ORANGE, Calif.—The state has provided $45 million for two Orange County Transportation Authority projects. The authority announced it has received $39.4 million for the Central Mobility Loop project that includes 33 zero-emission buses, replacing 10 gas-powered paratransit vehicles with zero-emission vehicles. The money will also fund an effort to synchronize traffic signals that will allow…

About 9.6 percent of all new vehicle registrations in the last quarter of 2022 were zero-emission vehicles, according to data released by Statistics Canada on April 24. That’s about 33,000 new zero-emission registrations compared to about 24,000 in the same quarter of 2021. Canada is moving to make all new passenger vehicle sales zero-emission by…

The European Parliament formally approved a law to ban the sale of new gas and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, in a bid to achieve net-zero carbon-dioxide emissions from vehicles. The new legislation is part of the E.U.’s broader climate ambitions, with the aim of achieving a 100 percent reduction in emissions for new…

The sale of zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) in California has risen by more than 100 percent in two years, with the state making up 40 percent of U.S. sales of such vehicles in 2022 and roughly 19 percent of all cars sold in California. According to data from the California Energy Commission, 18.8 percent of all…

Of nearly 3,000 newly purchased vehicles by Canada’s federal departments and agencies in the last two years, less than 5 percent were electric, records show. In a recently-tabled Inquiry of Ministry, the Liberal cabinet told Parliament that out of the 2,899 vehicles bought by federal departments and agencies in the past two years, 137 were…

The Environment Department is now conducting research into the cost of owning an electric vehicle, according to federal documents, a year after mandating 100 percent electric car sales in the country by 2035. A document titled “Total Cost of Ownership for Light Duty Vehicles in Canada,” [pdf] posted on the Government of Canada website on Dec. 2,…

News Analysis While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100 percent of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional cars….

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vowed to put a halt to his state’s requirement to follow California in adopting strict rules for vehicle emissions, calling it a “ridiculous edict” that would eventually ban the sale of gas and diesel-fueled vehicles. State officials said last week that Virginia is on track to adopt California’s new rules for…