of plug-in vehicle charging stations, including at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Zero-emission vehicles include battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel-cell-electric vehicles; the technologies can be applied in passenger cars, trucks and transit buses. Motorists bought more than 40,000 plug-in cars in the first and second quarters of 2013.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

There are four types of hybrids available in Inida – mild hybrid, strong hybrid, plug-in-hybrid and electric vehicles with range extender. Mild hybrids, which are typically found in 48 volt electric systems, do not require a plug to operate. As a result, plug-in hybrids tend to have longer electric-only ranges than full hybrids.

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JUNE 27, 2014

The California Air Resources Board took two actions to support the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies, provide incentives for clean-cars and improve existing vehicle retirement and replacement programs. It provides enhanced credit assurance so small fleets can access loans for trucks with clean-diesel technologies.

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APRIL 28, 2015

In a policy update, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) reports that Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) have finalized new proposed fuel economy standards for light- and medium-duty commercial vehicles with gross vehicle weights less than 3.5

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

At the same time, Sommer said in his presentation at the 2015 Electric Drive Congress in Washington DC, continued legislative support is needed to reach the next level of electric vehicle adoption. Earlier post.) As a market, we are not where some predicted we would be. How do we get to mass acceptance of EVs here? —Jörg Sommer.

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JULY 25, 2017

A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas. Electric vehicle public charging availability, promotion actions, and share of new vehicles.

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MARCH 12, 2012

The report groups the efforts into five main categories: increasing energy independence through increased domestic production of oil and natural gas; building a 21 st century transportation sector; investing in clean energy, including renewables and nuclear; building more livable communities; and innovating for the next generation.

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