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EIA: California home to almost half of US plug-in electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

For instance, DTE Energy in Michigan offers customers discounted electricity rates at off-peak hours if they install a 240-volt Level 2 charger. California’s ZEV mandate requires automobile companies to produce for sale a certain percentage of zero emission vehicles, such as electric and hydrogen fuel cell.

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Tesla Model Y from Giga Texas is just one EPA approval away from first deliveries

Teslarati

The certifications are valid for a single model year, and new model year vehicles make their way to the EPA’s testing facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan every year to confirm they align with the EPA’s emissions standards. ” What were the changes Tesla made exactly?

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

24 Oregon and Michigan push past 12% jobless A credit card users best friend Todays top stories More Galleries Best big companies to work for See the 31 companies that made both the Fortune 1000 and Best Companies to Work For lists this year. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov. Sokol, who now sits on BYDs board, says BYD could instead become a battery supplier to global automakers. Some Americans, though, are eager to do business with BYD. Ted Kulongoski arrived to test-drive an electric car and urge the company to import through the port of Portland.

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