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

Green Car Congress

How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. 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. Today we are under attack.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers. Nissan is bullish on plug-ins, which Ghosn predicts will account for 10% of cars sold by 2020. Since batteries that power electric vehicles might last longer than the car itself, they say financing will have to be adjusted to reflect that. By Judith Burns.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Link to this audio Hoon said yesterday that decarbonising road transport had a big role in helping the UK meet its targets of reducing CO2 emissions by 26% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. The new breed of electric car. Something like 35% of all our carbon emissions are caused by domestic transport," he said. "Of

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

Wallbox

Europe – The European Union has shown no signs of delaying its 2020/2021 95g CO2 target for passenger vehicles and plans to stay on course to become a climate-neutral economy by 2050. Forward-thinking governments are introducing green recovery deals. Car manufacturers have already pledged over $2.5

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