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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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EPA and California ARB charge Volkswagen with using software defeat device to circumvent NOx testing in 4-cylinder 2.0L diesels

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The NOV alleges that Volkswagen and Audi cars from model years 2009-2015 equipped with 2.0-liter, The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2008. Volkswagen would need to initiate the process that will fix the cars’ emissions systems. collectively referred to here as Volkswagen).

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Next stop, hyperspace: The SF90 bullets toward the next corner at a pace that I simply can’t relate to any other car I’ve driven here. The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE).

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ICCT study finds real-world NOx emissions from Euro 6 diesels ~7x higher than Euro 6 regulatory levels

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On-road NO x emission levels of Euro 6 diesel cars in Europe are on average about seven times higher than the NO x limit set by the Euro 6 emission standard, according to a new report published in Berlin by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Diesel vehicles make up about 50% of all new cars in the EU.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. The fuel can be used to power cars, supply electricity, and heat homes, all with zero carbon emissions.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Driving that timeline is the shift to electric vehicles, which the Administration wants to account for 50 percent of all new cars sold by 2030. In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome. Such is the case with the Biden Administration’s attempted transition of the U.S.

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Which states align with California EV mandate in 2024?

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Virginia will stop following California’s stricter emissions standards, which would have put the state on track to end sales of nearly all new internal-combustion cars by 2035, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced last week. So Youngkin plans to revert Virginia to the federal emissions standards on January 1, 2025.