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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

Air quality matters here The transition to EVs in the Central Valley is especially critical due to the region’s serious air pollution issues. They had hired a research firm to go talk to people who were active in alternative fuel vehicles. EVs are our future, and at that DEED event in Manteca, we were looking right into it.”.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Cold starts mean more pollution. The catalytic converter that keeps the ICE from being a gross polluter in conventional cars and hybrids however, isn't kept warm by the continual embrace of an ever-churning engine in a hybrid with all-electric range. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car.

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