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California Air Resources Board settles with COSCO Container Lines for $965,000; >2,600 air quality violations from 2014-2017

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The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2014-2016, COSCO’s visits to these ports did not meet operational time limits for at least half of the visits.

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ICCT analysis of California top EV cities finds link between EV uptake and many underlying factors

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These cities tend to be smaller, but Oakland and San Jose are also within the high electric vehicle uptake cities. Increasingly, major public electric power utilities and workplaces are expanding the public charging network to further address consumer confidence and convenience. —Searle et al.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Liter Partial Consent Decree entered by the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 The charging power gap used assumptions including the battery size, charging power and range efficiency (assumed 3.5 Background. Background.

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