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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. Its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) back in the 1990s were around 51.7 million tonnes per year.

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Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

Charged EVs

In the EV industry, there are two separate (but related) reasons to establish a traceability process: sustainability and documenting the country of origin. Charged : I know traceability has always been important in certain industries. Do you provide a lot of services to the auto industry?

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Electric vehicles trends in India

Electric Vehicles India

Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. India is the fifth-largest auto market with 3.49 Market overview. India has already sold 1.18

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An interview with Riversimple

Green Cars News

I certainly believe that in future there will be a much more complex mix of powertrains and fuels; hydrogen will never be as dominant as petrol, and fuel cells never as dominant as combustion engines. I believe that all three barriers are very real for the auto industry but they are not true in any absolute sense.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. People wont buy a full car. Bloomberg ).

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies" GM "killed" that experiment because it wasnt even CLOSE to being cost effective. It is 12 years later. GM would only lease them.

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