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California ARB mods to ZEV regulations for IVMs would result in ~1.9% drop in total ZEV/TZEV units 2018-2025; no impact on air quality requirements

Green Car Congress

Among the proposed changes were additional production lead time; a reduced compliance obligation (i.e., Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. by about 1.9%. We want them to succeed and want them to make money on this.

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Report from Victoria EV Trial reinforces importance of source of electricity and EV efficiency in reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Green Car Congress

Interrelationship between EV energy economy (y-axis) and and the electricity grid emissions intensity (x-axis) in determining full fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions. A conventional Mazda 3 would sit around midway of the middle color band at 154 gCO 2 e/km. Source: “Environmental Impacts”. Click to enlarge. for sensitivity testing.

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The EV Transition Explained: How to Meet Sales Targets?

Cars That Think

The latest Edison Electric Institute projection is that only about 26.4 In addition, gasoline vehicles 15 years or older and diesel trucks over 10 years old should not be allowed on US roads, as is happening in some Indian cities. However, that is still far short of RMI’s 70 million target.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform.

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