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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

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Electric vehicles have historically received a bad reputation for concerns around safety. Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). In fact, EVs have just 25.1

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Lifecycle analysis finds Fischer-Tropsch diesel from coal and biomass with CCS can use less fossil energy than petroleum diesel, with GHG close to or below zero

Green Car Congress

A new study by Michael Wang and Jeongwoo Han at Argonne National Laboratory and Xiaomin Xie at Shanghai Jiao Tong University assesses the effects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and cellulosic biomass and coal co-feeding in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) plants on energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of FT diesel (FTD).

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Volvo Trucks enters LNG truck segment in India, fuel technology ‘first step’ towards its 2040 carbon neutrality target – ET Auto

Baua Electric

With the country’s commercial vehicle (CV) industry gradually adding LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) to its fuel portfolio, the Swedish truck maker has made an entry into this segment, with a 42-tonner FM420 LNG. Let’s try and see how we can expand it,” says Arun Bhagavathi, Head – Network Design, Delhivery.

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International automotive researchers emphasize the importance of continued development of the internal combustion engine

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The article provides an assessment of the state of power generation in the world today, and provides analyses of productive directions for the future. We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever.

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The Greening of Transportation

Cars That Think

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. And the world is waking up to the staggering challenges of going electric, as Contributing Editor Robert N. One way to meet this goal is to go nuclear.

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How EVs Are Helping Humanity & Saving Lives?

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Electric vehicles have become an inevitable part of every walk of modern life. EVs: They Are Everywhere As we mentioned earlier EVs have a wide range of applications because EVs are much more flexible in case of design and configuration which gasoline vehicles cannot match. With Formula-E they are getting into the racing arena as well. 

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4 Exciting Global EV Trends and Milestones

EV Match

As we look at the latest news related to electric vehicles, we are encouraged to read about recent and forecasted global EV trends and milestones that support a more accelerated transition to electric mobility—and we love to see it. EVs Dominate Diesel in Europe. An EV for Everyone. But that’s quickly changing.

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