Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

BNSF Railway Company and Wabtec began testing battery-electric locomotive technology in revenue service between Barstow and Stockton, California. The battery-powered locomotive ( FLXdrive ) will be situated in a consist between two Tier 4 locomotives, creating a battery-electric hybrid consist.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Managed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control ( DNREC ), the ZEV program is designed to accelerate the commercialization of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles. Transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $70 million in funding to replace more than 200 old diesel school buses with all-electric buses that will reduce school children’s exposure to harmful emissions and help the state reach its climate and air quality goals. School buses are by far the safest way for kids to get to school.

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California Diesel Energy Pollution 341

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Fiscal Year 2019-20 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives, largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Clean Cleaning Transportation Pollution 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that air pollution at US ports can be reduced significantly at all port types and sizes through a variety of strategies and cleaner technologies. In 2030, adding plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to these fleets could yield even more NO x and PM 2.5

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Pollution EPA Cleaner Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing the federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks for Model Years (MY) 2023 through 2026. EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later.

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EPA Standards Gas Pollution 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Orange EV and Dependable Supply Chain Services announced the deployment of Orange EV pure electric terminal trucks (aka yard trucks, hostlers, spotters) as the first step in fulfilling the Dependable Highway Express (DHE) plan to transform its Ontario, California facility into a sustainable, energy-efficient, emission-free freight terminal.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The funding is from California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has put the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) on hold after receiving voucher requests for its entire $142-million budget. More than 100 truck and bus fleets requested funding for vehicles produced by more than 20 manufacturers.

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California Fleet Cleaner Clean 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Each of the 11 projects will receive matching funds from private and public partners. Partner match: $15.4

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Clean Cleaning Transportation San Francisco 191

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rulemaking for model year 2023-2026 light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards, and outlined its plans to initiate a subsequent rulemaking to set standards for MY 2027 and beyond, to speed the transition of the light-duty vehicle fleet toward a zero emissions future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Motiv Power Systems (Motiv), a leading provider of all-electric medium-duty fleet chassis, has begun deliveries of Ford E-450-based all-electric walk-in vans to the United States Postal Service (USPS). The pilot program of seven Motiv-powered vans is slated for deployment in California’s Central Valley.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ridesourcing vehicles’ high use intensity is economically attractive for electric vehicles, which typically have lower operating costs and higher capital costs than conventional vehicles. Air pollution is a classic case where free markets fail. —Bruchon et al.

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Tax Los Angeles Emissions Companies 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. 2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, Toyota has entered their sights largely due to the company’s refusal to take electric vehicles seriously, its reliance on gas-powered hybrids, and its marketing campaigns that exist to create confusion about electric vehicles and channel consumers into dirtier fossil-powered vehicles.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

A new study from the University of California (UC) Berkeley shows a steady, albeit modest, decline in carbon emissions with increased electric vehicle (EV) adoption over the last few years. This study, he adds, was the first to look at a larger area and make a connection between a decline in carbon emissions and EV adoption.

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California Emissions San Francisco New Jersey 136

EV Life

APRIL 14, 2023

It’s no secret that motor vehicle emissions are one of the main sources of pollution in the state of California and one of the leading causes of climate change in the country. Californians collectively drive over a billion miles every day, releasing tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) and pollutants into the air.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Electric vehicles have become an inevitable part of every walk of modern life. There are three primary categories for electric vehicles Battery Electric vehicles: In this type of electric vehicle, the powerhouse is the battery. With Formula-E they are getting into the racing arena as well. 

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The editorial addresses important issues in the current politically charged discussions of global warming and climate-change alarm. … We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries, and beginning to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and links between pollution and public health. In CY2023, a record 15,26,433 or 1.52

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Emissions Pollution India Climate 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group ( C40 ) has released interim results from its Hybrid & Electric Bus Test Program , developed in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative, and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Funding is available for the purchase of new advanced technology zero-emission fuel cell and battery electric school buses and associated vehicle charging equipment. Near-zero-emission plug-in hybrid school buses, or new school buses that operate on renewable fuels, including renewable diesel, natural gas, and propane, are also eligible.

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California Emissions Cleaner Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The Fiscal Year 2018-19 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives , largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s comprehensive strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Clean Cleaning Transportation Climate Change 191

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

While technologies for low carbon buses such as hybridization offer the prospect of significant reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions compared to conventionally powered vehicles, the improvement in terms of regulated emissions (criteria pollutants) may not be as great, according to a new report by Ricardo.

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Emissions Hybrid Vehicles Carbon 231

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

First, some background from the New York Times : The rule increasingly limits the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time so that, by 2032, more than half the new cars sold in the United States would most likely be zero-emissions vehicles in order for carmakers to meet the standards. It very much is not. regulation is not a ban.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

A shift from gasoline to diesel engines following previous and upcoming European emission standards is consistent with long-term climate mitigation efforts, according to a new analysis by researchers from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Norway), the University of Oslo and ETH Zurich.

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Climate Gasoline Diesel Engine 223

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire and legislative leaders have introduced a Green Jobs and Climate Action legislative package that proposes investments totaling $455 million in the next biennium for energy-reducing transportation projects, energy efficiency projects, green buildings and clean-energy technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SunLine Transit Agency in California has awarded New Flyer of America—the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries—with a contract for five Xcelsior fuel cell-electric forty-foot, heavy-duty transit buses. The NFI Group has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced that California Climate Investments in zero-emission vehicles have reached $599 million since 2013, putting hundreds of thousands of ultra-clean cars, and entire fleets of zero-emission trucks and buses on California roads and highways. School buses: 29 electric school buses.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2023

The State of Maryland followed in the footsteps of California today by banning all new gas vehicle sales by the model year 2035. Car exhaust is the largest source of greenhouse gas in the State of Maryland. This new regulation puts us on a fast-track to meet our climate goals. Moore said in a press release. “I

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Amazon announced an investment of nearly $1 billion in an all-electric delivery truck fleet last October. The New York Police Department began its shift to electric vehicles last September. And large corporations like Amazon aren’t the only ones currently converting their fleets from gas to electric.

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Corporation Fleet Gas-Electric Purchase 76

Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Gas and diesel each attract their own unique concerns. For example, even though diesel is 35% more efficient than gasoline, water attaches to it more readily than gas. Mixing varying fuel compositions is another way to tarnish gas and diesel to the point of causing damage to the vehicle.

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Fleet Fuel Hydrogen Maintenance 57

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The findings from this vehicle LCA study , the production of which was led by Ricardo and funded by the European Commission, DG Climate Action, confirm the significant environmental benefits of electrified powertrains (particularly of battery electric vehicles) for all of the road vehicle types assessed.

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Sustainable Transportation Fuel Renewable Climate 221

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

With respect to the emissions updates, the OEMs must also provide proof that the changes do not negatively impact any other parameters relevant for type approval—such as pollutant and CO 2 emissions, fuel consumption, noise and engine power. Excessively high pollution affects air quality in many German cities.

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Diesel Emissions Pollution Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

Vision Industries Class 8 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The Port of Los Angeles is entering into negotiations with Los Angeles-based Vision Industries for the purchase and evaluation of Vision’s Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric trucks. Photo: Business Wire).

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