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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way

Baua Electric

Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.

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

Green Car Congress

We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) And oil only seems cheap. While we’re fixing vehicles, we can also equip them with low-cost real-time MPG indicators that show us how to save money and still get to places quickly. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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

Green Car Congress

states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Over the long term, capital adjustments can occur in the electricity supply technology and other production activities. Gases: CO 2 emissions. Sources: Large electric generators.

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Senate Bill Seeks to Tariff Chinese Vehicles Out of Existence

The Truth About Cars

percent to 100 percent, including vehicles owned by Chinese-based automakers that are assembled in places like Mexico. The plan included adding import taxes on Chinese vehicles assembled in Mexico, even though the USMCA (and NAFTA before that) would have normally given them preferential treatment. On Friday, a U.S.

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