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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ Billion vs. $28.3

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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. In July, itopened an assembly line in Japan to build its FCX Clarity. When that time comes, fuelcells, solar panels, hydrogen, those will be the key words,”Fukui said. “We

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. But that’s nothing compared to what Germany — who, to my recollection, wins its first-ever Top EV Country medal — did last year… Coming out of the first Covid lockdown, most Western European countries passed some version of a “mini green new deal” in their stimulus packages.

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