California Details Latest CO2 Reduction Programs

Posted on 3 May 2018 by Ken Zino

AutoInformed.com on Global Warming and CO2California Climate Investments will fund about 150 cleaner school buses across the state. These include zero-emission battery electric models and conventional models using renewable diesel.

The year-old Rural School Bus Pilot Project, which has received $25 million in cap-and-trade funding, will buy as many as 60 of those new school buses in rural areas, reducing 10,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. About 40 of those school buses in rural areas will be zero-emission battery electric.

Ultra-clean school buses in rural districts represent just one of many projects rolling out across California that are helping the state transition to what it calls a clean transportation future. The investments support many next-generation vehicles, including electric school buses in Sacramento, electric yard trucks in Fontana, hydrogen-powered buses in the Coachella Valley, and a fleet of electric delivery trucks for Goodwill Industries in the Bay Area. About half of the investments are for projects or vehicles that are in, or benefit, disadvantaged communities.

Rural School Districts Electric School Buses

  • Konocti Unified School District,
  • Rescue Union School District,
  • Palermo Union School District,
  • Wilsona School District,
  • Fall River Joint Unified School District,
  • Oroville Union High School District, and
  • Ukiah Unified School District

 $1.2 Billion Cap-and-Trade Investments in Zero-Emission Transportation*

Cleaner School Buses
150 school buses*

Heavy-Duty Trucks:
48 class 7+8 heavy duty zero-emission trucks

Delivery, Utility, Trash Trucks
1,057 delivery, utility and refuse trucks*
Utility Trucks* – 133

Hybrid Delivery and Refuse Trucks*

Battery electric delivery trucks – 82

Transit
438 zero-emission transit buses and shuttles
Transit Buses – 361
Shuttle Buses – 77

Cars
166,817 Light-duty ZEVs and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles)
Full battery electric cars – 101,091
Plug-in hybrid cars* – 62,455
Hydrogen fuel cell cars – 3,271

Off-Road, Cargo-Handling Equipment
29 zero-emission yard trucks, fork lifts, cargo-handling equipment

Total funding for projects and vehicles benefiting disadvantaged communities: 48%

*Includes both zero- and near zero-emission technologies

 

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Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
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