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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

He said he’d try to get his boat, a 42-footer with three people on board, back to Atwood’s , a lobster company on Spruce Head Island, Maine. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard. A 2020 U.S.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. What do car companies say about PHEVs? At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids. Whats the relationship between CalCars and after-market conversion companies? Were non-profit; theyre private companies.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% For companies, a main worry constitutes the risk of imitation by the partner. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. in 2100—the equivalent of US$40 trillion a year.