Low Carbon Regulations and Incentives:

A Key Factor to Increase Low-carbon Vehicles sales

Carl

Abstract

The United Stated low carbon regulations and incentives are playing a significant role in promoting the use of hybrid and electric vehicles. The low carbon regulation made more vehicle buyers purchase hybrid or electric vehicles instead of the gas vehicles. The generalization of low-carbon vehicles still has some challenges. The U.S. government probably needs to encourage the low-carbon vehicle manufacturers which may address low-carbon vehicle battery and high cost problem. Therefore, it is important for the generalization of low-carbon vehicles that the U.S. low carbon regulation and incentives work together.

Low carbon regulation and low carbon incentives were issued to reduce gasoline use and reduce air pollution, and the hybrid and electric vehicles is a way to achieve these two goals. Regulation is a kind of law which is issued to control some details (Regulation Legal Definition, n.d.). Low carbon incentive is kinds of method which encourage people or company do the best of the using of low-carbon products. In recent years, the more governments started to address air contaminate via issuing many kinds of low carbon regulation. The U.S. regulators plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions form transportation. For example, the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The emissions which ware covered by the Act should be reduced 17% in 2020 and 83% in 2050. There will be a dramatic increase between 2020 and 2050 (Leiby &Rubin, n.d.). So the limit of vehicles’ emissions and the low carbon regulation in U.S. will probably be stricter in next few years. The United States will probably issue