Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. Or No Cars?

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The scheme, created by the Thailand Board of Investment in 2007, includes numerous benefits – vehicles qualify for an eight year exemption on machinery duty import and corporate income tax; and up to 90 per cent reduction of import duties on raw materials and parts. 94 and Reg.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 20, 2009

New research produced jointly by the Drivers’ Alliance and the TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals that despite the huge amounts of tax paid by motorists, for every £10 of investment into rail, just £1 spent on roads, when actual usage is taken into account. Key findings include that in the year 2007-08 spending on rail came to £8.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

From 1990 to 2007, the total number of registered civil-use vehicles in China grew from 5.5 Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. million to 57 million (not including motorcycles). Inspection and Maintenance programs for in-use vehicles are weak.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. I think the hefty carbon tax we’ll be levying on Exxon/Mobil can pay for the whole thing. Maybe they should just go take their lies and pollution somewhere else.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

by enacting a carbon tax or setting emission limits for each source type (“command-and-control)—the option to use offsets is generally discussed in the context of a cap-and-trade regime. Erosion control may reduce water pollution from non-point sources, a leading source of water pollution in US waterbodies.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

The move to electric vehicles, which emit zero pollution on London’s streets, will have a massive impact on cutting carbon emissions to curb climate change whilst improving air quality and noise levels for our citizens.”. A UK market trial of 100 cars started in December 2007 with fleet customers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Last year people were able to get unleveraged tax equity financing to monetize the production tax credits at yields to the tax investor of 6-7%; this year tax equity investors are seeking yields ranging from 10-15% for leveraged tax equity transactions utilizing the investment tax credit that is now available under the Stimulus Bill.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). The damages the committee was able to quantify were an estimated $120 billion in the US in 2005, a number that reflects primarily health damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation and motor vehicle transportation. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. cents per kwh.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

TVA also recognizes the criticism from some environmentalists who say that converting from gasoline to electric-powered cars just moves the pollution point from a vehicles tailpipe to the smokestacks of the power plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal. declares public health emergency for swine flu Top Jobs Top Cars 2007 Toyota Prius.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

One way we’re going to do them in is by taxing and regulating them to death. Also a new carbon tax on coal mining, a carbon tax on coal transporting, a carbon tax on burning coal, a carbon tax on any greenhouse gas emissions and a carbon tax on any waste from burning coal - all equal to an amount double the damage done.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Most Americans commute less than 40 miles daily, so that most days they would consume practically NO combustible fuel, na d not pollute the environment while driving or idling. April 18, 2009 1:03 pm Link Writing from Panama where we could use a few more electric cars to reduce pollution. Give them the choice, and they’ll shift.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

With ICLEI software , reports are being generated for 1990, 2005, and 2007 city energy use, as well as using data and ICLEI reports to determine an emissions reduction goal for each city. Colleen, for instance, serves the communities of Greater Los Angeles with an emphasis in reducing toxic air pollution from the transportation sector.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? and at CalCars-News.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects. The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in. The coal ash is known to have many toxic metals and other pollutants. link] — Chris Dudley 13. — AH2 14.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Tax credit incentives are also available to consumers in the U.S. Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. Commercial Ships Spew Half As Much Particulate Pollution as Worlds Cars).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency. Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The GridWise smart-grid trial in the Seattle area in 2007 found that consumers lowered their energy use by 10 percent and utilities were able to shave their peak demand by 15 percent. Tax season brings phishing, other scams As April 15 approaches, security experts say beware of scams and fake tax-filing Web sites and tax prep software.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

Some 66 per cent support the 2006 California law requiring greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020 - but that’s down from 73 per cent in July 2008 and down from 78 per cent in 2007. The sharpest decline is among Republicans - 57 per cent in 2008 compared to 43 per cent today.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product. Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles. We are addicted to the gasoline tax both at the State and Federal level.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Democrats and Republicans are wrestling over an acceptable combination of spending cuts and tax hikes. Without retrofitting existing construction vehicles, Los Angeles, the San Joaquin Valley and other highly polluted regions will be unlikely to meet federal air quality deadlines. Nichols, chairman of the state Air Resources Board. “It

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was established at the 2007 Bali COP. in 2100—the equivalent of US$40 trillion a year. What is clear is that a cap-and-trade system in the US could be manipulated.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Support has declined 7 points from July 2008 (73%) and 12 points from 2007 (78%). Carbon tax: Californians are more in favor (56% support, 35% oppose) of taxing companies for their emissions but are sharply divided along party lines on this issue as well, with 73% of Democrats in favor and 60% of Republicans opposed.

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