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The influencer

Electric Auto Association

2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. The “Los Angeles TImes’ refused to become involved until the ‘Washington Post’ showed up and we found ourselves on the front page of the second section of that paper,” Cox said. Impacting the EV scene for 3 decades. His interest grew deeper when he was an officer in the U.S.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. Some experts estimate that China overtook the United States as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases as early as 2006. Washington Post Foreign Service, 22 November 2009. [

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford at 2006 Shareholders Meeting ) GM top 12/31/07 [GM Vice Chairman Bob] Lutz, 75, is undergoing a green conversion in the twilight of his career. "I Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Sources: Large electric generators. Coverage: 28% of CO 2 emissions. Renergie”).

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