Teslarati
MAY 13, 2021
. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post last night. Tesla’s mission when it was established in 2003 was to “accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.”
Electric Auto Association
DECEMBER 1, 2022
2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. I spread the word as far and wide as I could… until the lease was over in 2003 and GM said they were taking the car away.” They jumped on the idea. Impacting the EV scene for 3 decades. His interest grew deeper when he was an officer in the U.S. I loved it, my parents loved it.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
TIGAS makes it possible to produce high quality, high value gasoline from natural gas, shale gas, associated gas, coal, pet coke or even biomass. In a 2003 technical review for NREL, Spath and Dayton noted that the process was developed with the idea that future plants would be constructed in remote areas for recovery of low-cost natural gas.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal. Well, the cheapest source is from steam reformed fossil fuels, and that process produces CO2, especially when that fossil fuel is coal.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." Kwong asked.
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