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Could Tesla Be Selling 10 Million Cars A Year By End Of Decade?

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by Charles Morris At Tesla’s founding back in 2003, no one imagined the massive growth that lay ahead for the company. As co-founder Ian Wright told me in a 2014 interview, “Martin Eberhard’s initial stimulus for starting Tesla was to build the EV he wanted to buy. Originally posted on EVANNEX. Or did they? Elon Musk had […].

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Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

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lower than 2008 and 2003, respectively. Private sector investment can also drive green stimulus. While the amount of transportation fuel consumed in 2018 was similar to levels from ten and fifteen years prior, emissions from transportation fuel in 2018 were 3.3% lower and 8.3%

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. Honda’s American depositary receipts fell 66 cents, or2.3 percent, to $27.65 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchangecomposite trading. Former U.S. President George W.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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