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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. Moving to zero emissions vehicles, as the cliche goes, is the low hanging fruit in New Zealand’s fight against climate change. Committee Secretariat. Transport and Infrastructure Committee. Parliament Buildings. Wellington. Executive Summary.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. The potential impacts of PEVs on climate change are of particular concern. “ We do need a national energy policy.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford spokesman in Wards Auto ) 6/9/06 "So, Mr. Ford is saying we’re looking into it. Were charging full-speed ahead before we know exactly what the investment is going to be, before we know whether we can make any money off it or not, before we know how many were going to sell," Lutz said. Everything is on the table."

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