Sentences with phrase «encouraging electric transportation»

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Moreover, the city encourages carpooling through its City Car Share program, which visitors can use to rent cars and electric scooters from nearby residents to reduce transportation pollutants.

In the last few years, Europe as a whole has made a variety of efforts to reduce carbon emissions, by encouraging use electric and hybrid vehicles as well as of alternative modes of transportation.

The transportation sector has shown early signals of adaptation too, as automakers keep establishing ambitious plans for electrification of their future fleets and ten states so far have Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) programmes to encourage the deployment of electric vehicles.

* Adopt legislation mandating BEVs [battery - electric vehicles] for short - and medium - distance government transportation and use incentives and rebates to encourage the transition of commercial and personal vehicles to BEVS.

This may not be as high profile a coup as former GM Vice-Chair Bob Lutz joining electric truck company Via Motors but it is, I believe, an encouraging sign of where the future of transportation is headed.

Encourage transportation for a clean energy economy by promoting fuel - efficient vehicles, plug - in electric hybrids, low - carbon fuels, and transit - oriented development.

Any move to ban ICE powered cars and replace them with electric cars should be done together with other actions that reduce the need for cars, including changing planning rules to promote walkable cities, changing building codes to dramatically reduce demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing transportation priorities to encourage cycling and walking, and do a massive rollout of new sources of renewable energy.