Sentences with phrase «of vehicle emissions»

Each FCI report will give the specific property and its surrounding area a rating from the EarthSense NO2 Air Quality Index, which assesses average NO2 levels at 100m resolution as a result of vehicle emissions and other sources.

While not all air pollution is due to vehicle emissions a significant portion is and for a long time there was no control of vehicle emissions.

In an attempt to reduce the amount of vehicle emissions, car manufactures have changed to using alternative fuels.

We then took that fraction of vehicle emissions as our own, for another 16 tons of CO2.

Last February a dedicated government forum issued a discussion paper targeting future vehicle emissions, and the future of LCT within a wider overhaul of vehicle emission legislation in Australia.

Our target is to reach 10 ppm sulfur in fuels by 2025 globally, while at the same time also supporting the introduction of vehicles emissions standards, contributing to the overall goal of the CCAC.

China's fuel quality standards and fuel supply management have long been an impediment to improved air quality by hindering the progress of vehicle emission control.

So, when speaking of vehicle emission standards, one has to speak almost exclusively about gasoline powered passenger vehicles and light trucks.

This new legislation will help make the public aware of vehicle emission levels so that they can make informed choices that will help reduce greenhouse gas pollution.»

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WASHINGTON, April 30 - Two Democratic lawmakers asked Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Monday for documents related to proposed changes to vehicle fuel emission standards and California's authority to set its own measures, and accused him of misleading Congress of the agency's plans.

For example, the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in southern California in July approved a plan to replace their current fleets of mostly diesel trucks with zero - or near zero - emissions vehicles by 2030.

However, its automotive gross margin, which doesn't include the sale of zero - emission vehicle credits, dropped to 13.8 % from 22.2 % in the same period last year.

The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

A coalition of 17 states and Washington, D.C., is suing the Environmental Protection Agency to defend new vehicle emissions standards.

As the world began to learn in September, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a shocking «notice of violation,» the vehicles met emissions standards for dangerous oxides of nitrogen, known collectively as NOx, only when running their paces in an artificial, indoor lab setting.

The document remains confidential, but CARB has stated that in it «VW admitted... that it designed and manufactured its 2.0 - liter diesel vehicles with defeat devices to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative elements of the vehicles» emission - control system.»

After the car companies met with the government at the start of this month, the CEOs of Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW conceded responsibility for the diesel scandal and promised to pay for software upgrades to reduce emissions from affected vehicles.

The recap: the tech - centric automaker is expanding beyond electric vehicles and launching a line of battery products that will allow homeowners, businesses and utilities to store energy, manage backup power — and ultimately, enable zero - emission power generation.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating algorithm in each car that takes in reams of data — about atmospheric pressure, how the car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

If you live in California and don't need a ton of space for your everyday driving needs, the Clarity is a solid, zero - emission vehicle option.

The Volkswagen Group has brought down CO2 emissions of its EU 27 new vehicle fleet from 166 grams (2006) to 144 grams (2010), corresponding to a reduction of more than 13 %.

A group of 17 states plan to file a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the Trump administration's decision to declare vehicle emissions rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

Toyota Motor (tm) reported a drop in first - half vehicle sales on Thursday following a series of production stoppages, falling behind Volkswagen (vlkay), which became the world's top - selling carmaker in the first six months of 2016 despite its emissions scandal.

This would begin in 2020 with certain vehicle types, such as non-zero emission taxis, being banned from a «small number of streets.»

A coalition of 17 states and Washington, D.C., is suing the EPA to defend new vehicle emissions standards.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters)- California and a group of 16 other states on Tuesday challenged the Trump administration's decision to revise strict U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules put in place under former President Barack Obama.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

Friday's result didn't get us all the way there, but it did commit to a «Canada - wide strategy for zero - emission vehicles» by 2018, along with a promise of more charging infrastructure for electric cars.

Another of today's provincial best practices is Quebec's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, which requires a growing number of vehicles sold in the province to be emissions - free.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

VANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to the announcement of an advisory group to shape Canada's national zero - emission vehicle strategy:

General Motors is being sued for allegedly rigging diesel engine versions of its Silverado and Sierra HD vehicles to pass emissions tests.

«As for all electric vehicles, a grid emission factor of 0.5 g CO2 / Wh was also applied to the electric energy consumption.

Revenue from the sales of our Tesla Roadster as well as from zero emission vehicle, or ZEV, credits did not exceed costs of sales related to our Tesla Roadster, until the nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Make it easier for Canadians to choose electric by requiring auto manufacturers to ensure that a minimum and growing percentage of all passenger cars sold in Canada will be zero - emissions vehicles — an approach pioneered in California and recently adopted in Quebec.

Subaru has admitted inspectors at its manufacturing plants in Japan «inappropriately altered» the emissions and fuel efficiency data of some 900 vehicles so that the average data...

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

However, given that most of Young's statements have equated the oil sands with the oil sands mining operations around Fort Mc Murray, it's worth noting that the mining (and upgrading) of bitumen contributed 32 Mt CO2 emissions to Canada's total in 2011, and that emissions from mining operations are expected to stay well below those of personal vehicles for some time.

This will be accomplished through a combination of a «cap and trade» carbon pricing system, mandatory vehicle emission standards, and investing in renewable energy production and consumption.

Perhaps this is a consequence of the diesel emissions scandals or the sky high market valuation attributed to US electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla.

TOKYO The truck units of Toyota Motor and Volkswagen AG are forming an alliance to bolster their market positions as commercial vehicle makers face growing costs to develop lower - emission vehicles and automated driving capabilities.

Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amounts.

Car manufacturer Volkswagen will pay $ 40 million to the state of Arizona as part of a settlement over vehicle emissions violations.

Speaking on these figures, Steve Frost said: «A lot of later diesels are reasonably clean vehicles, the ones the Government are trying to get off the road are the older ones which don't comply to the latest euro emissions - they can be quite dirty diesels.»