EV Club of CT

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Proposed EPA Rules Amidst the current contretemps over Connecticut’s stalled efforts to adopt phase 2 of the California emissions standards, known as ACC II/ACT, which stand for Advanced Clean Cars II and Advanced Clean Truck, Read more

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Buying cars in 2022 can be a huge headache. Not only are some cars hard to find at all with dealers selling out of popular models, but there’s also the issue of dealer markup. This is when a dealer sells a car for more than the MSRP, or Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 19, 2022

What do you do when you want to buy an electric car and you don’t trust this newfangled internet thingy? You go to your local dealer, where you have bought cars before, because rural country car buyers trust their local car dealers. Like Gympie MG, just north of Brisbane.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally granted a California Air Resources Board (CARB) request for a waiver of preemption for its Advanced Clean Car (ACC) regulations. Earlier post.) EPA also determined that the waiver includes the new “deemed to comply” regulation. Background.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 19, 2023

Car dealers in Florida have rammed through a new law protecting them from manufacturer rules for electric cars, such as not adding surcharges to MSRP.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 11, 2023

30% of US car dealers tell the Sierra Club they refuse to sell electric cars. Pretty soon they won't have to because they will be out of business.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As fuel economy slowly rises across its entire range, Ford is looking to lower the environmental impact of the dealerships that sell its greenest cars as well. The company announced today a pilot program that will put solar-and-wind clean-energy systems into four of its dealerships.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vietnamese automaker VinFast has gotten serious about selling electric cars around the world, and it is entering the US auto. continued] The post 70 US Dealers Apply To Sell VinFast Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 22, 2023

Some Ford dealers have had second thoughts about the company's EV sales program and notified the company they are no longer interested in participating.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. The interim Clean Car Discount, which is already in the market, is showing promising signs of success.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel engine. Chevrolet is entering the US and Canadian diesel car markets this summer with a 2.0L Assembled in Lordstown, Ohio, the 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel has demonstrated an estimated 42 mpg (5.6 This Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel represents a new era in diesel performance for American cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As of 1 September, all new cars sold in Europe must meet the Euro 6 emissions requirements. New car models have complied with Euro 6 since September 2014, and as of today all new cars sold must meet this standard. Over the last 15 years, NO x limits for diesel car engines have been reduced by 84%, and particulates (PM) by 90%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

General Motors president Mark Reuss told investors this week that GM dealers have serviced more than 11,000 Teslas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Following a successful campaign at Cadillac last year, GM will offer a buyout to Buick dealers who do not want to sell electric cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 4, 2024

DEARBORN, Michigan — Ford dealers and Ford Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, are investing $2 million in. continued] The post Ford Dealers & Ford Fund Invest $2 Million to Train Future Auto Techs appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Ford NACS announcement torpedoed its own dealers, reduced consumer confidence in EVs, and brought back memories of the Osborne 2.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Auto dealers are lobbying to close down a Tesla service center in Oklahoma. Oklahoma legacy auto dealers want to shut down our OK […]. I was alerted to this by Tesla owner, Priscilla Sanstead, who tagged me and Sawyer Merritt in a post sharing a screenshot of an email from Tesla’s policy team about the situation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Some Ford dealers and state dealer groups are pushing back against the company's plan for selling electric cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A few weeks ago, Bloomberg covered the challenges facing car dealers as the EV transition accelerates. Dealers don’t know how to sell them to interested buyers. This may sound like an excuse, as we know dealers have been dragging their feet on EVs in the past, but dealers are starting to get […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

At a dealer gathering last week, Volvo offered a taste of its future electric car plans.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2022

Are car dealers getting some karmic payback with six-figure installation bills?

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

continued] The post BYD Philippines Releases Atto 3 EV & Prepares To Open 19 More Dealers, 100 Charging Stations appeared first on CleanTechnica. AC Motors is reinforcing its commitment to electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the Philippines with the introduction of the latest.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

initiative, which encourages electric car adoption as it brings the state closer to its goal of installing at least 10,000 charging stations by the end of 2021. Drive Clean Rebate Initiative Supporting the Direct Purchase of 11,000 EVs. To date, more than 11,000 rebates have been approved for New Yorkers to purchase electric cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Dealer marketing should be contemporary, fresh, and lively to attract customers who are becoming interested in EVs.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When you plan to sell or buy a car, there are many choices available. You can place or receive a bid online from a reputable source, visit a physical auction or visit a nearby dealer. Everyone wants to get a good deal when selling a car , but very few people manage to do so. Value of Your Car. Clean and Repair Your Car.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 6, 2022

In a recent article, I shared two awful stories of dealer misconduct. In one, a dealer in New York sold a customer’s special order Jeep out from under them to make a few extra bucks. Fortunately, Jeep helped take care of the customer and helped them find another vehicle that fit their needs at a […].

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2015

Today, Shell''s "Project M" seeks to design a fuel-efficient city car, why "clean diesels" may not be quite as clean as the name suggests, and Scion shrugs off hybrids and electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Today in Car News'

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EV Connect

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leading auto dealers see that the near-term trend is electric and are adopting their businesses to sell more EVs. According to data from iseecars.com, Non-Tesla new car dealers selling electric vehicles in the U.S. Here are 3 reasons why public charging is a great opportunity for car dealerships: 1. increased from 1 6.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Audi announced pricing for the 2010 A3 TDI, its second US clean diesel offering launched this year. Expected to begin arriving at US dealers in late November 2009, the 50-state certified A3 TDI delivers 42 mpg US (5.6 Audi launched its first TDI clean diesel model, the Q7 TDI, earlier this year. Earlier post.) L/100 km (50.0

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 29, 2022

One thing I’ve been reading about a lot on social media the last couple of years is dealers taking big advantage of new products and then later supply issues. When there are more customers and fewer cars, dealers end up in a position to sometimes charge whatever they want, and legally there’s little in their […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

If Ford, or any legacy automaker for that matter, really wants to compete with Tesla, the dealers need to get out of the way. I read an article by Jalopnik which echoes what I’ve been saying for some time now. I’ve written about this extensively. For example, in Connecticut, a local paper, The Day, published […].

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 8, 2024

But that doesn't mean it's not true -- myself and at least one other TTAC'er miss the hell out of that car. What's weird is I don't have many memories of driving an Eclipse, though I almost certainly drove a few used ones during my dealer days. Certainly, as a child of the '80s and '90s the one that comes to mind is the gen-2 car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

When service stations in Algeria stopped providing leaded gasoline in July, the use of leaded gasoline in cars ended globally. This development follows an almost two-decades-long campaign by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-led global Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) rule. The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). billion in fiscal year 2022-23, and $3.9

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 13, 2023

Most dealers have reconciled themselves to the fact that EVs are important to the growth of their dealerships. Now they need to come up to speed on what it means to own an EV so they can be gentle guides for a whole new consumer base.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The provincial government has put British Columbia on a path to require the sale of all new light-duty cars and trucks to be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by the year 2040. If we want British Columbians to be part of the solution for reducing air pollution, we need to make clean energy vehicles more affordable, available and convenient.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2021

A few weeks ago, Ken Ortiz, the president of the New Mexico Auto Dealers Association, penned a letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Journal. The letter, which came 2–3 weeks after Tesla opened its first facility in the state, defended auto dealers’ practices and claimed that they’re actually better for the EV transition.

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