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In an effort to address the rapidly increasing cost of gasoline, President Biden authorized the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next six months—more than 180 million barrels—from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Biden said that his administration would restock the reserve when prices are lower.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

is lowering the price of its Westport WiNG Power System. Starting with the 2013 Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty pickup truck models, the Westport WiNG System will be priced at $9,500 (down from $9,750). Westport Innovations Inc. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS has used LNG vehicles for more than a decade and has benefited from lower fuel prices compared to imported petroleum. In 2012, the growing fleet drove 49 million miles, a 43 percent increase compared to 2011. Construction is already underway at previously-announced UPS facilities in Tennessee and Texas.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Error bands indicate technology uncertainties (red solid lines) and fuel price uncertainties (green dashed lines).Click A cost-of-capital factor is applied to initial vehicle cost using a 7% (net without inflation) cost of money to amortize said initial cost over the 15-year vehicle lifetime. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

The cost associated with replacing a barrel of produced oil has risen from $6 per barrel in 1998 to $27 per barrel in 2011, according to Lux Research—an increase of 350%.

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JULY 12, 2012

A new analysis by the consultancy McKinsey & Company indicates that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from the current $500–$600/kWh to about $200/kWh by 2020 and to about $160/kWh by 2025 (in real dollars, indexed to 2011). In the US, with gasoline prices at or above $3.50

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

On the one hand, OPEC does not see oil prices returning to triple-digit territory within the next 25 years, a strikingly bearish conclusion. The group expects oil prices to rise by an average of about $5 per year over the course of this decade, only reaching $80 per barrel in 2020.

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MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. billion annually in 2011 to more than $14.6 —John Gartner. (In Earlier post.).

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MARCH 19, 2012

Summary of battery pack cost projections, 2010-2030. Governments and vehicle manufacturers will need to introduce long-term incentives and price cuts to create a sustainable European market for ultra-low emission vans (ULEV), according to a newly published report by Element Energy, commissioned by the UK Department for Transport.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

A Final Update Report will be presented to Australia’s Prime Minister on 31 May 2011. To answer this central question, Garnaut developed a framework to consider whether the costs of policies designed to mitigate the effects of climate change exceeded the benefits of mitigation. 3 February 2011. 7 February 2011.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Growth of alternative powertrain vehicles sales will be limited by consumer concerns about costs as well as functionality, according to the newly-released J.D. Power and Associates 2011 US Green Automotive Study. The bottom line is that most consumers want to be green, but not if there is a significant personal cost to them.

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JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.

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JULY 9, 2018

A team at Arizona State University has analyzed the five-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for representative electric, hybrid, and conventional vehicles—the Nissan Leaf (BEV), Toyota Prius (HEV), and Toyota Corolla (ICEV)—in 14 US cities from 2011 to 2015. —Breetz and Salon.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

The also found that future fuel savings between the diesel and gasoline engines accounted for less than 20% of the difference in the resale price for the truck. It’s been generally known that diesel vehicles typically post lower operating costs because of their increased fuel economy. But that’s only one element of the equation.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Meanwhile, the Royal Automobile Club’s (RAC) latest Report on Motoring 2011 suggests that nearly 50% of drivers think that the price of greener vehicles is prohibitive. Our AA/Populus panel reflects the views of motorists.The cost of fuel is top of drivers’ concerns. —Edmund King, AA President.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The fully integrated and dedicated Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) option, available this fall for Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans ( earlier post ), will be priced at $15,910 MSRP, according to GM. Pricing for the all-inclusive CNG option includes a dedicated CNG system ($14,590), a natural gas-capable Vortec 6.0L

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JULY 9, 2018

A team at Arizona State University has analyzed the five-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for representative electric, hybrid, and conventional vehicles—the Nissan Leaf (BEV), Toyota Prius (HEV), and Toyota Corolla (ICEV)—in 14 US cities from 2011 to 2015. —Breetz and Salon.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As a result of the overcapacity, battery prices are poised to fall. Automakers have committed to producing up to 839,000 plug-in electric vehicles worldwide by 2013, up from just 124,000 to be delivered by the end of 2011. In the long term, lithium-ion battery prices will continue to decline as the industry reaches scale.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Todd Markusic, Vice President of Mobility at Ipsos, said the Ipsos Global Mobility Navigator Syndicated Study discovered there are three main barriers towards BEV ownership for consumers: overall cost, range and charging location stations. However, we see once that price point exceeds 20%, consideration in the BEV option drops considerably.

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MARCH 31, 2010

NNA) set the US MSRP for the 2011 Nissan LEAF electric vehicle, which becomes available for purchase or lease at Nissan dealers in select markets in December and nationwide in 2011, at $32,780. Nissan had earlier set the LEAF pricing for Japan at the equivalent of US$40,500. Nissan North America, Inc. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Bosch and Daimler set up EM-motive GmbH as a fifty-fifty joint venture in 2011. The two parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or any further details of the acquisition. Bosch is now taking full control of EM-motiv e, one of Europe’s most successful manufacturers of electric motors.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Data for 2011 and 2012 are preliminary. Every year during the height of summer, natural gas-fired generation from peaking generators (used to meet the highest levels of electricity demand, and typically burning natural gas) increases to meet the demand for electricity, largely regardless of fuel prices. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A status review of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) ( earlier post ) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS—i.e., gCO 2 e/MJ for gasoline.

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MAY 17, 2011

The study cautions, however, that the availability of financing, total cost of ownership and the unfolding events in Japan will impact vehicle sales in both markets. Economic recovery scenarios were developed to project the possible outcomes, the variables being: overall economic growth; credit availability; consumer prices; and.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). One surprise among their findings was that the electric truck had cost advantages over the diesel vehicle under some conditions.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Among its many findings, the Reference case suggests that US primary energy consumption will grow by 7% from 2011 to 2040 to 108 quadrillion Btu. However, energy use per capita declines by 15% from 2011 through 2040 as a result of improving energy efficiency (e.g., quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 14.0 than in AEO2012.

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MARCH 19, 2018

The share of diesel vehicles among new car registrations in the EU decreased from a peak of 55% in 2011 to 49% in 2016; recent data suggests that diesel shares continue to fall. VW Golf) market segments are, on average, similarly priced (±1%), but hybrid electric vehicles have approximately 20% lower CO 2 emissions. —The ICCT.

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JULY 6, 2013

They also found that the total costs of ownership (TCO) of the electric and diesel trucks are similar. kgCO 2 e/t·km) than the diesel truck in the baseline case for both the 2011?2012 For the baseline case with the 2011?2012 The NPV of TCO differential is sensitive to battery replacement, battery price, and EVSE price.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

The 960kJ-rated Kinergy system provided for use on Flybus has been developed by Ricardo as part of its involvement in the KinerStor project, which also includes a longer term development process planned for completion towards the end of 2011.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

In October 2011, the refinery yield of distillate fuels (a category that includes diesel fuel and heating oil) reached 29.7%, matching the previous record set in December 2008, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US refinery yields, October 2011 and October 2011. in October 2011.

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JULY 22, 2016

The European Commission found that truck makers MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF broke EU antitrust rules by colluding for 14 years on truck pricing and on passing on the costs of compliance with stricter emission rules. The “gross list” price level relates to the factory price of trucks, as set by each manufacturer.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The EPA projects that the annual incremental compliance cost of the proposed Option 1 ranges from $5.4 billion (state compliance) in 2030 ($2011), excluding the costs associated with monitoring, reporting, and record-keeping. The estimated cost of Option 2 is between $4.2 billion (state compliance) in 2025 (2011$).

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MAY 6, 2014

While the global sales of EVs have about doubled in each of the past two years—from about 45,000 units in 2011 to more than 200,000 in 2013—consumer uptake has been generally limited to less than 1% in nearly every major auto market, with the notable exceptions of Norway, the Netherlands and California. Source: ICCT.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

In October 2013, Panasonic and Tesla had already expanded their 2011 supply agreement so that Panasonic will supply nearly 2 billion automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla through 31 December 2017 at long-term preferential prices. Earlier post.). Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, J.P.

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APRIL 17, 2024

The analysis , which was commissioned by the National Resources Defense Council, and performed by Synapse Energy Economics, compared the prices EV owners paid for electricity with the costs for utilities to build power plants and to generate and distribute the energy.

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JUNE 11, 2014

To support that goal, in June 2011, the Department of the Navy (DON), Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to “assist the development and support of a sustainable commercial biofuels industry.” An offeror will not be paid a price higher than its offered price.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Using data from 1970 to 2011, energy experts at the University of Sussex found a long-term rebound effect among British car-drivers of around 20%. road fuel prices (£/MJ). Taking changes in fuel efficiency as the explanatory variable, they found little evidence of a long-run direct rebound effect in Great Britain over this period.

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