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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

“Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

So with that, the fireman, I don’t recall his name, called me up and started asking about the install. It’s interesting what percentage of people who were early adopters of solar have also become early adopters of electric vehicles too. Tags: Environmental Politics Saving Energy Yes We Can! For 10 days apparently.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. Thats short-sighted.

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