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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

Cars That Think

There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? This article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “Hydropower, the Forgotten Renewable.”. You would think this is about as “green” as it can get, but in 2022 that would be a mistake.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Tesla’s now-made-in-China Model 3 won the local crown with 140k sales, but the real surprise was the teeny and dirt-cheap WHGMiEV (see the linked story to decipher the acronym), launched only mid-year and reaching 120k, the second Chinese model to score 6 digits in a year. In South America BYD seems the only E-bus act in town.

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