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Executive Summary
Despite recent state and local commitments to address global warming, the transportation sector continues to pose a serious challenge for New Mexico as the state moves to decrease its global warming emissions. Advanced-technolgoy vehicles--those that use new technological advances to improve performance--will reduce New Mexico's contribution to global warming, improve the state's air pollution problems and enhance the state's energy security. Cleaner cars can help to reduce the state’s global warming and air pollution emissions. The program has three main components: -
First, the program sets strict standards for traditional air
pollutants. Under the program, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen
oxide would be cut by 5 percent and 11 percent respectively. -
Second, the program sets a fleet-wide average global warming emission
standard that the major automakers need to achieve. Vehicles that take
advantage of the benefits of hybrid-electric motors and other advances
in automotive technology can produce about one-third less global
warming-inducing carbon dioxide per mile than conventional vehicles.
The program would place an estimated 24,500 clean, conventional
vehicles; 8,200 advanced-technology vehicles and 700 zero-emission
vehicles on New Mexico’s roads by 2015. By 2016, new cars would emit 34
percent less global warming gases, while light-duty trucks would
produce 25 percent less. - Third, the program
helps to drive further technological development by requiring
automakers to invest in researching and producing advanced-technology
vehicles.
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