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The Importance of Electrifying Municipal Vehicles

Clean Fleet Report

A report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) found that switching to electric fleets could save $14 million in pollution-related expenses over the lifetime of the municipal vehicles—and that’s just in Arizona. Additionally, vehicle pollution is one of the largest contributors to climate change.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Why don’t you look at your bill and see the Nuclear Decommissioning taxes on your electric bill. Some generator is burning coal out there in Arizona. I’m not asking them for money, I’m asking them to change a rule. Move big amounts of money around.

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How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint — And Why It’s Smart Business

EV Connect

For example, a family with two EVs, where both adults work from home and prefer “staycations” to long trips, would have a smaller carbon footprint than a family with two large SUVs who drives to Disneyland from Arizona annually and commutes 20 miles per day for work, round trip. Plus, the U.S.

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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

Green Car Congress

Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. In September 2008, a new clean diesel X-TRAIL 20GT, fitted with the Alliance-developed M9R engine, was introduced in Japan. Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. Locations must be found for charging stations. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Renault-Nissan Alliance launched a pilot project in Arizona earlier this month to test out a charging network ahead of the planned 2010 launch of its electric vehicle. Elon Musk is going to get about $5 of my hard earned money based on my fair share of taxes. The price goes up with demand and usage. I’m depressed.

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

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

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