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Global Electric Vehicle market size to swell by five-times to $823.74B by 2030: study

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However, in the short term, as in up until the end of the decade, Allied Market Research expects the market to saturate and expand, especially as the cost of driving a combustion engine vehicle continues to bubble, giving consumers more incentive to drive an electric powertrain.

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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It’s a case where diesel has probably been beneficial in terms of climate impacts, but it’s come at the cost of human health. Together, these groups represent more than 90% of the total number of diesel cars sold between 2000 and 2015, in 28 member states of the EU, along with Norway and Switzerland.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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To date, the relatively high cost of batteries has kept electric and plug-in vehicles at the fringes of the auto industry. Waters worked on the battery for the General Motors EV1 and also worked at Ener1, which makes lithium-ion batteries. But it does have experience on its side. Bright is based around a parallel hybrid.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. The FIA caps the cost of a single F1 engine at around US $15 million, but some teams try to hide true costs to avoid penalties. So the performance gap remains huge, but Formula E is trying to close it.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Equinor used the same design for an 88-MW, 11-turbine array —the world’s largest, though probably not for long—completed this year in Norway. Equinor constructed floating wind farms in Scotland and Norway. At that project, cables transfer the electricity to oil and gas platforms, rather than delivering the power back to shore.

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