Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

The electric F-150 weighs 700 kg more than its petrol-powered predecessor. Smaller electric cars are heavier than their petrol equivalents, too. If US residents who switched to SUVs over the past 20 years had stuck with smaller cars, more than 1,000 pedestrian deaths might have been averted, according to one study.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

However, a new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) finds that middle- and high-income earners are generally affected the most by gasoline taxes, especially in poor countries, rather than poor people. Petrol taxes are effective and actually don’t affect poor people disproportionally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Air pollution from cars running on petrol and diesel contributes to early mortality, cancer, bronchitis and asthma. According to a Harvard University study, there is a striking association between long-term exposure to harmful fine particulate matter and COVID-19 mortality in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

A detailed analysis of policy pathways leading to such a decarbonised electricity supply in the UK is outside the scope of this study. VED circulation tax: Increased differentiation reduces VKT for all cars by 4.8%. Car purchase tax and ‘Feebate’ systems based on fuel consumption: Reduces VKT for all cars by 4%.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. Greenpeace , on the other hand, argues that sales of all diesel and petrol vehicles, including hybrids, must end by 2030 to meet such a target. For the U.S.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2009

Good news for electric car infrastructure innovators Better Place after a new study stated that with a battery switching model and pay-per-mile contracts, electric cars could account for as much as 64 per cent of US light duty vehicle sales by 2030.

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