While the United States has been working on a green campaign for some time now, other countries are still working to catch up with their own campaigns for more environmentally friendly vehicles. The French, in particular, have just announced a 10-year plan in which they will pump €2.5 billion into the production and deployment of all-electric-vehicles.
The French government hopes that with their efforts there will be 1 million charging stations around the country by 2015 and 4 million by 2020. Furthermore, they hope that by 2020 electric vehicles will make up for 16% of new car sales while 2025 will see 27% made up of the environmentally friendly vehicles.
Let’s hope that this plan works and that more national governments across the world hop on board.
Read (Reuters)
Tags: all electric, campaign, ev, France, french government
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This funding for the car companies was all “pay to play”, insider, self-dealing. The companies that were turned down had the exact same things in common:
1. They did not pay hundreds of thousands to buy influence. This is on public record and can be investigation under lobby and cost filings.
2. They did not make campaign contributions.
3. Each of the reasons they were told they were turned down were violated with each of the companies that did get money.
4. They were doing all of the work in the U.S. unlike those who did get the money.
5. They had a car design and those who got the money were “thinking about doing a car design”.
6. You could not draw a line from them to a politician or a person who made money or political gain unlike those who did get the money.
It was a crooked set of deals and the regulatory, law enforcement and voters need to make some noise about this.”
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