CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Just like the Cash for Clunkers program during the financial crisis, a “Cash for Stinkers” program is needed to battle the climate crisis. Cash for Clunkers was designed to increase new car sales and, in the meantime, put more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road.

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Cash For Clunkers Climate Change Climate Sale 96

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., Cash for Clunkers”) program could maximize greenhouse gas emissions savings by using fuel-economy based eligibility requirements rather than age-based requirements.

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Cash For Clunkers Fuel Economy Scrappage Economy 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Two factors are driving the recovery, notably low automotive inventory that will result in new car growth next year, combined with stimulus packages designed to benefit the ailing car sector while favoring the switch to electric and hybrid cars, which are typically more expensive than equivalent internal combustion-driven models.

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2020 Cash For Clunkers Stimulus Package Global 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

These decisions and consumer behaviors need to have a place in policy making that is designed to reduce carbon emissions and incentivize more fuel efficient cars, the researchers say. If people buy a more fuel-efficient car, down the road when they replace one of their other cars, the car they buy is going to be less fuel-efficient.

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Purchase Fuel Economy Fuel Cash For Clunkers 220

Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

An article in the New York Times criticised the so-called “cash for clunkers&# legislation that would give people vouchers worth as much as $4,500 to replace old cars with new ones. It suggests that the House’s programme seems as though it is designed to undercut both its economic and environmental value.

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Scrappage Cash For Clunkers Buy Congress 36

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

EPA evaluated MY 2012 vehicles against future footprint-based CO2 emission targets to determine which vehicles could meet or exceed the targets in model years 2016-2025, based on current powertrain designs and assuming improvements in air conditioner refrigerants and efficiency.

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Fuel Economy 2012 EPA Economy 284

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These comparisons were based on current powertrain designs, assuming improvements only in air conditioner refrigerants and efficiency. EPA evaluated MY 2013 vehicles against future footprint-based CO 2 emissions regulatory targets to determine which vehicles could meet or exceed their future targets in MY 2016-2025.

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Fuel Economy 2012 Economy EPA 247