Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years. This would represent an approximate 20% reduction compared to the new vehicle fleet that was sold in Canada in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Brazil’s National Plan on Climate Change is a set of inter-ministerial programs designed to cut emissions in the transportation, forestry, industrial and energy sectors. Initiatives will be implemented during the lead-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games being held in that country, and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Daimler AG has received top marks for disclosure of its climate protection measures aimed at combating climate change, receiving the maximum 100 points in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP’s) “Climate Disclosure Leadership Index” and an “A” rating in the “Climate Performance Leadership Index”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved the 2015-2016 Investment Plan Update for its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP). The program develops and deploys innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change goals. Earlier post.).

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Drive Electric

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Kirsten has a long standing commitment to the electrification of mobility, co-founding Zilch, Carbn Asset Management and Sustainable Fleet Finance. He has been on the Drive Electric board since 2016. Eric Pellicer (pictured) has been appointed as deputy chair. Eric is General Manager Business Development at PowerCo.

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New Zealand Electric Electrical Climate Change 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

The new regulation requires an overall 40% improvement in overall US fleet average vehicle fuel economy by 2016. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Vehicle Systems. GM says that the use of HFO-1234yf will help GM vehicles significantly exceed their targets under the new regulations. Earlier post.).

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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. million zero emission vehicles on its roads by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

Both Canada and the United States recognize the importance of putting in place progressively stringent standards, while also offering flexibility for industry to determine how they will meet the performance based standards within their fleet. —Environment Minister Peter Kent.

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Canada Emissions Engine United States 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Yesterday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly established increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles and fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

The partners will install and connect 100 V2G units at locations agreed upon by private and fleet owners of the Nissan LEAF and e-NV200 electric van. A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets. Tier 1 cities in China were the first to adopt electric buses, driving rapid growth between 2012-2016, but now many of these markets are saturated. Electric Two-wheelers - 9 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Fleet-level operational efficiency improvements (intelligent scheduling, driver assistance, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, platooning, and other levels of automation). Reduction of accessory loads and auxiliary power requirements. Predictive engine accessory and driveline controls. Hybrid electric powertrains. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

For example, the report finds that of the more than 1,300 conventional vehicle model configurations available in 2016, 23 truck configurations, 23 sport utility vehicle (SUV) configurations, and 26 passenger car configurations meet 2020 or later GHG standards with a conventional gasoline powertrain.

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Standards PHEV California CO2 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

mpg in 2016. annual increase in average fuel economy through 2016. Ford recognizes the need for a comprehensive approach to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change concerns. The agreement provides a framework to reach an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 Sue Cischke.

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Ford Fuel Economy Future Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2009, EPA issued an Endangerment Finding that vehicle greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change, and thus threaten public health and welfare. However, in November 2016, EPA issued a proposed determination maintaining the current standards without modification—without coordination with NHTSA. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Natural gas surpassed coal to become the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity in the United States in 2016. electric power sector—now the largest consuming sector for natural gas—has added generating capacity from natural gas in recent years and has used those power plants more often.

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Gas Emissions Energy Coal 220

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

European automakers are striving to comply with EU CO 2 norms (average fleet emissions less than 130 g/km by 2015) to avoid penalties. (As g/km—in model year 2016. (As g/km—in model year 2016. Eco-innovations will count for up to 7 grams of manufacturers’ fleet targets. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 mpg in 2016 (39 mpg for cars, 30 mpg for trucks), or approximately 250 grams CO 2 /mile. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

As described in Comer, Olmer, and Mao (2016), HFO poses a substantial threat to the Arctic environment, not only because HFO is extremely difficult to clean up once spilled, but also because burning HFO emits BC, a potent pollutant that accelerates climate change. LNG, fuel cells), albeit at substantial cost to existing fleets.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

The leaders supported the adoption by all countries in 2016 of the market-based measure proposed through the International Civil Aviation Organization to allow for carbon-neutral growth from international civil aviation from 2020 onwards and committed o join the first phase of the measure adopted. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

Without strong action, those numbers are expected to keep rising, but reducing the nation’s impact on global climate change and dependence on oil imports has proved problematic. This strategy should identify long term objectives and supporting policies for reducing fleet GHG emissions and fuel consumption. Heywood et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

g/km; the proposed EU regulated target for new van CO 2 is 175 g/km in 2016 and 135 g/km by 2020. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Fleets. The study provides an estimate of sales-weighted new van CO 2 emissions of 207.6 tonnes, and are described as vans.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They have been carbon-neutral since 2016. They have committed to planting five million trees, setting money aside for environmental protection and partnering with others for climate change initiatives. The post Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Green Cars Maintenance Gas-Electric 77

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

GHG levels from the MY 2016 fleet-wide average of 250 g/mi, using different technology pathways to achieve the reductions. For the upcoming rulemaking, EPA and NHTSA expect to continue to develop standards on an attribute-based approach, using the vehicle size measure of footprint, as in the recent MY 2012-2016 rulemaking.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The European Commission has today proposed tough new CO2 cap for vans at just 175g/km of CO2 or at least 42.8mpg by 2016. There would also been a long term emission reduction target of 135 g/km by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines. —Saliba et al.

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Fleet Engine Global Fuel Economy 207

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

By way of trans-Atlantic comparison, 95 g/km is equivalent to 152 g/mile; the current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas emissions standard (part of the joint national standard with NHSTA) calls for 250 g/mile in MY 2016. Earlier post.). The proposed 2025 US standard would bring that down to 163 g/mile in MY 2025.

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2020 Light CO2 Cars 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016. ” A very clear, time-bound, one nation goal.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The ZEV regulation—along with new LEV III criteria pollutant and GHG standards—can be the catalyst to the process of transforming the California light-duty fleet, ARB staff suggests. LEV III and GHG. Certification fuels. Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. smog and particulates. the manufacturing can be profitable and also very competitive.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

100 million for Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program and light duty equity pilot projects like agricultural vanpools. $85 million of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for various investments to fight climate change, mitigate the immediate impact on California, and begin the process of adapting to the long-term impacts of climate change.

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California Clean Cleaning Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Final MY 2011 and MY 2012-2016 passenger car fuel economy targets, based on vehicle footprint. mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet (cars and light-trucks) for model year 2016. mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet (cars and light-trucks) for model year 2016. Source: NHTSA. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

These standards would require these vehicles to meet an estimated combined average emissions level of 250 grams/mile of CO 2 in model year 2016. mpg in model year 2016. mpg by MY 2016. The proposed standards for both agencies begin with the 2012 model year, with standards increasing in stringency through model year 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

It also completes EPA’s response to a court remand of the 2016 annual rule by establishing a supplemental volume requirement of 250 million gallons of renewable fuel for 2023. Trucking fleets, farmers, contractors, and others use these fuels as an affordable way to help reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions by up to 80%.

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Plug in America

MARCH 22, 2024

The way the EPA vehicle standards are structured, the average of each automaker’s fleet (all of the light-duty vehicles manufactured in a given year) must meet targets of grams/mile of specified pollutants each year. For light-duty vehicles such as cars, pickups, and SUVs, the 2032 goal is that the fleet average is 85 grams/mile of CO 2.

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EPA Standards Vehicles Pollution 111

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Electric Vehicles Are a Key Climate Change Tool The U.S. In 2016, nearly 200 countries ratified the Paris Agreement, an international treaty to reduce emissions and slow global warming. These climate accords call for a 43% decline in emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. aims to achieve net-zero emissions.

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