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Revamping the federal EV tax credit could help average car buyers combat record gasoline prices
The federal EV tax credit is not yet an idea whose time has passed. Just the opposite. It’s a double-edged policy tool that will advance key environmental and economic aims while helping pretty ordinary Americans deal with rising gasoline prices and a rising cost of living. Now is the time to extend it, with prudent changes, as part of the reconciliation package.
Incentivizing zero- and low-emission vehicles: The magic of feebate programs
If designed properly, feebates can be a revenue neutral way to help spur the transition to electric.
Hungry Hungry Airlines
Critiques the Biden Administration’s approach to development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and suggests an alternative path.
The bullet train to lower-carbon travel
Examines the carbon benefits of replacing some short-haul flights in the US with rail trips.
Vancouver’s new scrubber restrictions mean cleaner waters
The first phase of scrubber washwater discharge restrictions in the Port of Vancouver began this week.
Place your bets: supersonics, or zero-emission planes?
In the high stakes casino of aircraft development, it’s time for industry and governments to place their bets. Supersonics, or zero-emission planes: which will it be?
Polishing my crystal ball: Airline traffic in 2050
Examines various long-term passenger traffic projections and how they impact aviation decarbonization roadmaps
Coming back for seconds: Can ZEV regulations expand access to used ZEVs?
Describes an emerging opportunity to use regulations to make zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) more widely accessible by promoting the secondhand ZEVs market
Alternative fuels infrastructure in Europe: Electric trucks and buses can’t wait another decade
While the AFIR proposal introduces much needed Europe-wide infrastructure targets for HDVs, it falls short on ambition
Drafting the future of clean hydrogen: Build Back Better with an additionality requirement
U.S. policymakers can strengthen the hydrogen tax credit in the Build Back Better Act by including an additionality requirement.
No time to lose for the European Commission to make plug-in hybrid CO2 emission values more realistic — and no need to wait!
Assumptions regarding how frequently PHEVs are charged has a big impact on the gap between real-world and type-approval emissions.
Don’t let the industry greenwash green hydrogen
Certifying that hydrogen and efuels are produced from 100% additional renewable electricity is not as simple as it seems.