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Texas considers EV tax, and EV owners are on board

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The Texas State Legislature is considering levying a tax against EV owners to fund road upkeep and improvement, and EV owners are on board. However, that reduced cost is now being challenged by a tax proposed by Texas State Legislature members that would either tax EV owners per mile driven or yearly with a flat fee.

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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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Louis Post-Dispatch , the Missouri State Attorney General, along with Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia have sued to prevent CARB from banning new ICE vehicles after 2035. What do you think of the article?

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Oil Jobs Lost: 250,000 And Counting; Texas Likely To See Massive Layoffs Soon

Green Car Congress

an industry consultant, oil and gas companies have laid off more than 250,000 workers around the world, a tally that will rise if oil prices remain in the dumps. “I According to an analysis by the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, a new round of layoffs could be underway in Texas, for example. Article Source: [link].

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Why Wall Street is throwing billions at the Permian

Green Car Congress

The collapse of oil prices has ground shale drilling to a halt, but the one region where drilling is still active, and even increasing, is in West Texas. The West Texas shale basin has captured two-thirds of the 90 oil rigs that have been added since hitting a nadir in May. Link to original article: [link]. billion. “It

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Consumer Reports finds interest in EVs is rising in the US

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Compared to a Texas poll that we covered previously in Teslarati , Consumer Reports ‘ poll showed a lower level of interest. Unlike the Texas poll that showed that a sizable group simply preferred gas/diesel vehicles, CR did not replicate this result and found three other reasons why consumers were wary of electric cars.

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Shell Recharge massively expands with Volta acquisition

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for its line of gas stations, it is less known for its EV charging network, Shell Recharge. Volta Charge has the highest concentration of its chargers in California, Texas, and Illinois, with metro areas being the main focus of the company. What do you think of the article? While Shell is well known in the U.S.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

As part of a program to develop the needed flight rules and communications systems, we are leading a consortium of a dozen companies and universities, called the North Texas Cohort , that is operating an experimental air corridor north of Dallas, Texas. In so doing, they could reduce travel times and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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