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BBC: Electric Cars Will Be “Biggest Revolution In Motoring” Since 1913

CleanTechnica EVs

Now, BBC is also joining the fray. Originally published on EVANNEX. Many observers are forecasting that the world’s transition to electric cars will take place much sooner than expected. “What makes the end of the internal combustion engine inevitable is a technological revolution.

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Volvo joins Tesla in halting EV production due to Red Sea attacks

Baua Electric

Volvo has joined Tesla in stopping its EV production in Europe due to the threat of violence from Iran-backed Houthi fighters attacking commercial ships traveling in the Red Sea. Tesla and Volvo are among several companies having to direct ships away from the Red Sea amid the threat of attacks, Automotive News Europe reports.

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To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

Creative Greenius

The first media notice Greta got was from the BBC in September of last year. Now Greta and her cohorts around the world have big plans for a global #ClimateStrike on March 15 and I have no doubt they will exceed expectations. By the end of October she was speaking at the Declaration of Rebellion, at Parliament Square, in London.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

An embryonic movement is growing in Europe to build “smart cities&# that will challenge the status quo. The reason the funding was dropped is not clear, but the challenge facing Europe’s big power generators is obvious ? In the city of the future, could power suppliers be rivalled by innovative construction firms?

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