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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

Clean Fleet Report

How Corporations Can Help the U.S. As of 2017 , commuting to and from work accounted for 30 percent of all miles of passenger travel driven at the local level in the U.S. Meanwhile, the electrification of city- and corporate-owned vehicles has been dominating recent headlines. reach 50 percent EVs by 2030 ? percent) and men (64.7

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Pencil-Necked Finance Dweebs Suggest Anyone Making Six-Figures Should Only Buy a $15,000 Car

The Truth About Cars

Springing for luxury items just isn’t in the cards for most of us, despite the lavish recompense* deigned upon us by our corporate overlords in Downtown Canada. per month (about 10 cents per mile). A ’17 Jag XF with 88K looks nice but is sure to cost far more than 10 cents a mile in maintenance. for a car payment.

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United and partners launch $100M + fund to accelerate SAF research, production and technologies

Green Car Congress

Through the fund, these and potentially additional corporate participants will invest alongside United in SAF technology and production start-ups identified by United. In a first among US airlines, anyone who buys a ticket on the United website or app now has the option to contribute to supplement United’s investment in the fund.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. The standard version with only 220 miles of range was a long way off for someone who wanted his own electric car to start 2017.

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Volvo Car Corporation to Introduce Diesel Plug-in Hybrid in Europe in 2012

Green Car Congress

Volvo Car Corporation is postponing its plans to produce a full hybrid based on a diesel engine and instead will introduce a series-produced plug-in diesel hybrid (PHEV) in Europe as early as 2012. The plug-in will support up to a 50 km (31 mile) all-electric range—sufficient to cover the daily transport needs of 75% of European drivers.

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Lamborghini EV, Aston Martin Vantage Roadster: Lately’s Automobile Information

Baua Electric

VinFast is now a publicly traded corporate. The Vietnamese EV startup began buying and selling as of late at the Nasdaq following a a hit SPAC do business in with indexed corporate Cloudy Spade Acquisition. Lamborghini teases 2+2 EV prototype forward of Aug.

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Government of Canada to buy Trans Mountain Pipeline System and Expansion Project for C$4.5B, resume planing and construction

Green Car Congress

The 1,150-km (714-mile) Trans Mountain pipeline system (TMPL) is the only pipeline system in North America that transports both crude oil from the oil sands and refined products to the west coast. The Government of Canada will purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline system and the expansion project (TMEP) for C$4.5 billion (US$3.46

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