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New Argonne-developed tool helps car buyers compare electric-drive and traditional vehicles

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Midwest EVOLVE launched in early 2017 with more than 60 partners, including automakers, utilities, state agencies, municipalities, dealerships, and dealer associations. The project was announced at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show.

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The 2024 Chevy Blazer EV has a quirky $4k discount for Tesla drivers

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Chevy also offers a $2,500 EV Loyalty Cash Allowance for current owners or lessees of a 2017 or newer Chevy Bolt or Bolt EUV. So you’ll have to check with a dealer for your EV’s eligibility. Click here to find a local dealer that may have the Chevy Blazer EV in stock. But here’s where it gets a little quirky.

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

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Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. Even though the government’s Cash for Clunkers program is long gone, many local car dealers still offer those types of rebates, so the research has real-world implications. —Michael Wiles.

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News: 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander

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Toyota pulled the sheet off the Grand Highlander at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show , showing not only a stretched version of their popular SUV, but also some premium touches that make it “grand” in more ways than length. Like the Highlander, the Grand Highlander has three rows but the third row now is more accommodating. Photos by Toyota. [

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

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. dealer network. Wheego Electric Cars, a division of RTEV, is officially launching its U.S.

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