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Congestion charge and electric vehicles: Everything you need to know

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There are plenty of reasons why electric vehicles (EVs) are the future of motoring both in the UK and around the world. Faced with the rising threat of climate change, one of the government’s first major steps to combat dangerous levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the country was introduce the Congestion Charge.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Green Car Congress

China, for instance, wants to put 5 million plug-in hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, which could account for more than 40% of the global EV fleet that year. An analysis by Deutsche Bank Climate Advisors, however, suggests that production of 1.1 million EVs and a fleet of 3.5 l/100 km (52.3

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

fully electric car. In California, 20% of our electricity comes from zero CO2 renewables (sun, wind, geothermal), another 20% from zero CO2 hydro, and only 20.1% As more renewables come online, battery electrics just keep getting cleaner and greener. Still, for all the faults, this is a very promising vehicle.