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What EPA vehicle standards are and what they mean for you

Plug in America

On March 20, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final vehicle standards for cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs. EPA standards aren’t new. There are EPA vehicle standards in place right now. The target amount of average tailpipe emissions gets a bit lower each year, resulting in progressively cleaner cars.

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EV Charging at Work Helps Employees Get Back to the Office

EV Connect

With years of experience in the EV space, we can help you make an infrastructure investment to bring business back to your commercial spaces now and prepare your properties for a future where EV charging stations will be a standard. The open-concept office may need to take several steps back to the more traditional workplace.

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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

The Truth About Cars

Digital controls may look a little cleaner, but sometimes simple is better – and digital controls tend not to be as simple as physical controls. Drive the car gently and the EcoBoost is quiet. Some of these flaws involve the standard trade-offs one must make for a sporty car, others seem like avoidable errors.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

early technology adopters and relatively affluent urban consumers interested in a “green” commuter car). The battery pack takes a long time to fully recharge (usually overnight), and even using an expensive commercial recharger takes considerably longer than refilling a standard gasoline tank. Market Drivers.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The Chevy Volt is going to count on an overnight charge from a standard wall outlet. Glad to see the variety & availability of electic commuter cars (vs hybrids & PHEV) is rising.