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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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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

A key working group under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released its first official draft for a climate deal on Friday, 11 Dec 2009. According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% COP15 , United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

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. RGGI took effect and began regulating CO 2 emissions on January 1, 2009. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

So in the end, US jobs likely won’t benefit overall , and US consumers will simply be denied a chance to buy cheap new EVs from China – like, for example, the excellent Volvo EX30. It offers tax credits to EV purchasers, as long as those EVs include domestically-sourced components and are assembled in North America.

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