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Study finds that increased vehicle travel and decreased occupancy have undercut the impact of improving fuel economy over last 40 years

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

Sivak found that while the vehicle fuel economy of the entire light-duty fleet improved by 40% (from 13 mpg US to 21.6 l/100km), because of the decrease in vehicle load, the occupant fuel economy only improved by 17% (from 24.8 Combining these two effects yields a reduction of about 14% in the amount of fuel used.

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Baker Institute report: China has positioned itself as a gatekeeper to the energy transition; nickel case study

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APRIL 21, 2022

How Electrifying Transport and Chinese Investment are Playing Out in Indonesia —focuses on nickel as a critical mineral, but has implications for the broader minerals and materials supply chains needed for broad-scale energy transition. This surge occurred mostly in China, driven by steel manufacturing. Nickel is no exception.

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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

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JULY 10, 2011

Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

IEA fuel economy readiness index status, 2010. New propulsion systems requiring new fuels, such as plug-in electric vehicle systems and fuel cell systems, are beyond the scope of this technology roadmap and are treated in separate roadmaps. Average fuel economy and new vehicles registrations, 2005 and 2008.

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CEPS task force report identifies tightening emissions standards as key policy to hit EU 60% reduction in transport GHG; full life-cycle emissions optimal metric

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The report from a task force assembled by the CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), a Brussels-based think tank, on European transport policy has concluded that the EU’s goal of a 60% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in the transport sector in 2050 compared to 1990 levels is possible, but at a cost.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative Releases Roadmap Report on Achieving 50% Fuel Economy Improvement in LDV Fleet by 2050

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

The IEA and ITF have developed a range of projections of possible “business-as-usual” scenarios around this, indicating the potential for a doubling (or more) of vehicle kilometers travelled (VKT) combined with modest improvements in vehicle fuel economy. Vehicle taxes and incentives. Component standards, taxes and incentives.

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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles

National Research Council Report Explores Improving Fuel Economy of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles; Recommends Immediately Beginning Developing a Regulatory Approach

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

The National Research Council has released a prepublication edition of a new congressionally mandated report that evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks.

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Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. Those people who purchase electric vehicles because of the tax credit use less gasoline and produce fewer emissions of greenhouse gases than would otherwise be the case. Source: CBO.

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New Zealand simplifies Road User Charges system, extends exemption for light electric motor vehicles from 2013 to 2020

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Since some 36% of diesel is used off-road, such as on farms, by manufacturing, industrial and commercial ventures, and boats, a fuel tax for road use would impose an unfair burden onto these sectors, the government says.). In New Zealand, diesel and electric-powered vehicles pay for their road use through road user charges.

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Sen. Baucus draft for energy tax reform focuses on clean production of electricity and fuels; repeals plug-in vehicle credits

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

introduced the latest in a series of discussion drafts to overhaul the US tax code. This new staff discussion draft focuses energy tax policy on stimulating domestic, clean production of electricity and transportation fuels, which account for 68% of energy consumed in the US. Clean fuels tax credit.

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Tax Tax Credit Clean Cleaning

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. Each stage in production matters—mining, refining, and producing the raw materials, manufacturing the components, and finally assembling them into cells and battery packs. AFP/Getty Images.

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Study finds that increased vehicle travel and decreased occupancy have undercut the impact of improving fuel economy over last 40 years

Baker Institute report: China has positioned itself as a gatekeeper to the energy transition; nickel case study

Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

CEPS task force report identifies tightening emissions standards as key policy to hit EU 60% reduction in transport GHG; full life-cycle emissions optimal metric

Global Fuel Economy Initiative Releases Roadmap Report on Achieving 50% Fuel Economy Improvement in LDV Fleet by 2050

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

National Research Council Report Explores Improving Fuel Economy of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles; Recommends Immediately Beginning Developing a Regulatory Approach

Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

New Zealand simplifies Road User Charges system, extends exemption for light electric motor vehicles from 2013 to 2020

Sen. Baucus draft for energy tax reform focuses on clean production of electricity and fuels; repeals plug-in vehicle credits

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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