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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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3 Surprising Marketing Benefits of Electric Car Charging Stations

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Business owners are well aware of the many methods of marketing. Yes, it’s a sound decision for sustainability — but it’s also smart marketing. 3 Marketing Benefits of Electric Cars There are many advantages to being among the first businesses to offer EV charging stations for public use. In the U.S.

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Next 10 report says widespread EV adoption in California could deliver significant economic benefits to the state by 2030 and 2050

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These results indicate that wider and more rapid PEV adoption will benefit most Californians—whether they buy a PEV or not—by stimulating the overall economy and reducing harmful criteria pollution. million, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)). boost over the 2018 GSP.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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Mr. Petterson, who was in charge of sales and marketing at the time, said he did not feel comfortable collecting large sums of money when the company did not have a U.S. Many passengers aren’t buying it. “I Louis, who sold his house and car after his wife died and booked the cruise, hoping it would help him heal from his loss. “I

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Yes, Automakers Stand To Benefit From Installing Public EV Charging Stations

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Adding more Tesla stations or other private networks does little to address this concern, as this only helps if you buy one type of vehicle. Luke Daugherty is a freelance writer, editor and former operations manager based in St. Installing public, open EV charging stations makes widespread adoption possible.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The stations will allow the fleets to lower their costs by buying fuel in bulk, access federal motor fuel excise tax credits, refuel at the times most convenient to their schedules, and model successful use of propane to nearby peers. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency’s Puget Sound Clean Cities Petroleum Reduction Project.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. One of the guys and I proposed that instead they buy 100 PDP-1s and link them together in a network,” Tesler said.

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