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Everyone’s EV

Electric Auto Association

GM to the rescue “I attended the LA Auto Show and found that the best EV-buying tips came from Chevrolet,” Fellows recalled. Go online, build the car you want, print the price out, and present it to the dealer’ is what they told me.” “It We can’t allow the dealers to pull this on buyers. We update you with EV news monthly.

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Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Green Car Congress

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. For example, an average plug-in hybrid vehicle with a battery capacity of 16 kWh would be eligible for the maximum tax credit of $7,500. Source: CBO. Click to enlarge.

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Road Test: 2023 Toyota RAV4 Prime XSE AWD PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

Be careful listening to self-anointed experts that owning a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is not a wise choice or viable option when buying a new car. Here is the truth: when owning a 2023 Toyota RAV4 Prime XSE AWD PHEV, you will never buy gasoline for probably 90% of your regular driving. Your numbers may differ.

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Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid heading to select US showrooms

Green Car Congress

Ford has tripled to more than 200 the number of dealers certified to sell its lineup of plug-in electrified vehicles, including the C-MAX Energi that is on sale now. Starting MSRP is $29,995 (after a federal tax credit). Earlier post.). In electric-only mode, C-MAX Energi uses an advanced 35 kW peak, 7.6-kWh

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Flash Drive: 2024 Acura ZDX Type S

Clean Fleet Report

A-Spec RWD $65,850 A-Spec AWD $69,850 Type S AWD $74,850 Type S AWD $75,850* (*With the Performance Wheel and Tire Package) The ZDX is built in Spring Hill, Tennessee, meaning it will qualify for federal and state tax credits. The 2024 ZDX A-Spec and ZDX Type S are on-sale now at Acura dealers in all 50 states. Go check it out!

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Right now, buyers of new plug-in cars get up to $7,500 in tax credits.

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These were the top EV stories of 2023

Baua Electric

From charging infrastructure reliability to EV import tariffs and setting standards for battery materials and green hydrogen, the Biden administration has become at the center of the EV economy. After price gouging galore by automakers and dealers in 2022, 2023 became the year of the official EV price adjustment.