From this article: The oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax credit expansion from inclusion in a government spending package.
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Electric Vehicles
Oh Happy Day: Trump Kills Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Extension
Tagged with: 500, common sense gun laws, Consumers who purchase an EV can currently claim a credit up to $7, oil industry funding worked hard to kill the clean energy incentives, oil industry staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), planet that is no longer warming due to human activity, sustainability, Trump specifically pushed for excluding the EV tax credit, what the common American might happen to care about has precisely zero on our law-making processes
Celebrating Nature’s Beauty with Plug-In America Co-founder Paul Scott
My friend Paul Scott has been active in the environmental movement and the push for electric transportation since long before he co-founded Plug-In America with Chelsea Sexton in 2005. Accompanying his video here, he writes: Wanted to share a sliver …
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Long-Range Electric Vehicles Multiplying Like Rabbits
Yes, 2019 brought us great sadness in terms of environmental and humanitarian disasters, but it also packed a huge passel of joy for our Christmas stockings. In particular, the electric transportation space continued its expansion with the introduction of a …
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Tagged with: demand for gasoline- and diesel-powered cars, electric transportation space, EV ranges over 200 miles, I'm following the mantra we hear so often today: "No plug, I've spent my last dime on internal combustion engines. When it's time to lose my Prius, no deal." environmental and humanitarian disasters, No plug no deal, Speaking for myself
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–Tesla Motors
Question: Part of what makes Tesla so successful is their vast network of super-charging stations. What record did they just break in terms of numbers? (Hint: It’s a multiple of 5,000.) Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: …
World’s Second-largest Ferry System Switching from Diesel to Batteries, Charged Largely with Hydro
Large marine vessels powered by bunker diesel have horrendous environmental footprints. That’s why it’s such excellent news that government-owned Washington State Ferries, the second-largest ferry system in the world, is switching from diesel to batteries amid a growing trend toward …
Henrik Fisker: Shamelessness Personified
From Green Car Reports: Fisker’s new mainstream Ocean SUV may still be more than a year away, by optimistic time frames, but the company’s marketing machine has been hard at work.
Bicycling in Holland Goes All the Way to the Top
I couldn’t have told you that The Netherlands has both a prime minister and a king, but I could have predicted that bicycling would have somehow been involved in a meeting of the two. Like good people all over the …
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A Tale of Two Nations
Asia Times reports on China: A 600km/h maglev train prototype will be ready for trial runs in 2020.
Ford Promises a “Big Step Forward” in Electric Cars?
A common theme among the 8000 or so blog posts I’ve written here is that I try to fulfill the promise I made in the headline. If I start with “Ducks Breathe Easier with New Hunting Law,” you have my …
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Electrifying Pick-Up Trucks
Here’s an excerpt from an article in AutoNews on Nissan’s move to sell electric pick-up trucks here in the U.S., along with a few comments. “Engineers at Nissan are working to electrify the company’s pickups, joining a growing field of …
