Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 12, 2014
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.
Cars That Think
MARCH 16, 2024
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.)
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 20, 2014
LVMs also received extended service credit for allowing consumers to either extend a lease or exercise a purchase option at the end of a lease. However, the IVMs say they need this same ability to pool ZEV and TZEV credits across state lines because some of them have few dealers in some of the Section 177 States.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 21, 2009
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. It’s been a thrill to be part of the best economic news story in America,” Secretary LaHood said.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
The Government has decided to extend the number of £2,000 grants for people who trade in an old car and buy a new one to 400,000, which Paul Williams, the chairman of the National Franchised Dealers Association, described as a “victory for common sense over dogma”.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
“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.”.
EV Adoption
JUNE 12, 2022
Thigpen at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and published in The Journal of Transport and Land Use (Note: study PDF will automatically download) estimated that 37% of the households in the Sacramento, CA market they studied do not use their garage for parking cars. The study by Jamey M. Volker and Calvin G.
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