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Fisker Pear interior, charger reliability, Senator’s “expensive” electric car: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A Senator's "expensive" electric car turns out to be the cheapest one on the market, and helps make a point. And higher coal prices are helping clean the grid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Fisker gives a look inside its upcoming affordable urban EV. A study sounds the alarm about fast-charging reliability.

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Rivian, BrightNight and The Nature Conservancy Unite to Transform Starfire Coal Mine into Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm

Electric Cars Report

Starfire Mine, formerly one of the largest coal mines in the United States, will be the new site of a solar energy center. They were joined by […] The post Rivian, BrightNight and The Nature Conservancy Unite to Transform Starfire Coal Mine into Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Tesla owner highlights need for Model 3 HEPA filter after encountering coal-rolling “blockade”

Teslarati

A clip shared by Tesla owner @NateWiki showed three pickup trucks seemingly blocking his way, at least until one of the vehicles “coal rolled” and sent fumes directly onto the Model 3. Unfortunately for Tesla owners, or any other EV owners for that matter, the practice of coal rolling is mostly considered a nuisance on US roads.

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Electric-Car Batteries, Rolling Coal, Luring Tesla Gigafactory: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Lots of Tesla news today--including hackers, purchase incentives, even environmental rules in California--plus jet fuel from tobacco, and the odious practice of "rolling coal." All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Tesla sales, VW chargers, coal pollution, used electric values: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Volkswagen has developed a mobile juice pack for electric cars. The EPA continues to roll back regulations on coal plants to allow them to emit more pollution. For the first time dramatic depreciation on electric cars has begun to reverse. Tesla released sales numbers for the last quarter of 2018.

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Honda and Isuzu, Lucid Air, cleaner EVs from less coal: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Coal plants closed and electric cars got greener. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With a passenger-car hydrogen infrastructure moving slowly but development on hydrogen fuel-cell stacks advancing rapidly, Honda and Isuzu have announced that. Honda looks to trucks for its fuel-cell technology.

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One of the Largest Climate-Tech Workforce Partnerships in US History, + More EV & Battery News

CleanTechnica EVs

In good green economic news, electric battery maker SPARKZ and the United Mine Workers coal union have announced a labor-management memorandum of understanding for a planned factory in West Virginia that intends to put out-of-work coal miners back to work.