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Electricity vs Hydrogen: Why is electrification the first choice for fleets?

Setec Powerr

Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug. In 2019, an incident occurred at a hydrogen refueling station located in Sandvika, just outside the capital city of Oslo, Norway. In contrast, electricity has a significant cost advantage.

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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. That’s more than seven times higher than the price in 2019. Hence, cheap EVs coming your way (well, not in the US, at least not yet anyway). South Korea comes in third with 72 and the Isle of Man, which has 61 registered ships, in fourth.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

We have a pipeline from Norway and from the Continent. Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. In 2019, the Government once all keen on low priced UK gas did a U turn after succumbing to environmentalists’ pressure groups. No Fracking. Most CO2 is a by-product of making fertilisers.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Cars That Think

And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. In 2019, a group of researchers in Italy and the United States estimated how much of the mercury used in spacecraft propellant might find its way back into Earth’s atmosphere. It’s also liquid at room temperature, making it efficient to store and use.

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Tesla Model Y wins UK bestseller spot in March

Push EVs

Overall auto volume was 287,825 units, up some 18% YoY, though still some 19% down from March 2019 levels. HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. Combustion-only powertrains lost 2.5%

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, in Norway. Satellite phones emit signals that are detectable from space: In 2019, Frontex issued a. million people.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. an explosion of a hydrogen filling station in Sandvika, Norway, injuring two people and causing Hyundai and Toyota to cease sales of their FCEV in that country [6,7]. 2019) Hydrogen station explodes, Toyota halts sales of fuel cell cars, is this the end?