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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

billion in stimulus grants to the industry. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. The city’s overall emissions that year totaled 53.3 million metric tons, according to a previous PlaNYC study. roads by 2015 and has provided $2.4 Or No Cars?

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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. The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. Ok, if you dare read, go over the fold… I won’t give the punch line away, and there’s more than one surprise this year! OVERVIEW: WHEW, WHAT A YEAR!

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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