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California PHEV Owners Return to Gas Power

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Yet 20 percent of California PHEV owners have gone back to gas-powered vehicles. Published in Nature Energy on April 26th by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, the study found that PHEV buyers in California were abandoning the technology at a rate of […].

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GM’s vehicle electrification roadmap; little focus on conventional hybrids

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The Spark EV is targeted at urban and suburban commuters and will initially be sold in California and Oregon. The battery-electric Spark EV has a more constrained range, but could deliver about $1,800 annually in fuel costs, according to GM.

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Cruise Ad Insults Human Drivers, Gets Criticized

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But this is the same line they fed Congress in 2016, backed by assurances that the systems would be broadly available by the mid-2000s.& The California Public Utilities Commission is expected to vote on that request Aug. The advertisements were part of a push ahead of the vote to approve the permit, the Cruise spokesperson said.

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Top Climate Scientist on Lessons Not Learned from Electric Car Debacle

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From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago. California had a regulation that would have required automobile manufacturers to produce a small percentage of cars without emissions by such-and-such date, and a larger percentage later. Read the full email at Joe Romm's blog Climate Progress.

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The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

I took the photos that now illustrate it here on my blog within the last hour: My name is Joe Galliani, I’m 52 years old and I’ve lived in Southern California for 33 years. (c) Since 1993 my wife and I have lived in Torrance California, just a half mile from the beautiful beach and the Pacific Ocean.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Electric Vehicles Could be your Solution to the Current Gas Prices

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The Build Back Better Plan included tax credits a win/win for drivers, the environment, and auto workers, but the plan is stuck in Congress. States and cities, especially in California, often offer their own additional rebates. Those credits often go as high as $7,500. How Expensive is Electric Vehicle Maintenance?