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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

They modeled two different future scenarios for alternative-fuel vehicle policy worldwide to 2050. AFV Push’ imagines a future where policy and social nudges lead consumers to be less risk averse, allowing low carbon vehicles and their requisite refueling and recharging infrastructure become the norm. ‘No

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

Green Car Congress

As of January 2018, California had a total of 16,549 public and nonresidential private-sector charging outlets. Tesla’s Superchargers can recharge EVs to 80% in 20 to 40 minutes. In January 2018, Assemblyman Phil Ting introduced a bill that would ban gas-powered cars by 2040. This works out to 0.05

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Most automotive manufacturers say they plan to use renewable energy in the future, but for now, most battery production relies on electric grids largely powered by fossil fuels. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. passenger vehicles.