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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

keeps getting cleaner, meaning that these benefits will continue to grow in future years. Since most EVs are only in use a small fraction of each day, they can often charge when energy on the grid is clean, cheap, and abundant. Many EV models are eligible for up to $7,500 in income tax credits.

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A just transition

Clean Car

Benjamin Franklin noted that there was nothing certain in life except death and taxes. Particularly if they can be replaced by more active travel and public transport, alongside much cleaner forms of private and fleet vehicles. We all know it is coming and probably sooner than we think.

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Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese EVs, up from 25% to 100%

Baua Electric

But with these increased tariffs, that makes it less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs. The Inflation Reduction Act which updated the US EV tax credit included protectionist measures to disallow Chinese-sourced EVs from taking advantage of the credit.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

So in the end, US jobs likely won’t benefit overall , and US consumers will simply be denied a chance to buy cheap new EVs from China – like, for example, the excellent Volvo EX30. It offers tax credits to EV purchasers, as long as those EVs include domestically-sourced components and are assembled in North America.

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

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. And magically, as more electricity comes from lower-carbon fuel sources, our cars will get cleaner as they get older! Right now, buyers of new plug-in cars get up to $7,500 in tax credits. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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

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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. The federal American Clean Energy and Security Act proposes to disburse dividends via tax refunds to all U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work.