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PHEVs pollute more than billed, but EPA just gave them a pass

Baua Electric

A new European study finds that plug-in hybrids pollute more than advertised, while in the U.S. grams of CO2 per kilometer, which was 3.5 Another study from Transport & Environment in 2020 also found that plug-in hybrids are polluting more than claimed. the EPA appears ready to give them more emissions leeway.

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What we don’t admit about carbon dioxide

Electric Auto Association

Intuitive misconceptions about this harmful gas slows EV adoption By PETER DOUGLAS: MEMBER, ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. But before consumers assign appropriate value to low carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they must make an accurate judgment about the malevolence of this well-known gas. Time for a name change?

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T&E concludes that diesel cars emit more CO2 on a full lifecycle basis than gasoline cars

Green Car Congress

A new analysis by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) concludes that diesel cars emit more CO 2 than equivalent cars on a full lifecycle basis—i.e., This is because the auto industry could not be fully responsible for their targets otherwise. accounting for the emissions generated during production of the vehicle and the fuel.

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This is How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect The Global EV Market

Get Electric Vehicle

CO2-emission restrictions have a big impact on market conditions because they challenge automakers to make more fuel-efficient cars and the incentives from the state, such as buying price discounts and tax cuts, have a significant impact on market demand. Nurturing environment and related infrastructure. Change in consumer behavior.

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Ford Increasing Use of Renewable and Recyclable Materials in Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Natural fiber-reinforced plastics and plant-based polymer resins help reduce CO2 emissions by being entirely compostable, and in some cases reduce weight, which helps improve fuel economy. Auto recyclers supply more than one third of all ferrous scrap to the US scrap processing industry. Reuse is a big part of the recycling story.

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Resounding success or a piece of scrap? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Ostensibly, the scrappage scheme has been presented as an incentive to buy less polluting cars and therefore reduce damage to the environment. By restricting the cars that can be scrapped to those that are at least 10 years old the Government hopes to get “old bangers” off the road, and newer, less polluting alternatives out there.

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

In New Zealand air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of 27 deaths per 100,000 people. Further, in 2020, the Australian car industry signed up to a new voluntary agreement to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions between 2021 and 2030. For the period 2020-2024, the EU fleet-wide CO2 emission targets are 8 : Cars: 95 g CO2/km.

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