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The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

The Budget confirmed and built on the Chancellor’s measures in Budget 2008 and the Pre-Budget report by: Confirming the new rules on capital allowances linked to CO2 emissions. The new fuel economy label which confirms the new VED rates will be available for download from the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) website [link].

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ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Established in 2008, it has already converted eight Lotuses, and is working on five VW Golfs. Download PDF version of this page Comments scale up with unemployed workers Henk Daalder Dutch EV Wednesday 11 March 2009 There is an empty garage next to the DAF works in Eindhoven, and soon there will be about 100 unemployed workers there.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

The check in was at 1330 hrs - and there were no unsanitized rooms available, so we decided to take an Ola to go to Kropex Motors, the Tata Motors dealer at Singasandra. We returned back and the dealer flagged us off at around 1515 hrs - with crackered confetti! In 2008, in one of his characteristic random oves, he decided to move on.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Revenues, which have grown by about 45% annually during the past five years, reached $4 billion in 2008. He was paid about $265,000 in 2008, and he lives in a BYD-owned apartment complex with other engineers. Each of BYDs business units - batteries, mobile-phone components, and autos - was profitable in 2008, albeit on a small scale.

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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. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Establishing dealer network. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009.

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