Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink.

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Teslarati

MARCH 5, 2024

Tesla says an Australian automotive industry lobby group is attempting to delay climate action by making false claims about the government’s clean car policy. The FCAI has several members that have ambitious climate goals, including Ford, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A first wave occurred in the 1990s, followed by a spate of current schemes to stimulate domestic auto industries in the face of the economic crisis. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Vehicle scrappage schemes have been implemented in a number of countries in Europe and the US. Specific requirements can vary greatly.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2024

US President Biden pats GM CEO’s back: “You electrified the entire auto industry. Biden has also pledged allegiance to unions, especially the United Auto Workers (UAW), which Musk has been extremely vocal about his distaste for. EVs have become so mainstream because of Tesla’s disruption of the automotive industry.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Toyota has the worst climate lobbying score of any automaker, and the third-worst 2030 EV production plans, according to InfluenceMap’s annual report on climate lobbying. Toyota has routinely ranked at the bottom of InfluenceMap’s climate policy engagement rankings, and this year is no different.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

” Others in the auto industry have echoed the claims, while much of the sector has also warned of slowing EV demand. According to an EPA spokesperson, the White House is looking to create a rule that is “readily achievable, secures reductions in dangerous air and climate pollution and ensures economic benefits.”

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 5, 2023

While Volkswagen Group plans to go all electric by 2033 in the EU, some German drivers and BMW would like to keep their tailpipe polluters. After agreeing to the EU regulation to ban internal combustion light vehicles by 2035, the FDP, the smallest member of the German governing coalition, is walking back its agreement to […]

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

Read more Tata Motors has opposed Toyota’s appeal for tax reduction on hybrid cars, claiming that they are more polluting than electric vehicles and should not be given a tax advantage. Hybrid cars see higher tax incidence in India compared to their pure petrol counterparts, despite emitting lower pollutants into the environment.

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EV Central

APRIL 12, 2025

They are sincere in the way they dont want their cars to pollute the environment. Wireless Apple CarPlay, Harman Kardon sound system with an unusual but effective windscreen-length soundbar, dual-zone climate control and Google built-in for five years (Play Store, Maps and Assistant) are all standard.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There have been and continue to be a number of market drivers forcing this evolution: concerns over health effects, congestion, consumption of petroleum-based fuels, climate change, an ever more rapidly increasing population and what appears to be an inexorable movement toward large-scale urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. smog and particulates. We heard a little bit from Tom Cackette yesterday about LEV III.I

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The Green Car Initiative concentrates on long-term R&D, largely combining existing projects under a clear policy focus and underlining the importance of a joint approach between industries and policy makers.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

First, some background from the New York Times : The rule increasingly limits the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time so that, by 2032, more than half the new cars sold in the United States would most likely be zero-emissions vehicles in order for carmakers to meet the standards. It very much is not.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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EV Connect

MAY 16, 2022

While history is full of sharp left turns that took people by surprise, we still believe that electric vehicles are the future of the auto industry. That’s to say nothing of pollution and climate change. Cars are an even greater producer of pollutants with direct toxic effects on human health.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

The US EPA has long had what is referred to as a “ footprint rule, ” which allows larger vehicles to pollute more. And giant SUVs have, in turn, eliminated the auto emissions gains we could have had if cars had remained normal sized. A bill containing the new auto emissions rules will be introduced in parliament this week.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

de Meo tries to avoid blame for fines industry knew were coming Today, Luca de Meo, who is CEO of Renault and also head of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), said to Inter radio in France that fines could total €15 billion if fleet emissions remain at today’s level, or that automakers would need to give up the production of 2.5

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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

Regardless of the current softer global economic climate and its inevitable impact at home, the country’s automotive industry is set for robust and resilient growth enabled by disruptive technologies and a sustainability mindset. And the automotive industry is no different.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

They’ve also offered a chance for reinvention in an industry synonymous with pollution and environmental damage — the mining industry has sought to present itself as a solution to climate change, supplying the materials needed to break humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels. and General Motors Co.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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 Market overview. 26,058 Cr for five years.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s — Scott 18. Follow the money.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

EVs will/will not create more pollution than they eliminate. Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. And so goes the litany of contradictory statements about the transition to EVs: EVs will/will not collapse the electric grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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. GM Press Release ).

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

As I get ready this morning to head over to the Lutheran Church in Gardena to participate in this national day of service by helping to prepare meals for my less fortunate neighbors, I want to thank the auto industry for giving me a great laugh at their expense. Way to kill the audience, Greg.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

Toyota is jeopardizing its valuable brand by lobbying against much-needed climate-related regulation of the auto industry. If Toyota continues with outspoken negative climate lobbying, it will alarm shareholders as such an approach undermines the inevitable transition away from polluting cars,” Aziz said. .

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

As one CARB member has stated , their concern is climate, whereas solving power generation is the responsibility of the CPUC. Historically, auto regulation has dealt with “the negative externalities associated with the auto itself,” he explained. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2025

As one of the largest automobile markets in the United States, the state’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has a significant impact on the global auto industry. Job Creation : Growth in the EV industry stimulates job opportunities in manufacturing, infrastructure, and technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In the past the auto industry has responded to incentives and guidelines set by government agencies and reengineered their product to meet this requirement. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. The climate clock is ticking and we have to start hitting polluters where it counts–in the money. ICE vehicles will attract carbon taxes in many countries due to the air pollution they cause. Why would people buy Toyota ICE cars then?

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Electric Vehicles Are a Key Climate Change Tool The U.S. Are electric vehicles (EVs) the answer to the automobile industry’s role? These climate accords call for a 43% decline in emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. The high car demand has emphasized the need to adopt EVs and clean up auto industry emissions.

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Baua Electric

MAY 5, 2024

How the Inflation Reduction Act helps American health, economy & manufacturing The Inflation Reduction Act included hundreds of billions of dollars of climate spending, much of which was allocated to EV tax credits, both for personal and commercial vehicles. This could be done through making polluters pay for the pollution they cause.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Death rattle of the internal combustion engine sparks a political battle – A nine-country coalition led by the Netherlands and Denmark called on the European Commission to decide on a phaseout date for the internal combustion engine as part of efforts to curb emissions and put the bloc on track to meet its climate targets.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. The mines in Canada where the nickel & cadmium are mined is one of the most polluted places on Earth. it is over, the media!,

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In the end, the finalized rule will save Americans $100 billion in fuel, health and climate costs per year. That amounts to a total of $6,000 in savings per vehicle, and it will cut climate pollution by 7 billion tons in total as well.

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