InsideEVs

MAY 28, 2022

15 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted Clean Cars rules, based on California’s emissions and fuel economy standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The consent decree embodying the settlement was filed today jointly by the United States and the California Air Resources Board in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Additionally Hyundai and Kia gave consumers inaccurate information about the real-world fuel economy performance of many of these vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A statistical regression revealed that the total monetary benefit to consumers from state incentives significantly positively correlates with BEV sales when all 50 states and the District of Columbia are included. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2018

California, along with 16 other states and the District of Columbia, have formally launched a long-anticipated lawsuit against EPA over its proposed rollback of emissions rules for 2022 through 2025, according to a new report in the Washington Post.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

This waiver is consistent with the Clean Air Act as it’s been used for the last 40 years and supports the prerogatives of the 13 states and the District of Columbia who have opted to follow California’s lead. The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

The health of the economy may also be a factor in reduced worry about environmental problems. Americans tend to give environmental concerns higher priority when the economy is healthy than when it is ailing, and in recent decades the US economy was arguably its strongest in late 1999 and early 2000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

For current gasoline-powered ICE vehicles at an average fuel economy of 23.3 Additionally, more BEV models are available to the public (relative to fuel-cell vehicles) and they offer the best fuel economy, resulting in the lowest cost to operate (per mile). mp and a fuel price of $2.35 per gallon, results in a cost of $0.10

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It’s also better for owners’ wallets, reports the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Purchase incentives could also be scaled based on efficiency, and registration fees could be based on vehicle weight, as is currently the case in Oklahoma and the District of Columbia, the paper suggests.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and the mayor of the District of Columbia announced that theirs will be the first jurisdictions to launch a new multi-state program that the principals expect will invest some $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Nationally, from 1980 to 2014, average ozone levels have fallen 33%, while the economy has continued to grow. To ensure that people are alerted when ozone reaches unhealthy levels, EPA is extending the ozone monitoring season for 32 states and the District of Columbia.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 28, 2024

Federal policies and investments in driving job growth have made a powerful impact – clean energy employment is growing at a rate more than double that of the broader energy sector and the overall US economy. This growth was evident across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with Idaho, Texas, and New Mexico in the lead.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

These standards are followed, in whole or part, by 13 other states and the District of Columbia. Earlier post.). In the lawsuit, the coalition broadly asserts that this Preemption Rule is unlawful and should be vacated.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2024

It is also a shareholder base that understands that in order to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, and a sustainable energy economy, Tesla needs to develop the most revolutionary technologies not only in autos, but in energy and artificial intelligence as well. That result is the epitome of a sustainable economy.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 9, 2024

Originally instituted by the Obama administration in 2013, the waiver was ended by the Trump administration in 2019 on the grounds that it effectively allowed California to move the nation toward more stringent fuel economy standards and mandatory electrification.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week. Coleman is on record as suggesting the decision would further harm the American economy, adding there is almost zero interest in all-electric vehicles within his state.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 26, 2024

Electric vehicles : The Biden administration has had to dial back its hopes for stringent new EPA fuel-economy standards , though those due to become law in the next decade are still expected to stimulate demand for electric vehicles as well as for plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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