Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

In California’s Los Angeles Basin, levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pollutants have decreased by about 98% since the 1960s, even as area residents now burn approximately three times as much gasoline and diesel fuel. The reason is simple: cars are getting cleaner. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7 Source: Warneke et al. Warneke, C.,

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Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002 285

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kairos Ventures is the Los Angeles venture capital firm funding TPS. We feel confident that our technology is ready to usher in the benefits of lower emissions, and lead the industry’s push toward cleaner mobility. it is vital that the transportation world continues to improve the combustion engine technology.

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Commercial Los Angeles Exhaust Ozone 243

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The results, published in an open-access paper in the journal Science , suggest that the focus of efforts to mitigate ozone formation and toxic chemical burdens need to be adjusted, the authors suggested. As transportation gets cleaner, those other sources become more and more important. —Brian McDonald, corresponding author.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Key Steps to Cleaning Southern California’s Air Diesel Class 8 trucks run seemingly tail-to-nose from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the Inland Empire in Southern California. How much cleaner could the air be if, instead of 50 trucks, it is 500, 1,000 or 10,000.

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All-Electric Long Beach Los Angeles Electric 81

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

In addition to ozone and particulate matter, the other pollutants are lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. The authors emphasized that their findings do not specifically address an individual’s health risk or the personal benefits of cleaner air, but rather assess population level health impacts.

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Pollution Standards Ozone EPA 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

In a separate action, the California Energy Commission approved $4,979,070 through the current ARFVT program to projects that will support increased numbers of cleaner, alternative fuel vehicles on California roadways. The agreement includes $2.5 million in match funding.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

While current state and federal measures are on target to reduce toxic diesel locomotive emissions 65% or more by 2020, additional measures recommended by ARB staff would ultimately provide up to 85% or greater emissions reductions within the rail yards over the same period, resulting in cleaner air for nearby residential neighborhoods as well.

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Diesel Emissions California 2007 170