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DEC and NYSERDA announce $24M in Volkswagen Settlement Funds to support electric transit buses in environmental justice communities

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DEC considers PEJAs to be communities of color or low-income communities that experience a disproportionate share of environmental harms such as vehicle emissions and pollution. commercial trucks and buses).

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Study: Cash-for-Clunkers Programs Should Use Fuel Economy Rather Than Age to Maximize GHG Reductions

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A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., An earlier, separate study by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel concluded that the US scrappage program paid nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario to reduce GHG emissions.

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Retrofitting three-wheeler to electric 

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All such vehicles especially after the vehicle age of 8 to 10 years can be retrofitted to make them operational in city areas where pollution is a big issue. The concept of hybrid vehicles needs to be incorporated into the tricycle market segment to meet the pollution requirements of the city and its exterior. Scrappage policy .

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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. imperfectly aligned with fuel consumption or pollutant emissions. as they could, precisely because of their design characteristics. standards and Euro-1 cars produced from 1992 to 1996.

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

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They also found that extending the lifetime of a vehicle contributed to a moderate increase in emissions of criteria pollutants (NO x , HC, and CO) during the use phase of the vehicle. —Kagawa et al.

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