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National Academies issues interim report on overcoming barriers to PEV deployment

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It also considered barriers that automobile manufacturers and dealerships face in promoting the adoption of PEVs. However, sales of PEVs must increase to justify further investment by automobile manufacturers to diversify the products offered.

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Dark Secrets at The Heart EV Supply chain We Often Fail to Address

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Electric vehicles store energy in enormous batteries with high environmental costs (the larger the battery, the longer the range). We should use that power to address the dirty secret at the heart of the clean mobility revolution. Moving on to the other culprit. EV Batteries: Are they, Greener? Addressing The issues.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. By the mid-1980s, three quarters of the cars manufactured in Brazil were capable of running on sugarcane-based hydrous ethanol. Earlier GCC post.]