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CLEPA study: EV-only approach would lead to the loss of half a million supplier jobs in the EU

Green Car Congress

All three scenarios assume accelerated electrification to meet climate goals, with a high market share for electrified vehicles (Battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and full hybrid electric vehicles) by 2030 of more than 50%, almost 80%, and close to 100%, respectively. CLEPA’s policy recommendations.

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

Cars That Think

In the depths of the 1970s oil crisis, French prime minister Pierre Messmer saw an opportunity to transform his country’s energy supply. Some of these anti-nuclear forces have recently found a sparring ground with France in drafting the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy , which delineates particular energy sources as “green.”

France 97
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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

" This time Buffett asked another trusted partner, David Sokol, chairman of a Berkshire-owned utility company called MidAmerican Energy, to travel to China and take a closer look at BYD. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. Electric cars will be one answer.

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