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News: 10 Best States To Own an EV

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Study Ranks Best and Worst Places To Drive Electric. The cost of buying and running an EV varies depending on where you live. When the numbers were tallied, states in the East and West Coasts clearly led the way as the best places to go electric. West Virginia. In some states going electric saves you more.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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The question of electricity costs vs. health and environmental cost is important to ask everywhere, Michalek said. Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010). Electric vehicle charging may affect these trends.

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DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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Successful achievement of the project goals is expected to enable the commercial deployment of natural gas-fueled Distributed Generation SOFC systems, which is an intermediate step toward viable SOFC technology for large-scale, coal-fueled, central power generation applications. Montana State University.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Researchers develop bi-metallic catalyst for thermocatalytic decomposition of methane: H2 with low or no CO2

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The TCD process starts by flowing methane gas through the patent-pending bimetallic catalyst inside a reactor vessel operating at approximately 600 ?C. kg, PNNL technoeconomic analysts project a net hydrogen production cost of $2.0/kg The chemical reaction produces hydrogen as solid carbon accumulates on the catalyst.

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