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New York, New Jersey get serious about electric cars

Green Car Reports

While parts of the federal government focus on sustaining fossil-fuel energy, numerous states are enacting new policies and programs to boost electric cars. California tends to steal most headlines about electric vehicles and climate-change policy, but two other U.S. New York and New Jersey.

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Chargeway: the best electric-car idea you've never heard of

Green Car Reports

In New Jersey and Oregon, someone else does this for you.) Electric-car charging isn't quite that simple. DON'T MISS: Car buyers. You pull up to the pump, open the vehicle's fuel door, put in a credit card, select diesel or one of three grades of gasoline, lift the hose, and pump. (In

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Nissan Plug-Ins, Two Tesla Updates, Ford Fusion Lightweight: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: Nissan''s plug-in hybrid plans, a bill to permit Tesla Motors'' direct sales model in New Jersey, and the Ford Fusion Lightweight concept points toward more-efficient cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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How One Electric Utility Encouraged Employees To Use Plug-In Cars

Green Car Reports

While workplace charging is still a work in progress at most companies, a few progressive corporations and nonprofits now offer incentives to employees to commute in plug-in electric cars.

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Canada government to approve new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard

Teslarati

The new legislation considers zero-emission cars to include battery-electric, hydrogen, and plug-in electric vehicles. By 2026, the federal government wants 20% of all new car sales to be zero-emission vehicles. And by 2030, zero-emission cars should make up 60% of new car sales.

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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

Green Car Congress

The partnership will see Canada and California work together to accelerate the adoption of zero-tailpipe-emission vehicles such as electric cars. California has allocated $238 million in its 2019 budget for incentives to purchase electric and fuel cell vehicles, with a focus on low-income consumers and in disadvantaged communities.

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Chevy Volt Electric Car, Age 1: Can It Survive Toddler Years?

Green Car Reports

One year ago today, the very first 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was delivered to a retail buyer, in Denville, New Jersey.

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