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This Volvo and Harris Poll Study investigates the state of EVs in America

Current EV

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment.

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Exploring the Potential Use, Impact and Valuation of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Axsen and Kurani focus on the energy impacts that can be anticipated with significant PHEV market penetration given three recharge scenarios based on data collected through a web-based survey of new vehicle buying households. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins. —Axsen and Kurani. The Energy Journal , Vol.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Daniel Ford, Managing Director and the head of US Utilities Equity Research for Barclays Capital noted that utilities are mature, capital-intensive, highly-regulated groups of companies that are local monopolies. Cooperate with the local regulators to put in place tracking mechanisms for EV infrastructures. They are not risk-takers.

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Can Electronics Become Compostable?

Cars That Think

So the regulations and the legislation is developing into a direction where all of the companies in the EU have to take into account the sustainability aspects of the products they are developing and selling. But can you tell me, what is the enforcement mechanism for those sustainability regulations? What happens if you don’t do it?

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

There is a growing sense among some OEMs and suppliers that another round of even more restrictive emissions regulations is on the horizon, targeting SULEV/Tier 2 Bin 2 as the base rather than Bin 5 as the 50-state standard. Tags: Fuel Cells Fuel Efficiency Perspective Plug-ins Vehicle Manufacturers. Earlier post.)].

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

But it now looks like the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is about to adopt some new regulations which could put it out of business quickly. Air resources board employees say the new regulations are not designed to squelch technological breakthroughs or bankrupt new businesses.

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

They deliberately suppressed and illegally covered up the EPA’s 2007 ENDANGERMENT FINDING that said the government should begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions because global warming posed serious risks to the country. So don’t buy another car until you can go electric. That’s 18 months away.