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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. The main concern is purchase price or more likely, monthly payment. Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? Basically, I'm a bundle of questions. Engineers sometimes do, but your average retail car buyer.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. The main concern is purchase price or more likely, monthly payment. Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? Basically, I'm a bundle of questions. Engineers sometimes do, but your average retail car buyer.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles. My Web del.icio.us

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 Dial into qualifying mode and you unleash the Kraken, maximizing the full 162-kW electric capability. Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My See the below link for a more in depth discussion of this topic. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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