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Toyota Sienna hybrid minivan, electrified Ram pickup, Fisker and Lordstown go public: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

How long ago were Detroit automakers thinking about climate change? Which electric truck played tug of war with the Ford F-150? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 30, 2020.

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Detroit’s climate-science legacy, Lordstown stock, Toyota Sienna first drive: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A new report underscores that Ford and GM knew about climate change a half-century ago. And we drive Toyota’s hybrid minivan. Lordstown goes public. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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EPA: US GHG emissions in 2017 down 0.3% from 2016

Green Car Congress

The largest sources of transportation CO 2 emissions in 2017 were passenger cars (41.4%); medium- and heavy- 5 duty trucks (23.1%); light-duty trucks, which include sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans (17.1%); commercial aircraft (6.7%); other aircraft (3.1%); rail (2.3%); pipelines (2.3%); and ships and boats (2.2%).

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EPA: US greenhouse gases dropped 3.4% in 2012 from 2011; down 10% from 2005 levels

Green Car Congress

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks , which is submitted annually to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. Climate Change Emissions' decrease in 2012 from 2011. The Inventory of U.S.

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Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid: lifetime carbon emissions 24 percent lower vs standard minivan

Green Car Reports

Cars that run entirely or partly on electricity from a battery pack have no tailpipe emissions, but to judge their overall impact, you have to look at lifetime wells-to-wheels emissions. That includes emissions associated with extracting, refining, and burning the fuel used to make the electricity that recharges them, as well as the same for any.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

“Mothers are driving the kids, the dog, and lots of stuff around town and there haven’t been a lot of electric minivans. They need to know they won’t have to do a smog check or an oil change, or replace a timing belt.” “And And a lot of moms out there want to do their part around global climate change,” she continued.

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Nissan Pushes the Plug

Plug In Partners

The maker has released only hybrid minivans on a limited scale, but as hybrid car sales by Toyota and Honda have grown in Japan and the United States, Nissan decided it would lose market share unless it entered the market with its own models. Compared with nickel-hydrogen batteries, which Toyota and Honda Motor Co. Become a Partner today.

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