Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Cash for Clunkers”) program could maximize greenhouse gas emissions savings by using fuel-economy based eligibility requirements rather than age-based requirements. A first wave occurred in the 1990s, followed by a spate of current schemes to stimulate domestic auto industries in the face of the economic crisis.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 8, 2009
3435 , which provides $2 billion FY 2009 emergency supplemental appropriations for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program (Cash-for-Clunkers, C4C). The C4C program, which began in late July, encouraged a surge in auto sales, with the original $1 billion funding depleting in approximately one week.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2009
In the aftermath of the summer sales boom fueled by the US Cash for Clunkers program, September 2009 light duty vehicles sales dropped back to pre-incentive lows. Reported hybrid sales by month. Click to enlarge. With 745,997 cars and light duty trucks sold in September, according to Autodata, sales were down 22.7%
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2009
Buoyed by the US government’s CARS (“Cash for Clunkers”) program, US auto sales slowed their decline in the US in July, dropping on 12.1% Ford’s fuel-efficient vehicles pace July sales results. The 2009 model Escape Hybrid and Mariner Hybrid are the most fuel-efficient utility vehicles in America. Click to enlarge.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 18, 2009
The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS for short, or ‘cash for clunkers’ as it is more commonly known) was the US’s answer to the scrappage schemes in Germany and the UK which appeared to have revitalised their respective automotive sectors. When the cash for clunkers scheme was introduced, we at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk
Green Cars News
MAY 21, 2009
An article in the New York Times criticised the so-called “cash for clunkers&# legislation that would give people vouchers worth as much as $4,500 to replace old cars with new ones. These payments vastly outstrip the estimated $500 a car it would cost to increase fuel economy by 10 per cent for all vehicles on the assembly line.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? Cash for Clunkers. Department of Defense and Fuel Economy. billion/year to the DOD’s fuel bill.
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