Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The Obama Administration is proposing a three-part strategy that supports electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption through improvements to tax credits in current law, investments in research and development (R&D), and a new competitive program to encourage communities to invest in electric vehicle infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. by Brian J.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The study, said Robert Carling, Director, Transportation Energy Center at Sandia, represents the first true value-chain approach to assessing the feasibility, implications, limitations, and enablers of large-scale production of biofuels in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In the absence of major technological innovations or policy changes, the United States is unlikely to meet cellulosic biofuel mandates under the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) by 2022, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Recent public policies in the United States and other countries have improved the prospects for initial commercialization of PEVs. However, consumer demand for PEVs is quite uncertain and, barring another global spike in oil prices, may be limited to a minor percentage of new vehicle purchasers (e.g., Policy Instruments.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

The best thing about the Nissan is the expected price range of $25K- $34K. This is before the $7,500 federal tax credit. The vehicles will be made in the United States, Japan and Europe. – BMW AG’s Mini brand is testing a plug-in model in the United States. Pricing isn’t set.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

IHS Automotive projects regional light vehicle sales volume in North America to hit more than 20 million units in 2015, up 2.5% In the United States, IHS Automotive analysts continue to believe the upside risks for auto demand are more apparent than the downside risks. million units. million units. from last year.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Analysts say rising oil prices benefited the company’s petrochemical business, helping to offset losses from its battery unit SK On, which has been facing weaker electric vehicle (EV) battery demand. However, it maintained its previously announced target to breakeven in the second half of this year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

For example, adding a biofuel subsidy with a consumption mandate fails to increase ethanol consumption but instead subsidizes oil consumption. A more effective policy would rely on specific taxes and subsidies targeted directly at achieving specific environmental, energy and agricultural policy goals, according to the study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

Considering that the United States produces over 8 million barrels of oil per day domestically and imports an additional 3 million bpd from secure supplies in Canada and Mexico, we can find no credible scenario in which the military would be unable to access the 340,000 bpd of fuel it needs to defend the nation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That’s where government comes in.only the government can help influence [change] by having a price for carbon and technical incentives. ”. Mr. Immelt’s point is that the spike in oil prices to $147/barrel in 2008 is not enough on its own to get automakers to make electric vehicles. They need to do much better than this.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

Gulf Coast refiners use both domestic crude oil produced in the United States, and crude oil imported from foreign countries to create various petroleum products. The crude oil from the WCSB is produced as raw bitumen, a viscous material that has the consistency of soft asphalt. —Draft SEIS. Background.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). Electric power generation from renewables is bolstered by legislation enacted at the beginning of 2013 extending tax credits for generation from wind and other renewable technologies. quadrillion Btu in 2012 to 12.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

However, demand persists for imported heavy crude by US refineries that are optimized to process that kind of oil. Meanwhile, Canadian production of bitumen from the oil sands continues to grow, the vast majority of which is currently exported to the United States to be processed by US refineries that want heavy crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Fuels currently used in on-road vehicles account for about 80% of transportation fuel use in the US, and are easy to track.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 22, 2023

But this is usually due to unforeseen supply problems and typically pertains to Hawaii — which sources more of its fuel from the Eastern Hemisphere than the rest of the United States and has less room to store it. Washington’s fuel pricing isn’t a matter of it being isolated in the middle of the ocean.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

The bill, which was sponsored by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, will extend tax credits for 10 years on buying vehicles that run on natural gas as well as installing natural gas refuelling stations.

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