Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

International shipping contributes an estimated 3% of global emissions of CO 2. Although the industry has reduced its consumption of fossil fuels by a number of measures such as using increasingly thermally efficient diesel engines in recent decades, the current total fuel oil consumption is in excess of 350 million tonnes per year (about 98.5

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. Cost-optimal vehicle technologies indicated by asterisks: ICEV, internal combustion engine vehicle; HEV, hybrid-electric vehicle; BEV, battery-electric vehicle. Greenblatt & Saxena (2015). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Larry Burns, GM vice president for research and development and strategic planning: "Whether your concern is energy security, global climate change, natural disasters, the high price of gas, the volatile pricing of a barrel of oil and the effect that unpredictability has on Wall Street - all of these issues point to a need for energy diversity. (

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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. nk Related Posts From Green Inc. — Jeff U 6.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 11, 2024

billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program. The White House has said the program will fund nearly 50 EV charging and alternative-fueling infrastructure projects in 22 individual states and Puerto Rico. According to the Department of Energy, the money comes via the $2.5

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