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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

Green Car Congress

While properly engineered conversion systems can reduce or at least not increase emissions, poorly designed systems can lead to much more pollution. Current EPA regulations require vehicle and engine conversion systems to be covered by a certificate of conformity to gain a regulatory exemption from potential tampering charges.

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Exxon/Mobil To Fund Solar Financing Bond For Torrance Homeowners

Creative Greenius

“ We are so cash rich at the moment that we’re spending money all over the place while everyone else is forced to cut back. In Torrance we don’t want citizens telling politicians what to do or controlling how the industries that pollute in own city act. That’s why we’re no longer going to wait for them.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Plug-in hybrids run on an electrical charge for about 40 miles before switching to gas power. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. million metric tons of transportation emissions in 2008.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Plug them in, charge them up, drive silent, drive clean. You say you’re looking for something a little larger? Right now the dock workers and the people who live near the ports are choking on the worst air pollution anywhere in the area. This might have been the most important electric vehicle at the parade.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. Charge, drain, repeat is extremely inefficient. We definitely need an urban charging grid if the electric car is to find a place in town, where it’s needed most.

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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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