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Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Green Car Congress

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars). 251 to 270. 271 and above.

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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In the last five months, zero-emission vehicles have made up over 50% of its overall car sales , up from 31.2% To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs. PHEVLERs produce no tailpipe emissions in local driving. Diesel fuel is also frequently blended with a small amount of biofuel.

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ITF analysis finds that societal costs for electric cars and vans range from €7K to €12K more than fossil-fueled equivalents

Green Car Congress

Sample consumer and societal break-even curves for BEVs, with data points for a compact diesel for comparison. An alternate storyline might highlight the elevated upfront opportunity costs of reducing energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions via electric cars as opposed to advanced internal combustion engine vehicles and hybrids.

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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

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Although these introduced some BEV taxes for the first time, mostly falling on heavy and expensive BEV models, taxes fell harder still on vehicles with CO2 emissions. PHEVs, with their middling emissions ratings, are taxed somewhere in between.

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Lux: biojet fuel to account for 56% of targeted 2050 CO2 emissions reductions in aviation

Green Car Congress

Biojet fuels will be key to achieving the aviation industry’s pledge to cut CO 2 emissions to 0.2 With lessons learned from the mishaps of road transportation and regulatory policies emerging from a single governing body, ICAO, the aviation industry is well-positioned to meet emissions targets.

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Too little, too late? Why the Toyota HiLux EV concept only shows how far the brand is behind Tesla and BYD

EV Central

Globally, chairman Akio Toyoda has been consistent in questioning a sole focus on battery electric vehicles when it comes to lowering vehicle emissions. Locally, Toyota has yet to even put a BEV on-sale and, of course, it makes a fortune out of CO2 and particulate-emitting diesel SUVs and utes. So What’s It Like To Drive?

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