Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research The overall advantage of battery electric over gasoline vehicles, in terms of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases, has been well documented. 3 Missouri 139.2 Nuclear 0 0 Wind 2.5 On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas 87.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.

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Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner 334

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, rare earth elements are essential for the manufacturing of high strength magnets used in EV motors and offshore wind turbine generators. Project Title: SO 2 Leaching and Electrowinning for the Recovery of Cobalt, Lithium, and Manganese from Lithium-Ion Battery Cake. Project Title: Unlocking Missouri’s Cobalt Potential.

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Supplies Missouri Idaho Lithium Ion 334

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Honda announced just days ago that it has struck a deal with Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution to build a $4.4

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