Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

finds that private jets are 10 times more carbon-intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains in terms of CO 2 emitted per passenger-km. According to the report, a four-hour private flight emits as much as the average person does in a year.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

The results of the report’s plausible yet aggressive scenarios for the United States show the potential for technological improvements to more than offset fleet growth and, by 2050, reduce fuel use and GHG impacts by up to 50%. —John Heywood. MITEI’s study on “Mobility of the Future” will explore these and other questions.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

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. In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. 6 million.

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