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American Honda Motor to pay $1.9M in penalties in California for small engine emissions violations

Green Car Congress

The remaining funds, roughly $1 million, will go to the IQAir Foundation, a non-profit that seeks to promote environmental justice by helping to improve environmental health conditions in neighborhoods unfairly affected by pollution as a result of economic, ethnic, or racial factors.

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Three Major Sources of Funding for EV Charging at Convenience Stores and Truck Stops

Blink Charging

times more than in 2018. NEVI funds can be used for EV charging infrastructure: acquisition, installation, network connection, operation, maintenance, and long-term EV charging station data sharing. Statista says that in 2022, EV sales in the United States were just under 918,500 , which was over 2.5

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. Ford purchased Spin, a dockless scooter-sharing company in 2018 and has been working at growing it in U.S.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

Charged EVs

He tells us that Florida utilities have been very engaged in electrification of transportation since OUC led its first electrification roundtable back in 2018. Back in 2018, there were roughly 2,300 EVs in OUC territory. And I’m happy to share that that forecast has held true. In January 2022, there were 5,000.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

There’s ease of operations, ease of maintenance benefits. Charged : We saw the case study video of the system you installed for Link Transit in Washington in 2018. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Charged : I suppose maintenance is also less than with a wired system?

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads. passenger vehicles.