EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal. You cannot make wind and solar energy useful throughout the day unless you can store it. It’s as simple as that.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Buying carbon credits means investing in emission reduction projects that require carbon offsetting financing in order to take place. Solar/Wind: These projects develop expansive solar and wind farms, generating power that otherwise would have been supplied by fossil fuels such as coal, diesel and furnace oil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Increasing natural gas production—and transportation by liquefying it and shipping the LNG to global markets—means that more natural gas will be available to displace coal as the fuel for power plants.Let me be clear: we don’t oppose electric mobility. Our future customers will decide which type of fuel they want to buy. Why would we?

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. ones that burn coal) still see a significant amount of emissions from workplace EV charging. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

According to Forbes , studies have found that solar and wind power is often cheaper than power from fossil fuels, even without financial assistance, and their daily operations undercut even the most cost-effective coal plants. It uses the power of wind pushing turbines to collect energy. This Earth Day.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

We'll be interested in how much carbon-based fuels such as coal and natural gas went into the electrical energy that charged our batteries. This environmental info might even take into account the pollution that came from building the solar arrays or wind farms that supplied renewable energy.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link].

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. How can a microgrid help after a power outage? percent to 2.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

Because energy entails huge capital investments in projects that often last decades, utilities have traditionally shied away from making big investments in energy R&D or buying into new technologies. The council recommended: Allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands. —“Road Map to Renewal”.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Permitting issues also bedevil wind power projects. For example, Iowa is one of the best states for wind power farms. However, as wind turbine farms have increased, so has local opposition to them.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry. We’re going to end the use of coal in this country in the next ten years and we’re going to phase out the use of oil for transportation.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

It;s not just the ideological decision of buying an EV. It’s about buying a better car.” ” – George Clooney “Electric cars are coal powered cars. ” – Vinod Khosla “You have to match the convenience of the gasoline car in order for people to buy an electric car.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The report shows that the participants found the cars to be fun yet practical, easy to drive and recharge, and many said they would buy an electric car in the next five years, according to UC Davis researchers. 88% of respondents said they are interested in buying a BEV or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in the next five years.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. Three quarters of that mercury, the researchers suggested, would eventually wind up in the oceans.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

Roger Duncan, deputy manager of Austin Energy , the city-owned electric utility, dreamed up the scheme three years ago after the mayor ordered him to get more electricity from "green" sources, especially from wind. Austin Energy already got 6% of its power from wind, but wind production peaked at night, when electricity demand was low.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

The future price of CO 2 permits would need to rise to at least $50/ton before electric power generating companies would find it cost-effective to build coal-fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the authors note. —Samaras et al. Similar or higher prices would be needed for other types of low-carbon plant investment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. Even with the implementation of the smart grid it seems unlikely that we will all be able to buy our power from West Virginia. in West Virginia to $6.12 in Connecticut. in California to $3.43

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Plug In India

APRIL 14, 2021

Many of you write to us about the long tailpipe of electric vehicles and coal is major source of electricity generated in India. Studies from independent scientists tell us that even if 100% of Electricity is generated from coal, EV’s emit 50% lesser carbon gases due to the efficiency of the electric motor. It is terrible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Either that, or we’d buy one from someone else who did,” he said. We like to do in person meetings when we can actually visit something,” he continued, describing chapter trips to battery manufacturing plants, wind farms, and the solar array at the U.S. They had created two new natural gas units to replace the older coal-fired units.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Many things in your life haven’t changed since 2010 but one thing certainly has: You won’t need to buy gas in order to drive. It found that 21 percent of city residents are considered potential early adopters, people looking to buy an electric vehicle as soon as they become available for purchase. Electric Options.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” Reduced Output.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind. Remember its PURE D.C.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. And do you wind up offering your customers some kind of assistance in filing the rebate form? THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Small size. New technology. An (expected) high price tag. A troubled company.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. That track record—and that potential—is what persuaded Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to buy 10% of BYD last fall for $230 million. This could turn out to be one of Buffett’s very best deals.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

From April 2010 anyone buying a new car will pay a different rate of vehicles tax in the first year of registration. The new vehicle you want to buy must be: A car or small van weighing up to 3,500kg. From the second year of purchase onwards they will then pay the standard rate. Have a UK address on the registration certificate (V5C).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Jeff U 6.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. Most people would have bought a new car years ago, but I didn’t because nothing worth buying was on the market. — Ken Smith 4.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

More importantly, rather than coal or other unsustainable energy sources, if wind, solar, geothermal and tidal energy become more of the energy portfolio, the vehicles are fully zero emission and oil free! This will also reduce the overall cost of the battery in each car since car companies would be buying them in bulk orders.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Finally, on the issue of replacing millions of small smoke stacks (cars) with a few larger ones (utility plants): We stand a much better chance of producing cleaner electricity (solar, wind, clean coal solutions, nuclear) than we do of creating cleaner fuels for our cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. How about a car-mounted wind-generator?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Bredesen said the state is committed to buying some of the vehicles for its own use, as well as helping to develop the necessary resources to support the vehicles, including installing charging stations in strategic locations such as downtown areas or shopping mall parking lots. (2 roadways?

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