Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The first conference, “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change”, was held in 2005 at the Met Office in Exeter, and focused on pathways to climate stabilization at or below 2 degrees Celsius. A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. “It would help stabilize the energy flows, so you don’t come up against the limits of the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate.

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