Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies caused an estimated 3.8 Around 3 billion people—more than 40% of the world’s population—still do not have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies in their homes, the main source of household air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

Achieving the 2030 target under the proposed plan will continue to build on investments in clean energy and set the California economy on a trajectory to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario). Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Mandatory regional criteria pollutant reduction targets will be established in the 2016 State Implementation Plans (SIPs) with expected reductions on the order of 90% below 2010 levels in the South Coast and similar reductions in the San Joaquin Valley by the year 2032. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs): “Cleaner and more efficient vehicles means more jobs in innovative technologies and more dollars back in the pockets of small businesses and consumers. Nichols: “This is a politically motivated effort to weaken clean vehicle standards with no documentation, evidence or law to back up that decision.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

The scoping plan for AB32, California’s climate change legislation, originally had proposed a cool cars measure based on reflective paints. Costs for the windows are expected to average $70 for the 2012 standard, and about $250 for the 2016 standard, with annual savings in gas of $16 and $20 respectively. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. The “Kigali Amendment” resulting from the annual Montreal Protocol Meeting of Parties in October 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda targets phasing down the production of HFCs globally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. It also gives use the ability to brag that we are the clean car capital of the world. —Mary Nichols.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This level is still below the state’s first climate milestone (2020’s AB 32 goal, met four years early in 2016) of reducing to 431 MMTCO 2 e below 1990 levels. This is the result of policies promoting cleaner vehicle fuels and advanced clean vehicle standards. MMTCO 2 e (+0.2%) in 2018 compared to 2017. lower and 8.3%

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Plug in America

MARCH 22, 2024

cities, the Clean Air Act was established by Congress back in 1970. The recently finalized rules are the latest set of standards, and current clean vehicle technology allows these standards to be the most stringent ever. So right now, you probably won’t notice much of a change. The new standards won’t kick in until 2027.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

Four additional cities—Amsterdam, Lima, Catalonia (Barcelona) and Rome— signed up to the Global Clean Bus Declaration at the 1 st global Clean Bus Summit in London. The Clean Bus Declaration is an open document and C40 welcomes additional signatory cities. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The European Commission has adopted the European Energy Union package —a framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy. The Commission will propose a resilience and diversification package for gas in 2015-2016 by revising the existing security of gas supply Regulation.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Proposing the new standards on the same timeframe—by 1 September 2011—signals continued collaboration that could lead to an extension of the current National Clean Car Program, providing automakers certainty as they work to build the next generation of cleaner, more fuel efficient cars. Earlier post.) mpg US (6.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Long electric range PHEVs (vehicles which travel at full performance about 60 miles (100 km) on electricity only, like the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt) can integrate all three essential electric power system elements: the grid, the loads, and the new intermittent renewable energy sources. Conclusions. These items add value to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

EPA is proposing to withdraw the waiver of CAA preemption for California’s Advanced Clean Car (ACC) program, Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) standards that are applicable to the affected model years. California will fight this stupidity in every conceivable way possible. —The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. Of the roughly 57,000 households that received the EV tax credit in 2016, nearly 80 percent had at least a six-figure income. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger.

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