China 2019 Electric Vehicle Market Share Grows To 4.7% Despite Tighter Incentives

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:15:38 +0000

2019 electric vehicle market share in the world’s largest auto market, China, increased from 4.5% to 4.7%, even after a significant trimming of incentives from July

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More Great News For Tesla China — MIIT Minister States No Cut In EV Subsidies In July

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:53:34 +0000

Overnight, Miao Wei, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology in China, announced at the EV100 forum in Beijing that new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidies will not be cut in July 2020, as many in the industry had feared

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Pakistan To Elon Musk: We Want A Tesla Factory

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:00:05 +0000

Federal Minister for Science and Technology of Pakistan, Fawad Chaudhry, has a message for Elon Musk: “Dear Elon Musk your next destination may be Pakistan where 68 percent of the world population lives within 3.5 hours flight radius from Islamabad,” he shared on Twitter

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Alberta’s $200 Billion Oil & Gas Clean-Up Bill Will Be Footed By The Rest Of Canada

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:01:50 +0000

Alberta and its primary industry are going to leave Canadians from outside of Alberta with a quarter trillion dollar liability to clean up. And Canada and Canadian citizens will, for decades

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California Offers Up To $9,500 To Purchase Used Or New Electric Vehicle, Focus On Lower-Income Motorists

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 22:58:08 +0000

I understand income barriers. So, bravo to California for helping those who want to change afford to change. California’s new electric vehicle (EV) incentives for the lower income help them improve air quality and fight climate change by going electric. They can now get $9,500 in EV incentives in certain regions, or even $14,000 if you add in state incentives and all requirements are met

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10 Cool Solar Power Stories You May Have Missed

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:23:12 +0000

Too much cleantech news is a good thing, but it sometimes means I need to stuff a bunch of big stories into one article. Following some roundups of autonomous driving news and battery & EV charging news, here’s one more roundup of some cool cleantech stories no one wanted to take and write full pieces about. This one is 100% focused on solar power

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Taxpayers Give $400 Billion To Oil Companies Each Year, Enough For 91 Tesla Gigafactories

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 01:15:53 +0000

The article, noting that we spend $400 billion on oil subsidies globally, indicates that taxpayers want their governments to stop subsidizing this rich, over-mature industry, yet politicians keep the money funneling toward them

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Dutch Electric Vehicle Sales Explosion — Market Will NOT Return To Normal

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:30:29 +0000

What is happening in the Netherlands is illustrative of what is going to happen in the surrounding countries. The key to understanding this is a European phenomenon (tax loophole) — company cars for private use

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Tesla, GM, & Other EV Companies Seek US Tax Credit Expansion

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:21:38 +0000

MarketWatch reports that Tesla, General Motors, and others in the electric vehicle ecosystem are seeking expansion of the US federal tax credit for EVs

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Tesla’s Competitive Advantage Under A Magnifying Glass — The Netherlands

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:59:22 +0000

It’s easy to ignore Tesla’s Dutch sales success as just a temporary fluke created by an incentive change. And it is, but that is not the interesting thing about it

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