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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

Green Car Congress

A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. XXXXX Click to enlarge.

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China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover

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Demand for battery-powered vehicles has risen steadily as advances in battery technology and production have brought the purchase prices of EVs down. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It (For more on what other countries’ plans are, check out the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Policy Explorer page.)

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US cash for clunkers scheme ends

Green Cars News

At the same time, we’ve been able to take old, polluting cars off the road and help consumers purchase fuel efficient vehicles.”. The CARS program has recorded more than 457,000 dealer transactions worth $1.9 billion in rebates.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

“Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.