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Tesla could face emissions credit tax in Washington

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As detailed in an op-ed from the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Democrats in Olympia have filed two companion bills proposing a 10 percent tax on the electric vehicle (EV) emissions credits Tesla sells, valued at roughly $1.79 billion globally last year.

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Honda’s radical new EVs might help it make better Accords

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Honda continues to target 100% electric vehicle sales by 2040 , and to have zero environmental impact by 2050. Honda Accord sales , and in recent months Honda has admitted that its hard to predict the trajectory of where the mix will be on the way to fully electric. Its previously projected 40% EV sales in North America by 2030.

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Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

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metric tons from 2010 to 2017—equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from more than 728,000 passenger vehicles driven for one year. The company is continuing on its course of $11 billion to put 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicle models on the road by 2022. We are proud of the work we have done to achieve this goal.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. As part of the electric offensive, Mercedes-Benz Cars counts on local emission-free vehicles.

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International automotive researchers emphasize the importance of continued development of the internal combustion engine

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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. Global warming potential (GWP) in CO2 equivalent tons by sector. Gas exchange. road dust) are accounted for. Reitz et al.

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Biden sets 2030 net GHG reduction target for US of 50-52% below 2005 levels

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US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030. In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMT CO 2 Eq.), or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq. or 5,769 MMT CO 2 Eq.

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Tesla Model 3 earns 5-star rating in Green NCAP test

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10 on the Greenhouse Gas Index. The estimated GHG emissions of the fully electric Model 3 originate only from the upstream processes of electricity supply only ca. 43 g CO2 eq./km km in the standard Lab Test and reaching 76 g CO2 eq./km 10 on the Energy Efficiency Index, and 9.8/10 kWh/100 km.

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