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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

He went on to own a Rover 2000, which was the most handsome looking car of its time. In the early 2000s he picked up his first electric car - the Revai. To jot down those will take an entirely new blog, but here’s a sample. The NMC cells usually show a life of 2000 cycles in the lab, compared to the 4000 of LFP.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

Was 2000 hrs by then. It was a dark desert highway, and there was cool wind in the hair. We used a constant power of 2-3 bar, did some wind-cheating and reached Jaipur in 2 hrs 45 minutes. . ​Had some hefty snacks over there and declared to ourselves that dinner was done. Was 1900 hrs by the time we left.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. Highly Ranked catachip @ Apr 19th 2009 4:57PM @ Elodie As long as the electricity is generated from wind, hydro, solar, or nuclear then there are zero emissions. Neutral who? @

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

As Joe Romm wrote at his Climate Progress blog : We currently use natural gas to produce 22% of our electricity.” Pickens’ plan includes lots of wind-generated electricity, ostensibly to replace the natural gas he would divert to vehicles. One can’t, however, simply replace gas generation with wind.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0

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