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European auto industry proposes further 20% cut in passenger car CO2 by 2030 from 2021; conditional on EV uptake and infrastructure; no ZEV mandate

Green Car Congress

The ACEA said that this target should be conditional on the real market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles and the availability of charging infrastructure for alternatively-powered vehicles which are crucial to achieve any significant CO 2 reductions beyond 2020 levels. —Dieter Zetsche.

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T&E concludes that diesel cars emit more CO2 on a full lifecycle basis than gasoline cars

Green Car Congress

We believe that given the relatively low level of EV penetration before 2030 (probably around one-third to one-half of new sales) and the need to incentive this shift, a tailpipe metric remains appropriate for the post 2020 regulation for 2025 and 2030 targets. Until then fuels and vehicles should be regulated separately.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

By Kamlesh Mallick 2020. The Indian electric vehicle industry too suffered a setback during the first six months of the year. Yet, by the end of the year, there is a huge wave of optimism in the industry for the coming year. This report logs the highs and lows of the Indian EV industry for 2020. What a year!

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Electric vehicles trends in India

Electric Vehicles India

Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. India is the fifth-largest auto market with 3.49 billion in 2020.The

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. Auto-week ) 5/10/07 "Toyota Motor Corp.

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Report: EV factories may be leading utilities to dirtier decisions

Baua Electric

Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data centers—is leading utilities to forecast single-digit percentage growth every year through the end of the decade in some regions, according to report.

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