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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends… (Part 4)

CleanTechnica EVs

If you’ve made it this far, I probably don’t need to rehash the methods and sources again, but if you landed in this article, here’s a link to Part 1 so you can see how I arrived at my numbers here and even play with the spreadsheet yourself if you disagree with any of it. […]

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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck Or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends…

CleanTechnica EVs

A while back, I read a very interesting article on The Drive estimating the lifetime emissions of electric pickup trucks. They concluded that electric trucks were still better than a comparable gas-powered truck, but that the point where the EV truck had saved enough energy to make up for the extra emissions of manufacturing a […]

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DLR: cleaner aircraft emissions reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus

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Ulrike Burkhardt, Lisa Bock & Andreas Bier (2018) “Mitigating the contrail cirrus climate impact by reducing aircraft soot number emissions” npj Climate and Atmospheric Science volume 1, Article number: 37 doi: 10.1038/s41612-018-0046-4.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave

Supercharged EV

Found an article on Forbes from 2015 already stating at that time that as long as people are buying and driving cars, Teslas are excellent choices regarding carbon emissions.

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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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Coltura is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. The article points to the 2019 Supreme Court case of Virginia Uranium v. —Matthew Metz, lead author of the article and founder of Coltura. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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Advik acquires business assets of UK-based Aceleron Energy for advanced Li-ion batteries – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Aditya Bhartia , Managing Director of Advik, expressed enthusiasm for the acquisition, highlighting its potential to drive progress toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy landscape.

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