Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2009

As a part of the new government economic stimulus plan, Norway will be getting a "forest" of charging stations for electric vehicles. And it would leave the country ready to receive the cars that will help us achieve our greenhouse gas reduction goals. The Scandinavian nation, which is home to Th!nk,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

FREYR AS and 24M Technologies signed a definitive License and Services Agreement to use 24M’s SemiSolid lithium-ion battery platform technology ( earlier post ) in FREYR’s planned facilities in Mo i Rana, Norway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Share of EDVs in 2050. Note the different scaling used in the graphs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

If the climate targets set by the Paris conference are to be achieved, CO 2 emissions from traffic worldwide will have to be reduced 50% over the next four decades, and by at least 85% in the advanced economies, Bosch notes. Even if all cars were to drive electrically one day, aircraft, ships, and even trucks will still run mainly on fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Siemens will also be a participant in the project, providing electric drive systems that will draw power from the Ballard fuel cell modules. Hydrogen will be generated through electrolysis of water, using electrical energy from renewable sources.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, Toyota has entered their sights largely due to the company’s refusal to take electric vehicles seriously, its reliance on gas-powered hybrids, and its marketing campaigns that exist to create confusion about electric vehicles and channel consumers into dirtier fossil-powered vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Driving electric can be a plus in cold weather. Here’s what two organizations— Resource-Media and Recurrent —had to say about the advantages of electric vehicles (EVs) in frigid weather. Plug-in hybrids can mitigate cold weather concerns as they are also gas-powered for extended range.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. It will generate green jobs, making Gujarat a leading exporter of green energy products and contributing to making the state into a USD 3 trillion economy. This will lead to 1.7 lakh to one million.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

When winter rolls in and temperatures drop, electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to climb. How Weather Affects Electric Cars For an EV, everything from the charge time and operating range to vehicle handling is affected by the weather. This figure is far closer to the EPA-estimated 15% efficiency loss of gas-powered cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7 million electric vehicles (EV) were sold in 2021 and predicts this will rise to more than 74 million by 2030. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Weather issues simply don’t warrant avoiding EV s By Tim Benford: President of Drive Electric Dayton and Past Vice-President of Electric Auto Association. As we know from GM’s Superbowl advertisement, Norway is crushing the USA in electric vehicle (EV) sales, followed closely by Sweden and Finland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. In the New Policies Scenario, the WEO ’s central scenario, the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. Enthusiasm and Expectations Around Electric Vehicles Are Rising.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For natural gas, it is the world’s second largest producer , behind the United States and ahead of Iran, and its largest exporter. Such an economy could be largely self contained—the technical term is autarkic —as indeed it was during the Soviet era. But Russia now has a huge ally in the world’s largest economy, China.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

According to a recent study by BloombergNEF, the global ascendancy of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) has reached its tipping point. It is very important to note that everything changes once 5% of new-car sales switch to electric-only vehicles. Though EV acceptability differs from nation to nation, a trend has evolved. 

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

What the industry really needs to drive down costs, they say, is economies of scale. “In 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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. 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.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV).

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. You also must consider the electricity that charges the vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. So why has Oregon become a hotbed of activity for electric vehicles all of a sudden?

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