Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

Key developments in the transportation sector that they note include: Positive for gasoline demand: Strong Chinese car growth in 2010, particularly in the first half of the year, with vehicle sales up 30% year-on-year (YoY) through the first eleven months of 2010. In DB’s Fall 2009 note, they had forecast 12% growth. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

The Government of India unveiled a transport stimulus package on 3 February 2009 to provide central funding to purchase buses for urban transport systems. Approximately 60,000 auto rickshaws in New Delhi, India were required to convert to compressed natural gas (CNG) for fuel. India imports 70% of its diesel and gasoline.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

gasoline-powered vehicles could be delayed. Despite a surge in interest, electric cars may remain niche products in the world’s two largest auto markets. Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

They can be built to have a 30- to 50-mile range before the gasoline engine needs to be used at all. Now, he says, government incentives are needed so that auto companies take the financial risk of producing plug-in hybrids. clip) The Bush administration is backing the technologies that go into plug-in hybrids, but languorously.

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Fleet Vehicles Plug-in Prius 100

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit. Here's my June column. The trajectory remains clear, and the pace has quickened.

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Plug-in Plug Cars Obama 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. millionthis year from $211.9

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 11, 2009

So far, none of the money has been doled out, but 75 companies, including three Detroit auto manufacturers, have submitted applications, according to the New York Times. The federal stimulus bill also provides a $7,500 tax credit for consumers who purchase plug-in vehicles.

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