Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Strong income tax credits for the purchase of new diesel, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles are very expensive and essentially ineffective at reducing GHG emissions from transportation. Purchase tax credits are an expensive way to reduce oil consumption and GHG emissions from transportation. —Morrow et al.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. The new $2.4-billion

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It was founded by a quartet of former analysts working for the Democratic National Committee, most of whom cut their teeth working for the Obama campaign. The rest of the staff also appears to be DNC employees, many of whom likewise worked for Hilary Clinton and/or the Obama administration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Production capacity. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama highlighted his goal of making the United States the first country in the world to put one million advanced technology vehicles on the road by 2015. Following a tour of the Ener1, Inc.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 16, 2010

If they don’t, then the car industry warns it’ll be hard to hit President Obama’s goal of one million electric and/or plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. Read more in the WSJ article by Josh Mitchell: Auto Industry Plugs Electric-Car Subsidies. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2011

Hot on the heels of President Barack Obama’s pledge of support for expanding U.S. production and sales of plug-in electric cars in his State of the Union address earlier this week, comes more support for the zero emission vehicles from a pair of Michigan Democrats. Brothers Rep. Levin and Sen. Levin announced yesterday that.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 12, 2007

The Detroit News Autos Insider column today is reporting on Congressional efforts to promote plug-in hybrids and the backlash from the automakers. Toyota made the car, the Prius, that made plug-in conversions possible, and now they are trying to rein in the desires unleashed. Whatever it's called, it's got Toyota in a tizzy.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Are You Plugged In? Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. By Mara Lemos Stein.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

If you count plug-in hybrids, new-model EV sales are hovering somewhere around 7 percent right now. Ironically, this was the same thing said by the Trump administration when it attempted to scale back Obama-era emissions requirements deemed untenable. But it sometimes feels like the relevant lobbying groups want to walk things back.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 1, 2006

Barack Obama (D-Ill.) In his plan, he calls for all government cars to be plug-ins. Barack Obama on Energy Independence Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Governor's Ethanol Coalition Washington, DC Feb. When it becomes possible in the coming years, we should make sure that every government car is a plug-in hybrid as well.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Plug-in cars are inevitable. The other carmakers domestic and foreign have less firm but well press-released plans for plug-ins. Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Here's my June column.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We We are thinking about plug-in hybrids, but we aren’tthinking about commercializing one right away,” Fukui said. We are thinking aboutextending that application to plug-in hybrids.” General Motors Corp., at 4:01 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

After a federal tax credit and state rebate, the price of these cars will come out at around a cool 20k. The Leaf is just the first of several all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles about to come on the market. The Leaf’s suggested retail price of $32,780 drops to $25,280 after a $7,500 federal income tax credit.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We know that Secretary of Energy Moniz recently admitted that the Obama administration’s ambitious and encouraging goal of one million EVs on American roads by 2015 is unattainable. Examples in this category include protecting and expanding existing tax credits in the Energy Independence and Security Act. This should be a U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. Or No Cars?

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 25, 2008

Here's part of Obama's plan thanks to Politico : Obama calls for 'clean energy' nation By MIKE ALLEN Sen. Barack Obama on Monday called reducing the nation’s energy consumption “the great test of our time” and proposed billions of dollars in subsidies for business and consumers to encourage a “ clean energy “ future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

The award, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was announced by President Barack Obama during a visit to Indiana in August. In addition to the DOE award, Delphi has been offered support from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation through performance-based tax credits and training grants.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 12, 2007

Henry Ford and Thomas Edison M omentum for Plug-ins continues to build as two of the biggest names in transportation and energy meet. I think they're all realizing that the handwriting is on the wall," said Sherry Boschert , a plug-in vehicle advocate and author. Barack Obama is one of the sponsors of that legislation.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Focus is supposed to get 100 miles to a charge, but Frank is very worried about where people are going to plug in their cars. Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. Plugging Plug-Ins, Part I.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Two of the world’s super powers have united as US President Barack Obama and China President Hu Jintao announced a package of seven measures to strengthen co-operation between the countries on clean energy. US-China Electric Vehicle Forum.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

This will include common design standards for plugs to be used in electric vehicles, as well as common test protocols for batteries and other devices. In the United States, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act expanded a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicles and included $2.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Both of them are plug-ins which basically achieve the same objective. and Chrysler.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

(Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) Shameless self plugs here. Next: a carbon tax. So why has Oregon become a hotbed of activity for electric vehicles all of a sudden? — jerryd 7.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dormant for a decade, that Obama-era program initially loaned money to Ford, Nissan, and Tesla (which all paid back their loans) and Fisker, which declared bankruptcy and lost the department more than $100 million. In 2021, 31 percent of vehicles sold in China had plugs—versus 19 percent in Europe and just 5.2 percent in the US.

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