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

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For example, [continued] The post Cash For Clunkers: Modern Electric Vehicle Variant An Obvious Climate Policy appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Cash for clunkers repeat? Report says: NO

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At the height of the recession in 2008-2009, the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), also known as the "cash for clunkers" program (a similar concept was launched in the UK known as the scrappage scheme) was introduced in the USA to drive new sales and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Latest News Green cars'

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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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Has the scrappage scheme been exposed? The Green Piece

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The Green Piece Column. It’s been nearly a year since the scrappage scheme (known as ‘cash for clunkers’ in the USA) ended its run in the UK. Tuesday 8 February 2011. At the time we were told that it had been a resounding success (see article) by not only boosting the automotive industry but also [.].

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Clunkers programme receives funding boost

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The vastly popular cash for clunkers programme in the USA received a boost last Friday when President Obama signed into law HR 3435, which provides $2billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Programme.

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US hybrid sales slump in September

Green Cars News

What would happen when the cash for clunkers sales boom came to an end has been a question many automotive executives in the USA dared not think about. per cent compared to the previous year at 19,977 units (though they do not include sales of the Mercedes S400 Hybrid which went on sale in the USA at the end of August).

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More international criticism for scrappage schemes

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Yesterday we told you how the scrappage scheme proposals in the USA are coming under fire and today it is the turn of Spain’s scheme to face criticism. The Ecologistas en Accion , one of the country’s most important green groups, is claiming that the scrappage scheme is bad business.