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Connecticut and Maine delay adopting California EV mandate

Baua Electric

Connecticut and Maine have delayed adoption of California’s EV sales mandate, leaving EV advocates to retrench, reports Energy News Network. Connecticut has been very proactive in its EV policy, in fact, and was one of the first states to revamp its EV policy around low-income households. Volkswagen ID.7

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Plug In America Unplugs

EV Club of CT

Dealers Pressure Plug In America to Back Away From Direct Sales Plug In America (PIA) has up until now played an important advocacy role in the effort to pass SB 127 in Connecticut and similar. Read more.

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Plug In America Is Stepping Back From Taking Sides On Allowing EV Manufactures To Sell Directly

CleanTechnica EVs

Recently, there has been a battle for EV sales freedom in many states. Connecticut is one such battleground and its bill, SB 127, would allow EV manufacturers such as Tesla and Rivian to sell directly to consumers in Connecticut.

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Tesla faces battle over direct sales to buyers in Connecticut

Green Car Reports

This time, the action is in Connecticut, where on Monday the legislature's finance committee approved a bill letting Tesla do just that. Another month, another Tesla battle with auto-dealer lobbyists in another state—or so it seems in the company's ongoing battle to sell electric cars online directly to buyers.

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EIA: California home to almost half of US plug-in electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

Total US sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric—have increased in recent years, but still represent only about 0.7% of new vehicle sales in 2014 so far, up from 0.6% sales and use tax. in 2013 and 0.4% Washington has exempted EVs from the state''s 6.5%

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Canada government to approve new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard

Teslarati

The Canadian government plans to approve the new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, phasing the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars by 2035. The new legislation considers zero-emission cars to include battery-electric, hydrogen, and plug-in electric vehicles. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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8 ZEV states announce US ZEV sales top 260,000 units

Green Car Congress

Nichols in Diamond Bar, California to announce that sales figures from around the country now show ZEV sales of more than 260,000 vehicles, with the quarter-million mark reached in September. Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Plug-ins Policy Sales' Californians have purchased or leased more than 100,000 ZEVs. million by 2025.

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