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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers from the University of Iowa report the initial results of a 2-year field study evaluating the technical feasibility and user acceptance of mileage-based charging as a potential replacement for the current motor fuel tax in a paper in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

This year’s PBR follows the first contraction in the global economy for 60 years. Other elements of the PBR to support lower-carbon transportation include: The PBR 2009 confirms that—as announced at Budget 2009—fuel duty will increase by one penny per liter (US$0.06 per gallon US) from the 2010-11 obligation year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

CO 2 emissions from transportation sector by scenario in the study. Economy-wide CO 2 prices of $30-60/t CO 2 are too weak on their own to motivate significant reductions in CO 2 emissions from transportation. The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

These take into account an improvement in the fuel efficiency of new cars based on existing fuel economy regulations, mainly in OECD countries, with improvements slowing in most regions after 2015. Worldwide, cars currently account for close to half of the transport sector’s fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions.

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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. —David McCollum.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Switching from the automotive standards to the trading scheme could save as much as €63 billion, says the study’s lead author Sergey Paltsev, deputy director at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. The results are published in the journal Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs. —GFEI working paper.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Taxes are effective at cutting harmful emissions from energy use, but governments could make better use of them. In 2015, outside of road transport, 81% of emissions were untaxed, according to the report. Tax rates were below the low-end estimate of climate costs (EUR 30/tCO 2 ) for 97% of emissions. of emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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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.). Moving to a permanent weight system with weight bands will greatly simplify this process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Ryder System, a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, has begun to offer 100% renewable diesel (RD) fuel at its San Francisco fueling facility. Therefore, offering a better solution for fuel filters, elastomer seals and components, and storage tanks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level. International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The perception that EVs don't pay their fair share of fuel taxes may not be the most productive way to look at funding highway projects.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. The growth of ZEVs represents a potential drain on motor vehicle fuel taxes, which could affect state transportation revenue.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2023

While the tax initially sounds like an attack on EV ownership, Texas EV owners actually see it as a rebalancing of the responsibility to take care of the roads they drive on. EV owners would be paying for the same benefits via this tax. It’s unclear if this European-style tax system will come to the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

However, the survey also found that the public may not yet be prepared for the tradeoffs and challenges needed to make these proposals a reality, with majorities rejecting measures such as a floor on gasoline prices, congestion charges, or higher fuel taxes. Anything that increases the cost of driving is soundly rejected by the public.

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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. In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. Number of EVs on the road in China in 2021.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million global public charging stations, with a 55% increase in 2021 alone. Taxing charging revenue The federal government and many states currently tax sales of gasoline and diesel to fund “related government services like road construction, maintenance, repair, and public transportation.” kWh tax begins on July 1, 2025.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7 The African continent is undergoing a massive transformation, the co-authors note. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100. Only AIDS causes more deaths.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

These provisions will ultimately strengthen the industries producing low carbon fuel alternatives and position the U.S. to meaningfully reduce transportation greenhouse gas emissions, our nation’s highest emitting sector. Under the Biden administration’s strategy, 50% of vehicles on the road will remain reliant on liquid fuels in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

We should continue to adopt policies to reduce transportation energy demand and emissions, while using our evolving information base to assess and reassess which options have the greatest leverage. Today, it is possible to identify a number of potential alternative fuels, including electricity, hydrogen, biofuels, and natural gas.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

For example, by 2025, 50% of FedEx Express global PUD vehicle purchases will be electric, rising to 100% of all purchases by 2030. “Now the federal government is in a position to look at all electric transportation with that same lens.” FedEx plans to accomplish this through phased programs to replace existing vehicles.

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