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EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

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For the Transportation sector, EIA projects that energy consumption will decline between 2019 and 2037 (in the Reference case) because increases in fuel economy more than offset growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Light-duty vehicle miles traveled increases by 20% in the Reference case, growing from 2.9 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

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How Do the Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Work?

Blink Charging

The US Department of Energy has issued these steps for claiming the CVC, which may be up to $7,500 on your personal or business taxes: Fill out Form 8936 , the Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit. PHEVs can refuel at a gas station, charging cable, or EV charging station. Not sure what you own?

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Tips: 3 Ways to Boost Your Vehicle’s MPG

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Or even more impressive, maybe you own a BMW X5 xDrive40e PHEV (56 mpge or miles per gallon equivalent, for electric vehicles). Speeding was also the leading driving behavior associated with fatal crashes in 2018 (nearly 17 percent). Specifics: Most people don’t refer to their car’s owner’s manual. Not so fast.

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Proposed Federal EV Tax Credit Reform: Will It Move the Sales Needle?

EV Adoption

I’m personally not a fan of the Qualified Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicles (IRC 30D) – commonly referred to as the “Federal EV tax credit” – as I believe it has been an abysmal failure. It took 9 years for EV sales to surpass 200,000 in annual sales, reaching 325,000 in 2018.

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At the EV Crossroads

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A Personal Milestone; Two Cars That Demonstrate the Choices. This story is the 2,000 th one posted on Clean Fleet Report (as a point of reference we hit story #1,000 on Feb. You could argue a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) does that, but that’s not really true. stand when it comes to the transition to electric vehicles.

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BMW to introduce BMW 530e iPerformance plug-in hybrid at Detroit show

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In the US, the BMW 530e iPerformance is the fourth member of a growing portfolio of iPerformance (PHEV) models already available at US dealers. The 2018 BMW 5 Series iPerformance will be available at US dealers in spring 2017. Globally, there are six, with two additional models in China). BMW Connected onboard. 3D Surround View.

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Roskill: world copper market size previously underestimated; EVs to account for 3.1-4.0Mt net growth by 2035

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Roskill has constructed a comprehensive copper industry reference dataset covering the period 2014-2018, built upon a production, trade and consumption platform of the eleven main markets for semi-manufactures in copper and copper alloys.

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