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

Green Car Congress

Carbon pricing alone is insufficient to bring low-carbon vehicles to the mass market, though it may have a supporting role in ensuring a decarbonized energy supply. In Norway, for example, 40% of passenger cars sold in 2017 were either battery-electrics or plug-in hybrids. —McCollum et al.

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

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T&E said it opted for Enerdata because the POLES model developed and run by this institute is the only public model available in Europe they knew of that is capable of calculating oil prices as an output of supply and demand, rather than as an input. There are two clear messages from this, one good, the other a little dangerous.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Norway has the highest per capita number of EVs, which represented. Therefore, an EV operated in Shandong imposes a much bigger environmental burden than that same EV would in Yunnan or Norway. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does.