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Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

First, some background from the New York Times : The rule increasingly limits the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time so that, by 2032, more than half the new cars sold in the United States would most likely be zero-emissions vehicles in order for carmakers to meet the standards. The future is electric,” he said.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

Cars That Think

The articles are based on scores of interviews I conducted with managers and engineers in the auto and energy industries, as well as policy experts, academic researchers, market analysts, historians, and EV owners. For example, in January 2023 the sales of EVs in the United States reached 7.83

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Why Electric Vehicles Are the Future of the Automotive Industry

EV Connect

While history is full of sharp left turns that took people by surprise, we still believe that electric vehicles are the future of the auto industry. That’s to say nothing of pollution and climate change. The future, indeed, seems electric. Some estimates mark us as running dry by 2060 … less than 40 years away.

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The EV Transition Explained: How to Meet Sales Targets?

Cars That Think

With less than eight years for the United States to meet the objective of a 50-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions , many environmental advocacy groups argue that an even faster transition to EVs is mandatory. One issue that all automakers can agree on is that the new US electric vehicle incentives need revision.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

Currently, permitting takes up to ten years in the United States. These are complex, intertwined and global issues well beyond the control of either CARB or the auto industry.” Both Ford and Rivian are pushing the US Department of the Interior to speed up mining permits in the U.S.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM.

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