Virginia Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:48:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Virginia Could Overturn Road-Use Tax for Hybrid Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/virginia-overturn-road-use-tax-hybrid-vehicles-20140124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/virginia-overturn-road-use-tax-hybrid-vehicles-20140124/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:48:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45444 A number of States are struggling to come up with solutions to fund highway infrastructure maintenance and improvements, but not all of them are entirely fair. Are States picking on electric and hybrid vehicles? A tax on electric and hybrid vehicles seems to make sense, but is it fair? First, fuel taxes used to be […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/virginia-overturn-road-use-tax-hybrid-vehicles-20140124/feed/ 0 45444 Virginia DMV Gives Tesla Motors the OK to Sell Direct https://www.greenoptimistic.com/virginia-dmv-gives-tesla-motors-ok-sell-direct-20131101/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/virginia-dmv-gives-tesla-motors-ok-sell-direct-20131101/#respond Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:56:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43097 If different is the name of the game, then Tesla Motors plays the game very well, but sometimes people don’t like different, such as various state automobile dealer associations. Most states have laws preventing companies from selling directly to the public, which are in place to protect the automobile dealers [not the consumer]. Basically, the […]

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