Carbon, Fuel Tax, Market and Purchase

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. —McCollum et al. McCollum et al.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles

Washington state legislature approves $16.9B transportation package; targeting all new cars to be electric with MY 2030

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

The package makes significant investments in reducing carbon emissions, preservation and maintenance, expanding multimodal options, public transportation and pedestrian safety. billion toward carbon reduction and multimodal expansion. $3 The Washington State Legislature has passed the $16.9-billion, Notable investments include: $5.4

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Washington All-Electric Transportation Maintenance

Ryder San Francisco fueling facility offers 100% renewable diesel

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

—Chris Nordh, Ryder Director for Global Fuel Products. Based on production levels and availability of RD, Ryder will continue to monitor other markets with plans for expanding this offering. The company also plans to analyze continually market opportunities that would benefit its customers to have RD available for their fleets.,

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San Francisco Renewable Diesel Fuel

New UK Report Welcomes Moves to Promote Green Cars but Stresses Importance of Policies to Reduce Car Use

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

Policies could have a large impact through reducing the need to travel and promoting walking, cycling, public transport and efficient driving, as well as encouraging low carbon cars. The report reviews policies that bear upon two categories of choice: travel choices such as how and how far to travel and vehicle purchase choices.

Fuel Tax

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Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 —“Effects of Federal Tax Credits for the Purchase of.

Tax Credit

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Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Direct transportation (fuel) taxes generate the greatest reductions in CO 2 emission from transportation, achieving CO 2 emissions at 86% of 2005 levels by about 2025. While CO 2 prices are equivalent to fuel taxes, CO 2 prices at their projected levels are far too small to create a significant incentive to drive less.

Tax Credit

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GFEI report suggests $2T savings from fuel economy improvements in ICE vehicles through 2025 can help fund long-term transition to plug-ins

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs. —GFEI working paper.

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Study concludes significant additional transport policy interventions will be required for Europe to meet its GHG reduction goal

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

Without significant additional policy interventions to induce market penetration of breakthrough passenger car and aircraft technologies, the overall European (EU27) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals for 2050 will be difficult to meet, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and MIT.

Transportation

Transportation Europe Climate Change Emissions

IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The policy package includes a new fuel economy readiness index, which measures the extent to which countries have implemented steps that will fully exploit the potential of existing fuel economy technologies and maximise their use in vehicles. The policy recommendations in this document are a good place to start.

Fuel Economy

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Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Obama Cleaner Fuel Economy Climate

UC report to CalEPA outlines policy options to decarbonize California transportation by 2045

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. A second study led by UC Santa Barbara was released simultaneously.

Transportation

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MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

Evolving US new LDV market: percent sales by powertrain type out to 2050. The recommendations include: Improving the fuel consumption of mainstream vehicles is the primary nearer-term opportunity for reducing fuel use and GHG emissions. —John Heywood.

MIT

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. EVs have finally come of age.

Electric Vehicles

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EV Driven

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Washington state legislature approves $16.9B transportation package; targeting all new cars to be electric with MY 2030

Ryder San Francisco fueling facility offers 100% renewable diesel

New UK Report Welcomes Moves to Promote Green Cars but Stresses Importance of Policies to Reduce Car Use

Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

GFEI report suggests $2T savings from fuel economy improvements in ICE vehicles through 2025 can help fund long-term transition to plug-ins

Study concludes significant additional transport policy interventions will be required for Europe to meet its GHG reduction goal

IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

UC report to CalEPA outlines policy options to decarbonize California transportation by 2045

MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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