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Auto Lobby Wants Input on Government EV Policy Before Changes Are Made

The Truth About Cars

If you’re curious why there are so many mysteriously sized vehicles carrying ludicrously high price tags these days, it’s a combination of bad regulations and old-fashioned corporate greed. Automakers want to maximize their per-vehicle profits to help offset declining annual vehicle sales.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) The US can lead in a new, profitable, global business opportunity. As high-volume production brings down their price, we can taper down the incentive over a second five million. That’s why we need a second speech with a new strategy.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

We have a globally exclusive deal for electronic shelf labels, the small price tags in the stores. Cass: So I guess the question there is— so you come to a company, the company has its own internal development engineers. We have signed one of the large, the big fives, the Americans, the huge CE company. Takes a lot of time.

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ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Price and infrastructure must also be tackled, he says, in order to win over public confidence. It is magnificient that ECE has created a profitable business, but the world really needs affordable cars. So the currently high price of the battery is not a problem. Tags: evdriven. Qualified to do the ECE job.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

Cars That Think

They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The computer, and the office, of the future Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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