Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2015

Today, we have the 2016 Chevrolet Spark and 2016 Lexus RX 450h from the 2015 New York Auto Show, and news that Georgia will kill its electric-car tax incentive. Georgetown, Texas, wants to convert to 100-percent renewable energy, and not because of climate change. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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2016 Lexus Climate Change Electric Cars 60

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 100

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. To address this issue people should change to more sustainable modes of transportation. It is the need of the hour because to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we have just ten years in our hands.

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Petrol Pollution Gasoline-Electric Diesel 75

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Secretary Bowles set the limit today at the statutory maximum of 25 percent and released the Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020, which contains a portfolio of policies designed to meet the limit. The change could be designed to be revenue-neutral to consumers as a whole and to the state. PAYD would convert a large fixed annual.

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Massachusetts 2020 Emissions Auto 244

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Who’s going to get converted by a guy who has no inverter? The city and county gets the funding from a bond issue and we pay back the loans as an annual assessment on our property taxes. The County’s Treasure Tax Collector has already provided an assessment of the viability of the County implementing a program under AB 811.

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Los Angeles Tax Credit Solar Tax 150

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels. They include components such as inverters, converters, and motor controllers. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. Using existing technology, we can convert many of them into plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

In these cases, more direct government intervention (whether through market-based instruments such as a pollution tax or through command-and-control regulations) can achieve the level of air-pollution reduction that increases net benefits to society.

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Energy Pollution EPA Fuel 265

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). When such market failures occur, a case can be made for government interventions—such as regulations, taxes or tradable permits—to address these external costs, the report says.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. So that's what it takes.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 93

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. So that's what it takes.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 91

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a policy paper by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report.

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Pollution Economy Production Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Assuming compact development is focused on new and replacement housing—as converting existing housing to higher densities could be prohibitively difficult—significant increases in density would result in modest short-term reductions in personal travel, energy use, and CO 2 emissions. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Land use.

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Emissions Climate Change CO2 Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

International agreements on the need to combat climate change, the fluctuating but generally rising costs of marine fuels which account for a large proportion of the running costs of a ship, and developments on a number of other fronts have led many in the industry to question whether the present methods of ship propulsion are sustainable.

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Engine Future Carbon Power 225

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Why don’t you look at your bill and see the Nuclear Decommissioning taxes on your electric bill. Well Sunpower and Sanyo are first tier, meaning in the field they’re converting at about a 16% efficiency rate I believe. Move big amounts of money around.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency. This again shows that EVs have become not just a means to combat climate change, but also a geopolitical weapon.

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Climate Change Climate Future Energy 97

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Instead, his collection of electric vehicles (EVs) has included a converted Yamaha motorcycle, a converted 1971 AMC Hornet, and several electric scooters. David O’Neill on his ‘Silent Knight Electric Motrocycle,’ a converted Yamaha Big Bear. Even with climate change, they’ve had to be educated.”

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Colorado Denver Golf Cart Convert 57

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This can be accomplished by building upon the above EV and ICE vehicle policy recommendations, coupled with 100 percent methane capture, retiring all coal-fired electric generation as well as converting the US electric grid with 80 percent clean energy by 2030. Only about 20 EVs on the market today are currently eligible for the tax credits.

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Sale Tax Credit Tax Congo 84

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. The property owners pay off the loans as an assessment item on their property tax bills.

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Solar Energy Power Powered 170

Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 14, 2022

Governments and other bodies are also getting more worried about climate change, and are offering attractive tax and purchase incentives that make owning an electric vehicle even more feasible. So, whether or not your clients are savvy with automobiles, they may and will opt to go electric. #5. Increased Buying Incentives.

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Charging Gas-Electric Automobile Purchase 40

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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San Francisco Neighborhood Electric Electrical 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects. While utilities such as E.ON

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Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

READ: $10,000 of changes and the satisfaction of the build + $25,000 of Used car = $35,000 of Fun! Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags.

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Dodge Circuit Dodge Electric Cars Chrysler 45

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It is only a matter of economics motivated by incentives or taxes. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58