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Volkswagen teams with Tesla to slash India import duties

Teslarati

However, import taxes are a big hold up in the process currently. Cars with a price tag of $40,000 or less have a 60% import tax applied to them, while anything more than that number has a 100% duty, effectively doubling the price of the car.

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Frost & Sullivan Outlines Opportunities for Chemical Companies in the Changing Automotive Sector

Green Car Congress

Taking an example from the agricultural sector, which has always dynamically leveraged its environmental lobbying capabilities to shape markets, the chemicals industry should lead from the front while lobbying about energy generation and green practices to shape the industry in favour of its own financial interest, the consultancy suggests.

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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

Creative Greenius

That’s why I shouldn’t have been surprised when I read this today in the Guardian of England : The world’s largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows.

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MIT Report Outlines System-Oriented Coordinated Polices for Reduction in Light-Duty Vehicle Petroleum Use and Emissions

Green Car Congress

We emphasize that this policy portfolio is not a substitute for an economy-wide carbon management policy (such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system). Interest groups are constantly diverging into separate camps and lobbying for separate policies. “We Taxes on motor vehicle fuels should be increased by $0.10 Heywood et al.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

California’s ZEV mandate put EVs into consumers’ hands, only to be eviscerated by automaker and oil lobbying, federal intervention, and CARB’s capitulation to well-funded hydrogen hype. The federal consumer tax credit awaits major automaker cars that can claim them. GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1. Will we get our money’s worth?

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ARB Staff Posts Expert Review Reports of the ZEV Technical Analysis

Green Car Congress

ARB should initiate a drive to increase gasoline taxes nationally, in collaboration with interested political and environmental lobbying groups. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Hydrogen Policy. ARB should enact policies to accelerate the “greening” of California’s electrical transmission grids.

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Bush Budget: Plug-ins Hybrids, Not So Much

Plugs and Cars

Automakers already have begun lobbying for the Bush Administration and Congress to support further research funding after the $1.2 With all sorts of fuel cell double-talk and hydrogen hype, our policies and tax dollars have been led astray and flushed away. Tags: autobloggreen plug-in hybrid fuel cell hydrogen.

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