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Ford reportedly eliminates lease-to-buy option on electric vehicles

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battery production.” The post Ford reportedly eliminates lease-to-buy option on electric vehicles appeared first on TESLARATI. Ford’s action is only the most recent illustration of how automakers are incorporating more and more restrictive clauses into their leasing agreements. . ” I’d love to hear from you!

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Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8 million worth of Beam Global off-grid EV charging systems – Charged EVs

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Government agencies and municipalities are lining up to buy Beam Global’s EV ARC solar-powered off-grid EV charging systems, which not only come in handy in a disaster-recovery scenario, but also offer a quick and simple way to deploy EV charging. Source: Beam Global The post Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8

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US EV Sales Share Reaches 7% in Q2 2022 — New Data Now Available?

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While US consumers are showing a huge appetite to buy or lease EVs, the question is if automakers can meet this demand due to supply chain issues and scaling EV productions. Five states had EV (BEV + PHEV) sales share in Q2 of less than 2% (Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming).

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Oklahoma and Colorado governors pitch CNG vehicle initiative to US auto manufacturers

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Participating states include: Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Utah, Maine, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Ohio, Mississippi and Louisiana. The development of CNG vehicles continues to be hampered by a ‘chicken and egg’ scenario. —Gov.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. For feedstock application, carbon stored in products such as plastics are not included in reported emissions for the states where they are produced. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. The 2010 US average is 430 mt CO 2 / million dollars of GDP.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

Their business model dictates that they pursue the lowest-cost power source and charge the highest premiums they can for the product in an open, but federally controlled, market. cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59 in West Virginia to $6.12 cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

manufacturing operations, primarily due to a) the rising popularity of EVs and b) to guard against the kinds of challenges and risks in the international supply chain that have been one of the hallmarks of pandemic-era production; select specific plans include: Ford, which announced in June of this year that it would invest $3.7