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Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Green Car Congress

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars).

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Pike Research forecasts China plug-in market to reach 152,000 units/year by 2017, falling short of government targets; BEVs to dominate

Green Car Congress

However, that figure represents less than 1% of the total light duty vehicle market in China. The HEV cars were sold mostly to individual consumers while PHEVs were sold to taxi fleets in Shenzhen and Beijing, as well as to some. Battery-electric (BEVs) will outsell. Municipal vehicles composed the remaining 10%.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

The next question is about the robo taxi unveil. Vaibhav Taneja: The basics of driving are basically same everywhere, like car is a car, the traffic lights, a road is a road. So, we’re seeing much more competitive prices for sales from our suppliers, dramatically more competitive than in the past. Martin Viecha: Thank you.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Both will be sold first in China, primarily to fleet users: the government, post office, utilities, and taxi companies, all of which will build central fast-charging facilities. Of all the frauds that have come to light, none can match the brazen theatricality of the scam allegedly pulled off by superlawyer Marc Dreier.

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