Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2021

British Columbia (BC) has the resources to produce both green and blue hydrogen with low carbon intensity. The carbon tax and low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) are reducing emissions while incentivizing the switch to renewable and low-carbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Tax Act), the previous Administration held an oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic Refuge’s Coastal Plain on 6 January 2021, and issued 10-year leases on nine tracts covering more than 430,000 acres. Lease Cancellations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

In its report of first quarter 2021 financial results and outlook, Lordstown Motors, a startup developing electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market ( earlier post ), said that the expected production of its Endurance full-size electric pickup in 2021 will be limited—at best 50% of prior expectations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

These benefits can apply to all vehicle sectors, from light-duty passenger vehicles to medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Extend and expand the “Alternative Fuel Refueling Property,”or EV charging infrastructure, also known as Section 30C, tax credit to cover V2G capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. Collaborating on cross-border transmission projects, including for renewable energy. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Energy consumption for light-duty vehicles grows from 16.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The Electrification Roadmap calls for 75% of light-duty VMT in the US to be electric by 2040. Achieving this will require a minimum of 25% of new light-duty vehicles purchased in the US to be grid-enabled vehicles (GEV) by 2020. As a result, oil consumption in the light-duty fleet would be reduced to just 2.0 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). The full AEO2014 report, to be released this spring, will also consider alternative resource and technology scenarios, some with significantly higher long-term oil production than the Reference case. Source: EIA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

However, where applicable, an equivalent carbon price will be applied through changes in fuel tax credits or excise. A carbon price will not apply to household transport fuels, light vehicle business transport and off-road fuel use by the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries. Australia Clean Energy Future website.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Types of fleet incentives Incentives come in different forms, but they are all meant to encourage businesses to invest in activities like electrifying their commercial fleet of light, medium, or heavy-duty vehicles. Technology and market readiness resources. Research and other resources. 40,000 for all other vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Energy poverty is when a household has no or inadequate access to energy services such as heating, cooling, lighting, and use of appliances due to a combination of factors: low income, increasing utility rates, and inefficient buildings and appliances. We really need to think more holistically about how we address renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is currently completing a mid-term review of its light duty vehicle regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. President Obama announced the award of $2.3 The 183 projects in 43 states include several for the manufacturing of advanced batteries; biomass projects; and vehicles.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Clean Vehicle Tax Credits Clean vehicle tax credits kicked into high gear in 2023. New federal EV tax credits were expanded and updated, and credits for used and commercial EVs became available for the first time in January. Join us as we recap highlights from 2023 and flag big things to expect in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. We emphasize that this policy portfolio is not a substitute for an economy-wide carbon management policy (such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Caelus Energy Alaska, LLC, a privately held independent exploration and production company, announced that its subsidiary, Caelus Energy Alaska Smith Bay LLC, has made a significant light oil discovery on its Smith Bay state leases on the North Slope of Alaska. working interest) and L71 Resources, LLC (7.5% working interest).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2016

The California Air Resources Board approved the changes in June 2015, as directed by the Charge Ahead California Initiative established by Senate Bill 1275 (De León). For low- and moderate-income consumers, CVRP rebates for all types of eligible light-duty passenger vehicles are being increased by $1,500.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto has found that current US policies are insufficient to remain within a sectoral CO 2 emission budget for light-duty vehicles that is consistent with preventing more than 2?°C GtCO 2 (28% of the projected 2015–2050 light-duty vehicle fleet emissions). C global warming. Posen, I.D.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

EVs help you lead by example Municipalities and local governments can lead by example when they choose to electrify their fleets , says Andrew Light, a clean energy specialist with the World Resources Institute. Why Install EV Charging? Is funding available for government projects?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced an additional $72.5 The Air Resources Board will move $8 million from other clean vehicle projects into ARB’s Truck Loan Assistance Program. million to help California consumers purchase plug-in hybrid and zero-emission cars and light trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Making conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles more expensive to run—through increased fuel or carbon taxes—is not enough to incentivize the majority of consumers to change. However, carbon taxes can be critical in pushing electricity providers to decarbonize their operations. Share of EDVs in 2050. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

For governments, the growing gap causes significant losses of tax revenues. This is because vehicle taxes are based on laboratory test results instead of real-world data. For the Netherlands alone, the loss in tax revenues could exceed €3.4 billion (US$4.3 billion) per year, according to the ICCT estimate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

States that attract this type of investment with tax incentives and grants will factor into the UPS deployment strategy. This includes all-electric, hybrid electric, hydraulic hybrid, CNG, LNG, propane, biomethane, and light-weight fuel-saving composite body vehicles. —David Abney, UPS chief operating officer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Its board of directors, the private investment instruments it sets up, and the necessary tax changes should ideally be approved by referendum and could be annulled only by another referendum, the goal being to build the necessary level of confidence, they suggest. The fund would also encompass an industrial development plan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The policy, in addition to fluctuations in gas prices, reduced oil imports and saved 2 trillion gallons of gasoline, enough to fuel all the light-duty vehicles in the United States for fifteen years. The researchers noted that the policies helped, in part, to keep the rate of yearly growth in US gasoline consumption to 0.2% since 1975.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2020

Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new low-carbon energy devices and infrastructure. million light-duty passenger cars to 965 million passenger cars. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Saleem H.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ultrathin Light Absorbers for Solar Cells. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. If so, such informational programs could be far less expensive than tax breaks and far more feasible politically than a carbon tax.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2018

Based on recent discoveries, the IHS Markit Plays and Basins: Alaska North Slope (ANS) Basin; Resurgence in an Arrested, Late-emerging Super Basin analysis estimates that the ANS Basin offers 38 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in remaining recoverable resources (50 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas, and 28 billion barrels of oil).

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Economics of EV Fleet Adoption Transferring to an electric vehicle fleet isn’t just a reactive measure to capitalize on new tax credits or comply with recent regulations. Our platform even fits seamlessly with distributed energy resources (DER) should you choose to integrate solar, turbine, or battery storage into your operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). California.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. hybrids, and electric vehicles.

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EV Life

APRIL 14, 2023

To accomplish this, California has introduced a number of tax credits, rebates, and grants aimed at reducing air pollution and encouraging California drivers to make the switch to low-emission or no-emission vehicles. The state’s 22 million passenger cars and light trucks make up 21% of nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions and 58% of PM2.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

Although sales of plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrid-electric and battery-electric vehicles, collectively PEVs) in the US climbed more than 80% in 2013 to more than 96,000 units (Tesla has not yet released its final figures) from 52,835 units in 2012 EDTA ), the 2013 results still reflect a meagre new light-duty vehicle market share of ~0.6%

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For instance, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) estimates that 1-in-4 light-duty vehicles, or about 70 million EVs, must be on US roads by 2030 to meet the GHG reduction target. Further, once a particular EV model reaches 200,000 in US sales , the EV tax credit is phased out. “I Pablo Di Si There are also income caps.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

EVs help you lead by example Municipalities and local governments can lead by example when they choose to electrify their fleets , says Andrew Light, a clean energy specialist with the World Resources Institute. Why Install EV Charging? Is funding available for government projects?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In our study we focus on cars, while the EU also imposed the emission targets for vans (which account for around 10% of the EU market for light-duty vehicles) and considered a strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from trucks, buses, and coaches. Paltsev, S., Henry Chen, YH., Karplus, V.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In 2009, the EC published its Electrification Roadmap, which proposes that by 2040, 75% of the light-duty vehicle miles traveled in the US should be electric miles. Earlier post.). plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEVs and EVs)—highly attractive. Fleet Electrification Roadmap.

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