Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. They’ve seen Super Bowl ads for the GMC Hummer EV , or heard news about the lengthy, painful Chevrolet Bolt EV battery recall. But that was then, and this is now.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

He took a deep glass vessel, secured a magnet upright in it with some wax, and then filled the vessel with mercury until the magnetic pole was just above the surface. He floated a stiff wire in the mercury and connected the apparatus to a battery. But he doesn't credit anyone as a collaborator, influencer, or codiscoverer.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. They did not orbit, instead floating over a particular spot by light pressure alone. Mercury receives between 6.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). GHG emissions (grams CO 2 -eq)/VMT by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries. This is the same government who gave us Light Rail, Tram, and are proposing building a new stadium. and Mark Brady, the departments sustainable development liaison. Inappropriate?

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