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Hertz’s EV sale to fan cost concerns, dampen used-car market – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Hertz could, however, benefit from the USD 4,000 tax credit for some used EVs under the Inflation Reduction Act, which brings down the price of some vehicles it is trying to sell well below many gas-powered cars. The value of used EVs has dropped 33.7%

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

Green Car Congress

Proposed legislation in the US Senate would cut current ethanol production subsidies while maintaining tax credits for related infrastructure such as refilling stations. The new Vital Signs Online article highlights both the increases in global production of biofuels and the factors behind this growth. —Sam Shrank.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

EV Adoption

This article is not going to be a review of the ID.4 Rather, this article will focus on what happened as I was about to leave the test drive area. And if you subtract the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available for the ID.4, This past Sunday I had the opportunity to test drive the new Volkswagen ID.4 Volkswagen ID.4

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. The high cost of manufacturing the Volt is exactly why the tax credits of $2500 for a vehicle with 4 kWh of battery capacity and $417 for every kWh over 4 (so that there is a $7500 credit for the Volt) were legislated.

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