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Study Finds That Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs

Green Car Congress

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

In May 2008, Toyota saw its Prius hybrid car turn it towards profitability in America and it scrapped plans to build a sport utility truck plant in Tupelo, Mississippi and chose to build a Prius plant there instead. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts.

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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

Green Car Congress

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. The key threat to China’s trade balance is oil and LNG imports. Private sector.

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Electric Cars and The Volt by Seth Leitman

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric Cars and The Volt Can Transform America and the Auto Industry TODAY!!! By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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