zero-emission
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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California has surpassed a goal set in 2012 to put 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced at the World Economic Forum.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1990, California began requiring more zero-emission vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times
California has the nation’s busiest container-port complex at Los Angeles and Long Beach and is also ground zero for zero-emission trucking, though its yearslong push to get truckers out of diesel-spewing rigs and into clean trucks has stalled.
The next month, troubled zero-emission truck-maker Nikola filed for bankruptcy, leaving carriers with vehicles that are difficult to maintain and, for hydrogen fuel-cell models, very expensive to refuel.
That is about double the number of zero-emission big rigs that currently operate in Southern California, according to data from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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