https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/21/maine-to-give-5-1-million-subsidy-to-boost-electric-vehicle-purchases/ Maine to give $5.1 million subsidy to boost electric vehicle purchases 2019-03-21 Peter McGuire
The state will use Volkswagen settlement money to encourage all-electric use. Maine will provide a $5.1 million subsidy and add at least 50 public vehicle charging stations to encourage residents and companies to buy all-electric vehicles. Gov. Janet Mills announced the financial incentive program in a news release Thursday. Funding comes from a 2017 award Maine received as part of a multistate settlement with carmaker Volkswagen to resolve environmental damage caused by that company’s cheating U.S. emissions tests. “Maine people shell out $5 billion a year to out-of-state fossil fuel companies, and a lot of that money is spent on gas for vehicles that just becomes carbon dioxide pumped into our atmosphere,” Mills said in a statement. “We can do better. It is time to used in the next generation of technologies that will move our state towards a renewable future.” About half the money will be used to help public agencies and organizations that aid the elderly buy electric vehicles. The remainder will provide rebates to Maine residents and businesses to buy or lease electric vehicles. The state estimates rebates could put up to 900 new electric vehicles on Maine roads, more than twice the number now registered in the state. Efficiency Maine Trust in April plans to ask for bids to install 50 to 60 electric vehicle charging stations at public buildings across the state. [© pressherald.com] ... https://www.google.com/search?q=dieselgate ... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vdub VDub was a parody tagline, used in a short series of commercials for German car manufacturer Volkswagen. As part of a 2006 advertising campaign for ... https://www.nrcm.org/maine-environmental-news/maine-to-boost-investment-in-electric-vehicles/ Maine to Boost Investment in Electric Vehicles March 21, 2019 Natural Resources Council of Maine (press release ... “Looking around at other states, we see nothing is more effective at accelerating electric vehicle markets than giving consumers a direct rebate ... + https://electrek.co/2019/03/21/volkswagen-northvolt-advance-batteries-electric-vehicles/ Volkswagen partners with Northvolt to advance batteries for electric vehicles Mar. 21st 2019 Volkswagen partners with Northvolt to advance batteries for electric vehicles ... Northvolt has the aspiration to serve the auto industry for vehicle electrification as ... https://i0.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/10/NOrthvolt-e1540218735708.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
