Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2021

And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50% of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

NITI Aayog, the Government of India’s official think tank, with support from RMI and RMI India, has launched a campaign to transform last-mile deliveries and eliminate pollution through consumer engagement. We will promote awareness about health, environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles through the Shoonya campaign.

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Miles India Pollution Electrical 344

Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2014

If China''s plans to limit license plate availability were designed to cut car buying, they''re not exactly working so far. Anticipating further restrictions to cut car use--in the midst of choking pollution in many of China''s cities--car sales rose a full 13 percent last month.

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Pollution China Cars Buy 140

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Starting this year we are going to buy the e-buses only—we seek to make our city as clean and harmless for its citizens as we can. The e-transport does not use fuel while running and does not emit the polluting substances and harmful emissions during operation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Harmful air pollutants will also be reduced providing health benefits to local communities. Each year, the fleet transports approximately 600,000 students across Harvard’s campus and the transition to electric is expected to lower greenhouse gas emissions by more than 220,000 pounds annually.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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London Scrappage Diesel Pollution 273

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Among the elements in the budget are the launch of a new £400-million (US$530-million) Charging Investment Infrastructure Fund and the provision of an extra £100 million (US$133 million) towards helping people buy battery-electric cars. The government is also committing to electrify 25% of cars in central government department fleets by 2022.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 co-author Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Ramanathan. Tropospheric ozone. It also lowers crop yields.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone 186

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2021

And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

We are clearly demonstrating to other countries in Europe and across the globe that if you build infrastructure and put some smart incentives in place people buy zero emission cars and use them everyday.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

For these investments in the sustainable reduction of pollutant emissions, Hochbahn is aiming for a proportionate federal subsidy. The conversion of the entire fleet, which currently comprises 1,000 vehicles, should—according to the plan—take place at the end of the decade. An important criterion for the vehicles is range.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

As of last year, every new light-duty vehicle that Con Edison buys is a plug-in hybrid or all-electric. Con Edison’s all-electric bucket truck will be quieter than models with an internal combustion engine, and the electrified version won’t emit any carbon dioxide or other forms of air pollution.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 25, 2018

In honor of Earth Day last weekend, we re-ran our story about when citizens might see cars with tailpipes as morally wrong, somewhat like they do smoking or polluting factories today.

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Gasoline Buy Pollution Cars 112

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

However, a recent survey by RingGo, the UK’s leading cashless parking provider, found that only two-fifths of UK drivers say that they are planning on buying an electric vehicle for their next car. Price appears to be the main limiting factor. RingGo survey. —Peter O’Driscoll, Managing Director at RingGo.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Electrify America is purchasing and retiring all bundled environmental certificates associated with the new solar project over a 15-year period, shifting away from the business-as-usual approach of buying environmental certificates from a third-party supplier on an unbundled basis, which does less to support additional renewable energy generation.

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Renewable America Energy Solar 344

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The French Government will reduce the purchase tax incentives for lower carbon cars and increase the penalties for high-pollution vehicles beginning in January. France’s bonus-malus scheme provides financial rewards for those who purchase or lease a new vehicle emitting less CO 2 g/km while taxing more heavily polluting cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Increasing the provincial incentive program, administered by the New Car Dealers Association of BC, by $20 million this year to encourage more British Columbians to buy clean energy cars now. This will bring the incentive program up to $57 million in total. —Premier Horgan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

Worldwide, 40% of those planning to buy a car within the next five years say they are likely to buy all-electric (even though not all of them would be able to afford one at foreseeable price points), according to findings from Dalia Research’s global mobility study. An interactive map showing Dalia findings is available here.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL). —Jonn Axsen.

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Green Davis Climate Change Plug-in 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

Compared to older conventional petroleum-fueled buses, these buses produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, improving the environment and reducing passenger exposure to harmful pollutants. was awarded $400,000 in buy-down incentives for 40 medium-duty propane trucks in the gross vehicle weight range of 14,001 to 26,000 pounds.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2022

In an astounding turn of events, Atlassian Founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has teamed up with Canadian asset manager Brookfield to put in a bid for Australia’s most polluting power company. It was a case of “if you can’t beat them, buy them.” ” Green capital is trying to push out the old legacy coal barons.

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Coal Buy Australia Pollution 98

Teslarati

OCTOBER 29, 2021

During his address to Parliament earlier this week, Malaysian finance minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz cited the reduction of pollutants and better air quality as the main indicators of why electric cars are a good idea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

In addition, buy-down incentives totaling $1,094,000 were awarded for alternative-fuel vehicles. These incentives help to pay the difference between the cost of conventional gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicles and new vehicles that use less-polluting propane or natural gas. Nations Bus Corp., Big Valley Ford, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2019

The zero-emission standard does not compel anyone to buy an electric vehicle. —Garry Kaufman, director of the Air Pollution Control Division at the department. It only requires manufacturers to increase ZEV sales from 2.6% It’s a modest proposal in the face of a critical threat.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. The underlying technologies of the SONYC and FloodNet sensors are transferable to other municipalities. The technology itself is location agnostic," said Mydlarz.

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Pollution New York City New York Water 100

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

California-based Green Automotive Company, having recently acquired Liberty Electric Cars Ltd in Europe ( earlier post ), has signed a binding agreement to buy UK-based electric vehicle distributor Going Green Limited. GoinGreen also fits perfectly with Green Automotive’s ambitions to develop its EV presence both in Europe and North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The economics of EVs—more expensive to buy but a lot cheaper to run—match perfectly with high-mileage, low-margin businesses like ride-hailing and taxis. Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk in Europe, according to the European Environment Agency. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Diesel Taxi Re-Charge Pollution 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

This will allow the district to expand its fleet to 15 compressed natural gas vehicles, which are less polluting than conventional-fuel vehicles. Buy-down incentives, totaling $122,000, will be awarded for 15 alternative-fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This station will make it easier for fleets to switch to less-polluting CNG vehicles, as there are no CNG stations within 25 miles of this location. In addition, buy-down incentives totaling $2,548,000 will be awarded for 180 alternative-fuel vehicles, most of them school buses. Greenkraft, Inc. , Big Valley Ford, Inc. ,

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 25, 2012

Thinking of buying a hybrid? That's great--you'll not only reduce your gas bills, but you'll be polluting less too, and likely have a car that holds its value as gas prices rise. If you're coming from a non-hybrid though, it may take a little time to make the most of your new Prius, Civic Hybrid or similar.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A case study of the impact of a driving restriction policy implemented in Beijing prior to the 2008 Olympics found short-term benefits, but also a pattern of rule-breaking and loss of those benefits over time, as residents adapted by changing travel times; buying a second car with a different license plate; or simply violating the rules.

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Pollution 2008 Cars Fuel Tax 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

Transport for London (TfL) will buy its latest batch of 50 hybrid buses from two vendors: Volvo (20 buses to be operated by Arriva) and Alexander Dennis (ADL) (10 to be operated by Metroline and 20 to be operated by London United). The buses are expected to enter service by the end of the year. “We

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Volvo Hybrid London Pollution 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Car buyers shouldn’t be forced to buy high-end bells and whistles when fuel economy and reducing emissions are their top priority. It emits 44% less global warming pollution than its closest conventional counterpart, the Toyota Matrix, and its hybrid drivetrain costs a little more than $3,000.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2019

European automakers need to sell many more electric cars, but their customers aren't buying. Instead, they're buying more gas powered SUVs that emit more pollution than the cars they drove before. The ramifications for automakers could be dire if they can't sell more electric cars by next year.

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Standards Cars Pollution Buy 136

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

Even under a relatively conservative baseline scenario that assumes no improvement in EV costs in the coming ten years, EV adoption could result in significant economic benefits by stimulating the overall economy, reducing pollution, and improving public health outcomes. billion from averted medical costs.

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California St. Louis Pollution Los Angeles 255

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

Businesses interested in buying or leasing clean, heavy-duty, off-road equipment through CORE can receive point-of-sale vouchers of up to $500,000 per vehicle/piece of equipment. Additional funding is available for facilities that deploy clean technology in communities overburdened by pollution and for infrastructure connections.

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