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New Hybrid Requirements for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Background
The AB
32 Scoping Plan recommended several actions for reducing GHG
emissions from the transportation sector, including a measure for medium- and
heavy-duty vehicle hybridization (Measure T-8). Hybridization
of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles would reduce GHG emissions through
increased fuel efficiency. Hybrid trucks would likely achieve
the greatest benefits in urban, stop-and-go applications, such as parcel
delivery, utility services, transit, and other vocational work
trucks. The Scoping Plan estimates that the sale of these
types of new hybrid trucks could achieve 0.5 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide emission reductions. The Scoping Plan identified both
regulation and incentive programs as platforms for achieving these emission reductions.
In April 2008, the Board approved the Hybrid
Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) funded through
the AB 118 Air
Quality Improvement Program
(AQIP). The HVIP will provide up to $20.4 million in Fiscal
Year (FY) 2009-10 AQIP funds for vouchers of $10,000 to $45,000 on a
first-come, first-served basis for the purchase of new eligible hybrid
trucks or buses. ARB anticipates that up to 800 new hybrid trucks or
buses will be funded through this project in Fiscal Year 2009-10 with
continued AQIP funding in the upcoming years.
The HVIP is the first step in achieving the emission reductions needed from
Scoping Plan Measure T 8, but it is not sufficient to meet the
obligation. The second step is developing a regulation
requiring
new trucks in targeted vocations be hybrid vehicles.
Whats New
Posted February 1, 2010
Posted January 12, 2010
- Public Workshop Notice for Development of New Hybrid Requirements for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Updates to the Interim Certification Procedures for Hybrid-Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Urban Buses
For
questions, please contact:
Johanna Levine
Innovative Strategies Branch
MSCD at (916) 324-6971
