Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

In addition, China also possesses an advantage in electric motors, which is partly due to its position as the dominant producer of rare earth.Rare earth materials, specifically neodymium, contribute approximately 30 percent of the material cost of permanent magnet motors, one of the key motor types used in electric propulsion systems.

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China Global Supplies Vehicles 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

urban buses, delivery trucks) and high mileage light-duty vehicles, primarily fleet vehicles (such as taxis, business and government vehicles). Payback periods could be reduced significantly if the cost of conversion from gasoline to CNG could be reduced to the levels experienced in other parts of the world such as Europe.

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MIT Gas Transportation Future 299

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. On the Grid.

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New York City New York Obama Tax Credit 167

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. It can do this with little disruption to the way homes and industry purchase and use energy today.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By contrast, the last time BYD executives traveled to the Detroit auto show they rented a suburban house to save the cost of hotel rooms. This attention to costs is one reason that BYD has made money consistently even as it has expanded into new businesses. Department of Energy has purchased an F3DM to take the battery apart.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62