EV Obssesion

APRIL 26, 2021

By Luke Tonachel President Biden is following through on his promise to re-establish the long-held authority of governors to adopt vehicle pollution regulations to protect the health and welfare of people in their states. The Biden EPA today proposed reinstating a Clean Air Act waiver that allows states to […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $5 million in grant funding for 4 clean diesel projects at ports in California, Oregon, New Jersey and Texas. These vessels operate between Atlantic Highlands in New Jersey and terminal locations in New York City.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Medium- and heavy-duty trucks are a major source of harmful smog-forming pollution, particulate matter, and air toxics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.

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Plug in America

MAY 13, 2022

Advanced Clean Cars, also known as Clean Cars Standards, is a set of standards designed to put more zero-emission vehicles on the road and improve air quality. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the special authority to set state clean car standards that go above and beyond federal standards to cut tailpipe pollution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Statement of Intent comes as the California Air Resources Board (ARB) holds its first meeting to consider a proposed Advanced Clean Trucks regulation that would establish sales and reporting requirements for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. —CARB Chair Mary D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The agreement with Mexico follows similar agreements signed by California in 2013 with the governments of British Columbia and the states of Oregon and Washington and China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the first agreement of its kind on climate change between the commission and a subnational entity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The DERA funding covers engine replacements, repowers and idle reduction technologies to clean up a variety of older diesel engines, including those in heavy-duty trucks used at ports, delivery trucks, long haul trucks, marine vessels, school buses, and even agricultural equipment. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The report, Clean Air Future: Health and Climate Benefits of Zero Emission Vehicles , was produced by the American Lung Association in California. Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Oregon: $1.3

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation. Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) will accept applications requesting up to $1,000,000 in grant funds. Applicants may apply until 16 March 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

The analysis “California’s Clean Fuel Future: Assessing Achievable Fuel Carbon Intensity Reductions Through 2030,” was commissioned by Ceres, NextGen America, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Because the LCFS also reduces toxic air pollution emitted by cars, this program minimizes health impacts in communities that live near freeways.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A coalition of 11 states filed a lawsuit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly to revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot. The EPA had failed to meet an October 2011 deadline for revising the existing standards. EPA last revised the standards in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The other seven states—Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—account for more than 135,000 vehicles. Zero-emission vehicles are vital to Massachusetts’ efforts to cut air pollution from the transportation sector and stimulate growth in the clean energy economy.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Electrifying heavy-duty trucks is essential if we’re to fight climate change and air pollution, but the pace of the transition has been painfully slow—many, many pilots, but few truly large-scale orders.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

“ California is rolling out the carpet for Californians who choose these ultra-clean hydrogen powered electric cars and for the companies that make them ,” said Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. efforts among California, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Oregon, Massachusetts, Vermont. —Chairman Nichols. and Rhode Island.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

A chapter in Oregon is guided by the genius of its members. Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association members take part in a Fourth of July parade in Eugene, Oregon. We were especially excited about the 4-wheelers because they’re used on farms all over the state and the gas vehicles are very noisy and air polluting.” “I

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Oregon-based Diesel Brewing has launched an initiative to manufacture cellulosic biobutanol from biomass and dairy farm manure. Results showed that butanol mixed with diesel can reduce emissions of criteria pollutants. Oregon annually generates more than 20 million tons of renewable biomass, and produces 2.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cutting pollution and global heating emissions in the United States is dependent more than anything else on 1) shifting from fossil fuel powered vehicles to electric vehicles and human-powered transit, and 2) switching from coal and natural gas to solar and wind energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. —Jin et al. electric vehicle incentives ”.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Three pizza restaurants have jumped into the electric vehicle delivery business by introducing hundreds of zero emission cars to get your pie to you hot and fast, but without adding to local pollution. Clean Fleet Report reviewed the Solo last year, which was before the company added the Solo Cargo model. Hot electric pie.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

At the recent International Biomass Conference and Expo in Portland Oregon, Edward Einowski, a partner in the law firm Stoel Rives and an expert on biomass project financing, provided an overview of today’s financial situation: “ There has been a tremendous push towards quality ” said Einowski. Earlier post.). Financing challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories found that hydrogen fuel cell barges may be both technically feasible and commercially attractive as a clean, quiet and efficient power source to provide electrical power for some types of vessels at berth or at anchorage. Click to enlarge. —Pratt and Harris (2013).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. Think has established a U.S. before 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2017

After considering the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review ( earlier post ), the California Air Resources Board voted unanimously on Friday to continue with the vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards and ZEV program for cars and light trucks sold in California through 2025. Midterm Review of Advanced Clean Cars Program. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 22, 2023

Earlier this year, the state introduced a new carbon-pricing program (part of the Climate Commitment Act, and Clean Fuel Standard) that fines businesses for any greenhouse gas they emit. Washington and Oregon are neighboring states and have enjoyed similar fuel prices throughout most of history.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Bob Lutz’s Latest Volt Test Drive Sprinting for Green Stimulus Dollars New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You G.M. Most Americans commute less than 40 miles daily, so that most days they would consume practically NO combustible fuel, na d not pollute the environment while driving or idling.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

While he didn’t mention EVs by name, we know that there is no way to get there without a dramatic surge in electric vehicles fueled by clean energy. That same day, the administration announced a reversal of the Trump-era rule that California would not be able to set its own rigorous air pollution rules.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Overview of RGGI. Gases: CO 2 emissions. WCI covers seven U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, the proposal is not incorrect in asserting that California's Clean Air Act waiver gives it a large amount of influence over national vehicle policies. California's zero-emission rules [claims it] will cut by 25 percent smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 2037. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

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