Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Responsibly mined and processed raw materials provide the foundation for a sustainable Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle fleet. We have had the supply chains for our Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle fleet audited in line with OECD guidance, all the way back to the mine, even though we don’t source cobalt directly ourselves.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The agreement has no legal effect and imposes no legally binding obligation. Where possible, California, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington will link programs for consistency and predictability and to expand opportunities to grow the region''s low-carbon economy. trillion—the world’s fifth largest.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 27, 2021

EPA legal prospects looking up The EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles is already on a solid legal footing. in EV adoption, furnishing proof that entire national fleets can rapidly transition to electricity. In 2007, the U.S. Some other nations are now well ahead of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. The Envoy fleet will feature 142 vehicles spread in pairs across 71 locations. mile “Home Zone.” Each car will have a dedicated Level 2 EV charger. ZEV BUS/SHUTTLE SERVICES.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The timing and exact configuration of road freight decarbonization pathways should be adjusted to the different geographies and economies of each region around the world. Ambitious fuel economy and CO 2 emission standards will help widespread deployment of these measures.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The goal of the research is to develop one uniform transport concept that will be tested and demonstrated with the help of fleet tests made up of a significant number of test vehicles. Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Smart charging Smart Grid'

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 2, 2022

Make sure to sign-up for the Clean Fleet Report newsletter (upper right) to be alerted when reviews are posted on several of these cars, trucks and SUVs. Clean Fleet Report has tested many Toyota hybrid models and know this fuel economy number can easily be topped, getting in the 40+ mpg range. Toyota New Stuff. GR Cup Series.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

By 2026, car manufacturers will have to [make approximately 17% of new vehicles] in their total fleets electric and zero-emission. By 2026, car manufacturers will have to make approximately 17% of new vehicles in their total fleets electric and zero-emission. The courts put them on hold, all these legal challenges.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

The study follows another recent ICCT report showing that the gap between official and real-world fuel-economy figures in Europe has risen to about 38%. If applied to the entire new vehicle fleet, this would correspond to an on-road level of about 560 mg/km of NO x (compared to the regulatory limit under Euro 6 of 80 mg/km).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) is suing the California Air Resources Board (ARB), challenging the legality of ARB’s Truck and Bus Regulation. Earlier post.). The lawsuit, California Dump Truck Owners Association v. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 7, 2021

The agency’s regulatory framework forces each automaker to maintain a positive balance in its bank of compliance credits, earning a credit surplus when its model year fleet outperforms its aggregate emissions target, and incurring a deficit when its fleet underperforms. In 2021, each will count as 1.5 effectively ending the bonus.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO 2 emissions by as much as 25% over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. a rapid electrification of the automobile fleet. miles per gallon by the year 2027.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

The Japanese ministry of economy, trade and industry (METI) and the ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT) initiated the platooning test, which is part of the Japanese government’s Future Strategy 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

A low emission bus is defined as any transit bus that is powered by an engine that produces lower non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) and NO x than are legally permitted under EPA’s engine standards. Hydrogen fuel-cell and battery-electric buses qualify as zero-emission.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The consumption scenarios are technically achievable but do not reflect significant barriers such as cost, regulation, legality, and consumer acceptance. Primary technical concerns with using intermediate-level blends of ethanol in the vehicle fleet include: Fuel economy. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. Implementation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

For a fleet of around 2.5 Circular economy for responsible resource management. The circular economy plays a particularly crucial role when it comes to high-voltage batteries for electrified vehicles, which use a number of critical raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Navigant suggests that, since the automakers have already designed the vehicles that they will be selling in 2018, they will become more vocal in 2014 to push for changes; the firm expects the dispute to escalate, perhaps resulting in legal action. Nonetheless, 2014 may be a breakout year for e-motorcycles. presence in Indianapolis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility. The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If your growth plans call for mergers and acquisitions, are you prepared to address the associated financial, legal, and operational challenges? Can your path to growth deliver economies of scale through technology sophistication and automation? Can you embed new operating units into your EV charging management platform? .

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Clean Car

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The UK Government has legally committed us to achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The tool is designed to help a wide range of vehicle operators, from fleets to delivery drivers, private vehicle users, local authorities and taxis. So this blog is about how we accelerate the take up of EVs and how CleanCar can help.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. And there’s fleet rules, too. California has all these fleet rules, and they’re going to just continue to ratchet on that big time. That’s huge.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 21, 2023

To mark the opening of its latest “studio” in Corte Madera in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, it invited Clean Fleet Report to come to see the store and test drive the Grand Touring model, which is slotted just above the Touring reviewed above. Lucid has opened up to the media in recent months as sales of its luxury sedan stalled.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

On the criteria pollutants side, LEV III reduces fleet average emissions of new passenger cars (PCs), light-duty trucks (LDTs) and medium-duty passenger vehicles (MDPVs) to. A special provision allows automakers who overcomply with the GHG fleet standard (under LEV III) to offset their ZEV requirements from 2018-2022.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Gasoline or E10 BOB would be premium-grade fuel for total coverage of legacy fleet. Would there be compensation for the lower energy content of the new fuel in fuel economy calculations? RON ~85), and be inexpensive for refiners to produce. BOB is unfinished gasoline which will later be blended with an oxygenate such as ethanol.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and the long term. That the Federal hybrid vehicle fleet has doubled, and that before the end of the year the government will purchase the first 100 plug-in electric vehicles to roll off American assembly lines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

With the fast-growing emerging economies in mind, Volkswagen Truck & Bus has developed another electrically powered distribution truck: the Volkswagen e-Delivery. However, for autonomous driving to become reality on public roads, changes need to be made to the legal framework and the requisite infrastructure needs to be built.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. The regulations for plants that are already in operation, however, would remain unchanged to guarantee investment security and legal certainty. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

GM also reaffirmed its commitment to improve the fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet, meet or exceed new federal fuel economy and emissions regulations, and push ahead with advanced propulsion technology. The Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain, midsize crossovers with highway fuel economy of 32 mpg. The Chevy Volt.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

In granting the waiver, the EPA found that California continues to have a need for its motor vehicle emissions programme, including the greenhouse gas standards and also found that the programme meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Donovan, CEO Renergie, Inc. Use of Hydrous Ethanol in Brazil. 40 CFR § 80.27

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill is structured into four primary titles: Title I: Clean Energy; Title II: Energy Efficiency; Title III: Reducing Global Warming Pollution (the cap-and-trade bill); and Title IV: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (which also includes a section on adapting to climate change). Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. The government itself has set a target to have 30% of the light fleet electric by 2035. It could be an informal arrangement or a legal entity. We have more than 70 members from the sector.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Key issues thus are how to calculate EERs (including issues of accounting for varying efficiencies across fleet and time) and how often to update them, the report notes.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The first after-market conversion company, built Felixs car, currently provides vehicles mainly to fleets.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD’s plug-in hybrid F3DM went on sale (for fleet operators) late last year, and it’s supposed to launch its first all-electric model — the E6 — in the second half of 2009. Plug-ins are slated to hit the Chinese market in earnest over the next few years. Alex Koppelman Joan Walsh Me vs. G. Watch the debate.

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