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Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. The electric vehicles that are the focus of this study fall into two broad classes: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery-electric vehicles. Source: CBO.

Tax Credit

Tax Credit Gasoline Tax Gasoline-Electric

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. EIA projections of renewables penetration.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

Obama

Obama Charging Financing DC

Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

He wasn’t in uniform, so I figured he was another of those early adopter techie types buying EVs. He has come to like the car so much that the fact that now it is costing him closer to his gasoline past doesn’t seem to get him down. After a while driving electric became it’s own reward. I''ll call him Officer Bill.

San Francisco

San Francisco Cheap Plug-in Plug

California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Buy-down incentives totaling $560,000 were approved for 35 alternative-fuel propane vehicles.

San Diego

San Diego California Energy Transportation

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal.

Oil

Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands

Road Test: 2022 Mitsubishi Mirage SE Hatchback

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The 40+ MPG Low-Cost Transportation King. Every car, SUV and truck is designed and built for a reason, and buying one to not do what it was intended to do is wrong in so many ways. The 87 octane, gasoline-powered 3-cylinder engine has a rough sound upon start and idle, which increased when pushed during hard acceleration.

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi MPG Fuel Economy Clean

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Set a target of reducing the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Create separate fuel pools for gasoline and diesel.

Carbon

Carbon Oil-Sands Standards Design

Solar EV Charging – An Emerging Charging Method

Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The mandate would amount to a prohibition on the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel. While EVs don’t produce emissions, the electricity they use could be produced from a coal or gas-powered power plant. This proposal means a bright future for both EV and EV chargers in the European region.

Solar

Solar Charging Grid CO2

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? tech industry during the 1990s.

BYD

BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

We believe this is not the right strategy, and electric vehicles will ultimately dominate the market. And we’re really headed for an electric vehicle, and an autonomous future. And if the company generates a lot of positive cash flow, we could obviously buy back shares. That is a fact, they have an opportunity.

Tesla

Tesla Re-Charge Future Price

Edmunds.com: EV and hybrid loyalty falls to all-time low

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

of all hybrid and electric vehicle trade-ins in the US in 2016 have been applied to the purchase of another hybrid or EV, according to a new analysis from car shopping destination Edmunds.com. Edmunds’ analysis found that a hybrid or electric trade-in is more likely to go toward the purchase of a SUV (33.8%) than another hybrid or EV.

Hybrid

Hybrid SUV 2016 Purchase

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

Oregon

Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid

EV Driven

Congressional Budget Office estimates US federal policies promoting EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles will cost $7.5B through 2019; little or no impact on gasoline use and GHG in the short term

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Road Test: 2022 Mitsubishi Mirage SE Hatchback

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

Solar EV Charging – An Emerging Charging Method

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Edmunds.com: EV and hybrid loyalty falls to all-time low

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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