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How Self-Driving Cars Will Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption

Green Car Congress

The pros of going gasless include reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel expense and—most importantly—less pollution. In fact, from 2014 to 2016, battery prices fell by 50 percent, allowing EVs to gain some traction. Fewer Traffic Jams, Less Pollution. Fewer Traffic Jams, Less Pollution.

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Driving Towards a Sustainable Future: The Rise of Electric Autos in India

Baua Electric

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Moreover, the adoption of electric autos can reduce India’s dependence on imported fossil fuels.

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T&E concludes that diesel cars emit more CO2 on a full lifecycle basis than gasoline cars

Green Car Congress

The average diesel car is driven longer, however, only 4% of this is due to the lower fuel price (rebound effect). This is because the auto industry could not be fully responsible for their targets otherwise. T&E adds an additional 7000 km (4,350 miles) to the diesel lifetime distance to account for this. l/100 km (37.3

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Electric Car Watch #12: The sad state of Electric Car conversions in India

Plug In India

Your electric car will also be more reliable and require much less maintenance than a pollution car. At these prices, many people would prefer to add a few more lakhs and get a new car. Maybe the ICE car auto industry or BIG OIL is behind this, or maybe this is the typical disease that ails all bureaucracies: the fear of change.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

T hese EV cynics and naysayers don’t believe in the EV revolution or have an incentive to keep using pollution vehicles. In the coming decade, battery prices will go down, whereas the cost of petrol will keep going up. By 2030, most people will choose to buy EV's as it won’t make financial sense to buy a pollution car.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

Also multiple municipalities have setup gross cost capital (GCC) contracts with private players, who will be responsible for providing the buses as well as the infrastructure needed to run them, including charging points, maintenance etc. It's now up-to the auto industry to launch more EV's.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. ’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site.

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