Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

New research by scientists at King’s College London suggests that air pollution from London’s roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution, which continue to breach limits in many parts of the city. 15–45%·year −1 ). Fine particulate matter measured as PM 2.5

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2019

On Monday, drivers of older gas and diesel cars in Britain were hit with new fees if they want to drive those cars into the city center in London. British pounds ($16.30), follows similar charges on older vehicles in Paris, although it so far applies only to the same 8-square-mile area as London's central.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2022

Electrified Fleets vs Air Pollution Deaths. They Tesla cars will replace internal combustion engine vehicles, reducing air pollution in London. As per Amber , about 3,600 to 4,100 premature deaths in London are attributed to air pollution every year. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Greenways Insurance

AUGUST 22, 2022

From 8th April 2019, Central London will be introducing an Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to tackle the problem of excessive air pollution in the city. Once this has been initiated, there are further plans to extend this to include the inner London area bounded by the North and South Circular Roads. Why has it been enforced?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2018

pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new open-access study from a team of environmental engineers and public health researchers published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The researchers looked at outdoor air pollution from particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

The European ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles for European Roll-out) project will deploy large fleets of 60 hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in each of three European capitals (Paris, London and Brussels). One hundred seventy FCEVs will be operated as taxi or private-hire vehicles, and the remaining 10 will be used by the police.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Cities Anne Hidalgo and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced they are working together to create schemes to score new cars based on their real-world emissions and their impact on air quality and to provide that data in an accurate and accessible form to the public. Earlier post.). Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

London-based EV tire manufacturer ENSO said it is in discussions with multiple international car makers and has begun trials with major fleet operators. Multiple EV manufacturers have expressed interest in fitting ENSO’s range-extending, emissions-reducing tires.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Current emissions regulations are focused on what comes out of vehicle tailpipes, but a new study claims more than half of road-vehicle particulate emissions—fine particles that can pollute surrounding air and water—comes from other sources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

London’s £10 daily “ T-Charge ” (toxicity), aimed at the oldest, most polluting vehicles on London roads, is now in effect. Londoners overwhelmingly supported my plans to introduce this £10 charge…I will continue to do everything in my power to help protect the health of Londoners and clean our filthy air.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2019

London's new pollution charge on older vehicles makes it really expensive to drive older cars into the city. And our latest Twitter poll asks what GM should do with the Volt name now that it no longer produces the car. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We had a first chance to drive the new 2020 Kia Soul EV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

The Mayor of London has indicated that the impact of auxiliary engines could be included in future air quality monitoring in London. This would be the first time that pollutants from secondary vehicle engines, such as on refrigerated trucks, will be measured and reported by a UK governmental body. million km (52.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will has outlined a vision for a £913-million (US$1.48-billion) The Westway, the ultimate symbol of how the urban motorway tore up our cities, will become the ultimate symbol of how we are claiming central London for the bike. billion) investment in cycling infrastructure for the city.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 30, 2014

Figures vary year-by-year, but London constantly hovers near the top of Europe''s most polluted cities. Like many of its European counterparts, it sprang up long before the car was invented, leaving little space for roads and the growing number of cars owned by its 8.3 million inhabitants.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 9, 2019

The introduction of the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in London means those with older, more polluting cars will pay £12.50 on top of London’s existing £11.50 congestion charge.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, we have a total of what the diesel scandal has cost VW, more details on Chevy Bolt EV fast-charging rates, an update on London's stiff charges for older, more polluting cars, and a moral question to ponder. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has launched a new campaign encouraging Londoners to turn off their engines when their vehicle is stationary for more than a minute. The campaign is part of a package of measures to improve air quality, cut harmful pollution and clean up the city ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For more than 13 years, London has collected a stiff charge from motor vehicles entering the congested core of the city during weekday business hours. Known as the congestion charge, the fee of £11.50 a day, or $14.50 (£10 with automatic payment, or $12.50) is levied from 6 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday except holidays.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2014

Electric cars make a lot of sense for use as taxis. Taxis are typically driven in cities, where air pollution is often a problem. London taxi firm eConnect Cars has realized all these factors, setting up an all-electric taxi fleet of.' They tend to do frequent short runs punctuated by stops.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

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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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2013

million pieces of data from the London Mayor’s office, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, have revealed the capital’s dirtiest roads. The worst roads in London for air pollution have been revealed as the A406 (North Circular), the A282 (Dartford Crossing and the A13[.]. Analysis of 1.5 Green credentials'

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Nissan has used its LEAF to graffiti a part of London, in a depiction of the city’s battle with air pollution. Don’t worry, it is not as bad as its sounds; instead of using nasty chemical sprays, the carmaker has partnered with a UK artist to essentially clean a piece of the capital. Teaming w[.].

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2016

When it comes to buses, few are more recognizable than London's iconic double deckers. Transport for London (TfL), the British capital's transit agency, is placing five electric buses into service as the city continues to look for ways to reduce air pollution. DON'T MISS: London's Black Cabs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

However, a recent survey by RingGo, the UK’s leading cashless parking provider, found that only two-fifths of UK drivers say that they are planning on buying an electric vehicle for their next car. Price appears to be the main limiting factor. —Peter O’Driscoll, Managing Director at RingGo.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2015

Diesel cars have dominated Europe for decades, but recently a major backlash against them has started to brew. Green Europe London UK air pollution diesel particulate filter (DPF) emissions transportation policy' Green Europe London UK air pollution diesel particulate filter (DPF) emissions transportation policy'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2016

The team used high-precision measurement equipment based at Royal Holloway College in Egham, but also found similar declines in even the most traffic-populated regions of London, including Marylebone Road, show. The authors argue that the clean-up of gasoline cars was effective, but recognize the challenge facing diesel vehicles.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 12, 2009

London belongs to one of the largest cities in the world. London's undergrounds is one of the most developed in the world but also one of the oldest in the world counting over a 100 years. Overall the benefits that come from electric drives are huge, there is simply no pollution in the direct way, it's quiet and efficient.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

A new report by the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) calls for urgent action to tackle the damage to health caused by air pollution. A 2016 report by the Royal College of Physicians put the annual deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution in the UK at around 40,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

UK-based Emissions Analytics, a specialist in real-world, on-road vehicle emissions measurement and analysis, plans to launch a new initiative in 2016 to help consumers, policy makers and vehicle manufacturers better understand the real-world emissions of NO x from new cars. Dr. Adam Boeis – Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

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Drive Electric

JULY 28, 2021

You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that. So, what is it, where does it apply, and are electric cars exempt from congestion charge costs? So, what is it, where does it apply, and are electric cars exempt from congestion charge costs? What is the London Congestion Charge?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The report shows how thes massive changes on the horizon caused by automation, connectivity, decarbonization and sharing, represent an opportunity to move towards a transport system that is more efficient, safer, less polluting and more accessible than the current one centered on private car ownership.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Among the many policy and funding details in the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations , produced by Defra and the Department for Transport is the cessation of the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. Click to enlarge. —UK plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide. billion (US$3.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2018

While the intervention did immediately relieve road congestion by 20%, the NUS researchers found that the effect was short-lived as passenger cars quickly replaced the inner-city road space which the heavy-duty vehicles had left behind. For example, nearly 40% of London’s total NO x emissions is attributed to diesel vehicles.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The London T-charge, which mainly applies to pre-2006 diesel and petrol vehicles has come into force today (23 October).

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2012

Ahead of London’s mayoral elections this Thursday, Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas and Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones hit the streets of Lewisham to highlight London’s air pollution problems and their plans to tackle the issue.

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