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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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

We emphasize that this policy portfolio is not a substitute for an economy-wide carbon management policy (such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system). Without strong action, those numbers are expected to keep rising, but reducing the nation’s impact on global climate change and dependence on oil imports has proved problematic.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a set of proposals to transition Washington to cleaner sources of energy and to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emission limits adopted by the state Legislature in 2008. The CPAA will affect the relatively small number of businesses that generate 85% of Washington’s CO 2 emissions.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

That plant, situated in the coal mining town of Colstrip, currently faces its imminent end as nearby Oregon and Washington plan to ban coal power by 2025. In West Virginia, once coal’s citadel, the state government eliminated its old ban on nuclear power plants.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones. By Judith Burns.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

However, the survey also found that the public may not yet be prepared for the tradeoffs and challenges needed to make these proposals a reality, with majorities rejecting measures such as a floor on gasoline prices, congestion charges, or higher fuel taxes. Energy prices, oil dependence and climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

California, Georgia, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington—have electric vehicle sales shares that are approximately 2–4 times the national average. While the federal tax credit of $7,500 per vehicle may be thought to be the major factor in consumer decision making in the U.S., —Jin et al. electric vehicle incentives ”.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

After a federal tax credit and state rebate, the price of these cars will come out at around a cool 20k. Viewers of “ Who Killed The Electric Car? &# may recall it was a little more complicated than that… The first five states where the Leaf will be available are: California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Electrification of medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) vehicles is an important component of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating climate change. Public transit buses are also steadily electrifying, led by California, New York City and the Washington, DC area as well as cities like Pittsburgh and Phoenix.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

per gallon fuel tax by 2050) could result in an additional reduction of 28% in GHG emissions. Highlights of the nine categories analyzed in the Moving Cooler report include: Pricing and taxes. Washington, D.C.: Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Strong economy-wide pricing measures (such as a $5.00 Moving Cooler.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

NextGen Climate America. It will also list current tax credits and incentives applicable to EV charging. University of Washington. Kansas City Power & Light. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO). National Grid. New York State.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2010

Sightline Institute reports that drivers in the Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington used more gasoline last year, reversing a decade-long trend of declining personal gas consumption. Washington and Oregon saw per capita increases of less than 1%, which is a departure from the states’ nearly uninterrupted decline since 1999.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2024

Chilean ties would benefit both countries, improve energy security and help achieve key climate goals. “Our ties with Chile increase our energy security at home, create economic opportunity in both our countries, and bring us all closer to achieving our climate goals,” Yellen said in remarks prepared for the visit.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

There is also a push to make those who own SUVs pay a steep annual registration fee to discourage their ownership, as is happening in Washington, D.C. Further, once a particular EV model reaches 200,000 in US sales , the EV tax credit is phased out. “I Only about 20 EVs on the market today are currently eligible for the tax credits.

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Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2021

According to the Washington Post , Biden could announce plans to halve greenhouse gases by 2030. These sources of energy have contributed to an increase in greenhouse gases, which have, in turn, contributed to the issue of global climate change. China announced earlier today that President Xi Jinping would be in attendance.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. Locations must be found for charging stations. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Specific recommendations include continuing the Biorefinery Assistance Program and excise tax incentives. Climate Solutions, a Northwest clean-energy economy nonprofit, facilitated the stakeholder process and took the lead in researching and drafting the report. Standard 2 (RFS2) Program.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), global CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere should be stabilized below 450 ppm, Nissan noted. and Washington, D.C. Raleigh, N.C.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 29, 2023

  Jennifer Homendy, the head of NTSB highlighted the matter in a speech to the Transportation Research Board in Washington. Homendy expressed that she is optimistic about the Biden administration’s intentions to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles to address the climate catastrophe. of all new vehicle sales.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 22, 2023

Washington has officially managed to surpass California as the state with the highest fuel prices and looks as though it’s on track to compete for that dubious honor indefinitely.& Washington’s fuel pricing isn’t a matter of it being isolated in the middle of the ocean.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The high cost of manufacturing the Volt is exactly why the tax credits of $2500 for a vehicle with 4 kWh of battery capacity and $417 for every kWh over 4 (so that there is a $7500 credit for the Volt) were legislated. April 17, 2009 8:00 pm Link I also think that the task force is being short-sighted in their comments on the Volt.

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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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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

The Trump administration attempted to eliminate the tax credit for electric vehicles in the original version of their 2020 budget, though the provision never passed. Now, the Washington Post reports that it had sources in a meeting between Trump and oil executives in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club last month.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People will likely not buy plug-ins without big federal tax breaks." ( Reuters ) 11/29/06 [In response to GMs announcement at the LA Auto Show], Ford Group marketing manager Cisco Codina said the answer for now is full hybrids, like the latest version of its Ford Escape hybrid SUV unveiled at the show. ( The biggest barrier is the battery."

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. California’s power to obtain a waiver is expressly stated in the Clean Air Act.

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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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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. Governments have offered subsidies or tax rebates to make EVs more appealing, a policy which the U.S.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2022

Affairs Officer & Head of Climate Strategy at Talon Metals, one of Tesla’s key suppliers of nickel. Todd is based in Washington DC for Talon and therefore has a front-row seat to the wrangling among various parties regarding Senator Manchin’s new EV tax incentives in the Infrastructure Reduction Act of 2022.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

There has been so much head-snapping EV news coming from Washington that I don’t even know where to start, but I’ll share some of the highlights with you. They asked Biden to phase out the sale of any gas-powered vehicles by 2035 , which would be a bold step in the fight against climate change. We live in some exciting times.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change suggests that a tax on carbon emissions could help raise the money needed to reduce the US deficit, while improving the economy, lowering other taxes and reducing emissions. They found that the tax would raise $1.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In this alternative reality we’re in, the crashing and burning of the economy, just when the world was deciding whether to take bold and decisive action on global warming, was a deliberate arson job designed to make sure financial survival trumped making any bold moves like carbon taxes and rapid transitions from oil, coal and gas.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In this alternative reality we’re in, the crashing and burning of the economy, just when the world was deciding whether to take bold and decisive action on global warming, was a deliberate arson job designed to make sure financial survival trumped making any bold moves like carbon taxes and rapid transitions from oil, coal and gas.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 14, 2024

The Washington Post reported that the above efforts had only resulted in a grand total of seven charging stations by the end of March 2024. We are building a national EV charging network from scratch, and we want to get it right,” a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration told The Washington Post in March.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: The Texas Tribune. The Push to Decarbonize by 2035.

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