Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

Very broadly, the report lays out an agenda to “Invest in Our Future” through education and innovation, “Build on Our Strengths” in the critical sectors of energy and manufacturing, and “Play to Win” by making overdue tax and regulatory reforms to stay competitive. America must do likewise. Cuts in this area would be terribly shortsighted.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 25, 2021

One of the key drivers driving the market’s growth is favorable government policies and funding in the form of incentives and grants, tax rebates, and other non-financial advantages such as carpool lane access. A wide spectrum of EV vehicles is available in the market at affordable price ranges.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

A Pew Research Center survey taken in late 2021 of seventeen countries with advanced economies indicated that 80 percent of those surveyed were willing to alter how then live and work to combat climate change. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning. The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Focus on fuel economy.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As mentioned in our most recent post the root of the crisis lies in the monomaniacal way in which this government and its recent predecessors have pursued decarbonisation at the expense of other priorities including reliability and affordability of energy. .

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It’s all well and good for motorists to think green in the midst of a recession, but will they still be as quick to consider the environment when the economy gets back on its feet? The report asked motorists what sort of car they would buy when the recession is over and the economy is back to normal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

But the most immediate and pervasive risk to the economy is a wholesale collapse of the automotive supply base, Grant Thornton LLP partner Laura Marcero told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit. Grant Thornton LLP is the US member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Right now, buyers of new plug-in cars get up to $7,500 in tax credits.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Low-income, urban Americans, rural drivers — but they only capture those benefits if they can afford to buy them in the first place. Look, if you take, for example, a $40,000 electric truck, a good quality electric truck, and you have up to a $12,500 tax credit to buy down that cost, moving that cost to the high 20’s. .

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. So that's what it takes.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. So that's what it takes.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This includes battery technology, electric drivetrains, and other components to improve efficiency, range, and affordability. 4 Incentives and Subsidies Providing incentives for consumers to buy EVs can stimulate demand. This may include tax credits, rebates, or reduced registration fees for EV owners.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

several jurisdictions have unveiled different incentives to make e-bikes more affordable. lawn equipment is not subject to federal regulation like greenhouse gas emissions standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards. but your grandparents’ trusty push mower isn’t much different than one you would buy today.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

This combination offered low rolling resistance (for fuel economy) and helped reduce noise being transmitted to the cabin. The Niro EV does not qualify for Federal tax credits, but qualifies in some states for rebates and a HOV sticker. Wind $40,875 Wave $45,875 Observations: 2023 Kia Niro EV Practical and affordable.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. 25 or more gets you a bumper sticker.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 12, 2023

They also have to exist in tandem with (Corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards that take into account fleet-wide MPGs for automakers. So the government is effectively pushing internal combustion vehicles out of frame as it assures everyone that what’s taking place is not a ban on what you’re allowed to buy.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Yeah, they can afford it. Oh yeah, it’s just coming up with that big up front check in this economy that’s the tough part. You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. But I think a big part of that was Moore’s law and things becoming really affordable. But we take care of everything.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A plan is necessary to provide certainty to business and consumers that a future transport system will be affordable, convenient, safe and sustainable. New Zealanders need access to safe, affordable, convenient and sustainable travel choices. Successful schemes should be designed to capture CO2, fuel economy, NOx and safety benefits.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 24, 2009

Despite concerns that the announcement of the subsidy would in fact kill interest in the current generation of electric cars, many of which are not expected to eligible for the grant, evstores has reported that the news has boosted the interest in electric cars among the car-buying public.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2021

I’d like to strike an optimistic note, and I’m very confident that the future of China is going to be great and that China is headed towards being the biggest economy in the world and a lot of prosperity in the future.”. Manufacturers are not the only ones who will benefit from the plan, the Biden White House added. “It

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Nobody likes bureaucratic red tape or waiting on payment and this seems to have become a sticking point for retailers nervously waiting to see how the United States’ updated EV tax credit scheme plays out. But it managed to persist after inventories began to stabilize and have become a fixture of the car-buying experience.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Among other things, Susan spoke about how Santa Monica was already aggressively working to make AB 811 funding available for residents to get the low income loans that allow you to pay off your solar as an assessment on your property taxes over the course of the time you own your home - and without any credit check or income confirmation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

The Road Noise Cancellation and Engine Order Cancellation systems will provide vehicle manufacturers with the ability to greatly improve in-cabin refinement, with additional design opportunities for optimising vehicle weight reduction and fuel economy. Working systems are ready for production implementation and manufacture.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

These new vehicles, including more affordable models, will use aspects of the next-generation platform as well as aspects of our current platforms and will be able to be produced on the same manufacturing lines as our current vehicle lineup. There is no meaningful limit to the size of the economy.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. Sure, if you need to make lots of long trips in a car, and can only afford to have one car, then probably a Tesla’s not for you.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler. —Andrew Wheeler. Purchasing.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People will likely not buy plug-ins without big federal tax breaks." ( Reuters ) 11/29/06 [In response to GMs announcement at the LA Auto Show], Ford Group marketing manager Cisco Codina said the answer for now is full hybrids, like the latest version of its Ford Escape hybrid SUV unveiled at the show. ( People wont buy a full car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

This would result in an average fuel economy for passenger cars of 43.7 For consumers, the Administration claims: A $2,340 reduction in overall average vehicle ownership costs for new vehicles ($1,850 reduction in the average required technology costs and $490 reduction in ownership costs for financing, insurance, and taxes).

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act—a sweeping package of tax, health care and climate measures—was like the happy ending to one of those heartwarming “Save Christmas” stories. The revamped tax credit scheme is clearly a great improvement over its predecessor. Unpacking the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. Charged : So, whatever the Biden EPA wants to do with fuel economy standards, this is going to have to go through a long process, and there’ll be judicial challenges.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

But instead of just de facto banning the competition from giving Americans access to affordable hot new EVs, the US should instead try making affordable hot new EVs itself. The largest of these new entrants is the second most populous country in the world, the world’s largest exporter and its second-largest economy: China.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 14, 2024

Securing America’s position as a world leader on EVs will grow our economy and create a new generation of good-paying jobs.” “Thanks to President Biden, more and more EV chargers are coming online around the country as we work to deliver a nationwide network of charging stations by the end of the decade,” U.S.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This brings me to President Joe Biden’s goal to decarbonize our economy by 2035 to avoid the worst effects of climate change. If utilities don’t meet a goal, they buy ZECs from the government. The Push to Decarbonize by 2035. But how can we get there? Democrats now control the White House and both chambers of Congress.

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