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

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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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Full Electric Vehicle Registrations Overtake Plugin Hybrids In South Africa

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About a year ago we wrote the article “Electric Vehicles in South Africa: Where Are We Now?,” ” which gave a view on the state of the electric vehicle market in South Africa. One year later we want to give an update on the progress since then. Whilst there has been slow and steady progress in the […].

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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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Mazda’s MX-30 With Rotary Range Extender: Why I’m Looking Forward To It Next Year

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A recent article at Motor 1 tells us that Mazda’s MX-30 PHEV with a rotary engine is likely to land in about a year. Normally, we don’t write about PHEV at CleanTechnica these days, this is going to be a very special plugin hybrid because it doesn’t follow the usual plugin hybrid formula.

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EV Transmissions Are Awesome!

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Just over two years ago, I wrote an article discussing upcoming EV transmissions. Since then, we’ve seen a number of EVs and plugin hybrids that use a transmission, and the advantages that were mathematically predictable (as well as known from the DIY EV scene that predated mass EV production) became a reality.

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Netherlands May 2021

EV Sales

The Dutch PEV market continues on the fast lane, with 5,986 plugin registrations, placing last month PEV Share at 24% (13% BEV), pulling the year to date PEV share to 18% (7.9% Skoda Enyaq superstar in hot market (24% share!) Not bad, eh? Not bad, eh?

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). Towards this goal, we present for the first time in this article a membrane that can regulate transmembrane ion transport as a function of its redox state. Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Click to enlarge. — Herya and Sundaresan.