InsideEVs

JULY 25, 2025

But there is another important source of emissions that they do much better for than combustion cars, and it’s hardly ever talked about: brake dust pollution. 5 EV Tire Myths Discharged Do Electric Vehicles Really Pollute More Than Gas Cars? The percentage decreases progressively the less electrified a vehicle is.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 10, 2025

Up until now this meant hauling around a noisy, smelly, polluting diesel-powered generator that took up space in the bed. Plug in your toold, plug in your house Where the F-150 Lighting Pro can be a life saver will be when a power outage hits as the battery can store 9.6

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Plug in America

APRIL 21, 2025

The post Electric Nation is providing access to clean and affordable transportation for underserved tribal communities appeared first on Plug In America.

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Plug in America

JUNE 27, 2025

drivers will be shackled to expensive oil and gas, which also leads to more pollution and health problems. Senate to keep EV tax credits appeared first on Plug In America. Innovation will stall, and with it the burgeoning industries and companies in EV-adjacent spaces like battery recycling.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2025

In China, Shandong-based Hygreen Energy in September 2024 launch ed a kilowatt-scale AEM electrolyzer for plug-and-play use in industrial parks, community buildings and transportation. Fluorinated polymer membranes are an efficient option, but they pollute water and introduce forever chemicals.

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EV Central

MAY 16, 2025

EV Central was invited to a private racetrack outside Sydney for a preview drive of this sixth-generation Subaru Forester, which also involved a bit of bush bashing and mud plugging.

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2025

And do you find it amusing, or weird, that China, a massive polluter, is doing more, arguably, to reduce emissions than everyone else combined? Plenty of renewable electricity to plug into. So do you think the world’s second-largest economy is interested in building a combustion-engined future? That’s game changing.

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EV Central

APRIL 12, 2025

They are sincere in the way they dont want their cars to pollute the environment. The folks at Volvo have always seem so sincere. They are sincere in how they dont want people to get hurt in their cars. Sometimes though, the sincerity, the goodness, gets in the way of building truly characterful cars. SCORE: 3.0/5

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EV Central

MAY 2, 2025

Did they consider that this might seem a bit rich for a car designed and built in a country that happens to be the worlds largest polluter? Are the people who came up with the wording aware that cooling the Earth by one degree is not enough, and nor is it likely, no matter what BYDs Technology Green Future does? SCORE: 3.7/5

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EV Central

JULY 23, 2025

They’re typically quite fuel efficient and not very CO2 polluting due to their size – it has no performance model nor large, hyper-polluting big SUV or diesel ute in its range. Suzuki’s renowned for affordable, simple, and small-engined compact cars and SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

Among alternative drive systems, plug-in hybrids in particular offer great potential, Winterkorn said. The Volkswagen Group intends to launch at least 6 new plug-in hybrid models starting in 2014 and beyond. In the medium term the first choice in terms of alternative drive systems is plug-in hybrid technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

Original map from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The low-emission vehicle (LEV) standard requires vehicle manufacturers to deliver passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs that produce lower greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants for sale in Minnesota. The policy will implement two clean cars standards to reduce vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Real-world emissions of plug-in hybrids on European roads are significantly higher than automakers claim, according to a report released earlier this month by the environmental group Transport & Environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

In coordination with local air officials, the California Air Resources Board is initiating a retire-and-replace pilot program in the Greater Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley to help people of low income replace old, polluting cars with cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles that also cut greenhouse gas emissions. A plug-in hybrid (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

New work by a team at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadian buyers want a plug-in vehicle (PEV), with the majority of those (89—93%) wanting a plug-in hybrid rather than a pure electric vehicle. The latter report was published in Energy Economics. PEVs look “strange”). Wolinetz, and A.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Three of the most popular plug-in hybrids in 2020 all emitted more CO 2 than advertised when tested in the real world, according to tests commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). T&E said governments should therefore end the purchase subsidies and tax breaks for plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Driven by tighter emission standards in Europe, worldwide production of plug-in electric vehicles(PEVs)—including both battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models—will increase by 67% this year, according to IHS Automotive, driven by Polk. Electric (Battery) Forecasts Hybrids Manufacturing Plug-ins'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. The plug-in hybrid drive reduces diesel fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 75%, compared to a conventional diesel bus.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2024

A new European study finds that plug-in hybrids pollute more than advertised, while in the U.S. The European Commission study showed that new plug-in hybrids registered in 2021 averaged emissions of 139.5 the EPA appears ready to give them more emissions leeway. grams of CO2 per kilometer, which was 3.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It also would repeal a number of current tax incentives, including those for plug-in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. These proposals are intended to promote domestic energy production and reduce pollution.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Plug-in hybrids might be polluting a lot more than the emissions-test numbers suggest. Portland is re-upping on the Electric Avenue concept, but for big electric trucks this time. Daimler’s Smart plant sale will enable something that’s not small and not electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

billion Fiscal Year 2021-22 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives is targeted to benefit lower income communities and those disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution. The remainder comes from the Air Pollution Control Fund and the Air Quality Improvement Program. Over half of the $1.5

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The Driven EV News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Real-world testing of plug-in hybrid EVs reveals they pollute up to seven times more than advertised, and are not suitable for clean cities. The post “Dangerous distraction:” Plug-in hybrids pollute up to seven times more than advertised appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

This advances our ability to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants on a global scale. Ships generate the lion’s share of air pollution associated with port activity. Under its “radical retrofit” program, Maersk Line upgraded vessels that already plug into shore power at the San Pedro Bay ports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. billion to plug orphaned wells. billion in Phase One funding announced in January by the Department for states to plug and remediate orphaned wells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

Using this type of measurement, the Port also posted its best year ever, lowering the average amount of emissions the port generates to move each container of cargo for all eight pollutants tracked by the Port’s emissions inventory, including greenhouse gases (GHG), which were down 30% per container on average since 2005.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that air pollution at US ports can be reduced significantly at all port types and sizes through a variety of strategies and cleaner technologies. In 2030, adding plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to these fleets could yield even more NO x and PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

The new zero-emission capable taxis being developed include both plug-in full series hybrid vehicles and full electric models. To date its one Achilles heel, particularly of older models, has been the pollution generated by chugging diesel engines. Around 3,000 of the most polluting taxis have also been removed from the London fleet.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 14, 2021

Microplastic pollution from tires is a serious environmental issue. And Europe is thinking about revoking some of the green halo from plug-in hybrids. Mazda makes its rotary range-extended MX-30 official for the U.S. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Mazda has confirmed that it’s bringing its MX-30 EV to the U.S.—first

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

The E-200’s plug-and-play solution requires no road compressor or drive kit to function. In partnership with electric vehicle providers, Thermo King is advancing electrification of refrigerated transport to reduce pollutants, emissions and noise as goods are delivered in communities around the world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2023

The Methane Emissions Reduction Program will improve methane monitoring and accelerate the reduction of methane and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the oil and gas sector and will have the co-benefit of reducing non-GHG emissions such as volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature (Senate and Assembly) have passed a bill ( S2252 /A4819) that establishes goals and incentives for increased use of plug-in electric vehicles in NJ. By the end of 2040, at least 85% of all new light duty vehicles sold or leased in the State are to be plug-in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

More than 250,000 Californians have now received a financial Clean Fuel Reward at the point of sale when they purchased or leased a plug-in electric vehicle—an important milestone for this program after only 18 months since it began. Of the total rewards, 21.2%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A new analysis by Consumer Reports finds that owners of plug-in electric vehicles are spending half as much on maintenance and repair as the owners of similar gas-powered vehicles. Average maintenance/repair costs over vehicle lifetime. —Gabe Shenhar, associate director of CR’s Auto Test Center.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2020

The order covers the delivery of 50 articulated electric buses as well as 50 plug-in charging devices, suitable for each of the new buses. The design of the articulated buses will be adapted to two recharging modes: by means of a 4-pole roof-mounted pantograph placed above the first vehicle axis; or using a plug-in charger.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

This transition will be achieved through a combination of fully electric vehicles, vehicles with plug-in idle mitigation units and plug-in hybrids. By 2025, all light duty vehicles (LDVs) reaching the end of their life cycle will be replaced with an electric vehicle, with all LDVs being electrified by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

The coordinated package of regulations will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone- and smog-causing pollutants from new passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs starting in model year 2026.

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