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ChargEVC: New Jersey plug-in electric vehicle registration up 79% for MY 2016 vehicles over 2015

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Registration of model year 2016 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in New Jersey was up 79% over 2015, according to a recent analysis by ChargEVC , a diverse coalition of organizations and companies that support growth of the electric vehicle market. Interest in these cars is growing.

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Fallbrook and TEAM to commercialize NuVinci CVT for low- to medium-speed vehicle by late 2015 or early 2016

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Initial production units should be available by the end of 2015 or early 2016. More effective/affordable technology is required for the next generation of transmissions, and that is exactly why the NuVinci technology was developed. Fallbrook Technologies Inc., Earlier post.). —William G.

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New LA electric car sharing program for disadvantaged communities; Bolloré BlueLA

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The BlueLA EV car share program puts California’s cap and trade dollars to work to not only help meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance the EV goals in my Sustainable City pLAn, it brings new transportation options to neighborhoods that need them. —Mayor Garcetti.

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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

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The Board action includes adopting amendments that have been in development since late 2015, and were first heard by the Board in September 2016. The amendments include linking with Ontario, which launched its own cap-and-trade program earlier this year. Through the cap-and-trade program, the state has launched California Climate Investments.

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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in Scoop; carpooling mobile application

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Since launching in August 2015, Scoop commuters have taken more than 40,000 trips, offsetting nearly 500,000 in commute mileage for riders. The Scoop app automatically connects co-workers and neighbors who live in the same neighborhood and travel to the same work area. creators of the carpooling mobile application “Scoop”.

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. Fast forward to 2015, and we have largely blown through all of those predictions. This is not something you would do at home.