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Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Efficiency-focused Elantra Hybrid Blue models retain the 54-mpg combined EPA rating. Tesla has started applying the EV tax credit at the time of purchase —via its own website and affecting the up-front amount buyers will need to pay when buying a new Tesla. inch infotainment screen. 2023 Tesla Model Y – Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.

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The Time Challenge of Equipment Turnover in the Transition to Electrification

EV Adoption

The implications are two fold: 1) Not everyone wants or can afford a new BEV today — or a BEV simply may not fit their needs (impact of towing on range), or a BEV may not actually be the best way to reduce GHGs where they live based on the grid energy source. So as I frequently argue — we need an eclectic powertrain approach in parallel.

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Want to go green? Buy an electric car and move to Paraguay

Green Cars News

Paraguay is the greenest place on the Earth to own and drive an electric car, thanks to its hydro-energy driven electricity grid. The South American country produces a staggering five time more hydroelectricity than it produces, meaning that the footprint of running an electric car there is rated at just 70 g CO2e/km-virtually all of [.].

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

mpg by 2016. Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid. Even with the implementation of the smart grid it seems unlikely that we will all be able to buy our power from West Virginia.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

smart grid), storage (grid level, end user, community), monitoring and measurement. XPF’s goal is to inspire a new generation of viable, safe, affordable and super fuel-efficient vehicles that people want to buy. Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Click to enlarge.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

That will tell you how much energy your vehicle needs to travel 100 miles, a more accurate measurement than our traditional fuel economy (mpg) numbers. Ones to watch include the upcoming BMW i4 and recently announced Kia EV6, but you can’t buy one of those yet. Of course, the EPA “green” scores are 10 for both Smog and Greenhouse Gas.

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