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Electric vs. Gasoline Cars: Uncovering the Real Climate Savior

The Truth About Cars

Photo credit: Nick Starichenko / Shutterstock.com Contrary to common misconceptions , electric vehicles (EVs) generally have a smaller carbon footprint compared to traditional gasoline cars. However, the production of electricity for EV charging can result in carbon emissions, depending on the energy source.

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How EVs Are Helping Humanity & Saving Lives?

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EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. Air pollution from cars running on petrol and diesel contributes to early mortality, cancer, bronchitis and asthma. fine particulate matter pollution). in societal costs to our health and the environment. #3.

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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

EV Adoption

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. And oh BTW, according to the Energy Information Administration , California’s grid overall consumed 0% coal power. And so “EVs are bad.”

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Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

Green Car Congress

The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now “ the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China ”. The power of EVs is electricity from the grid. and NO x emissions.

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Greenius To Corporate Carbon Producers: You’ll Pay & You’ll Like It

Creative Greenius

Last month your Creative Greenius weighed into the issue of carbon cap and trade on the TerraPass Footprint website. I offered my take on an article entitled: “ Hacks and Handout-Seekers Hate Obama’s Climate Plan “ If you’re not familiar with TerraPass Footprint this is a great opportunity to check them out.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S. Why is grid expansion so important ?

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From coconut powder to crop residue, startups find novel ways to charge EV batteries – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The three and a half year old company, Nexus Power has chosen crop residues to not only decarbonize batteries but also to reduce air pollution. Nexus is currently trying to test its battery packs in two-wheeler and three- wheeler electric vehicles and grid storage applications. Cancrie owns three patents.

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