Both alert you to law changes and probe your finances with helpful questions: Do you want to report recapture of a clean fuel vehicle credit?
The vehicle merges the clean lines of German Volkswagen design DNA with the masculine character of an American SUV.
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Instead, as the authors argue, a carbon price can be used as a vehicle for investing in clean energy technologies.
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Already, about 1, 100 Blink Electric Vehicle charging stations from clean energy company ECOtality are expected to be installed in the state of Oregon by the end of the year.
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The innovative Sanya Skypump pairs UGE's cutting-edge vertical wind turbines with GE's electric vehicle (EV) charging technology to offer completely clean energy to power electric vehicles.
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Honda announced in June that, by 2009, it will market an all-new hybrid vehicle, the company's fourth, and offer a clean diesel passenger car that will likely get 45 miles to the gallon.
It would take four big changes, but the technology for all of them is already available: a new automotive DNA based on electronics and connectivity, a mobility internet to manage vast amounts of vehicle traffic and integrate vehicles into the internet of things, smart, clean renewable electric energy, and last but not least, it would require electronically managed, dynamically priced markets for electricity, roads, parking and vehicles, in other words, smart cities.
The new Chrysler is outfitting all of its assembly plants with "metrology centers, " clean zones within the factory that employ about 30 people who scan and measure components and complete vehicle bodies.
DaimlerChrysler hopes to clean up the foul image with the diesel version of its popular Jeep Liberty, the first diesel passenger vehicle sold by a U.S. carmaker in decades.
"If they can deliver what they are saying, and you don't even have to make a change in the vehicle, that is a positive check in the column, " says Ron Pernick, a partner at clean-technology research and publishing firm Clean Edge.
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