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Next 10-UC Berkeley study suggests additional tax revenue or income-based rate structure to make electricity more affordable for Californians

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What Californians pay is much higher than the true marginal cost of using electricity. This puts an unnecessary cost burden on low- and middle-income households as we transition to using clean electricity. —En Banc White Paper. En Banc White Paper (Utility Costs and Affordability of the Grid of the Future, Feb.

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Ricardo-AEA to lead 4-year EC-funded study on the future of sustainable urban transport in Europe

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It will also provide users with quantified estimates of the impacts and costs of individual policy measures. These objectives include those set out in the 2011 Transport White Paper such as significantly reducing CO 2 and air pollutant emissions from urban transport.

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MECA report finds additional NOx emission reductions from new heavy-duty trucks achievable and cost-effective (corrected)

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Penetration of fuel saving technologies into the heavy-duty fleet has been spurred by EPA’s Heavy-Duty Greenhouse Gas Phase 1 Standards, and EPA envisions further penetration of these technologies in order for trucks to meet future Phase 2 requirements. g/bhp-hr and a future LLC certification requirement.

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MECA report finds additional NOx emission reductions from new heavy-duty trucks achievable and cost-effective

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In this report, MECA provides our assessment of technologies being commercialized by component suppliers, including MECA members, to help their customers comply with future lower NO x standards. These advances have brought higher compliance margins and lower certification levels while still meeting future GHG standards.

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ICCT study finds state EV incentives playing a significant role in driving sales

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A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Jin et al. per year in recent years.

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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

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ICCT study assesses EV promotion and uptake in top 25 metropolitan areas in US

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Future sales data will reveal whether there are key missing policy ingredients, or whether what remains is a more widespread electric vehicle rollout by automakers. Going forward, city-specific total cost of ownership analysis that sums up the above factors would be an important follow-on to this study.