Advanced Clean Car technology
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By 2025, when the Advanced Clean Cars rules are fully implemented, one in seven new cars sold in California – 1.4 million – will be non-polluting or nearly so, including:
- Plug-in hybrids, which run as electric vehicles with an internal combustion engine backup
- Fully electric battery-powered cars
- Hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles
Meanwhile, gasoline and diesel-powered passenger vehicles would grow ever cleaner and more efficient. A variety of new technologies – from direct fuel injection to lower rolling resistance tires – will cut pollution while delivering the kind of performance, utility and safety car owners have come to expect.
Today’s clean cars, by technology and fuel type*
- All clean cars
- Battery electric
- Biodiesel
- Compressed natural gas (CNG)
- Diesel
- Ethanol flex fuel (E85)
- Gasoline
- Hybrid electric
- Hydrogen fuel cell electric
- Hydrogen internal combustion
- Plug-in hybrid electric
*Source: ARB’s buying guide for clean cars, www.driveclean.ca.gov
Videos
- 2011 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Showcase (1 minute, 102 MB)
- Gasoline direct injection
- "Safe at 60," Center for Auto Safety, presentation on lighter, more efficient cars
- Dual clutch systems