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Reasons for banning the further sale of fossil fuel vehicles include: reducing health risks from pollution particulates, notably diesel PM10s, and other emissions, notably nitrogen oxides; [8] meeting national greenhouse gas, such as CO 2, targets under international agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement; or energy independence.
Natural-gas-powered vehicles could be a huge win for energy independence in the United States, but there are other developments in the works that could revolutionize our lives and world we live in ...
August 25, 2022, may be a date that lives in automotive memory. It's the day internal combustion was ruled out in the first U.S. state—but likely not the last.
In 2015, Honda announced its decision to phase out the commercialization of natural-gas-powered vehicles to focus on the development of a new generation of electrified vehicles such as hybrids, plug-in electric cars and hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles. Since 2008, Honda sold about 16,000 natural gas vehicles, mainly to taxi and commercial ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to ban new combustion cars by 2035 will reshape the California car market. Sales of new gas-powered cars banned in California by 2035: What you need ...
From 1 January 1996, the U.S. Clean Air Act banned the sale of leaded fuel for use in on-road vehicles although that year the US EPA indicated that TEL could still be used in aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines. [117] Thus, what had begun in the U.S. as a phasedown ultimately ended in a phase-out for on-road vehicle TEL.
The landmark rule from South Coast AQMD would phase out more than 1 million natural gas-powered ... 1.2 million cars from the road for one year. ... Gas-fired water heaters will be banned from ...
While crude oil and natural gas are also being phased out in chemical processes (e.g. production of new building blocks for plastics) as the circular economy and biobased economy (e.g. bioplastics) are being developed [17] to reduce plastic pollution, the fossil fuel phase out specifically aims to end the burning of fossil fuels and the consequent production of greenhouse gases.