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US average retail gasoline prices ended 2017 lower than they started

Green Car Congress

per gallon (gal) in 2018, 30 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2017 and 57 cents/gal higher than in 2016. gal at least once in 2018. The national price for gasoline declined for 12 weeks in a row at the end of 2018, which marked the longest consecutive weekly drop since the 17-week decline from October 2014 through January 2015.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

As gas engine powertrains typically have 100 times the number of parts of an EV powertrain, I have only paid $300 for maintenance: comprising three tire rotations and one cabin air filter, after four years of ownership. In light of the current spike in gasoline prices, the savings on fueling costs with EVs are even greater.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Charging the British way Around the UK In the UK my goal was to drive from Heathrow on a mammoth loop around the very northern parts of the Scottish Highlands on the NC 500 route, which traverses one of the most remote and sparsely populated parts of Europe. I took delivery of an EV6 that Kia UK kindly loaned me.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Cars That Think

The deuterated erbium (chemical symbol ErD 3 ) is placed into thumb-size vials, as shown in this set of samples from a 20 June 2018 experiment. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example.

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