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

Clean Fleet Report

The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. 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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Exploring the adoption of EVs in the US, Europe and China; charging scenarios and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best. In the short run, preserve the implicit road tax exemption for EV owners by minimizing road use EV surcharges. Enthusiasm in some areas has been tempered by slow EV uptake.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles. We are addicted to the gasoline tax both at the State and Federal level.

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