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Report: EV factories may be leading utilities to dirtier decisions

Baua Electric

Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data centers—is leading utilities to forecast single-digit percentage growth every year through the end of the decade in some regions, according to report.

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Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

Plugs and Cars

It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel. So as long as it seems a green option, it's a win-win for the little green giant of the Republican party and the sclerotic giant of the auto industry. Go Yellow to go green, says GM. And the NRDC promotes biofuel with grain coming out of a gas pump. And probably for NRDC's pocketbook, too.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry. If high gas prices aren’t an issue then most Americans opt for the horsepower of bigger cars and trucks.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. We just had to do it.

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. And I was there representing Plug In America. The best way to eliminate tailpipe carbon emissions is to eliminate the tailpipe.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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