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Compliance credits for EVs undergoing reduction 

Electric Auto Association

The generous multiplier was designed to incentivize the rapid development of zero emission powertrains, and the strategy has been very successful. Credits represent actual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and are expressed as megagrams of CO2 (Mg = one million grams).

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

Improved and extended data collection is critical to designing and re-assessing these policies. Antitrust legislation sometimes hinders horizontal collaboration and legal risk has already prevented some trials. In some regions, biofuels production may be close to carbon-neutral and cost-effective, but far from it in others.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

EVs are designed with their batteries spread evenly across the bottom of the car, creating an incredibly low centre of gravity with weight equally distributed across both axles. Since 1st July 2019, it has been a legal requirement for new EVs to be fitted with noise-making devices behind the bumpers.

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LowCVP announces winners of Low Carbon Urban Mobility Technology Challenge

Green Car Congress

The UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) has announced six winners of the Low Carbon Urban Mobility Technology Challenge —a competition to identify and promote low carbon innovations with the potential to cut carbon emissions and other environmental impacts arising from transport in cities. Ecospin Ltd.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

Teslarati

We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. The fact that current levels may be legal does not mean they are safe. But sustainability is not just about avoiding emissions.

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