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Law firm Akerman launches EV infrastructure-oriented legal team – Charged EVs

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One of these new units is the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Team, which “provides its clients, including businesses, municipalities and universities, with the diverse legal services needed to further the transportation transformation for automated, connected and electric vehicles.”

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

Cars That Think

The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. Designed for the packaging industry, the new configuration allows containers to fit more tightly together so they can be transported better. The network can then alter the training data, thereby generating new designs.

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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

Green Car Congress

GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.

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Study concludes that automakers tweak vehicle fuel economy to qualify for more favorable treatment; focus on car notches

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In their study, Slemrod and Sallee focus on “car notches”—where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in tax liability or the amount of a subsidy—in policies intended to encourage the production and use of fuel-efficient vehicles. mpg) that lead to large changes in tax liability or the amount of a subsidy.

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National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

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The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. The Model T Ford, which debuted in 1908, was originally designed to operate on alcohol. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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by enacting a carbon tax or setting emission limits for each source type (“command-and-control)—the option to use offsets is generally discussed in the context of a cap-and-trade regime. If Congress establishes a GHG emission cap-and-trade program, only sources not covered by the cap could generate offsets. Donovan is CEO of Renergie, Inc.