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Lordstown Motors Goes Bust

The Truth About Cars

The document goes into great detail explaining how it saw the CEO as intentionally misleading investors — citing former employees who referenced Burns as a “con man” or “PT Barnum” type. The bankruptcy documents include motions to continue operations and uphold its responsibilities to stakeholders.

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Toyota agrees to fund a settlement valued up to $1.4 billion for unintended acceleration cases

Green Car Congress

After two years of intense work, including deposing hundreds of engineers, pouring over thousands of documents and examining millions of lines of software code, we are pleased that Toyota has agreed to a settlement that was both extraordinarily hard-fought and is exceptionally far-reaching. Toyota will take a one-time, $1.1

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

Green Car Congress

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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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

There are also innovative ideas that could be explored if businesses wish to install chargers in their employee’s home – e.g. forms of tax incentives. Accordingly, the Government should move quickly to ensure that this strategy is made a core priority in transport/energy and is resourced to deliver.

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Schwarzenegger's Green Cred Fading with CARB Caos

Plugs and Cars

The governor and his people are contradicting each other and the recently "fired" are releasing documents and voice mails to prove their good intentions and reveal the governor's meddling in CARB's attempts to regulate diesel exhaust and greenhouse gases. The firings and their implication has gone international.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I’ll probably call the city attorney tomorrow and ask him to give me the formal document from the city adopting the fire department rules because it’s from that date of formal adoption that I have 180 days according to Calif contractor code to actually live up to said code. I’ll take the same documents to the next city. Not really.

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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

Green Car Congress

California’s original approach to heavy carbon oils resulted in a legal challenge that is still pending; the EU’s adoption of a similar approach has resulted in protracted discussion and negotiation with Canada that has yet to be resolved, either.). They would do so by documenting their lower emissions.

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