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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Retrofitters can partner with energy service companies to finance those costs, backed by federal loan guarantees. We’ll add targeted incentives to jump-start this successor to the $4,500 “Cash for Clunkers” program. After our one-year test, in summer 2011, we’ll be ready to create a powerful new US conversion industry.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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The scheme, which would be enforced by setting a ceiling for the amount of CO2 a car emits, will become operational in 2011. How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity.

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US VP Biden outlines 3-part plan to have 1M advanced technology vehicles on US roads by 2015

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The President is proposing to transform the existing $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles into a rebate that will be available to all consumers immediately at the point of sale, similar to “Cash for Clunkers”. The Recovery Act is also supporting the deployment of infrastructure for advanced technology vehicles.

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