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Universities of Birmingham and Warwick launch new fuels lab

Green Car Congress

The UK Universities of Birmingham and Warwick launched a new lab to support investigations into the dynamic aspects of combustion of alternative fuels, as well as gasoline and diesel, with the aim of reducing harmful vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly greenhouse gasses.

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Debunking the "Electric Cars are evil due to Cobalt" argument!

Plug In India

These packs use ZERO Cobalt and ZERO Nickel [3] The petrol heads are not in a position to take any sort of moral high ground on the Cobalt issue. This is due to the fact cobalt is used to extract sulfur during the refining of crude oil. Coated in oil, animals can be killed by poisoning or suffocation.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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Oil shortages by 2015 warns new report

Green Cars News

The US military is warning that we may be closer to surpassing excess oil production than we think. According to the Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, surplus oil production capacity could end as early as 2012 with shortages in oil beginning by 2015.

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EU funded project developing fast rechargeable zinc-polymer battery for hybrid and small electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

This approach is necessitated by the problems associated with petrol and diesel powered vehicles, such as environmental impact, rising fuel prices, the looming shortage of oil and the limitations of batteries available for electric vehicles. —Dr Karl S Ryder, University of Leicester.

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Fact or Fiction: Electric Vehicle Charging in 2022

Blink Charging

schools & universities, . Ford has released the all electric F-150 Lightning for those of you who need a workhorse of a vehicle and the Mustang Mach-E for anyone who wants to burn some rubber without burning petrol in the process. . Blink has deployed over 30,000 charging ports across 18 countries in the Blink Network. airports, .

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Fourth, like all fossil fuels hydrogen is highly volatile, far more so than petrol.