Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. The 2012 amendments to the ZEV reg adopted as part of the ACC package reduced the California sales upper bound for IVMs from 60,000 units to 20,000 per year beginning with the 2018 model year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Nuclear Power. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. —McCollum et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

Choice: 150 different plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles are available worldwide, with that number set to rise to over 240 by 2021. population lives in a metropolitan area with 7 or fewer available models. As of January 2018, California had a total of 16,549 public and nonresidential private-sector charging outlets.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 12, 2009

Volkswagen has introduced the new BiFuel model version of the Golf Plus to cut CO2 emissions by more than 10 per cent and offer fuel savings of €6.10 This impressive reduction is in part due to the reduced German fuel tax in place until 2018. per 100 kilometres in LPG mode. litres of LPG per 100 kilometres (159 g/km CO2).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Driving an EV pushes these problems upstream, to the factory where the vehicle is made and beyond, as well as to the power plant where the electricity is generated. Then there is the fuel cycle—the activities associated with producing and using the fuel or electricity to power the vehicle through its working life.

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