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

Green Car Congress

ARB staff Staff is evaluating four potential broad elements to the Advanced Clean Transit regulation: Require Zero Emission Bus Purchases. 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.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. At the turn of the 20th century, utilities promoted the use of electric truck fleets to soak up excess electricity.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It's very important for fleet buyers and people who look at the what we call total cost of ownership or TCO when buying a car, if you are buying a fleet of twelve hundred sedans for salespeople all over America to drive that are provided by the company. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It's very important for fleet buyers and people who look at the what we call total cost of ownership or TCO when buying a car, if you are buying a fleet of twelve hundred sedans for salespeople all over America to drive that are provided by the company. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV. New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. The government itself has set a target to have 30% of the light fleet electric by 2035.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

Green Car Congress

Prius best embodies Toyota’s philosophy on advanced vehicle technology—for vehicles to become true solutions to our climate change and environmental challenges, they must be mass market solutions. Toyota launched the Prius in June 2000, and for the first four years, the buyers were a small segment of innovators and early adopters.

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MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

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Achieving our overall goal—reducing fleet fuel and energy consumption and GHGs by three-quarters or more—will be extremely challenging. In Europe, the anticipated fleet growth is less, as are the potential reductions from technology improvements, but the overall percentage reduction potential is similar to that in the United States.

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