Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Plug-in electric vehicles are promising and sales have started, but it will take time to reach very large volumes, and will likely require strong incentives over the coming decade to reach a fully competitive point. An alternative to a feebate that could raise similar revenue is raising fuel taxes by around $0.07 per liter ($0.26/gallon

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In other words, the automakers still have to meet the fleet-based emissions requirements through their sales mix. Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. California has a much more ambitious long-term policy commitment to EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

Miller of Synovate believes that in the US “ 20% of the people are willing to pay up to 10% of the vehicle’s purchase price more (i.e. Edwards and Miller both emphasized the importance of a buyer’s emotion in purchasing a vehicle. United States. Western Europe. The role of emotion in buying cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Federal Housing Administration will convene representatives of the lending community and other key stakeholders for a mortgage roundtable in July to identify options for factoring energy efficiency into the mortgage underwriting and appraisal process upon sale or refinancing of new or existing homes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

This scenario includes GHG emissions, vehicle sales, fuel consumption, carbon intensity, and changes in VMT. Zero emission vehicles: In the low carbon scenario, vehicle sales are 100% ZEV by 2040. Transportation pricing: Gasoline taxes. Corridor congestion pricing and high occupancy toll lanes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

In order to price a vehicle you need to contact a sales agent. When asked about battery product pricing, Donaghy replied “ Everyone wants to know price, we would agree that we need to get the cost of the energy down. Valence posted sales of $20.8 Volume and technology improvements with allow us to do that. ”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2012

Chris Gregorie asking that a proposed $100 EV surtax be removed from the state’s transportation bill (Senate Bill 6455, ESSB 6455) on the grounds that it will create a disincentive toward the purchase of an EV. Proponents of the surtax argue the fee is needed to offset losses in state gas tax revenues since EV owners don’t need to buy gas.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

This past week was a whirlwind of EV news and developments from FedEx’s plans to electrify its fleet by 2040, VW saying it expects 50% of its US sales to be from EVs, to GM’s likely plans to build a second battery factory with LG Chem, and much more … Automaker/EV Models. VW expects half of U.S. VW expects half of U.S.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. more than 86 percent of vehicle sales in that country in 2021. We then systematically increased the share of EVs among new vehicle sales until the cumulative fleet emissions fell within the budget.

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