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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

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The Consent Decree partially resolves Clean Air Act and California State claims against VW for equipping its 2.0L Access initiatives like ride‐and‐ drive events, and an additional approximately ~$16 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., diesel vehicles with defeat devices. diesel cars. Green City.

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis GV60 EV

Clean Fleet Report

This is saying something, as she has ridden in or driven many of the 800+ cars I have reviewed for Clean Fleet Report over the past 10 years. Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all Genesis models. The glass roof, body color shark fin antenna, roof rails and rear window spoiler complete the exterior’s clean design.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. University of California, San Diego. Clean Future, Inc. Southwest Clean Air Agency.

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ICCT Senior Fellow projects incremental manufacturing cost of hybrids can drop to ~$1,200 by 2020; subsequent surge in adoption to ~70% of new vehicle sales by 2030

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Future improvements in P2 hybrid systems should drop high-volume direct manufacturing costs to about $1,200 by 2020—very close to the approximately $1,000 cost threshold required for mainstream customer acceptance, according to John German, Senior Fellow and the US Lead for the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Are Disposable Hotel Slippers the Next Plastic Straws?

Baua Electric

In a 2018 study, Chekitan S. Hotel cleaning standards often dictate discarding slippers that have been removed from their packaging, according to members of Unite Here, the union that represents hotel housekeepers. Only 27 percent of guests used bathrobes supplied in the rooms. “We They are already on the minds of some travelers.

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Volkswagen Group talks EV charging standards, electrification strategy

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Topics included the upcoming introduction of the blue e-motion Golf electric vehicle, sometimes called the e-Golf, near the end of 2013 (early 2014 for the US market), as well as Volkswagen’s goal of achieving 3% of its global sales through plug-in vehicles by 2018. Volkswagen sold 9.07 million vehicles in 2012 to Toyota’s 9.7

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