Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

The purchase is supported by Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds and begins conversion of the current Unitrans fleet, comprising compressed natural gas buses (CNG), to zero-emission as existing vehicles reach end of life.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Since then, LTD hired a Sustainability Program Manager and conducted carbon footprint analysis of its operations to measure the impacts and benefits of public transit on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved funding of $2,604,000 to help bring more buses and trucks powered by natural gas to the state’s highways. The awards are expected to support the purchase of more than 125 new natural gas vehicles; funding comes from the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E actually helped keep its gas-powered counterpart, the original Mustang, in production, CEO Jim Farley explained at the Detroit Auto Show on Wednesday. This kept the gas-powered Mustang in Ford’s future plans, although it plans to stop selling internal combustion engines altogether in 2035.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 17, 2014

You go to climate battle with the Ted Lieu you have, not the Ted Lieu you wished you had. Waxman has been our heroic climate champion for many years now and is retiring. And the issue that Ted grabbed and commanded and was using to transform himself into a climate legend was Community Choice Aggregation. And I get that.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). An all-electric fleet would reduce lifetime greenhouse gas emissions by 14.7 Earlier post.). Woody et al.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Strict climate-related regulations on the Old Continent mean that gas vehicles – even those that we consider relatively efficient here – are extremely expensive and difficult to find. but it’s clear we should all be thankful that we’re not facing steep taxes and penalties for continuing to buy gas vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The data and analytics company notes that such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer. A skyrocketing nickel price would have major repercussions on the climate ambitions of countries around the world, and will ultimately hamper the adoption of EVs.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2018

Today, we've got the old and the new, from Ford Model T gas mileage to advanced electric cars that the LAPD isn't using. Also, why plug-in vehicle owners usually lease rather than buy, and another Tesla Model S crash with Autopilot involved. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

The project will enable at least 44 buses in Ride On Montgomery County’s transit fleet to transition from diesel to electric, advancing the County’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, reducing lifetime emissions by more than 155,000 tons, while delivering resilience to climate events and power outages.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021. The government will also oblige natural gas to contain more renewable content, such as gas from agriculture and waste products. — Globe and Mail.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Incentives play a pivotal role in supporting California’s air quality, climate and petroleum-reduction goals. To date, HVIP has provided vouchers for fleets to buy more than 7,500 zero-emission and other clean trucks and buses. It builds on the success of the funding plans over the past 11 years that have invested $2.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. —Greg Smithies, Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To develop the new methodologies, Chevrolet worked with an advisory team led by the Climate Neutral Business Network with support from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation , the US Green Building Council and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education ( AASHE ).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Increasing the reflectivity or albedo of roofs and pavements in urban areas could offset greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount, according to an open access paper published last month in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters. —Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent collaborative study led by the University of Maryland (UMD), researchers found that consumers tend to buy something less fuel efficient than they normally would for their second car after buying an eco-friendly vehicle. Then, I tend to buy a bigger second car. —James Archsmith. —David Rapson.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

From 2005 through 2020, total US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are projected to rise by 4% under a “with measures” scenario (but without a cap-and-trade program and other complementary policies), from 7,109 Tg CO 2 Eq. The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006. to 7,416 Tg CO 2 Eq.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

T&E performed a total cost of ownership calculation that includes external costs on health (air quality and noise) and climate (GHG emissions), including inputs from CE Delft. Last month the European Parliament supported public procurement targets for clean urban buses by local authorities; however, the targets also include gas buses.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Manufacturers aren’t producing these vehicles in sufficient quantities, the supportive infrastructure isn’t in place, and there's a significant portion of consumers that appear disinterested in buying non-traditional powertrains. You'll still be able to buy a combustion-engined vehicle until 2035,” he explained, noting that the U.K.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

California’s work with leading manufacturers is an example of the collaboration that will clean our air, combat climate change, and improve health outcomes for residents in the state,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph. Stellantis and CARB (California Air Resources Board) partnered to reduce carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To reduce the impact of transport on the climate, we need to make a swift transition from fossil fuels to alternatives such as electricity. Our customers can choose to buy several Volvo trucks of the same model, with the only difference being that some are electric and others are powered by gas or diesel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With the first-ever EU emission standards for trucks agreed, we are completing the legal framework to reach the European target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030. —Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. It was time to buy our first car. I was nervous as this was the first time that I was buying a car, so the experience was new to me. How did it all start?

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Diesel cars are a popular choice for those looking to buy a used vehicle in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. A carbon-based particulate filter Diesel engines produce more polluting particulate matter than gas engines. Another option would be for CarGreenTech to buy the older car, outfit it with a new filter, and resell the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2017

of total car sales (a market share which remains stable), hybrids for 2.6%, and cars powered by propane or natural gas for 1.3%. To this end, more needs to be done to encourage consumers to buy alternatively-powered vehicles, for instance by putting in place the right incentives and deploying recharging infrastructure across the EU.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. We’re looking forward to buying our next Chevy when your 400 miles per charge Ultium battery platform is ready.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, Toyota has entered their sights largely due to the company’s refusal to take electric vehicles seriously, its reliance on gas-powered hybrids, and its marketing campaigns that exist to create confusion about electric vehicles and channel consumers into dirtier fossil-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The purpose of the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) is to advance early commercial technologies that are needed to meet California’s clean air and climate goals. In total, the program has helped more than 1,500 California fleets buy cleaner vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate change goals. It is paid for through surcharges on vehicle and boat registrations, and smog check and license plate fees.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

But that should not be cause for panic, as gas-powered vehicles experience the same or similar effects. In cold weather, like in warm weather, cabin climate control adds to battery draw, which can affect EV range. This figure is far closer to the EPA-estimated 15% efficiency loss of gas-powered cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hyundai is offering customers willing to buy an all-electric vehicle a Level 2 home charger for no extra cost. With the above in mind, we may continue seeing companies betting big on electrification offering deals like this to help coax people into buying an EV. greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. That’s probably true.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Canada recently released the first details of its flagship policy to achieve one of its most ambitious climate goals to date — by 2035, every new car sold in the country must be emissions-free. Renewed the program that provides Canadians up to CA$5,000, and businesses up to CA$10,000, toward the cost of buying or leasing a ZEV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2019

The two-year pilot project sets up a voucher program for buying or leasing clean vehicles, electric bicycles, scooters and other equipment, and by funding the infrastructure—charging stations, bike and scooter racks, for example—needed for these projects. The $17 million funds the program for two years.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 15, 2021

This initiative comes as New Zealand’s Climate Commission recommendations laid out the sweeping changes that need to change the emission goals in the country. Last week the Climate Commission has laid out new benchmarks in India to transform its fleet. However, at the moment, they are still more expensive to buy.

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