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• Study - Energy costs much more than consumers pay
  
  And plug-ins don't help much if coal-powered Some great information coming out of the “ Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use ” study completed by the National Research Council for Congress. Essentially, America's energy paradigm costs Americans MUCH more than what we pay at the gas pump our in our utility bills. In 2005, for instance, America's 'hidden' costs of energy production added an extra $120 billion in health costs, not including "damages from climate change, harm to ecosystems, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security, which the report examines but does not monetize."
  Hybrid Car Blog - Friday, October 23, 2009
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• Renault Fluence EV to Cost Significantly Less Than Gasoline Version
  
  According to Better Place CEO Shai Agassi, the cost of the upcoming Renault Fluence ZE EV will be significantly less than the same model with a gasoline engine. The Renault Fluence ZE was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show .  It will become the first commercialized vehicle to utilize the Better Place battery swapping station and Renault
  All Cars Electric - Monday, October 12, 2009
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• Argonne Study Examines Impact of Real World Drive Cycles on Efficiency and Cost of Different PHEV Configurations
  
  Results from a study by Argonne National Laboratory on the impact of real world drive cycles on the fuel efficiency and cost of different plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) configurations suggest that while different PHEV configurations all demonstrate great potential for displacing petroleum use (with fuel displacement increasing linearly with available electrical energy), the relative benefits of adding more battery capacity seem to decrease with increasing pack size. Cost benefit analysis . Aymeric Rousseau, program manager at Argonne, presented a small slice of this wide study at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC) this week in Long Beach.
  Green Car Congress - Thursday, June 11, 2009
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• Study Concludes That Smaller Capacity PHEVs Would Be a “Robust” Option for Minimizing Fuel Consumption, Cost and GHG Emissions
  
  Best vehicle choice for minimum fuel consumption, cost, or greenhouse gas emissions as a function of distance driven between charges across sensitivity scenarios. team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has analyzed the impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) battery pack size on fuel consumption, cost and greenhouse gas emissions over a range of charging frequencies (distance traveled between charges). Shiau et al. (2009) 2009) Click to enlarge.
  Green Car Congress - Thursday, February 26, 2009
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• Biofuels to push up the cost of motoring
  
  Adding to the wave of criticism against the UK’s current policy for the use of biofuels in road transportation, The Times reports that the cost of filling up will rise as the European Union force oil companies to add more of the ‘green’ stuff to petrol and diesel. Malcolm Watson, technical director of UK PIA, said that drivers of older cars would have to buy “super unleaded”, a higher octane fuel that costs about 6p more per litre, or £3.60 An analysis by the UK Petroleum Industry Association (UK PIA) showed that drivers of cars built before 2000 would be worst hit by the increase use of biofuel because they may have to buy a more expensive type of fuel to avoid damaging their engines.
  Green Cars News - Friday, April 17, 2009
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• U of Michigan Study Finds Costs of Plug-in Cars Primary Key to Broad Consumer Acceptance
  
  2009) Click to enlarge. A newly released University of Michigan study found widespread consumer interest in buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; however, the cost of the cars is much more influential than environmental and other non-economic factors as a predictor of purchase probabilities. Consumers were asked to consider two key factors: the savings achievable on fuel costs and the added cost premium to purchase the vehicle. Probabilities at different price points for at lest some chance of purchase. Source: Curtin et al. (2009)
  Green Car Congress - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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• University of Minnesota Study Finds Cellulosic Ethanol Carries Lower Human Health Economic Costs Than Gasoline or Corn Ethanol
  
  The study is the first to estimate the economic costs to human health and well-being from gasoline, corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol made from biomass. The authors found that depending on the materials and technology used in production, cellulosic ethanol’s environmental and health costs are less than half the costs of gasoline, while corn-based ethanol’s costs range from roughly equal to about double that of gasoline. A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota finds that cellulosic ethanol has fewer negative effects on human health because it emits smaller amounts of fine particulate matter.
  Green Car Congress - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Battery costs holding up electric car uptake
  
  According to vehicle residual value expert, CAP, one of the major issues is that battery replacement costs threaten to render commercial electric vehicles [...] ...Tags: Tags: Electric cars battery CAP cost electric car residual value A lack of recharging infrastructure and short driving ranges aren’t the only hurdles that electric cars have to overcome if the car industry is to see a wide adoption of these vehicles. According
  Green Cars News - Thursday, February 18, 2010
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• Toyota Aims to Reduce Fuel Cell Vehicle Cost to 1/10 of Current By Commercialization in 2015; Reduction to Another 1/10 With Scale
  
  Toyota’s targeted cost reductions in fuel cell vehicles. During his presentation at the recent California Air Resources Board (ARB) ZEV Technology Symposium, Tatsuaki Yokoyama, from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, said that Toyota aimed to reduce the cost of fuel cell vehicles to 1/10 of the current level by design and materials improvement by commercialization in 2015. Design of the fuel cell system and hydrogen storage system plays a critical role in achieving the cost reduction, Source: Toyota . Click to enlarge. In a news conference
  Green Car Congress - Sunday, October 4, 2009
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• Study Finds Integrated Biorefinery Processes Could Be Highly Competitive With Petroleum Fuels on Efficiency and Costs, While Offering Substantial Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  integrating biological and thermochemical processing to produce biofuels and/or power could offer similar, if not lower, efficiencies and costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuel, according to a comparative analysis of 14 mature technology biomass refining scenarios. The RBAEF project, which was launched in 2003, is the most comprehensive study of the performance and cost of mature technologies for producing energy from biomass to date. Processing efficiencies for biorefinery scenarios (energy out as percent of feedstock lower heating value).
  Green Car Congress - Sunday, March 8, 2009
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