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Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

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Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions. Representations to EPA.

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CES 2002 News: EV Trucks Wars Ratchet Up

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At Clean Fleet Report , we’ll try to give you some of the highlights of the show, packaged thematically. News: GM Commits to EVs The post CES 2002 News: EV Trucks Wars Ratchet Up first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. Feature: 5 Innovative Electric Concepts. First Ride: 2022 Ford F-150. News: Range Milestone Hit by Rivian.

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Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

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The program was established in 2002 with an initial requirement that 20% of electricity retail sales be served by renewable resources by 2017. To keep the state on track, last year Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1020 (2022), establishing interim targets of 90% clean electricity by 2030 and 95% by 2040.

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Use of leaded gasoline officially ends worldwide

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This development follows an almost two-decades-long campaign by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-led global Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV). Tetraethyl lead was used as a gasoline additive to improve engine performance. By the 1970s, almost all gasoline produced around the world contained lead.

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EIA: biofuels are displacing petroleum-based distillate fuel oil consumption on the West Coast

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Consumption of distillate fuel oil in the US West Coast, as measured by product supplied, decreased to its lowest level since 2002 last year and continues its decline this year, according to the latest “This Week in Petroleum” report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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UPS to test Clean Air Power’s Genesis EDGE dual-fuel product on 10 MACK tractors

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UPS has agreed to test in-use operation of Clean Air Power’s new Genesis EDGE Dual-Fuel for the Volvo D13 and MACK MP8 engines. UPS has been operating 9 Caterpillar C12 tractor units with Clean Air Power’s Dual-Fuel system since 2002. —John Pettitt, Chief Executive of Clean Air Power.

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This mountain project won the DOE’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge

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The contest, which has been running since 2002, challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by clean energy. The US Department of Energy announced the winners of its collegiate competition, the Solar Decathlon , yesterday.

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