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Singapore levies carbon tax on used Tesla for electricity to recharge it

Green Car Reports

A businessman and electric-car fan who imported a Tesla Model S into Singapore has had to pay an additional emission tax on the zero-emission luxury car.

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Elon Musk On Climate: Tax Carbon Appropriately, Tesla Founder Says (Video)

Green Car Reports

Last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk spoke to a group of college students, laying out his vision for sustainability in. Presentations, conferences, trade shows, and probably thousands of individual meetings are being held among attendees from almost all the countries of the world.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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Tesla CEO: Gas prices should be $10 a gallon

Green Cars News

Describing himself as anti-tax but pro-carbon tax, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk risked the backlash of US motorists by declaring that petrol should probably cost $10 a gallon. Tags: Green cars Latest news Tesla Motors CBS Electric cars Elon Musk Elon Musk Interview Tesla.

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Tesla Offers ‘Sport’ Model…0-60 in 3.7 seconds!

Revenge of the Electric Car

Roadster Sport with optional clear-coat carbon fiber top. I remember the really fast cars had “re-wound&# motors, whatever that was. A Tesla Sport will beat the snot out of virtually any gas powered production vehicle, and do it with a tiny fraction of the energy the gas burner will use. seconds, compared with 3.9

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

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It will also list current tax credits and incentives applicable to EV charging. Tesla Motors, Inc. SCE will also launch its Clean Fuel Reward program in 2016 to provide incentives to residential EV owners using proceeds from California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard program. University of California, San Diego.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also ferrying guests about a short circuit (so to speak) was a smart fortwo imbued with a Tesla-engineered drivetrain, fruit of its effort to supply Daimler with battery packs for 1,000 smart eds. Check out the pics in the gallery below and dont forget to hit the jump for some smart video action. 15 days ago AutoblogGreen for 03.31.09

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