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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

Burgeoning demands for mobility and private vehicle ownership undermine global efforts to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Without any such policies, the market for alternative-fuel vehicles will remain very niche, with a market share hovering around 1% for the foreseeable future—in other words, hardly greater than today.

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Study Finds That CO2 Standards for Vehicles Can Reduce Price of Oil

Green Car Congress

The dangerous part is with the price of oil likely to drop, demand for fuel will go up. So if governments don’t want to see their greenhouse gas reduction targets go up in smoke, they have to take measures to dampen demand for transport. Delayed implementation in the EU27 of the Baseline objective (130 g/km) until 2015.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

EVs lack tailpipe emissions, sure, but producing, operating, and disposing of these vehicles creates greenhouse-gas emissions and other environmental burdens. Norway has the highest per capita number of EVs, which represented. more greenhouse gas over its lifetime than does a conventional gasoline vehicle of the same size.