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Study Finds That Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs

Green Car Congress

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. Driving Growth: How Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

Now are we still stuck maintaining our addiction with clean needles, or, best case, settling for methadone? Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles.

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Disruptive tech, sustainability agenda driving India’s auto INC | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Rise of clean mobility Consumer awareness and conscious decision-making are driving demand for electric vehicles (EVs), prompting increased investments in sustainable and advanced production facilities from automakers. A focus on sustainability has brought green hydrogen as a source of clean fuel under the spotlight.

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Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll. It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars.

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Welcome to the Year of the EV—Whatever It Will Be

Clean Fleet Report

The impact on the auto industry, particularly the still growing electric sector, could be profound. The look and content of this new contingent of EVs also promises to broaden the conversation about how an electric car operates and what the shift away from the internal combustion engine means.

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At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

Cars That Think

And indeed, the auto industry is beginning to embrace technology that works in the manner of a virtual assistant. Indeed, some carmakers have announced plans to introduce conversational agents that both assist drivers with operating their vehicles and help them to organize their daily lives.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He has spent the better part of the last decade developing EV pilot projects, leading clean transportation research, and evaluating EV programs. Marc is an advocate for clean energy, drives a Tesla Model S 100D, has solar panels and two Tesla Power Walls. About Marc: Marc wants to help further the adoption of education of EVs.