incentives
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California's electric-car rebate program may be caught up in politics.
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Hybrids lose London privileges two weeks from today: here's why
Sooner or later, it can happen in a romance: the two parties decide they're just not that into one another. The state of California dumped hybrid-electric vehicles on July 1, 2011, when it ended the rule that allowed them to use carpool lanes on freeways even with just one occupant. Now the city of...
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Germany's $1 billion electric-car incentive plan approved by cabinet: update
Germany will finally implement incentives for electric cars.
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Colorado simplifies electric-car incentive, but axes used models
Last week, the Colorado State Legislature passed a bill that would simplify the state's electric car incentives. However, it would remove the eligibility of used cars that could qualify for the same credit. The measure, House Bill 16-1332, would make the state's electric and alternative vehicle...
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How Tesla could keep some tax incentives for Model 3
Tesla may manipulate deliveries to keep more tax credits.
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Two-thirds of new cars in Norway last month were hybrid or electric
The majority of cars sold in Norway last month were hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery-electric.
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Some markets are stronger than others for certain types of cars. Think Subarus in the Northeast or the Rocky Mountains, convertibles in Florida, and pickup trucks in Texas. Used-car dealers carefully watch auctions to find cars in less demand elsewhere that they can sell locally for more money. Now, a used-car dealer in Boulder, Colorado, has made a business out of nabbing electric cars intended to be sold only in California, and offering them to buyers in Colorado—who end up with much lower net costs, thanks to the state's uniquely hefty incentives. It's not quite a loophole, but Green...
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California car incentives may expand to more low-income buyers
California may expand a program that pays low-income drivers to trade older cars for newer, greener ones.
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Why used small cars may be your best driving bargain these days
Small cars are coming off leases in droves, but consumers don't want them.
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New York adds electric-car purchase incentives, Minnesota may follow
New York is adding electric-car incentives, and Minnesota may soon follow
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Is group buying the key to boosting electric-car adoption?
Group-buying programs have boosted electric-car sales in Colorado and Utah.
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Faraday puts up $75 million bond to reassure Nevada on factory
Faraday Future put up a bond after Nevada lawmakers became concerned about its financial state.
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Company startups are, by their nature, secretive and turbulent places. Toss in a Chinese billionaire or two, a new business model for selling transportation services rather than cars, and the brutal competition in the global auto industry, and you have the recipe for frequent and disruptive change. And, more often than not (as history shows us), failure. DON'T MISS: Faraday Future Shows FFZero1 Concept, But What Did We Learn? The highly anticipated press event held by electric-car startup Faraday Future at January's Consumer Electronics Show left more questions than answers in its wake. The...
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Dirty money from polluters funds clean-car incentives in Rhode Island
Rhode Island uses penalties collected for environmental-law violations to subsidize electric cars.
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How I got a new 2015 Nissan Leaf electric car for $16K net: indecision
Sometimes my liberal environmentalist side fights with my fiscally conservative side, and my decision-making suffers as a result. I’ve wanted an electric car for the past 30 years. But in the 1980s, they were conversions with lead-acid batteries that were both expensive and impractical. Later...
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The Curious Case Of New York's Missing Electric-Car Purchase Incentive
Unlike many of its neighbors, New York has no purchase-rebate program for electric cars.
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Ontario, Canada, Boosts Electric-Car Purchase Rebate Amounts
As U.S. electric-vehicle advocates are well aware, a handful of states have reduced or killed incentives for plug-in vehicles over the past year, adding some headwinds to sales. Earlier this month, the Canadian province of Ontario took the opposite approach, expanding its plug-in electric vehicle...
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Koch Brothers Go To War Against Electric Cars, Elon Musk Sighs
The Koch Brothers of Texas have long been bêtes noires to the progressive side of the political spectrum. Now, it appears, the dynamic duo are taking on what they perceive as a threat to their fossil-fuel interests: electric cars. And Elon Musk, CEO of highly visible electric-car maker Tesla...
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For a couple of years, Georgia offered an example to the rest of the nation on how a seemingly unlikely state could boost electric-car sales. Then it all came crashing down. Last spring, opponents of the state's generous $5,000 income-tax credit for purchase of a zero-emission vehicle killed off the incentive, in effect since 1998. DON'T MISS: Georgia Electric-Car Sales Plummet After Incentive Replaced By Tax (Nov 2015) It was replaced by a $200 annual registration fee for electric cars--more than the state gasoline tax paid by a 25-mpg gasoline vehicle driven 15,000 miles a year...
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How Many Electric Cars Does California Buy? One-Third To One-Half Of All Of 'Em
About 55 percent of U.S. plug-in car sales in January were in California, according to the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative.
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China To Phase Out Electric-Car Subsidies By 2021, Let 'Market Decide'
China will phase out electric-car subsidies, which could open the door for more plug-in hybrids.
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When Electric-Car Incentives Return: British Columbia Case Study
Christmas came in April last year for plug-in electric vehicle proponents in British Columbia, Canada, when the provincial government reinstated its Clean Energy Vehicle purchase-incentive program. Purchase rebates for B.C. buyers of plug-in electric vehicles had ended in February 2014, when the...
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Germany To Spend Billions Supporting Electric Car Expansion
Germany's Economy Minister wants to spend over $2 billion to promote electric cars.
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Rich Electric-Car Buyers In CA Face Mid-March Deadline For Rebates
California's income cap for plug-in car rebates takes effect in March.
Stephen Edelstein