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California expected to move forward with diesel trucks ban

Teslarati

The EPA is expected to grant California a waiver to ban diesel trucks and a series of other regulations. California has led the nation in limiting the use of ICE vehicles, even going as far as banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles past 2035. What do you think of the article? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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

Drive Electric

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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Electric Vehicle myth busted (again) in recent Tusker data analysis

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Lloyds-owned Tusker recently analyzed data from its over 30,000 electric vehicle (EV) fleet. It busted two EV myths after analyzing data from its electric vehicle fleet. Nothing has been caused, at least from our data, as a result of any issue with an electric vehicle,” Tusker’s Managing Director Kit Wilson told Fleet News.

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What I’d Do With An Electric Delivery Or Work Van

CleanTechnica EVs

In several previous articles, I’ve covered the slow emergence of electric vans. If you’re laser-focused on the environment, electric vans are exciting because they’ll allow many commercial vehicles to go electric.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article.

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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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North Carolina wants to spend $50K to trash free public EV chargers

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The bill, House Bill 1049 , would set aside $50,000 to get rid of the free public EV chargers unless free gas pumps are built alongside the free public EV chargers. The author of the Car and Driver article, Ezra Dyer noted that this was happening in his state. You don’t see free gas anywhere! pic.twitter.com/7PefTLOS4p.