Key Points
Earlier in April 2023, the Biden administration proposed new, tougher vehicle pollution standards in a bid to promote the use of EVs in the U.S...
Exelon has committed to offering a comprehensive fleet electrification assessment service to help customers and businesses navigate vehicle electrification, create fleet electrification plans, and estimate total costs of ownership savings. National Automobile Dealers Association and Centre for Sustainable Energy have committed to launch online dealer training in 2023 to help them accelerate EV sales as well as mass-market EV adoption...
If the new proposed rules are accepted, the EPA estimates that 67% of new sedans, crossovers, SUVs and light trucks; 50% of new vocational vehicles (like buses and garbage trucks); 35% of new short-haul freight tractors; and 25% of new long-haul freight tractors will be electrified by 2032 nine years from now...
The GHG Emissions Standards proposal, if accepted, will be applicable to heavy-duty vocational vehicles (such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers, public utility trucks, transit, shuttle, school buses, etc.) and tractors (such as day cabs and sleeper cabs on tractor-trailer trucks)..
The heavy-duty proposal is projected to avoid 1.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide through 2055, equal to eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions from the current U.S. transportation sector for an entire year..
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