<br/>Mitigating the effects of climate change is driving urgent transformation across the transportation system. Vehicles and the energy carriers that power them are seeing rapid development of new technologies and processes often with significant regulatory drivers at play. California is acting on a number of fronts to address vehicle performance, fuel and energy availability and the minimization of the impacts of legacy fleets. These include incentive programs, performance standards and fleet rules. As the fuel pool evolves there will be a continuing need for the quantification tools necessary to understand and verify critical parameters to understand program effectiveness and understand market behavior. This is especially true for ‘drop in’ fuels that that may be co-processed with traditional feedstocks and are fungible in the broader fuel distribution network. The California Air Resources Board has long standing fuel analysis and auditing programs. These have traditionally looked at parameters related to the combustion byproduct pollutants associated with these fuels, but there is increasing need to understand alternate fuel content and origins.

Vehicle and fuels policy needs in a decarbonizing economy

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