Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

Recent US energy regulations proposed or enacted by the US Department of Energy (DOE), the US Department of Transportation (DOT, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have a negligible effect on reducing greenhouse gases. NHTSA CAFE and EPA greenhouse gas standards for vehicles. —Gayer and Viscusi.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

In November 2022, Tesla released specifications for what it dubbed the North American Charging Standard (NACS) , essentially offering it to the EV industry at large. While a majority of its stations will recharge an EV, the widely touted standard uptime figure of 97 percent still translates to 11 days a year of downtime for every location.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to the EPA, ENERGY STAR-certified EV chargers use 40% less energy in standby mode, on average, than standard charging stations. The end result of this process will be a voluntary standard that manufacturers of DC fast chargers can meet to receive ENERGY STAR certification for their products.

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EV Life

AUGUST 10, 2023

This article will explore what makes the F-150 Lightning such an impressive addition to Ford’s growing EV lineup, as well as compare the six different trims available. Interior The interior of the Lightning, which is only offered as a five-passenger crew cab, is also similar to the standard F-150, but with a few small differences.

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EV Life

JULY 21, 2023

The mid-sized SUV also comes standard with advanced safety features such as a forward-collision warning system, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, lane-keeping assistance, and adaptive cruise control. The standard rear-wheel drive option will be good for up to 223 miles on a full charge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. HEI is an independent, non-profit research institute funded jointly by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the worldwide motor vehicle industry. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unfortunately, thanks to the fast pace of electrification and the slow pace of standards bodies, electrical safety standards for heavy vehicles are lagging behind the market. Charged : So, there’s a lack of standards for vehicles that use higher-voltage electrical architectures? Geoff Schwartz: Yes.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2023

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and Car and Driver have published a report challenging the EPA’s EV range estimate calculations. According to the research published by Car and Driver , the EV range estimates published by the EPA are, on average, 12.5% What do you think of the article?

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Green Cars News

MAY 25, 2010

Earlier this week we told you about President Obama’s push for a national policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (see article) – and now his plans have received backing from the California Air Resources Board.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 5, 2010

Yesterday we told you about the US Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency outlining stringent fuel and greenhouse gas emission standards (see article) – and now we can inform you about a new credit scheme for electric, plug-in and fuel cell vehicles.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 15, 2023

Supercharged, turnbocharged and paired with a 143 hp electric motor Range and fuel economy are rated by the EPA 28 mpg city and highway combined for the hybrid engine. The XC60 Recharge Ultimate has standard four-wheel independent suspension, but can add (as ours did) an optional air suspension for $1,800.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. It has now received a Certificate of Conformity for the Semi from the EPA. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article.

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EV Life

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we’re going to look at some of the electric SUVs on the market with the highest ranges, as well as some of the most affordable SUV options. 4 Price: $40,290 Range: 209-270 Miles While the Standard model ID.4 The good news? Prices have been coming down while ranges have steadily increased. Volkswagen ID.4

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Teslarati

APRIL 8, 2023

A new report from the EPA indicates that the agency may release a set of dramatic new ICE vehicle regulations as soon as next week. Recently, the European Union released its Euro 7 emissions standards , and now, the U.S. EPA is poised to do the same, according to a new report from the New York Times. Just last year, only 5.8%

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 22, 2024

  Today we are going to look at how the EV range is determined and what are the different standards available for EV range. Let’s look at them one by one What Are The Main EV Test Standards There are mainly 3 mainstream testing standards used by manufacturers worldwide to determine and quantify an electric vehicle’s range.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A 2008 study by Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia and Chris Kucharik of the University of Wisconsin concluded that ramping up the production of corn ethanol to meet the targets set by the new US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would worsen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, increasing the growing hypoxic region. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. ALTERNATIVES TO OFFSETS. CONCLUSION.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve been building a separate open-source tool called Power Genome that pulls together all the public data from the Department of Energy, EPA [U.S. Jenkins: There’s the Big Wires Act that’s been introduced in Congress to set minimum standards for interregional transfer capacity.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lucid Group is setting new standards with its advanced luxury EVs and it has announced initial customer deliveries of the Dream Edition launch versions of Lucid Air, which sets new benchmarks in range and efficiency for electric vehicles. Lucid confirms first customer deliveries of Lucid Air . Technical terms . It delivers 4.4 miles per kWh.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2023

seconds RWD Standard Range Single 160 kW (214 hp) motor paired with 76.1-kWh Seven Terms That Can Help You Become an Electric Vehicle Expert Battery packs, power ratings, and EPA range are new terms for early EV adopters and car consumers. Save this article and refer back to it at upcoming EVA ride-and-drive events this Spring.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Read this article to know how to find the energy consumption. For instance, the EPA rating for the Model 3 Standard Range Plus with aero wheels was 240 miles and as of right now, that rating has been raised to 250 miles. The range is exactly at the current EPA rating when being driven at 65 mph.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. On 24 February 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In an article “Falling thirst for Fuel Leaves Ethanol Enthusiasts with a Hangover” published on 4 May 2009, The Wall Street Journal summarized three of the challenges traditional corn ethanol faces today. First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

The company said on Thursday it looks forward to "further and increased technical dialogue with the EPA and the White House as the rule is finalized." They want the EPA to ease off and have called the proposed targets unreasonable and impossible to achieve in the time allotted. And they say there’s no such thing as EV mandates.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Looking at the top reason, the ability to travel 400 miles on a single charge, while not a standard feature, does exist on a couple of models of electric vehicles. The first was the Tesla Model S Long Range in 2020 , which had an EPA-rated 402 miles per charge. What do you think of the article?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. The EPA rates the 4xe at 22 miles of electric range and an unimpressive 20 mpg operating as a hybrid.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In my previous article, Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives , I outlined and analyzed 13 proposed changes to IRC 30D (federal EV tax credit). In this brief article I will share the 3 scenarios that lead to an EV being completely disqualified from any available tax credit amount.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And Lucid’s Dream Edition Range model includes a feature neither can offer: 520 miles of EPA-rated range, the highest among the dozens of EVs on sale for 2022. Tesla’s Model S Long Range has the smallest battery capacity of the three, at 100 kWh, from which it extracts 405 miles of combined EPA-rated range.

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Charged EVs

JULY 19, 2023

EPA-rated ranges up to 361 miles The Ioniq 6 price leader is the SE with a smaller 53 kWh Standard Range pack and rear-wheel drive only. A base Ioniq 6 SE with the 77 kWh Long Range battery and rear-wheel drive is EPA-rated at 361 miles on its 18-inch wheels; add all-wheel drive, and the SE falls to 316 miles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2010

Gasoline standards in the US and globally. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef100254w. Guide to Federal and State Summer RVP Standards for Conventional Gas Only (US EPA). specify allowable vapor pressures depending upon the type of fuel and ethanol content, geographic location, and season. Mueller and O.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The EPA is currently finalizing new rules to limit truck emissions, and a group of manufacturers including Ford, Cummins, BorgWarner and Eaton has broken with the industry to support the upcoming “Phase 3” heavy duty emissions rules, while the rest of the industry, led by Volvo and Daimler, continues to lobby against them.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The twin-motor version felt somewhat faster as standard, but dropping it into Performance mode (an inconspicuous tap button buried in a vehicle menu on the center screen) turned it into a rocket. Volvo quotes 3.4 seconds for 0-60 mph acceleration, and we believe it. Moreover, the EX30 has zero direct competition in North America.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Bird Cage Liners article this morning: Asking carmakers to comply with California’s rules would be tantamount to forcing a cancer patient to “finish chemo and then go run the Boston Marathon,&# General Motors Corp. All I ever heard them do was badmouth the small Honda car I drive and complain about CAFE fuel economy standards.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

GM wants the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to make the Administration’s aspirational 50 percent EV sales goal by 2030 a national mandate instead. An individual using the standard tax deduction would have to earn around $70,000 to get the full federal tax benefit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

on CO 2 vehicle standards could reduce the price of oil mdf on Environmental Transport Association blasts proposed car scrapping scheme in UK Jeff Grant on Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa. 61) REPORT: Buyer perception holding back U.S. 61) REPORT: Buyer perception holding back U.S. a key Randy C.

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