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Study projects future EVs to have 30-70% lower environmental impacts that current EVs when changes to electricity generation are considered

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Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts. Credit: ACS, Cox et al. Click to enlarge.

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“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

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Underneath the e-fuels banner, Audi also includes renewable electricity for recharging its e-tron vehicles (“e-power”) and, should the market so require it, “green” hydrogen (e-hydrogen, derived in the e-gas process). We are trying to build awareness that you can make a climate impact with existing cars. —Reiner Mangold.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

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The simplest recharging option is to plug the charging cable supplied with the car into a conventional 230-volt socket. A completely depleted battery is recharged in this way within nine hours. The (completely flat) battery would thus be fully recharged after six hours. The battery is then 80% recharged after just 30 minutes.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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And yet, what about recharging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. The circuit that you put in for a dedicated what we call Level Two charging station, working at 240 volts, which gives you that 3 to 6 hour complete battery recharge—the circuit you want it probably at 50 amps. And otherwise, it's a single shot.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And yet, what about recharging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. The circuit that you put in for a dedicated what we call Level Two charging station, working at 240 volts, which gives you that 3 to 6 hour complete battery recharge—the circuit you want it probably at 50 amps. And otherwise, it's a single shot.