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MECA report assesses technology feasibility for heavy-duty diesel trucks to meet lower NOx standards by 2024

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The MECA assessment is based on the implementation timeline presented by CARB staff at a January 2019 public workshop as well as the assumptions laid out in the CARB staff white paper released in April 2019. The cost of controlling NO x to 0.05 g/bhp-hr in 2024 and to 0.02 Credit: MECA. —MECA’s Executive Director, Rasto Brezny.

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Former Commerce and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta urges technology neutral policies in reaching proposed CAFE standards

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In a white paper released at a National Press Club briefing, Secretary Mineta detailed his support for such policies—i.e., The federal government is pushing their fleet-procurement decisions almost completely to EVs and hybrids irrespective of costs. Impact of different sales mix on new car average fuel economy.

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