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China Car Sales Likely Hit New Record in April

Green Car Congress

Bolstered by government stimulus plans, sales of autos in China likely reached a record high of 1.15 Assuming the CAAM figures are borne out by official data, April would be the fifth straight month of growth for the industry. People’s Daily.

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Global auto industry receives $44 billion for greener cars

Green Cars News

The global automotive industry is receiving close to US$44 billion from governments around the world to develop alternative fuel technologies, analysts at Deloitte reveal. The market for alternative fuel vehicles is being strongly supported economic stimulus packages and other government programs in at least 13 markets.

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Ricardo responds to electric drive stimulus package

Green Cars News

“Measures aimed at spurring innovations that will increase the electrification of road transportation, such as those announced today, are to be welcomed as extremely good news for the auto industry as well as for society. .

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The Race to Plug-In Hybrids Is On

Green Cars News

The new administration’s stimulus package allots $2B for advanced batteries, $300M for federal and states fleets to buy new clean fuel vehicles and $7,500 tax rebate for PHEV, with yet more money in the Auto-Industry Re-tooling fund. No on has a lock on this future; everything is up for grabs.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly. OStatic] Nokia E71x Expected on May 4th: Here’s Reading Material Until Then [jkOnTheRun] Renewable Standards to Spur Moore’s Law for Cleantech?

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Greenius Is Fired Up Over Obama’s Green Economic Recovery Bill!

Creative Greenius

This bill is not only the most sweeping economic recovery package in our nation’s history, it’s also the greenest. Fortunately for all of us, climate change guru, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, has already done the heavy lifting and outlined just how green and positive this new bill is. Landmark Energy Savings at Home.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Back in March-April when Covid hit the West hard, conventional punditry piped up its sorry head, saying EVs (and green policies in general) are a goner for 2020, probably also into 2021. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US.

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