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U.K. Extends Green-Car Grants To Double Buyers By 2018

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government will extend and expand an incentive program for green cars that had been set to end in the coming year. The plug-in car grant was introduced in 2011, and was originally scheduled to expire in early 2016. DON'T MISS: Electric Cars.

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BMW i3 named Best Green Car of 2014

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BMW’s new i3 electric car has been named the Best Green Car of 2014, by the experts at Kelley Blue Book (KBB.com). The supermini model, launched in the UK last November is the first car launched under BMW’s new ‘Born Electric’ i sub-brand and is available from £25,680 after a Plug-in Car Grant.

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Seattle boosted by green car grant

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Alternative fuel technologies have been embraced in Seattle, after the city was awarded a $1.4million grant from the US Department of Energy to enhance its fleet of green vehicles. Seattle also signed an agreement to be one of the first markets to introduce the Nissan LEAF back in April.

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$25 billion green car grant scheme dodges the axe

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A $25 billion fund for green cars dodged the axe yesterday as the conservative member of the US Congress agreed drop attempts to trim the fund as part of the US government’s budget reviews. However, according to the USA Today, the attention on the fund will put the Department of Energy, which administered the Advanced [.].

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UK Automobile Association survey finds 1% plan to buy hybrid or EVs; RAC report finds price key barrier to green car take-up

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The RAC responded by urging the Government and manufacturers to provide more information on the vehicle lifetime cost savings that are achievable as well as the environmental benefits, while also considering how car buyers can make the initial purchase of low carbon vehicles more accessible, through the potential extension of existing Government grants (..)

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Tesla range lawsuit, electric Minis, Nikola, and biogas: Today's Car News

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Startup heavy truckmaker Nikola won a federal grant to improve fuel cells. All this and more on Green Car. Mini may go all-electric with its next generation of models. And a European project worked out how to get as much range and efficiency from natural-gas engines as from gasoline.

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US grants $156 million for green tech solutions

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Sixty new green energy research projects aimed at dramatically improving how the US produces and uses energy, will take a share of a $156 million grant from the the US Department of Energy this week.

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