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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2010
users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. Revenues from the tax go into the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is independent of the General Fund; every five years or so Congress passes an authorization bill to allocate these revenues. States use similar mechanisms. —Huang et al.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Researchers from the University of Iowa report the initial results of a 2-year field study evaluating the technical feasibility and user acceptance of mileage-based charging as a potential replacement for the current motor fuel tax in a paper in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. million km).
Green Car Congress
MARCH 8, 2010
The study— Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the US Transportation Sector —finds that reducing CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector 14% below 2005 levels by 2020 may require fuel prices above $8/gallon by 2020. —Morrow et al. Adoption of all of the preceding policies.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2018
A newly released analysis produced by Beacon Economics for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank Next 10 has found that California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market is on track to meet or exceed a target of 1.5 And zero-emission vehicles are following this pattern. The average Californian drives 14,435 miles every year.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
While a mandate can potentially increase social welfare substantially, a consumption subsidy likely decreases welfare significantly, primarily because of the taxpayer burden but also because it encourages negative externalities related to vehicle miles traveled, local air pollution and CO 2 emissions. de Gorter and Just.
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2009
Projected cumulative greenhouse gas reductions from 2010-2050 by strategy category under maximum deployment scenario. Achieving significant GHG reductions will thus require application of a complete portfolio of strategies targeting travel activity and vehicle and systems operations, the report finds. Data: Moving Cooler.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2009
Valence is strengthening its automotive accreditation by working towards TS 16949 accreditation in 2010. Smith Electric Vehicles. One of Valence’s most prominent commercial vehicle customers is Smith Electric Vehicles. Valence is sourced with two of Smith’s vehicles: the Edison and the Newton. Mark Donaghy.
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