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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Green Car Congress

7, 2017, a law in New York State makes it possible for individuals convicted of certain criminal offenses to have up to two convictions sealed. The Arizona Governor signed an executive order instructing all state agencies to adopt new hiring practices that don’t discriminate against people who have been arrested or been in prison.

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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

The Truth About Cars

Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. The sticker from Heinz Geitz's repair shop in La Jolla led me to a lot of interesting tales of the life and career of Herr Geitz (who passed away in 2017 at the age of 97 ).

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

Green Car Congress

New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. Three professors in the W.

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Non-stop car insider 

Electric Auto Association

First, a serial entrepreneur Kirsch joined ECI in 2017 soon after retiring from her career at the last of her many successful business endeavors, a special effects company. “I Now, conversations with people are less about ‘if you will buy’ and more about ‘when will you buy.’” That is unheard of when purchasing a new car.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. But that means that I can’t buy from just any supplier. His new company, ZeroAvia, is developing an aircraft powertrain energized by hydrogen fuel cells.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

Cars That Think

Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. The Arizona-built Lucid Air sedan, the work of Musk's former Model S chief engineer, has demonstrated it can travel up to 517 miles , a lofty record for any EV.

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