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[PRESS RELEASE] Emissions Reduction Plan: Electric Vehicles will drive a low emissions future

Drive Electric

The Emissions Reduction Plan released today confirms the future of mobility in New Zealand will be electric. A vehicle scrappage scheme. Drive Electric is a not-for-profit membership organisation with one goal – Mainstreaming e-mobility to support New Zealand’s low-carbon future. Press release. 16 May 2022.

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Gov’t, industry, national labs collaborate on comprehensive cradle-to-grave LCA study and economic assessment of LDV GHG reductions

Green Car Congress

The ranges of the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided carbon are narrower for the future technology pathways, reflecting the expected economic competitiveness of these alternative vehicles and fuels. The team expects future vehicle efficiency gains to reduce emissions to ?350 automotive and energy industries.

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[PRESS RELEASE] DRIVE ELECTRIC RESPONSE TO CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT CHANGES.

Drive Electric

Additional EVs brought in today under this scheme, are future second hand vehicles.” With recent policy changes ending ideas like social leasing and scrappage schemes, we need new ideas to enable all New Zealanders to access EVs. We are an independent, apolitical voice which is energy agnostic.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The UK’s car scrappage scheme may have been dubbed a resounding success by the majority of car manufacturers and consumers alike, but it hasn’t won plaudits from all corners. There are ominous questions looming too, as to what the motor industry will do when the scrappage scheme ends. The Green Piece: Tuesday 6 October, 2009.

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Cars need to produce just ‘30g/km CO2 by 2050?

Green Cars News

The report entitled ‘Low Carbon Vehicles: Driving the UK’s transport revolution’ makes recommendations for Britain’s transport strategies, calling for ‘joined up policy-making’ in order to effectively tackle CO2 emissions. billion loan scheme for the development of future LCV technologies.

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UK unveils new plan to cut NO2; sale of new conventional gasoline and diesel cars to end by 2040; focus on local action

Green Car Congress

To help bus companies and local authorities in England to put more than 1,200 new low carbon buses on the roads. Any restrictions or charging on polluting vehicles should be time-limited and lifted as soon as air pollution is within legal limits and the risk of future breaches has passed. 89M – Green Bus Fund. 11M – Air Quality Grant.

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Aixam Mega - Government failing on electric vehicles

Green Cars News

The document is a review of the progress that has been made to date on sustainable development, and it provides details of how the 2005 government strategy ‘Securing the Future’ has failed in several areas, notably its aim to bring about a reduction in greenhouse gases of 20 per cent by 2010.