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UC report to CalEPA outlines policy options to decarbonize California transportation by 2045

Green Car Congress

This scenario includes GHG emissions, vehicle sales, fuel consumption, carbon intensity, and changes in VMT. The LC1 scenario is referred to as ‘central’ to distinguish it from other low-carbon scenarios (‘side cases’) described in the full report. However, a key tracking report in 2018 found that VMT is increasing, not decreasing.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.