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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. Green Vehicles. Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.

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Canoo platform, Georgia battery plant, PHEV and EV costs: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Looking at repairs and maintenance, plug-in hybrids cost less than traditional models. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The battery maker SK Innovation this week started ramping up a massive cell plant for U.S.-made And Canoo has some fast fun with its bare electric-vehicle platform out in the open.

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Kia EV plans, NJ $1,000 EV fee, Stellantis’ EV skepticism: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. While it effectively replaces the role of the gas tax for EVs in funding road maintenance, it could amount to a disincentive toward the state’s adoption of California’s EV mandate and its goel to hit 50% EV sales by 2027 and 100% by 2035. Kia keeps to its EV goals.

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EC Publishes 6 Calls for Proposals for Transport Research within the Seventh Framework Program; €63M for European Green Cars Initiative and Electromobility

Green Car Congress

Within that, projects for the European Green Cars Inititative are to receive an indicative (i.e., million) for the European Green Cars Initiative topics, and the remaining €12 million for the rest of the topics. Specific topics outside of the Green Cars Initiative are: AAT.2010.7-17. assessments.

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New Jersey marks up EV ownership with additional $1,000 fee

Baua Electric

Similar arguments have been made in other states, as road maintenance is typically covered by gas taxes. 2024 Jaguar I-Pace Higher registration fees might not be fair, as EV drivers simply don’t cover nearly as many miles as those of gasoline cars—something that also might be a problem for the ultimate goal of reducing emissions.

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Mercedes-Benz EQC, VW's battery factory, Hyundai's electric sports car: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

And our Twitter poll asks how EV drivers should contribute to road maintenance. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Volkswagen plans to invest $1.1 billion in a new battery factory in Germany. Hyundai and Kia invest $80 million in Croatian EV startup Rimac. In a first drive outside of Oslo.

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Electric Car Maintenance Snafu, Tesla App, Kia Trail'ster Concept Named: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, see why electric car owners need to pay close attention to dealer service bills, a new Tesla app for the Apple Watch, and the name of Kia''s upcoming 2015 Chicago Auto Show concept. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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