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2019 NTEA Fleet Purchasing Outlook reveals continued strong demand for biodiesel in diesel trucks

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MARCH 11, 2019

New research released by NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry confirms that fleets across the country are increasingly relying on biodiesel for their existing and new diesel vehicles. For the third time in four years, surveyed fleets named biodiesel as their top alternative fuel choice both for current use and future interest.

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Purchase Fleet 2019 Diesel

IEA: global energy efficiency progress drops to slowest rate since start of decade

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

in 2018, driven in large part by the People’s Republic of China, India and the United States, which were responsible for 70% of demand growth. In the United States, primary demand increased for the first time since 2014. In the United States, primary intensity worsened for the first time in more than 25 years.

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Global Energy 2018 Coal

IEA says oil supplies may not keep up with demand

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Despite what appears to be a saturated oil market in 2014, oil producers around the world will struggle to meet rising demand over the next few decades. Global oil demand is expected to increase by 37 percent by 2040, with a dominant proportion of that coming from developing countries—i.e. million bpd by 2035.

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Oil Iraq Oil-Sands Supplies

Navigant Research forecasts 58% growth in global biofuels consumption by 2022; biodiesel and drop-in fuels gain market share

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

While Europe will be the leader in biodiesel development, other markets with growing diesel vehicle fleets will help set the foundation for a strong global biodiesel market. This will drop to 69% of the market in 2022 as biodiesel and drop-in fuels gain share, according to Navigant. BGPY in 2013 to almost 12.2

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Global Market Fuel Brazil

Purdue study projects that under likely adoption rates, use of biojet fuel alone will not meet aviation emissions reduction targets for 2050; the need to go above 50% blends

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

Uncertainty range of the aviation GHG emissions under the High Oil price scenario (the most optimistic for biojet adoption), given in a box plot depicting the minimum, quartile, and maximum values. With biojet options, under the high oil price scenario (the most optimistic for biojet adoption), the median (i.e.,

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Emissions Oil Prices 2005 Fuel

EIA STEO projects higher US crude production, increases in travel and gasoline demand

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APRIL 11, 2017

increase in fleet-wide vehicle fuel efficiency. For the 2017 April-through-September summer driving season, EIA forecasts US regular gasoline retail prices will average $2.46/gallon The higher forecast gasoline price is primarily the result of higher forecast crude oil prices. Highway travel is forecast to be 1.4%

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Gasoline Gasoline-Electric Production Oil

Center for Automotive Research releases study on estimated US distribution pattern of electric vehicles through 2015; focus on incentives

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Research, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonprofit research organization, is estimating the national distribution patterns of electric vehicles across the United States, and the incentive programs that will assist with the proliferation of these vehicles, over the next four years. In a new study, the Center for Automotive.

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2015 Electric Vehicles Vehicles Sale

Perspective: Government Leadership Needed for Electric Vehicles to Succeed

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Perspective by Chris Hill, Manager, Central Fleet for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and author of Hamilton’s Green Fleet Implementation Plan. [Mr. Hill is currently chair of the Ontario Chapter of NAFA Fleet Management Association, and a Green Party candidate for Canada’s Parliament in the next general election.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Los Angeles Canada

UC Berkeley Study Concludes Battery Switching Model Would Accelerate Mass-Market Adoption of Electric Cars; Baseline Scenario Projects EVs Reaching 64% of New LDV Sales in 2030

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JULY 14, 2009

In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030” was written by Thomas Becker, a Ph.D.

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Electric Cars Batteries Battery Market

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. by Brian J.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric

Economic Impact Study Finds Grid-Enabled Vehicle Policies in Electrification Coalition Roadmap Would Result in Substantial Economic Benefit for US

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APRIL 9, 2010

The Roadmap proposes completely transforming the US light-duty vehicle fleet into one in which grid-enabled mobility (grid-enabled vehicles, GEV) is the new conventional standard. Oil Imports. US crude oil and petroleum product imports would fall sharply, by 3.2 billion fewer barrels of foreign oil. Global Demand for Oil.

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Grid 2008 Vehicles Oil

Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

It’s of course way too early to tell what the acceptance is going to be and I think anybody who would try to give you projection in terms of 10 years, x percent of our fleet is going to be electric, I think they’d all be just throwing darts. Policy Instruments. their longest trips, such as weekend and holiday road trips).

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Plug-in 2015 Plug Recharge

MIT/RAND Study Concludes Three Types of Alternative Jet Fuel May Be Available in Commercial Quantities Over the Next Decade

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The expected influx of large amounts of alcohol-based fuels and fuels derived from unconventional petroleum over the next decade may cause long-term world oil prices to be between 5 and 12% lower than they would be in the absence of those fuels. Adverse effects of ULS jet fuel would include higher fuel prices (by about $0.05

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MIT Oil-Sands Commercial Available

US DOE progress report says 1M plug-ins by 2015 ambitious but achievable; not likely to be constrained by production capacity

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This plan is intended to drive demand and position the United States as a global leader in manufacturing and deploying next-generation vehicle technologies. Earlier post.). The performance and cost effectiveness of the early EVs in the market will be a major but unknowable factor in how many EVs are on the road by 2015.

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2015 Plug-in Tax Credit Plug

The driving force behind the US oil boom

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

And while oil prices slumped in October, drilling activity continues to rise, according to Baker Hughes , the third-largest oil services company. RBC Capital Markets estimates that 20,061 horizontal wells will be drilled in the United States alone this year, with that number increasing by well over 1,000 in 2015.

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Oil Oil Prices Texas United States

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. The passenger vehicle fleet doubles to almost 1.7 Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet

Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

The vehicles will be made in the United States, Japan and Europe. – BMW AG’s Mini brand is testing a plug-in model in the United States. Nissan’s consumer research shows that “there are definitely more than 100,000 in the United States who want&# their next car to be an electric, Palmer says.

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Nissan Japan United States Gasoline-Electric

National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

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JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Fuels currently used in on-road vehicles account for about 80% of transportation fuel use in the US, and are easy to track.

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Carbon Oil-Sands Standards Design

EV Driven

2019 NTEA Fleet Purchasing Outlook reveals continued strong demand for biodiesel in diesel trucks

IEA: global energy efficiency progress drops to slowest rate since start of decade

IEA says oil supplies may not keep up with demand

Navigant Research forecasts 58% growth in global biofuels consumption by 2022; biodiesel and drop-in fuels gain market share

Purdue study projects that under likely adoption rates, use of biojet fuel alone will not meet aviation emissions reduction targets for 2050; the need to go above 50% blends

EIA STEO projects higher US crude production, increases in travel and gasoline demand

Center for Automotive Research releases study on estimated US distribution pattern of electric vehicles through 2015; focus on incentives

Perspective: Government Leadership Needed for Electric Vehicles to Succeed

UC Berkeley Study Concludes Battery Switching Model Would Accelerate Mass-Market Adoption of Electric Cars; Baseline Scenario Projects EVs Reaching 64% of New LDV Sales in 2030

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Economic Impact Study Finds Grid-Enabled Vehicle Policies in Electrification Coalition Roadmap Would Result in Substantial Economic Benefit for US

Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

MIT/RAND Study Concludes Three Types of Alternative Jet Fuel May Be Available in Commercial Quantities Over the Next Decade

US DOE progress report says 1M plug-ins by 2015 ambitious but achievable; not likely to be constrained by production capacity

The driving force behind the US oil boom

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Nissan’s Big Gamble

National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

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