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JULY 5, 2012

PEV Sales in China by segment: 2012-2017. However, according to a new report from Pike Research, PEV production will fall well short of the government’s ambitious goals of manufacturing 500,000 PEVs a year by 2015. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. this goal, the government plans to invest CNY100 billion (US$15.7

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Batteries produced by the joint venture would be available for sale to any manufacturer. In order to complete the financing of the project, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering a loan of up to 50% of the €280 million (US$416 million) debt financing. billion) financed by the French government.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Honda unveiled the new 10th-generation 2016 Civic Sedan, slated for sale in the US this fall. This includes the addition of the company’s innovative new inner-frame weld body construction process in both Indiana and Canada, a system first utilized for production of the 2015 Honda Fit.

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In other words, the automakers still have to meet the fleet-based emissions requirements through their sales mix. In 1990, California adopted a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) requirement, mandating that the seven largest automotive companies in California “make available for sale” an increasing number of vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions.

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MARCH 10, 2011

The ZEV mandate requires that large volume manufacturers produce and offer for sale in California a specified number of ZEVs. The existing ZEV program requirements are primarily expressed in terms of the number of vehicles that must be offered for sale, with adjustments for different types of vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6 Following the steep decline in US industry sales in December 2008 and January 2009, GM responded by further lowering its forecast for 2009 US industry sales to 10.5 million units (57.5

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Global automotive market intelligence firm Polk forecasts worldwide new vehicle sales in 2012 will rise 6.7% Polk expects China to make the largest contribution to global sales growth for new vehicles, with an anticipated 16% increase over 2011. Polk expects light-duty vehicle sales in the US to grow at a moderate pace, with a 7.3%

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JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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He saw this scheme chiefly as a way for companies to smooth out the volatility of sales and make their business more predictable. It has annualized sales revenue of about $500 billion a year. Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent.

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MAY 18, 2016

The California Air Resources Board’s report on the state of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program for the compliance year 2015 indicates a compliance rate of 98%, with a total of 5.49 The 2015 annual reports demonstrate exceedingly high levels of overall compliance. million credits generated in the year.

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JULY 18, 2016

This is consistent with what the National Academies of Science found in a comprehensive 2015 study. The CAFE analysis used a MY2015 baseline fleet based on MY2015 data and sales projections provided by manufacturers in the latter half of MY2015, when production was well underway.

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JUNE 19, 2015

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards require that vehicles offered for sale in the US attain an average fuel economy of 40.3 Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015. to 41 mpg by 2021 and 48.7 mpg by 2025. These standards will require the US new vehicle fleet to double in fuel economy between 2012 and 2025.

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APRIL 16, 2009

(Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. See the below link for a more in depth discussion of this topic.

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