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Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

Green Car Congress

It’s an easy concept: every fuel option receives a CI score and each year, fuel sellers must sell a fuel blend that matches that year’s carbon intensity requirement. tax credit) for blending biofuels. The goal was to reduce fuel carbon intensity (CI) by 10% in 10 years (between 2010 and 2020). On its face, it’s a simple program.

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What’s up with the BMW MINI E?

Plugs and Cars

Like all the automakers, BMW dabbled in concept electric cars over the years. I drove the car from LA to San Francisco recently. Pioneers’ inquiries about the applicability of the federal $7500 tax credit continue to be stonewalled. They produced a small fleet for the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Polestar execs offered mixed messages about that—in a virtual press briefing, the head of design said everything was unique to the brand, as visualized in the Polestar Precept concept car shown at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

Creative Greenius

In a still repressed economy during an era when “no new taxes” is the mindless mantra that forces cutbacks and the elimination of educational programs and resources, the only place the dollars are going to come from are nontraditional, innovative sources. The on-stage banner heralding the ribbon cutting event @ ECHS.

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

Green Car Congress

The A3 e-tron can cruise at up to 80 mph in all-electric mode; a spec we confirmed—with enjoyment—last week during a media drive in the San Francisco Bay Area. The hybrid concept of the A3 Sportback e-tron often does not activate the combustion engine until kickdown, even when cold. federal tax credit of $4,168).

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We agree with Toyotas comments, which is why we advocate for mass production of PHEVs: "Were immensely gratified that some enthusiasts, in a tacit endorsement of the hybrid concept, are, on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, converting Toyota hybrids to plug-in technology. is Hymotions San Francisco-based distributor/installer.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Creative Greenius

I have to admit that for the first few hours of day one in PV101: Introduction to Photovoltaics I was dazed and confused by all the foreign concepts I was trying to grasp at once. Now my head was swimming with concepts of Joules, Coulombs and electrons all dancing about in the mysterious ways they create electricity.

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