Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
Despite an increase in light-duty truck and SUV sales, these vehicle types only accounted for 1.9 million MTCO 2 e) actually outpaced that of light-duty trucks and SUVs. The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels.
Green Car Congress
JULY 3, 2015
They considered state-specific contributions from nine generating technologies: coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, biogas, geothermal, nuclear, wind, and solar. For comparison, they team estimated the RFS goal for cellulosic fuels to be equivalent to 1289 PJ. billion gallon) and 4540 PJ (56.4
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6 Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Nickel-metal hydride batteries, proven for many years in hybrids to be safe, could go into PHEVs today -- they would be designed more like the ones Toyota put in its 2002 RAV4 EV compact all-electric SUV than like current hybrid batteries.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models.
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