Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2013

Electric grid transmission and distribution efficiency (from power plants to end-use customers) is the third component. Brown (2013) Electric Urban Delivery Trucks: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Cost-Effectiveness. The second upstream efficiency component is the electric power plant’s generation efficiency (η pp ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Vehicles operated in states heavily dependent on coal for producing electricity showed higher emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Ford introduced a MyEnergi Lifestyle collaboration for the US in 2013, working with Whirlpool, SunPower and Eaton. If every home in the United States were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas—32 million homes—off the power grid.

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