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When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler?

Clean Fleet Report

greenhouse gas emissions, making the switch to EVs a welcome change for environmental advocates. EVs also benefit the environment by eliminating tailpipe emissions and having better fuel economies than gasoline-powered cars. It also may be eligible for tax incentives and credits. See more at E Magazine. — S.H.,

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Grist Writer Gets the URGE2 Electrify

Plugs and Cars

David Roberts is a staff writer at Grist , an online enviro magazine. Everything from light bulbs to organic food, to flex-fuel cars to a carbon freeze tax—no, make that a cap-and-trade program—clamors for attention. A green dream trifecta of energy independence, zero emissions, and zero carbon. They have no consensus message.

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ICCT: gap between official and real-world fuel economy figures in Europe reaches ~38%; call to implement WLTP ASAP

Green Car Congress

Divergence of real-world CO 2 emissions from manufacturers’ type-approval CO 2 emissions for various on-road data sources, including an average estimate for private and company cars as well as all data sources. In total, these sources furnish fuel consumption and CO 2 emission data from more than half a million vehicles.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. You pay your taxes on-line.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. So far, President Barack Obama has announced no new federaleffort to promote the fuel, and federal funding for hydrogen fortransportation use in the 2009 budget dropped to $177.7

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

The Wrangler 4xe (pronounced “four-by-e”) will become Jeep’s third plug-in hybrid for Europe, where far more stringent emission rules encourage plug-in cars of all types. He bought the 4xe, he said, because it was more powerful than the rest of the range, and with the federal income-tax credit, it hadn’t cost him any more.

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

Clean Fleet Report

The EV doesn’t get built without electricians; its charging infrastructure doesn’t exist without them In August 2022, President Biden introduced the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , which included climate legislation aimed at lowering emissions and stimulating the green job economy. See more at E Magazine.

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