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Governor George Pataki Calls for 40% Penetration of Electric Drive Vehicles in US by End of Decade

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The current $7,500 tax credit for purchasing an advanced vehicle is wonderful if you have a great accountant or tax lawyer, Pataki said, “ but if you are an ordinary consumer, what do you do ?” Gasoline is too cheap. Incentivize the battery makers. Consumers and Charging. The challenge is demand creation.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Increased use of alternatives to oil-based transport fuels (gasoline, diesel and LPG) also help to temper oil-demand growth, though to a much smaller degree than efficiency gains in vehicles with internal combustion engines. Click to enlarge.

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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

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The agreement provides for an initial purchase of 500MW of SOEC units and is expandable to up to 5GW over the lifetime of the agreement. Green ammonia has the highest volumetric energy density out of all the hydrogen-based energy sources—much more than pure hydrogen—which makes it cheap and easy to store and transport.

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Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

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The state policy of purchasing flex-fuel cars has actually increased petroleum consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and smog in California. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel. As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. Go Yellow to go green, says GM.

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Stuff We Use: OBD2 Code Readers

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On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

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2027 Slate Truck Previewed: Both Inspired And Inane

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The Slate parts catalog will similarly offer a robust number of purchasable items that affect how the vehicle functions. Its also only cheap when you take into consideration the EV tax credits and heniously bloated MSRP of other modern vehicles which will admittedly come better equipped than the Slate pickup.

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