Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. billion) this year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. GM would only lease them. Not one of them is on the road today.

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