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Mercedes S-Class Electric, E85 Numbers, Coal Buyout: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: An electric Mercedes-Benz S-Class may follow the plug-in hybrid model, the latest data on E85 fueling stations, and a proposal to buy out and shut down the U.S. coal industry. All this and more on Green Car Reports. An electric-car coloring book made by an irked Tesla employee explains it all for you.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Gas is the only answer.

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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

Get Electric Vehicle

Around 1832, Robert Anderson develops the first crude electric vehicle, but it isn’t until the 1870s or later that electric cars become practical. 10 Are EVs eco-friendly since we generate electricity from coal? First of all the efficiency of coal-based power plants is around 40% [ Ref ]. 8 When was EV first made?

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

And think about your average car these days. And he wrote this great thing for us recently about why EV cars are one thing and EV infrastructure is an even bigger problem and why EVs are proving to be really quite tough. I think maybe because the cover was a car perched at the top of a giant mountain of coal.

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China Plucky Plug In

Plug In Partners

E ven as the President of Honda says he doesn't think that Plug-ins make sense, a new car company in China announces their plans to build one and Hyundai says it is considering developing a plug-in hybrid car. Although the car won't reach the U.S. by 2020.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Cars That Think

Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. government has agreed to adhere to the Minamata Convention’s provisions because it already has similar laws on the books. But then a company hit on the idea to use it as a spacecraft propellant. Except there is still no existing U.S.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.