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UK auto industry warns anti-diesel agenda and slow uptake of EVs could mean missing 2021 CO2 targets; rising CO2 average in 2017

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The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. Alternatively fueled vehicles (AFV) registrations rose by 34.8%

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California ARB posts discussion document for developing Advanced Clean Transit (ACT) regulation

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Mandate a fraction of bus purchases to be zero emission technology starting in 2018, and set a goal of complete transit fleet transition to zero emission technologies by 2040. Urban bus fleets had to select either a diesel path or an alternative-fuel path. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge. Background.

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

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Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. It collects insights held at a workshop organized by the International Transport Forum in June 2018 in Paris and features the results of a survey among experts.

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