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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% Toyota Motor Sales, USA (TMS) reported July sales of 174,872, down 11.4% Monthly new vehicle market share for hybrids. Click to enlarge. Passenger car sales dropped 10.6% to 443, 297 units.

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VW diesels enjoy US sales success

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Some manufacturers have focused on hybrids, others on electrics - but it is the clean diesels of Volkswagen that are reaping the rewards in the USA. Indeed clean diesel TDIs represented 81 per cent of SportWagon sales and 40 per cent of Jetta saloon car sales, which reached a total of 9,663 units.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Now are we still stuck maintaining our addiction with clean needles, or, best case, settling for methadone? And the first plug-in cars mass-produced in the USA in a century will go on sale this fall. We’ll add targeted incentives to jump-start this successor to the $4,500 “Cash for Clunkers” program.

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