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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

They don’t care that its an end of line car with an older engine and a socket for a nokia 6310, its cheap and its better than what they are driving today. This inefficiency and our buying behaviours are part of the reason why many of us miss out on electric vehicles. What can you do to be more efficient.

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

Green Car Congress

For details on what we’ve called “The Big Fix” beyond the following, see [link] —and we’ll continue adding back-up info at CalCars-News and elsewhere. And oil only seems cheap. Since vehicles are also part of what we’ve built, with bipartisan support, we will enact a similar program: “Drive Star.”

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. This last bit is the tricky part, as the control systems of all current hybrid vehicles are proprietary and not designed to function in this manner. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.

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Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese EVs, up from 25% to 100%

Baua Electric

Both companies are owned by Geely, but still headquartered in Sweden, with manufacturing in various parts of the world depending on model. We imagine more info will come on that soon. But with these increased tariffs, that makes it less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs.

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