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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Upfront costs are steadily approaching parity with legacy vehicles, purchase incentives are available, and new programs at the levels of federal (IRA, BIL), state (California’s ACT and ACF) and local (city zero-emission zones) government are driving (some would say “coercing”) companies to move forward quickly.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Buyerswill purchase the car – at about the same price as a conventional model –but lease the batteries from a third-party energy supplier for a monthly feeequivalent to the fuel costs for an economical petrol or diesel car. Both companies will offer a range of electricvehicles for public sale from 2012.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Here goes the list: 10TH PLACE: PORTUGAL, 49 POINTS (FIRST APPEARANCE EVER) Europe’s affinity to EVs has steep north-south and east-west gradients. Now Portugal, one of Western Europe’s poorest countries, narrowly beat a tight second-10 field to become the first Southern European country in the Top 10. Over here in the US.

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