Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Residents living in the three communities are heavily impacted from high levels of air pollution sources including ports and inland warehouses traffic. The plans were developed under the requirements of AB 617, requiring community-driven action to identify, to monitor and to reduce air pollutants of specific concern to each of community.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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London Scrappage Diesel Pollution 273

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

Our DELIVER-E van gives commercial fleets the power to go green and save on ownership costs, while neighborhoods will benefit from a reduction in air and noise pollution. We took our extensive Class 3 electrification knowledge and applied it to the delivery sector. —Robert Bollinger, CEO of Bollinger Motors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

With this technology, buses will run part of their route on electric power, reducing emissions in specific sections of the city with the worst air pollution. San Francisco launched the Green Zone program, creating the first program of its kind in the world with 68 geofencing hybrid-electric buses—around 8% of the SFMTA bus fleet.

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San Francisco Green Emissions Neighborhood 253

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

By replacing older, polluting engines with new technologies, the projects over their lifetimes are expected to prevent emission of 503 tons of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 130 tons of carbon monoxide, 238 tons of carbon dioxide, 59 tons of hydrocarbons, 30 tons of fine particulate matter, and a half-ton of coarse particulate matter.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

What isn’t often discussed is the potential for EVs to reduce noise pollution. With that in mind, here’s a closer look at EVs and their impact on noise pollution. How Are Automakers Reducing Noise Pollution? Reducing pollution starts with EV production. Reduced noise and air pollution are excellent public health outcomes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

Significant investments include: Low-Income Zero-Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure: $256 million for low-income consumer purchases, and $900 million to expand affordable and convenient ZEV infrastructure access in low-income neighborhoods.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2015

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. Earlier post.). The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32.

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Los Angeles California Neighborhood Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

In addition to being driven thousands of miles per year, these trucks are often left idling in residential neighborhoods to power the truck’s equipment, thereby exposing operators to diesel exhaust, wasting fuel and emitting pollution.

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Eaton Corporation Plug-in Plug 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. Cushing et al. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Trucks are increasingly a major contributor to air pollution nationwide, but especially in our cities where they are among the largest sources of toxic emissions in vulnerable neighborhoods. The board is expected to consider the first-of-its-kind regulation for adoption next year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Credits are based on vehicle type: full zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), excluding low-speed, neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs); NEVs; Enhanced AT PZEVs (e.g., ARB is combining the control of smog-causing pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions into a single coordinated package of standards known as LEVIII, currently under development.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

The neighborhood-friendly EcoRide BE-35 also reduces noise pollution to a fraction of that produced by today’s traditional diesel buses. Over a 12-year lifecycle, Proterra buses will save an average of $400,000 per bus in fuel costs as compared to a conventional diesel bus and almost $300,000 when compared to advanced hybrid buses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

Decisions and performance oriented emission regulations have been adopted that set limits and targets resulting in the dramatic decrease in PM and other emissions; Other economic sectors are lagging behind in their initiatives, strategies and actions to address their share of PM and pollutants emissions. tuning should be warranted.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. The sensor itself is not going to prevent a neighborhood from flooding," she said.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2022

Just a few weeks since it was formally opened, Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin was faced with its first potential crisis: a water-polluting liquid leak. No water-polluting liquid escaped into the open air or into the ground. There was no danger to the environment or the neighborhood,” the spokesman said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The nine green zones are located in population-dense neighborhoods most affected by air pollution. Each of the zones have a large presence of traffic that is contributing to a high rate of air pollution. For cities like San Francisco, that means using BAE Systems technology to create green zones.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

While a state law passed in 2014 requires that 10% of CVRP funds be allocated to disadvantaged communities, Rubin and St-Louis found that residents of neighborhoods with a majority Hispanic or African American population are less likely to have applied for, and therefore be benefiting from, clean vehicle rebates, even when income is held constant.

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Teslarati

MARCH 26, 2022

“What if I moved to the neighborhood and said nothing to anyone for two years? “What if I moved to the neighborhood and said nothing to anyone for two years? One citizen was unhappy with Tesla’s community outreach, comparing the automaker’s fast and efficient construction process to an unfriendly neighbor.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The grant award is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing clean-air benefits to California neighborhoods, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

AQIP is a mobile source incentive program that focuses on reducing criteria pollutant and diesel particulate emissions with concurrent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The discussion document summarizes ARB staff’s work to-date and the draft recommendations for the FY 2016-17 Funding Plan.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 24, 2025

Also, the 40-foot buses eliminated the emissions of approximately 2,000 pounds (907 kg) of nitrous oxide and 150 pounds of particulate matter annually that would otherwise have spewed into local residential neighborhoods in the borough of Queens in New York City, where the aerodrome is located.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2015

Green Europe London UK air pollution diesel particulate filter (DPF) emissions transportation policy' Politicians and advocacy groups in several European countries are taking strong steps to limit or eliminate older, dirtier diesels, over concerns of negative health effects from their particulate emissions. MORE: UK Official Says.

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London Auto Industry Neighborhood Diesel 60

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

More than 16,000 pollution-emitting trucks are working in Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, a number that is estimated to balloon to 32,000 by 2030. Our goal with the first truck was to see if it could be accomplished, and we did that. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. With this information, policy changes can lighten the unfair distribution of harm.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2020

As EV prices come down and more EVs come to the market, it will be appropriate to develop more charging infrastructure in environmental justice communities—which have been disproportionately impacted by air pollution —and rural neighborhoods.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 16, 2024

That last remark is key since the solution required an increase in the amount of fine soot or dust emanating from the plant, though not to the point where it might exceed totals allowed under federal and state air pollution regs. million for home repairs in the area stems from a partnership between Stellantis and local governments.

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2022

” “Take this analogy: I just moved to a new neighborhood in Austin, and that is Commissioner [Brigid] Shea’s Precinct,” they said. What if I moved to the neighborhood and said nothing to anyone for two years? “But I am not willing to turn down this permit for this big event they have planned for a while.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In the 1990s, California adopted a reformulated diesel fuel program; started a heavy-duty diesel truck roadside inspection program; implemented particle pollution standards for urban transit buses; and established standards for off-road diesel engines. Neighborhoods in freight corridors, including those near ports, will especially benefit.

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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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Teslarati

MAY 29, 2023

In 2021, researchers from the University of Michigan highlighted the issue of noise and air pollution caused by heavy-duty diesel trucks running through neighborhoods in Southwest Detroit. It is easy to forget that while diesel-powered trucks have been the norm for a very long time, they do come with their own set of inconveniences.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the LoNo program focuses on deploying the cleanest and most energy-efficient US-made transit buses designed to cut CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. Grants from the LoNo program help transit agencies integrate more of these advanced buses into their fleets.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 13, 2021

Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I In Detroit, we’re working in the Corktown neighborhood, where Ford has been developing Michigan Central, a new mobility innovation district around the old train station,” Peters said.

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Cleveland Ohio Neighborhood Michigan 97

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Benefits of the system include a 35%-55% reduction in diesel consumption (fleet average 43%) with lower accompanying greenhouse gas emissions; reduced criteria pollutants; increased productivity, and brake savings. In 2010, Autocar and Parker began delivering hydraulic hybrid refuse vehicles to three South Florida municipalities. CNG concept.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Another plus: no tailpipe pollution. While traditional gas motorcycles use less gasoline and thus have lower emissions than passenger cars, motorcycle exhaust is higher in smog-forming pollutants and poisonous carbon monoxide, meaning that electric motorcycles (and EVs in general) are a great option to significantly improve air quality.

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