Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. By Judith Burns.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

Education is the tool “The more we can educate women on the benefits of driving electric, the more women will buy and lease electric,” Sinclair remarked. Not enough women know about the tax credits and they’re not as aware as they should be of the significant savings in operating costs.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. So that's what it takes.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. So that's what it takes.

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Plug in America

MARCH 22, 2024

Will everyone need to buy an EV? They can also go a long way toward improving air quality and reducing climate-changing emissions. They can also go a long way toward improving air quality and reducing climate-changing emissions. Not everyone will need to buy an EV– even by 2032.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For example, to receive the full $7,500 tax credit available , 40 percent of a battery’s critical minerals must be extracted from or processed in the United States or a US free-trade agreement partner, or be recycled in North America; 50 percent of the battery components must be manufactured or assembled in North America before 2024.

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EV Adoption

MAY 8, 2021

The need to transition off of gas- and diesel-powered fuels is clear if we want to reduce pollution, carbon omissions, and lessen the impact of cars on climate change. What Does This Mean for Transportation Policy Decisions? Total-US-Greenhouse-Gas Emissions-By-Economic-Sector-2018.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a transportation option that has the fun and flexibility of a bike, is a fraction of the price of a car, can park almost anywhere for free, and produces almost zero climate-changing emissions. but your grandparents’ trusty push mower isn’t much different than one you would buy today. Think again.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 20, 2023

Charging Efficiently Some people refrain from buying an EV because of the charging time. However, you should consider how their increased power usage affects climate change. One strategy is to use tax credits. Currently, there are three levels of chargers. Level 1—a standard 120-volt wall plug–is the slowest.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Either that, or we’d buy one from someone else who did,” he said. Even with climate change, they’ve had to be educated.” McNeil, DEVC Secretary/Treasurer and now the sole member who hails from the early days, represents the technical core of this chapter. Fifty years ago, there were no EVs available commercially.

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Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2021

The plan will be set forward by monumental changes in the United States’ infrastructure, including transportation and energy, which have long been dominated by oil, coal, and other fossil fuels. The amount of the credit has been speculated heavily, but it seems it will be somewhere between $7,000 and $10,000.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. Most people would have bought a new car years ago, but I didn’t because nothing worth buying was on the market. — Ken Smith 4.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Of the roughly 57,000 households that received the EV tax credit in 2016, nearly 80 percent had at least a six-figure income. If these people want to buy an EV, I think they can afford one, without asking low- and middle-income Americans to help pay for it. —Andrew Wheeler.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. — Jeff U 6.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s according to the latest data from the Texas Public Policy Foundation , which is skeptical of climate change and has a vested interest in pointing out faults that might make Democrat politicians look like they’re doing a poor job. The Biden administration has already invested $7.5

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Credit: The Texas Tribune. If utilities don’t meet a goal, they buy ZECs from the government.

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