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Exploring the adoption of EVs in the US, Europe and China; charging scenarios and infrastructure

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Within the EU, it cites examples from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. Denmark has a goal of 200,000 EVs by 2020, recently reduced from 400,000. The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best.

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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In addition, a fleet regulation for power plant fleets modeled after the automobile industry would be an effective way to limit the average CO 2 emissions of the power utilities and further reduce emissions. Utilities with a fleet of aging power plants would then be forced to improve their CO 2 balance step-by-step.

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

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Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Call it the EV2? Never again.

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