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Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most popular approach has been to offer credits to those that exceed emissions reduction targets. Those credits can then be sold to other emitters that are failing to hit targets for any number of reasons. However, the question is who should get the credit ... Read more →

GM teams up with utilities to prepare plug-ins. Xavier Navarro

Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities? 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

GM teams up with utilities to prepare plug-ins. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Wall Street Journal has published a very interesting article that states that GM is teaming with a dozen electric utilities operating in 40 states to prepare the arrival of its plug-in model (the Volt, if you didn't remember the name). From the business point of view, the article states that ...

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