Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The report found that whilst there were significant potential environmental benefits to be had from a switch to electric vehicles, these were wholly dependent on changes in the way electricity was generated, energy taxed and CO2 emissions regulated. Key findings of report include: Performance. Popularity. National Grid.

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Emissions Electric Cars CO2 Cars 88

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

By integrating EVs with renewable energy generation, such as solar or wind power, it becomes possible to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources and create a more sustainable transportation ecosystem. These can include tax credits, rebates, grants, and preferential parking or access to certain areas.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Costs are also falling due to classic economics.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. 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. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Coal accounts for about half the electricity produced in the US.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

When most electricity in Britain is still generated by burning gas and coal, the difference between an electric car and a small, low-emission petrol or diesel car is negligible. Government also needs to map out intentions for the funding of road networks in the medium term as tax revenues from conventional road fuels reduces.

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Universal Grid Carbon Engine 268

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. Or No Cars?

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New York City New York Obama Tax Credit 167

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

by enacting a carbon tax or setting emission limits for each source type (“command-and-control)—the option to use offsets is generally discussed in the context of a cap-and-trade regime. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. The inclusion of offsets would likely lower the overall cost of compliance.

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

In the United States, sweeping legislation capped a series of moves by the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) over the past year to drive down the cost of low-carbon hydrogen and stimulate demand for the fuel. Costs of gray hydrogen vary but are roughly $2 a kg in the U.S. At the lowest emission rate—0.45

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Hydrogen Economy Tax Credit Gas-Electric 110

Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Of the fossil fuel subsidies, $70.2billion went to traditional sources such as coal and oil with just $2.3billion dedicated to carbon capture and storage, which is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The subsidies generally increased over the period and most were written into US Tax Code as permanent provisions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? You pay your taxes on-line.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Plug in America

AUGUST 14, 2023

The IRA provides funds for a variety of activities from increasing solar and wind energy capacity and home improvements to save money on energy to installing EV charging and reducing the upfront cost of EVs. billion investment in a new EV battery manufacturing facility in Marshall, Michigan, which will create 2,500 good-paying jobs.

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West Virginia Virginia Solar Clean 66

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. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. How about a car-mounted wind-generator?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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Volt Green Electric Cars 2009 42

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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. We are addicted to the gasoline tax both at the State and Federal level.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Factors Determining Abatement Costs. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244