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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

I gave the Carson City Manager what has now become my standard reply. 1] After Galleani was deported from the United States to Italy in June 1919, his colleagues are alleged to have carried out the Wall Street bombing of 1920, which resulted in the deaths of 38 people. “What’s in it for me?”

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Italy / 145 / 147 / 2.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. The US standard is 120V@60hz the UK standard is 240V@50Hz. Same goes for video cables.

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

Wallbox

In certain European countries, such as Italy or the UK , passenger vehicle sales even dropped as much as 95-97%. In Italy, data from the Italian Foreign Car Maker Association highlights that car registration for gas and diesel-powered vehicles fell by 97.5% As the automotive market takes a dive, EVs show strength. of the U.S.

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