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Cleaner EVs, Aptera, cheap gas and ethanol: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe. And will an activist strategy about oil stoke interest in Aptera? Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Aptera raises $40 million to bring the first solar electric vehicle to market

Green Authority

What if you never had to fill your tank with gas or plug in your car to charge with electricity? That is the vision of Aptera; to make the most energy-efficient vehicle to date with solar energy. The Aptera is eye-catching, but its unique shape isn’t just for show. Sounds too good to be true? Learn more here.

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Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Concludes Knockout Qualifying Stage; 15 Vehicles from 12 Teams Continue On

Green Car Congress

Commuter Cars, Tango (Spokane, WA) Battery Electric. X-Tracer, E-Tracer 7002 (Switzerland) Battery Electric. X-Tracer, E-Tracer 7009 (Switzerland) Battery Electric. Amp, amp’d Sky(Cincinnati, OH) Battery Electric. Aptera, Aptera 2e (San Diego, CA) Battery Electric.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Times are changing nationally with regard to EVs and Houston is no exception, Douglass explained: “A lot of the older folks in the oil and gas industry are retiring, and members of the younger generations are replacing them. A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting.

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What's it gonna take?

Plugs and Cars

The Volt has had to contend with the overblown battery fire incident and the production hiatus. Aptera went under. Gas prices are at historically high levels, and have become a political football, but haven’t led to a surge in EV purchases. Many of us are driving past gas stations while others gripe and cling to false hopes.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

Additionally, research released last year by EPRI and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) pointed to the potential of PHEVs to lower greenhouse gas emissions. San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison Co. million into electric-vehicle maker Aptera and battery start-up ActaCell.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2024

Cars That Think

Its “deeper, hotter, and faster” strategy will start with old oil-and-gas drilling structures and extend them by blasting radiation from a gyrotron to vaporize the hard rock beneath. Batteries Included” Induction Ovens Now we’re cooking with gas—but soon, we may be cooking with induction. At these depths, Earth reaches 500 ° C.

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