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BCG study finds conventional automotive technologies have high CO2 reduction potential at lower cost; stiff competition for electric cars

Green Car Congress

BCG comparison of the CO 2 reduction potential and cost of different technologies. EVs will likely account for approximately 8% of new car sales in Europe by 2020, supported by consumers’ higher willingness to pay for green technologies, the region’s high emissions standards, and high gasoline and diesel fuel taxes.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. friendly governments in Europe, Japan, and South Korea have criticized the plan for purportedly discriminating against non-U.S. Because that’s really the comparison that you care about.”. In 2016, a U.S.

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