Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

by enacting a carbon tax or setting emission limits for each source type (“command-and-control)—the option to use offsets is generally discussed in the context of a cap-and-trade regime. Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions from specific industrial processes, such as HFC-23 emissions from production of a refrigerant gas (GWP of = 14,800).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Revolutionary New Honda EV In a first-ever technology pairing for series production, Honda is mating plug-in battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric in the all-new 2025 CR-V—e:FCEV. This is a history, with an * next to models currently in production. Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

To ensure this longer life, automakers are as much as doubling the size of the battery pack, increasing cost to manufacturer and consumer. This alone could cut the number of batteries required by as much as half and reduce the cost of each vehicle by thousands of dollars. Chelsea Sexton. and was a co-founder of Plug In America.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. It’s a 20% hit in production. That’s correct.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

This is before the $7,500 federal tax credit. It’ll be mostly driven by the cost of gas. “By the time the electric car comes on line in 2012, the economy in California will be in a better place,&# says Driebe, the 2006 chairman of the Nissan Dealer Advisory Board. Production begins in late 2012.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. See our 2007 Goals and 2006 Report.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

In the United States, LDVs alone currently account for 43% of petroleum demand and 23% of GHG emissions, when fuel production is considered. However, the flexibility and lower costs of PHEVs appear to trump this simplicity, certainly in the nearer term. MITEI’s study on “Mobility of the Future” will explore these and other questions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

While government data suggests the retail price of electricity is somewhere around 10 cents per KWH, the addition of taxes and fees puts the price somewhere aorund 16 cents per KWH on my electric bill. The thing that bothers me the most about Tesla is not the range or cost of driving an EV. The price goes up with demand and usage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

China and India recently announced plans to reduce the carbon intensity, or the amount of carbon-dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product, of their economies over the next decade. According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% in 2100—the equivalent of US$40 trillion a year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and one-third of all U.S. Factors Determining Abatement Costs. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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