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Volvo Cars introduces new in-car Advanced Air Cleaner technology; measures PM2.5 inside cabin

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars has introduced a world-first premium air quality technology in its cars, allowing Volvo drivers to breathe clean and healthy air inside their cars and clean the air of their cabin ahead of their journey. The company’s new Advanced Air Cleaner technology comes with a sensor that measures PM 2.5

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Why nighttime EV charging is incentivized while daytime is cleaner

Green Car Reports

When it comes to overall carbon emissions, EVs are cleaner than internal-combustion cars, but how much cleaner can depend on when they're charged, according to a recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance blog post. A grid more reliant on renewable energy will shrink the carbon footprint of EVs charging from it.

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Silverado EV review, hydrogen hub emissions, Millennials and Chinese EVs: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

And the hydrogen hubs costing taxpayers billions of dollars will be how much cleaner than diesel overall? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. We drive the Chevy Silverado EV and, like everyone else, seem to have some mixed feelings. Younger U.S. drivers might be more open to Chinese EVs.

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Green Motorsports: IndyCar Switches to Cleaner Cars & Fuel

Clean Fleet Report

KERS is where kinetic energy, which is present in the waste heat created by the car’s braking process, is stored and converted into power that can be called upon to boost acceleration. Note: IndyCar currently uses E85 (85% ethanol/15% gasoline), though at a higher octane blend than what is available for street cars.

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Cleaner EVs, Aptera, cheap gas and ethanol: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A study from the UK has found that electric cars are now cleaner than gasoline cars in 95% of. Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe.

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In less than a decade, electric cars have already become this much cleaner

Green Car Reports

For those who care about the environment and keeping their driving footprint small, one of the most compelling selling points for electric cars is that your car gets cleaner over time—because the electricity you’re plugging into, from the power grid, is being weaned off coal and toward cleaner and more sustainable sources.

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Electric cars are cleaner than gasoline ones in 95% of the world, study finds

Green Car Reports

A new study confirms what electric car drivers already know: that EVs are cleaner than gasoline cars, even when emissions from electricity generation are factored in. The only.

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