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CARB scrap-and-replace incentive program Clean Cars 4 All reaches 10,000th participant milestone

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As a direct result of the state’s Clean Cars 4 All program, more than 10,000 Californians have now scrapped old, dirty cars and replaced them with cleaner alternatives such as new and used zero-emission, plug-in hybrid, or hybrid cars. The transportation sector is by far the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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California Energy Commission Adopts $176M Green Transportation Plan

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The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

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O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. Prius best embodies Toyota’s philosophy on advanced vehicle technology—for vehicles to become true solutions to our climate change and environmental challenges, they must be mass market solutions. Earlier post.).

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Toyota questions viability of plug-in technology

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Japanese car manufacturer Toyota may be seen as the hybrid car king, but it has openly called into question the viability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. According to O’Brien however, for vehicles to become true solutions to climate change and environmental challenges they must be mass market solutions such as the Toyota Prius.

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