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Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

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Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles.

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Hydrogen Is Coming to the Rescue

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federal agencies has pooled their funds and wide array of expertise to reinvent the emergency vehicle. And in the aftermath of a natural disaster like a tornado or wildfire, the vehicle, called H2Rescue , can supply electric power and potable water to survivors while acting as a temperature-controlled command center for rescue personnel.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

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Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. Green Vehicles. Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan update for 2012-2013 to increase use of green vehicles and alt fuels

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The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a 2012-2013 Investment Plan Update to increase the use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. Based on automaker surveys, the number of fuel-cell vehicles in California is projected to grow from about 350 in 2011 to 53,000 by 2017. million for natural gas. $25

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Gail Porter to launch Green Motor Expo

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Television presenter and Camden resident Gail Porter will open Camden Council’s special Green Motor Show where residents and businesses can discover a whole range of eco-friendly vehicles. The Camden Council Green Motor Exposition (GME) will take place at Triton Square Plaza from 10am to 4pm on Thursday 24 September.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 ” A very clear, time-bound, one nation goal. mpg by 2016. Source: EIA.

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