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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

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And she had a point: Carmakers and countries are announcing efforts to phase out fossil-fuel burning automobiles in the next two decades. We'll be interested in how much carbon-based fuels such as coal and natural gas went into the electrical energy that charged our batteries. She's 90 years old. I didn't feel like arguing with her.

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Hyundai Offering Free Chargers to EV Buyers, Swelling Industry Incentives

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While the ChargePoint device is framed as being free, it does require the purchase of a new automobile through the automaker’s captive finance arm Hyundai Capital America. But it also took incentives away from a slew of electrified automobiles that would have qualified under the old model.

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Toyota "Moves"

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The average person who drives 40 miles per day or less wouldn't use any gasoline at all ," he says. While an average person might fill the tank with gasoline about 35 times a year, a plug-in would require perhaps six times. The only time would be on weekend trips and vacations across country."

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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” – Elon Musk “Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is – a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.” ” – George Clooney “Electric cars are coal powered cars.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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