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Scrap your car for free bus travel

Green Cars News

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

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US cash for clunkers scheme ends

Green Cars News

The US car scrappage scheme know as the ‘cash for clunkers’ plan will end next week after the funds ran out. Now we are working toward an orderly wind down of this very popular program.”. Tags: Green credentials car scrappage Cars cash for clunkers.

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Retrofitting three-wheeler to electric 

Electric Vehicles India

Scrappage policy . Auto-rickshaws were manufactured as per BS-IV norms and as per the government “scrappage policy,” the BS-IV vehicles will be dumped off. Most of the time lithium-ion battery of (Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt) NMC or (lithium-ion manganese-oxide) LMO type is used with motor power of 10kw/15kw in such retrofitted 4 wheelers.

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The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

Introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme. Vehicle Scrappage Scheme. Additional support was announced in this area, including £525 million to support offshore wind power generation and £60 million to fund carbon capture and storage technologies which could be fitted to future and existing coal fired power stations.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric NZ

Scrappage schemes . The OECD has conducted analysis on the components of effective ‘scrappage schemes’. solar and wind) so the proposed reductions in emissions from the energy system must be balanced to ensure reliability in the system to support higher dependency for transport. .