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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

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The study assessed the three qualitatively different schemes—the French Prime à la Casse, the. While scrappage schemes have the potential to deliver on objectives such as reducing pollutant emissions, these have not done so as well. Key findings of the study included: Insights on scheme design.

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UMTRI study finds US and China could turnover more than 90% of LDV fleet to alternative powertrains by 2050 under very aggressive penetration scenarios

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In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Production forecasts from IHS. to 2050.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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Scrappage schemes . The OECD has conducted analysis on the components of effective ‘scrappage schemes’. Further, consumer perception of petrol price movement is relatively inelastic and studies have shown that even if petrol prices increase this does not radically change driving behaviour.