The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version. liter Ecotec gas-burner did most of the work with its 170 horsepower. Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2021

. — Tesla Owners Club New York State (@TOCNYS) July 7, 2021. Several police departments across the United States and other regions have recently adopted all-electric forms of transportation from Tesla. The lack of need to purchase gas and perform routine maintenance will save departments, and taxpayers, money in the long run.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) grocery bags can be successfully pyrolyzed to alternative diesel fuel, according to a new study by a team from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service ARS.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. Especially in cities, children may be unable to escape harmful vehicle fumes. Eliminating ICE buses will go a long way toward making schools healthier for students.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

The United States has the potential to store a mean of 3,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in geologic basins throughout the country, according to the first detailed national geologic carbon sequestration assessment released today by the US Geological Survey (USGS). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). metric gigatons.

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Baua Electric

MAY 5, 2023

Antti Lindström, an analyst at S&P International Mobility, mentioned the corporate’s constancy to turning in hydrogen vehicles by means of the top of the generation in North The united states is “telling of how important they think that that vehicle or that technology is for their credibility and market survival.”

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

BMW will bring an all-electric iX SUV to its star-studded Super Bowl advertising campaign during the most-watched sporting event in the United States. The commercial will portray legendary bodybuilder and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Zeus, who decides to retire and move to Palm Springs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, albeit a distant second. In the United States, La Niña often signals drier-than-normal conditions in the Southwest and Central Plains regions, and wetter fall and winter seasons in the Pacific Northwest. Earlier post.) Bruhwiler, P.C. Novelli, S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Also, seven regional electric utility partners are joining Ford and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to conduct real-world tests on an expanding fleet of Ford Escape PHEVs. Initially the cells will be produced at the supplier’s production facility in France, but the system will be assembled in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

Fusion occurs when plasmas become hot and dense enough for the atomic nuclei contained within the hot gas to combine and release energy. The balance tips when more power escapes from the islands than researchers can pump into the plasma through ohmic heating. PPPL, in Plainsboro, N.J.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and approximately $215 million to begin replacing its passenger cars with alternative-fuel models, beginning with hybrids. In addition, AT&T piloted four Ford Escape hybrids, which were deployed in late 2007 in California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” The new hybrids will be available in 24 major markets across the country, including the 10 busiest airports for business travelers in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Ford Motor Company will now partner with Azure Dynamics Corporation to deliver a pure battery electric Ford Transit Connect van for the United States and Canadian markets in 2010. Ford and Azure. Oak Park, Mich.-based Azure Dynamics and Ford both currently utilize Johnson Controls-Saft battery technology for other products.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Toyota's Prius, the best-known and best-selling gas-electric car in the United States, drops from a 60 mpg rating under the current system to 48 miles per gallon in the city under the 2008 testing procedure -- a 20 percent decline Its highway mileage rating falls about 12 percent, to 45 mpg.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

by ’10 By BILL VLASIC Published: May 13, 2008 DETROIT — The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. And by the end of the decade two more hybrids will join the Escape SUV in Ford's gasoline-electric lineup.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

General Motors dealers in the United States delivered 173,007 vehicles in April, down 34% compared with a year ago. In April, combined sales of all four Ford hybrid models—including the new Fusion and Milan hybrids—totaled 2,299, up 21% versus Ford’s hybrid sales a year ago (Escape and Mariner). General Motors.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The 15 years in the future 2035 aspiration to stop selling gas- and diesel-powered vehicles is clearly a long way off and a lot can change in that timeframe. 4, Hyundai IONIQ 5, Audi Q4 e-tron, Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV, Ford Escape PHEV, and Lincoln Corsair PHEV have either become available or likely will be in 2021.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 24, 2022

Yet there is one technology that has escaped this trend: Wi-Fi. Yet the standard isn’t letting off the gas. Verizon and AT&T customers in the United States average just 52.3 The first computers advanced so quickly that new models went obsolete while they were still on store shelves.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Driven by an 80% reduction in fleet sales, GM dealers in the United States delivered 128,198 light-duty vehicles in January, down 48.9% Passenger car sales were led by Camry and Camry Hybrid, which posted combined sales of 20,782 units, down 34.2% of that (1,141 units), but showed a year-on-year decrease of 69.6%.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Nogales, Arizona Friday, November 27, 2009 Nogales International United States Census 2010 Electric hybrid ‘car of the future’ visits Nogales area By Denise HolleyPublished Friday, November 27, 2009 10:03 AM MST Retired Sgt. He urged them to “kick gas because your future depends on it.”Asher he asked. “If

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

United States. ” [Note: In the first quarter of this year takes rates have been averaging around 8-12% for the Camry, Civic and Escape hybrid versions.]. Edwards believes that “ Gas prices alone are not what will increase hybrid sales. Even globally the number is relatively small: Region. Western Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

emissions from the Zero-V fueled with LH 2 from fossil natural gas (NG) would be 2.16 In our discussions with the gas suppliers Linde and Air Products, renewable LH 2 can be made available to the Zero-V today in the quantities required. The gas suppliers are currently working to make renewable hydrogen more broadly available.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

No party for Citis owners: You and me FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- When gas was topping $4 a gallon last summer, the urgency to find alternative sources of energy to power cars and trucks became clear to most Americans. will be competing for the same finite supplies of oil and gas.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2021

While that’s okay, his position as President of the United States requires more comprehension on subjects that involve reducing emissions and increasing the number of EVs on the road, a direct factor in the reduction of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. It was the best car I’ve ever had. Make no bones about it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In contrast, except for the PHEV, the alternative fuel vehicles—such as hydrogen, natural gas and battery electric vehicles—pose problems and limitations due to their single energy source and the lack of infrastructure for high-power energy distribution of their individualized fueling needs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. Pacific Gas & Electric/Bay Area Air Quality Management District, "Sparky," by EnergyCS, July 2006 (San Francisco County, CA) Contact sxtg@. San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007. Jim Tech Ltd.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

Also a new carbon tax on coal mining, a carbon tax on coal transporting, a carbon tax on burning coal, a carbon tax on any greenhouse gas emissions and a carbon tax on any waste from burning coal - all equal to an amount double the damage done. We have numbers on what they owe. Then there’s the vig. Plus the vig of course.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. In that case, you might never burn a drop of gas during the life of the car.". Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready. GM Press Release ).

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This may be true, but the focus needs to be on getting older, gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs off the road, not providing a massive discount to the owner of a Ford F-150 Raptor to replace it with a $70,000 Rivian R1T. It is like incentivizing automakers to produce ICE vehicles with larger gas tanks instead of a higher MPG rating.

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