Nation`s Capital Turns Its Eyes to Greener Cars
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - The team of transportation experts that helped to write California's new Low Carbon Fuel Standard will be in Washington, DC tomorrow to brief members of Congress and their staffers on the status of clean car and truck fuels and technologies.
The experts from the University of California - Davis will focus on the future of automotive technologies and fuels that have the potential to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gases - biofuels, hybrid electric technologies and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
California Congressman Mike Thompson, a Democrat, is hosting the event.
The UC-Davis team Daniel Sperling, Joan Ogden, Tom Turrentine and Anthony Eggert are all part of a new research initiative, the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways, STEPS, within the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
STEPS will evaluate the technical, economic, environmental and policy issues that will arise as the nation increases its use of nonpetroleum fuels, such as biofuels and hydrogen, and vehicles, such as plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars.
Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, is co-director of the University of California team that wrote the California low carbon fuel standard, the first such policy in the world, signed into law by Executive Order of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday.
Under the order, fuel providers to the California market must cut the carbon content of fuels by at least 10 percent by 2020, thereby cutting the state's greenhouse gas emissions. In California, 41 percent of such emissions come from transportation fuels.
This briefing is taking place just ahead of the 2007 Washington Auto Show with the theme Presenting Advanced Technologies, which opens at the Washington Convention Center on Wednesday. More than 700 new cars, trucks, mini-vans and sport utility vehicles from over 42 domestic and import automakers will be on view.
As part of a series of events during the German EU and G-8 presidencies that started January 1, the German Embassy will host a symposium at the Washington Auto Show to present the latest technology trends.
At the show, the German automaker BMW will debut the Hydrogen 7, the world's first hydrogen-drive luxury performance automobile, capable of running on gasoline or hydrogen.
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