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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

An electric motor produces torque that propels the car faster than conventional gas-powered vehicles. With more users gearing towards purchasing electric vehicles, a surge in demand has drastically hit the electric automobile industry. You can now purchase an electric vehicle at a fair price due to the existing tax credits.

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GM’s Volt Program = $700m

Revenge of the Electric Car

General Motors will invest $336m in a Detroit-area assembly plant, bringing to $700m total investment in eight Michigan facilities to begin mass production of the rechargeable Chevrolet Volt electric car in late 2010. in tax incentives for those sites and others. GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car.

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Are Rising EV Inventories Proof Nobody Wants Them?

The Truth About Cars

Despite elevated fuel prices, aggressive marketing, and most companies vowing to transition toward building electrified automobiles exclusively, America has an EV supply of more than 100 days on dealer lots. However, government incentives (EV tax credits) have made them more attractive in the general sense.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. General Motors has sought $10.3 Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product.

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