2016 Cleaner Climate Personal 
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2018
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2020
California statewide GHG emissions dropped below the 2020 GHG Limit in 2016 and have remained below the 2020 GHG Limit since then. tons per person to 10.7 tons per person in 2018, a 24% decrease. All these climate programs have considerably more stringent emissions reduction targets starting in 2021.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Therefore, it is critical that the next generation of climate policies be designed to deliver steeper reductions. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Auto manufacturing capacity continues to grow, and annual output could reach the 100 million mark by 2016. An analysis by Deutsche Bank Climate Advisors, however, suggests that production of 1.1 In Japan, the average driver covers only about 6,400 km, while in China, the average distance per person works out to a much shorter 1,000 km.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. The fact is, we’ve never come anywhere near cutting emissions five percent in a single year in a period of economic stability—and yet, in order to meet our climate goal by 2030, we have to.
Plug in America
MARCH 22, 2024
The target amount of average tailpipe emissions gets a bit lower each year, resulting in progressively cleaner cars. There are two reasons why these standards matter– public health and climate. From a climate perspective, the transportation sector is the U.S. The batch of rules that were just finalized won’t kick in until 2027.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” The good news is that the 2016 Volt will come out with 50 miles (85 km) AER.) However, just as the body begins to repair itself when a person ceases to smoke, it is not too late for Earth to repair itself.
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