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Gov’t, industry, national labs collaborate on comprehensive cradle-to-grave LCA study and economic assessment of LDV GHG reductions

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The ranges of the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided carbon are narrower for the future technology pathways, reflecting the expected economic competitiveness of these alternative vehicles and fuels. Fuels or energy carriers in the study included gasoline, ethanol, diesel, CNG, LPG, hydrogen, and electricity.

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Study finds that replacement programs that reduce vehicle lifetime can result in increased lifecycle CO2 emissions

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Empirical results also revealed that even if the fuel economy of less fuel-efficient ordinary passenger vehicles were improved to levels comparable with those of the best available technology, i.e. hybrid passenger cars currently being produced in Japan, total CO 2 emissions would decrease by only 0.2%. —Kagawa et al.

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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

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While scrappage schemes have the potential to deliver on objectives such as reducing pollutant emissions, these have not done so as well. positive results from targeted incentives based on fuel economy, even if these were. imperfectly aligned with fuel consumption or pollutant emissions. The US scheme saw. The German.

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