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Everything You Need to Know About the Cost of Owning a Car

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This article may contain affiliate linnks. In reality, there are a lot of costs that come with owning a car. Gas (or electricity) costs need to be factored into your overall cost. Gasoline Costs. The cost of gasoline is always fluctuating, but it’s something you need to factor in when budgeting for your car.

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Data On Battery Swapping For Heavy And Light Vehicles Is Nuanced

CleanTechnica EVs

A few days ago I published a reaction to a set of reactions to an article on the plummeting cost of batteries and how they enable megawatt scale charging. What were the reactions about? Battery swapping, which many people seem to think is the bees knees and should be everywhere.

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Tesla Model 3 Lifecycle Cost Nearly Matches The Cheapest Car In America!

CleanTechnica EVs

When I saw the news that all Tesla Model 3 vehicles now qualify for the the full $7,500 federal tax credit, I knew it was time to write a new lifecycle analysis, or total cost of ownership (TCO) article. My last article like this (almost a year ago) was backward looking at the actual costs […]

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The Real Cost Of Electric School Buses (Is Lower Than You Think)

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This is the second article in a three-part series examining the ways in which stakeholders — including state policymakers, school districts, and electric utilities — can build upon recent federal actions to accelerate the equitable transition to electric school buses across the U.S.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech.

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Gas Cars Are Embarrassingly Uncompetitive — Lifecycle Cost Analysis

CleanTechnica EVs

CleanTechnica has published many excellent 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) articles comparing battery electric vehicles (BEVs) against similar internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). A 5-year timeframe is the norm for this type of analysis since many people flip their vehicles at this point.

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All The Ways Cars Harm The World

CleanTechnica EVs

We are huge electric vehicle fans and have written many, many, many articles about why we love them in our series, Decarbonize Your Life. But cars, even electric ones, are harmful to people and communities. The psychologist Carl Jung said everything has a “shadow” or dark side, and in this.

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