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No more Volt, Rivian electric truck, hidden climate report: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

General Motors announced it would kill the Chevrolet Volt in mid-2019. A new report details how much climate change will hurt the U.S. Rivian revealed its good-looking electric truck. And new solid-state batteries from China. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Con Edison helping NYC drivers shift to EVs with more places to charge up

Green Car Congress

Level 2 chargers provide 240 volts, offering up to 20 miles of range for every hour a vehicle is plugged in. DC fast chargers provide 480 volts, offering 180 miles or more per hour of charging. However, the prospect of hundreds of thousands of EVs on New York City’s streets requires careful planning to ensure future grid reliability.

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Right Wing Volt Flip-Flop? Now It's An Energy Security Hero! (Video)

Green Car Reports

You may have heard and read more than you want to on the media distortions and lousy reporting about the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change.

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

Green Car Congress

I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. The ongoing rollout of 48-volt technology is another element of CO 2 reduction. As a premium car company, it is our ambition to lead the way in sustainability.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * For example, if you look at the page on Obama you find: * The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term.

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GWU team develops low-cost, high-yield one-pot synthesis of carbon nanofibers from atmospheric CO2

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Carbon nanofiber growth can occur at less than 1 volt at 750 ˚C,—less than the 3-5 volts used in the 1,000 ˚C industrial formation of aluminum, he said. One advance the group has recently achieved is the ability to synthesize carbon fibers using even less energy than when the process was initially developed.

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