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Cash For Clunkers: Modern Electric Vehicle Variant An Obvious Climate Policy

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Cash for Clunkers Buoys US Auto Sales; Hybrid Sales Up 31.8% for Monthly New Vehicle Share of 3.55%

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Buoyed by the US government’s CARS (“Cash for Clunkers”) program, US auto sales slowed their decline in the US in July, dropping on 12.1% Monthly new vehicle market share for hybrids. Click to enlarge. to 997,824 units, according to summary figures from AutoData. Passenger car sales dropped 10.6% to 443, 297 units. Click to enlarge.

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30+% of Volkswagen July US Sales Were Diesel

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The Jetta SportWagen for the third consecutive month posted its best sales month ever with sales of 2,415 units; clean diesel TDIs represented 81% of SportWagen sales, and 40% of Jetta sedan sales, which totalled 9,663 units. Volkswagen said that the government Cash-for-Clunkers program accounted for more than 3,300 sales.

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New Zealand Is Becoming The Norway Of The Pacific

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Government rebates, cash for clunkers programs, and congestion fees? New Zealand is doing a lot of things right!

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We Need A Cash For Stinkers Program 

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Just like the Cash for Clunkers program during the financial crisis, a “Cash for Stinkers” program is needed to battle the climate crisis. Cash for Clunkers was designed to increase new car sales and, in the meantime, put more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road.

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VW, Mercedes, Opel, Fiat launch buybacks of dirtiest diesels in Europe

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The news that VW Group engineers had deliberately cheated on eight years of emission tests for the "clean diesels" sold by Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche sent shockwaves around the world. Almost two years ago, the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal burst into public view, and nothing has been quite the same since then.

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Study finds deploying EVs isn’t enough—reaching emission goals requires early retirement of polluting trucks – Charged EVs

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The state’s Advanced Clean Cars II legislation requires that all passenger vehicles and light trucks sold in the state be ZEVs by 2035, with interim sales targets along the way. California’s Clean Cars 4 All program provides incentives to help lower-income consumers to replace their old polluting vehicles with EVs or PHEVs.