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CleanFUEL USA partners with Freightliner on new 8.0L propane LPI medium-duty engine

Green Car Congress

CleanFUEL expects the engine to be available for 2012 vehicles. Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Of all available alternative fuels, propane offers the best mix of vehicle driving range, durability and performance, PERC claims. infrastructures (e.g.,

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Apparently in total this equates to a saving of 715 KG of coal burning and a saving of 1.8 Inverter: This is the most important bit of kit. There are plenty of other data points available: This shows at the top right the battery charge. So far in 2021 another 170WKh has come from the Winter sun. . Tons of CO2. .

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & Moreā€¦

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Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. But if you use the models available in MATLAB, then the study would be a bit easier. I think HEV models are available in MATLAB. The detailed vehicle modeling would be available in some IEEE papers. Battery manufacturing etc.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? And who is going to pay for all this???… — paul 8. Cheers — Al Louard 11.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. But it would have made EV’s better for 10 yrs until now had they been available. Used Cell phone tower battery takeouts are inexpensive and available about everywhere if you call around.

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