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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

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If you’re trying to reckon whether an electric car is for you, here are top reasons why you should get aboard the electric vehicle voyage: 1. Say Goodbye to Fuel Costs. A small margin in the market drastically affects the cost of fuel and its availability. Low Maintenance Costs. High Torque.

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Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

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For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Hot syngas from the gasifier is cooled and cleaned, then compressed to the reformer (methane reforming) and the reverse water gas shift (Re-WGS) reactor. Total cost estimate (2001$/GJ), inc.

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Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report concludes DOE is underinvested in transport; greatest efforts to go to electrification

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The performance, low cost, and fuel flexibility of ICEs makes it likely that they will continue to dominate the vehicle fleet for at least the next several decades, according to the report. Those technical barriers contribute to the primary market barriers for EVs: vehicle cost and range anxiety.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Plug-in hybrids run on an electrical charge for about 40 miles before switching to gas power. Electric car owners must have a parking space with access to an electrical to charge their cars. by Lars Vercelli for the Gotham Gazette.

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Researchers find Nissan LEAF creates less CO2 than Toyota Prius hybrid in west US and Texas, but more in N. Midwest

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The team characterized the vehicle emissions across the United States under alternative assumptions for regional electricity emission factors, regional boundaries, and charging schemes. Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., —Tamayao et al.

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Mumbai - Kalaburagi - Mumbai : 1200 km trip in the MG ZS EV

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Since my car was new and I had no practical data on how much my car could go on a single charge, I looked at some YouTube videos and assumed that the minimum range I could expect would be around 300kms at full charge. The orange ones are fast chargers (chargers charging 25kW and above). It was joy to see the car getting charged!

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Of the 46 EFRCs, DOE plans to fund 30 annually for five years at a total cost per year of $100 million—i.e., Understand the transport of charge carriers in synthetic disordered systems, which hold promise as new materials for conversion of solar energy to electricity and electrical energy storage. Center for Excitonics. $19.

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