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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Is tax equity dead? Within the US electric power sector the biggest question was whether the Production Tax Credits (PTC) were going to be extended beyond 2008. Dr. Paul still sees significant growth in the developing world.

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

For example, the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, says Japan will run out of electricity if all cars in Japan are EVs. You can do a google search to check the facts on energy creation. Solar energy costs have fallen by 85% over the last 10 years and by 2030, we will all be energy surplus. That is absolute nonsense.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Tax credit incentives are also available to consumers in the U.S. There are choices for 110 volt versus 220 volt, slow versus quick charges, and solar options. Did you know that Toyota will not allow California’s NUMMI assembly plant (Toyota/GM joint venture) to export the Toyota Carolla/Tacoma to Japan? Does that bother you?

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It

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