Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

The taxes fall into three broad categories: vehicle acquisition (VAT, sales tax, registration tax); ownership (annual circulation tax, road tax); and motoring (fuel tax). The three countries that do not apply CO2-based taxation are Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. Most countries grant only tax reductions or exemptions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. The US patent and soon-to-be-granted EU patent gives the company protection for carbide-derived-carbons suitable for energy storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) will provide 507 units of the i-MiEV electric vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors (MMC)—the largest single provision since sales of the EV started—to the Estonian Government. The 507 units will be shipped to Estonia by end of fiscal 2011. A hat-tip to Jarmo!

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