Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Volkswagen is offering an incentive of up to €10,000 (US$11,815)—depending upon the model purchased—for the purchase of Euro 6 vehicles in Germany if an older diesel vehicle (Euro 1 to Euro 4 standards) is scrapped at the same time. Customers purchasing a new Golf receive an environmental incentive of €5,000.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 14, 2021

The government of Maharashtra has unveiled its draft Electric Vehicle Policy 2021 for the faster adoption of electric vehicles in India and to achieve a 10 per cent share of total registrations by 2025. Maharashtra aims to make up 10 per cent of all new vehicle registrations around three lakh vehicles a year in the state by 2025.

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2022

The Tre, a battery-electric heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicle from automaker Nikola, won eligibility into the New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program, which qualifies the truck for an incentive package valued at up to $185,000 per unit. The approval will qualify an up to $185,000 discount per unit, with a scrappage requirement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

At last week’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership conference in the UK—prior to the Battersea Formula E Grand Prix run over the weekend—Edmund King, the UK AA’s (Automobile Association) president argued that millions of second cars in households could relatively easily be electric vehicles. AA also presented estimates that 2.5

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The UK’s car scrappage scheme may have been dubbed a resounding success by the majority of car manufacturers and consumers alike, but it hasn’t won plaudits from all corners. There are ominous questions looming too, as to what the motor industry will do when the scrappage scheme ends. The Green Piece: Tuesday 6 October, 2009.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

One of the UK’s leading providers of cosmetic surgery has replaced its fleet with Proton GEN-2 ecoLogic dual fuel vehicles, the only vehicles available in the UK with a factory-fit LPG tank. With 15 clinics in the UK, each of the 12 vehicles in its fleet cover on average 100,000 miles per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

In other efforts to support the struggling auto industry, the President said that: The government will back the warranties on vehicles from GM and Chrysler. The Administration is seeking to get Recovery Act funds to purchase government cars out as quickly as possible, which could bolster annual sales by some 100,000 units.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. Given New Zealand’s reliance on personal light vehicles, accelerating the uptake of e-mobility is an essential part of reducing emissions from transport. Improve safety of the fleet; and/or. ?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The report reviews policies that bear upon two categories of choice: travel choices such as how and how far to travel and vehicle purchase choices. It also discusses fuel taxes and prices, which affect both travel and vehicle choices. It may also be possible to accelerate a shift to a much more efficient vehicle fleet.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

A report from the respected Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) advises that the Government should not rely solely in the introduction of electric cars to reduce vehicle-related CO2 emissions. The Government should also ‘as an example to the nation’, adopt a policy of only purchasing low carbon vehicles were there clear emission gains.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

So after the UK’s vehicle scrappage scheme was hailed a success, what of the so-called “cash for clunkers&# programme in the US? Even though corporate purchases of vehicle fleets continued to drop, the number of retail sales of Ford cars and pick-up trucks among the public leapt by nine per cent.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

The Manitoba, Canada Vehicle Standards Advisory Board has recommended that the province adopt the California Pavley standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, albeit as a deferred recommendation bounded by several contingencies and factoring in the small size of the Manitoba market (2.8%

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Many leading markets and car manufacturers have committed to effectively phasing out fossil fuel powered light vehicles. If we do not prepare ourselves, we risk becoming the dumping ground for the world’s dirtiest right hand drive vehicles, instead of a quick adopter of better, cleaner technologies. . This will happen from 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

Global NCAP has released a new policy report, “ Democratising Car Safety: Road Map for Safer Cars 2020 ”, calling for minimum vehicle safety standards to be applied universally in all world markets. World Health Organization (WHO) figures put the annual death toll from road crashes worldwide at 1.3

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