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Lordstown deadline, hacking EV chargers, BMW won’t give up gasoline: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

BMW believes in electric versions of its gasoline sedans. This is the week we’ll likely get a better idea of its viability, as a potential deal with. EV chargers are a security concern. And is this a new start or the beginning of the end for Ohio’s Lordstown Motors? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Gas-Powered USPS Trucks Is A Stupid Idea

CleanTechnica EVs

The decision to order tens of thousands of gasoline-powered vehicles for the USPS is wrong on so many levels.

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U.K. Government Pushes Gasoline Car Ban to 2035

The Truth About Cars

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he’s delaying bans the government had previously made for gasoline-powered vehicles. The United Kingdom has introduced a lot of unpopular ideas of late and the public doesn’t appear to be overjoyed with leadership. EV mandates and restrictive urban planning (e.g.

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France plans to ban all gasoline, diesel vehicles by 2040

Green Car Reports

To most North Americans, the idea of banning all vehicles with internal-combustion engines seems unthinkable. Filling up with gasoline (or diesel) is as American as are dispersed low-density suburbs without mass transit, bike paths, or even sidewalks.

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DOE soliciting ideas for H-Prize topics

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program (FCT) is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0000680 ) ideas for H-Prize topics ( earlier post ) and criteria for advancements that would help to enable the widespread commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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Chargeway: the best electric-car idea you've never heard of

Green Car Reports

You pull up to the pump, open the vehicle's fuel door, put in a credit card, select diesel or one of three grades of gasoline, lift the hose, and pump. (In Pretty much everyone knows how to put fuel into a conventional car. In New Jersey and Oregon, someone else does this for you.) Electric-car charging isn't quite that simple.

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LiquidPiston unveils 70cc rotary gasoline engine prototype embodying HEHC; power dense, low-vibration

Green Car Congress

The X Mini 70cc rotary gasoline engine. The X Mini utilizes a spark-ignition (SI-HEHC) version of the cycle with a lower compression ratio standard for gasoline engines—and hence somewhat lower efficiency than the CI implementations, Shkolnik said. Click to enlarge. —Alexander Shkolnik. Shkolnik, A., Littera, D.,

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