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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. SZ (1) 6753.T

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Pickens’ plan includes lots of wind-generated electricity, ostensibly to replace the natural gas he would divert to vehicles. One can’t, however, simply replace gas generation with wind. Tags: joe romm pickens plan t boone pickens al gore cng. Natural gas is simply too useful and expensive to squander in such a fashion.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.