EV Adoption
JULY 4, 2022
As sales of electric vehicles begin to reach significant numbers across the US, states are exploring approaches to replace lost tax revenue since EV drivers don’t pay fuel taxes as drivers of gas-powered cars do at gas stations. Unfortunately there is currently no simple and agreed upon best replacement for the fuel tax.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2019
A research report submitted to the California Legislature this week by the University of California, Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies proposes switching EVs to a mileage-based road-funding fee (road user charge, RUC) while continuing to have gasoline-powered cars pay gasoline taxes.
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.
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.).
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. Nature Energy doi: 10.1038/s41560-018-0195-z.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2018
As of January 2018, California had a total of 16,549 public and nonresidential private-sector charging outlets. In January 2018, Assemblyman Phil Ting introduced a bill that would ban gas-powered cars by 2040. Convenience: From 2011 to 2016, the number of stations for charging electric vehicles increased by 1,138% in the US.
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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