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Electric shock for government plans

Green Cars News

As many as a fifth of Britain’s 34 million motorists are planning to buy an electric car within the next five years or would consider doing so. million drivers are thinking about buying a vehicle powered solely by batteries. “The RAC Foundation fully supports the introduction of green vehicles.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles. My Web del.icio.us

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. John Addison publishes the Clean Fleet Report with archives of over 60 articles and reports about electric vehicles, V2G, biofuels, fleet success and more. Agassi’s Davos Insights Success with V2G would be a double win for electric utilities.

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