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JUNE 21, 2009

in a press conference last week, is the linkage of transportation planning with greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The Fund is replenished by revenue collected from motor fuel taxes. Instead, Congress has extended the programs for short-term periods while action was completed on the long-term reauthorization act.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. For the past 20 years, consumers have shifted their purchasing decisions away from passenger cars toward passenger trucks (including minivans, crossovers, and sport utility vehicles).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Vehicle and Infrastructure Incentives : Utilities pledge to work with federal, state and local stakeholders to help develop purchase and ownership incentives (monetary/non-monetary) supporting both vehicles and infrastructure deployment. Earley, Jr., Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy and Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 27, 2006

The press conference kicked off the Plug-In Partners campaign ( www.pluginpartners.org ), a national coalition of cities seeking to reduce dependency on foreign oil while improving environmental standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If a cap-and-trade program includes offsets, regulated entities have the opportunity to purchase the “emission credits” generated by carbon offset projects to help them meet their compliance obligations. If Congress establishes a GHG emission cap-and-trade program, only sources not covered by the cap could generate offsets.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Customers and customer reaction were also a recurrent theme at the conference. —Jon Lauckner.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Gold Peak purchased an equity stake in PICC late last year. The company also intends to complete crash testing of PICC-converted vehicles so that future owners can qualify for green-vehicle tax credits. Conversions can be completed in about one day and the kit is covered by a three-year warranty. Earlier post.).

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MAY 27, 2009

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 It is believed Valero purchased the plants at 30% of their original construction cost. (In

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

and China markets, while the Russian Finance Ministry recently backed away from a tax proposal which Russian crude producers said would reduce their output. At a conference in Moscow on October 14, President Putin said that Russia had reached if not passed the peak of its economic crisis and predicted economic growth in coming years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

In China, customers are now exempt from paying sales tax on the i3. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, in the Q3 quarterly conference call. This means new opportunities for us in China, one of the most important markets for e-mobility.

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JULY 17, 2015

It can do this with little disruption to the way homes and industry purchase and use energy today. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV. It is only a matter of economics motivated by incentives or taxes. Virtually any car, truck or bus can be made or redesigned as a long-range PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply to this comment by rossocorrecto April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT There are already efficient 2 wheeled transports that are available for purchase today at very reasonable prices. Reply to this comment by Erictheruler1 April 7, 2009 8:12 AM PDT If this is my tax dollars at work please stop giving them to GM.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The $787-billion stimulus bill (HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that emerged from the joint House-Senate conference committee this week provides funds for a large range of transportation-related projects. Tax Credits for Plug-ins. The credit generally is available for vehicles purchased after 2005.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs. Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product. Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles.

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